Posts tagged with "Ella Fitzgerald"
Video Feature & Interview TERRI HENDRIX
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: TERRI HENDRIX (with LLOYD MAINES)
Video: “Talk to a Human”
TERRI HENDRIX WITH LLOYD MAINES FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL CONCERT
Terri Hendrix and legendary steel guitar player Lloyd Maines will be the featured artists this Thursday (August 27) at Blue Rock aLIVE!—a unique virtual summer concert series—featuring iconic Austin-based artists every Thursday this summer....
Video & Web-Exclusive Interview RUTHIE FOSTER
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: RUTHIE FOSTER
Video: “Singing the Blues” from the new album Live at the Paramount
THREE-TIME GRAMMY NOMINEE RUTHIE FOSTER FEATURED FOR THE LAUNCH OF BLUE ROCK ALIVE! VIRTUAL SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
This Thursday, July 9, Ruthie Foster is the featured artist to launch Blue Rock aLive!—a unique virtual summer concert series—featuring iconic Austin-based artists every Thursday this summer. You...
VIDEO & EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LULU
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: LULU
Music Video: “Faith in You”
ICONIC “TO SIR WITH LOVE” SINGER LULU WILL PERFORM AT B.B. KING’S IN NEW YORK—MAY 30, 2017
Lulu started young, as a 15 year-old Scottish soul sensation. No wonder James Brown said, “The first time I heard her sing, I knew we were born in the same pond.”
Probably best known in America for her 1967 number one “To Sir With Love,” (also starring...
VIDEO + EXCLUSIVE – SHANI ROSE
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: SHANI ROSE
Music Video: “Stronger Together”
Shani Rose partners with Whole Planet Foundation
Shani Rose is embarking on a new journey which appears to have limitless possibilities. She has partnered with Whole Planet Foundation, and along with another singer-songwriter, Katie Ferrara, they begin “The Road Less Traveled Tour” on March 8 in their hometown Los Angeles. This is a unique...
MICHELLE RENE
MICHELLE RENE
HOMETOWN: Phoenix, Ariz.
INFLUENCES: Fleetwood Mac, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline
ALBUM: As yet untitled EP, out 2013
WEBSITE: michellerene.com
As a teen, Michelle Rene performed at county fairs, music festivals and sports arenas in her hometown of Phoenix. She even hosted her own weekly live concert event, but a crowning moment came when she was named the best new act in country music’s largest talent competition, Country Showdown,...
GLENN FREY
GLENN FREY
The Eagles’ co-leader takes a solo flight through classic love songs
“The Eagles is the mothership,” says Glenn Frey. “We venture to and from that.” For his first solo album in 20 years, the 63-year-old Detroit native ventured far indeed: After Hours is a collection of love songs dating from the ’40s to the present. Producing with Richard F.W. Davis and Michael Thompson, Frey gives candlelit treatment to such gems as Johnny...
Nikki Yanofsky
WHO’S NEXT:
NIKKI YANOFSKY
HOMETOWN: Montreal, Quebec
INFLUENCES: Ella Fitzgerald,
Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday
ALBUM: Nikki, out now
WEBSITE: nikkionline.ca
THINGS HAVE MOVED QUICKLY FOR NIKKI YANOFSKY-AT 12 she was singing in front of 100,000 people at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, by 13 she had been nominated for a Juno award (Canada’s equivalent to the Grammys), and at 16 she’s just released her debut studio album,...