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Princeton native releases CD featuring singing, pianoBy Joel Stottrup There were no monarch butterflies circling in the subzero cold around the street outside Caffe LaGrande in downtown Princeton Friday night. But inside the coffee shop, monarchs seemed to circle in the moods that Princeton native Mary Bue produced as she played the piano and sang songs from her newly-released CD, "Where the Monarchs Circled." Bue, who will turn 20 on May 12, was there to sign copies of the CD that she has for sale. So far, she has sold a few hundred. Bue wrote all the lyrics and music for the CD and was at ease as she played selections from it. "She didn't get it from me," her father David Bue, a local doctor told a reporter not long after Bue sat down and played the old upright at Caffe LaGrande and sang some of her songs. Dr. Bue credited his wife Marilyn for having the genetic disposition to music that their daughter exhibited. Mary Bue lives in Duluth where she attends the University of Minnesota part-time and also works at the Amazing Grace Cafe in Duluth's Canal Park. She spent her senior year at Princeton High School attending the same university through the post secondary option program. The year after that she continued her UMD studies in England. She has declared psychology as her major but music has been taking up more of her time ever since she took the floor at Amazing Grace about two years ago during the open-mike time. Eventually she performed in a Friday evening talent show in Duluth and as her father puts it, kept going after that. She's also performed several times at Caffe LaGrande and secured engagements in the Twin Cities, Sioux Falls, Fargo and Duluth. Bue began taking piano lessons in the fourth grade and began combining playing the piano and singing in public at 16. Bue wouldn't divulge her inspiration for the "Where the Monarchs Circled" title, saying only that it is something personal. While it took her awhile to decide what major to choose in college, as her father put it, it was evident last Friday that she has found what she wants to do with her music. "I'd like to have it sustain me," Bue said. "It's the thing I do." Princeton Union-Eagle |