San Francisco chanteuse Noe Venable has gained a loyal following in the Bay Area with her sweet vocals, the intelligent craftsmanship of her songs, her affable stage persona, and the extremely talented musicians with whom she surrounds herself. Although she played music from an early age, Venable found no comfort in the overly formal, frighteningly rigid piano recitals she participated in, but she loved classic rock bands like the Who. Her first real plunge into performance happened in the theater; a precocious youngster, at the tender age of 12 she appeared in a play directed...