Gallery Packed to Celebrate Kate Donahue’s 50th Birthday

  • Kate with her Day At The Beach birthday cake. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

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    Kate with her Day At The Beach birthday cake. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

  • There was little room to move at the Kate's birthday party. Fortunately, there was a lot to eat. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

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    There was little room to move at the Kate's birthday party. Fortunately, there was a lot to eat. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

  • Michael Cram gets the Day in Kate's Life started. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

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    Michael Cram gets the Day in Kate's Life started. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

  • The birthday girl, surrounded by friends. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

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    The birthday girl, surrounded by friends. [Mountain Enterprise photo]

Kate Donahue is the subject of a custom version of The Beatles' A Day In The Life, which details a day in HER life at Coffee Cantina.

FRAZIER PARK, CA (Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 at 10:55 p.m.)–A Work of HeART Gallery was packed with members of the arts community Saturday to celebrate Kate Donahue’s 50th birthday. And celebrate they did. This custom rendition of The Beatles’ A Day In The Life was written and performed for Kate at the party.

Watch the video (below right).

Follow along with the lyrics here:

Read the Pioneer today, oh boy.
About a coffee girl that made lattes.
And tho the cookies weren’t so bad,
Well, she just had to run it all. (pause)
I saw the writing on the wall.

She asked Mike to sweep the floor,
She didn’t notice that her mind had changed.
A couple of people stood and waited,
They’d seen her face before,
Nobody was really sure if she was just awake or bored… … … …

Watched the toaster today, oh boy,
An English muffin had just kicked my butt.
The patron just shook his head,
But I just had to cook,
Having seen that look,
I’d love to feed…..your…..face.

Woke up, crawled out of bed,
Jumped in the shower to wet my head.
Ran downstairs, drank 3 cups,
Looking up…I noticed it was 5.
Found the oven, grabbed some fat,
Made some muffins in seconds flat.
Found my way to the frig and got some milk,
Customer spoke and I had a déjá vu
aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Read the Enterprise today, oh boy,
Four thousand homes in Tejon Ranch, my dear.
Though the Cantina is rather small
If I could count them all,
That’s how many folks it takes to fill the Gallery hall,
I ‘d love to bring… … … some… … …cul….ture … … …

This is part of the February 04, 2011 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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