Crime and the Forces of Evil

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Dara wasn't a musician, when the world changed underneath her; she was a researcher in biology and a software developer in computer science, and had a little art career going on the side. With her glass sculpture in galleries, she was arty, but not yet a musician. She likes to say that she didn't change, the world did - but that's not entirely true, now, is it? It started with the flutes, or more correctly, with the flutemaking. Dara made them. Not out of metal, but bamboo; she was one of the very few registered martial arts combat flute makers in Cascadia, when that registry existed. But the Seattle folk band Three Good Measures - so called because in early rehearsals that's how many they could get out in a row - needed a flautist, and were meeting to jam in her house with her partner Anna, and said "hey, Dara, you make flutes - you can play, too, right?" It's not as true as you might think, but she learned fast, and started adding backing vocals and percussion in with the flutework. Along the way, she picked up a little choral work, including a gig singing in the chorus for the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Reverend Desmond Tutu, in Seattle. TGM weren't going to go anywhere, and in fact didn't - the closest to a single before the band broke up was "You Woke Up My Neighbourhood," off the unreleased demo EP "Duck!" - but out of the wreckage of that group came the bands Xander, The Popular Monsters, Twelve Good Measures, and, at the urging of fellow musician Alexander James Adam

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