Troublemaker Interview Series - Episode 14: Jerri Kosta Dodson in Prineville, Oregon
Channel: The Trouble Notes
Date: 2019-06-25

We meet you in every city that we travel to, magicians – likeminded souls that we want to portrait as The Troublemakers. 

Today we want you to get to know this beautiful soul, our beloved Troublemaker Jerri Kosta Dodson, the owner of the Dancing Cow Farm in Prineville, Oregon. We connected with Jerri during our North America Tour this spring (you might remember us talking about her. We’re such fans). Chris Darby a fellow musician and event organizer had reached out to us about half a year ago to organize a concert with us at Jerri’s beautiful Yurt that has become a community center in Prineville. As the Yurt has some years on the hump it is weathered and tethered and is in dire need of some repair. Jerri's mission now is to raise 8000 Dollars in order to maintain the Yurt and fix it up so it can keep serving the community as a multifunctional cultural space for concerts, workshops, retreats, exhibitions and much more. 

As we were welcomed by this community with so much love, it is very important to us to share her story with you! We’ll let you know as soon as Jerri’s Fundraising campaign takes off so we can all help to keep the art and music flowing at the Dancing Cow Farm. 

Our mission with these Troublemakers Lose Your Ties Series is to give each one of you a voice. Life is about exchange and sharing a picture. We believe all of you have a unique and individual connection to The Trouble Notes and therefore we want to digitally bring you a bit closer together, even though you all are spread around the world. We believe we can grow together and help each other overcome troubling moments. This project is the brainchild of our manager Stefanie Tendler, who is responsible for connecting our troubled universe. Since Stef’s main interest has always been cultural and artistic movement, she made Berlin her new home in 2011 and has been involved in numerous projects ever since. She has worked on photo exhibitions, music video shoots, film productions, experimental theatre as well as writing for the transatlantic blog www.station-station.com. This is how we met and layed the foundation for our relationship. As many of you the Lose Your Ties Theme also resonates with her, as she gave up her old career working in business travel to get a Bachelor of Arts in Publication and Communication and to eventually start her career as a photographer and tour manager for our group. Always attracted by the various forms of art and means of expressing oneself, she chose photography as a her own medium to capture the multi-facetted environments she encounters. She is now also responsible for documenting our tour life.

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