CD RELEASE PARTY FOR "INTREPID"
Saturday, MARCH 6, 2010 at 7 pm
Stage 13
Fingerlakes Community College
4340 Lakeshore Dr
Canadaigua, NY
This show will include some very, very fun, (hip and cool) (no doubt) players, who played on the CD as well, bless them:
Jim "Jimmy Steel" Duvall on pedal steel ( pedal steel for heaven's sake! I am so excited! ) (er, I mean, that might be fun.)
Tracy Grammer on violin and vocals (yes, Tracy the songwriter/recording artist/keeper of Dave Carter songs Grammer)
Jim Henry on acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin and dobro (the Jim Henry who tours with Tracy G ~see above~and is a songwriter/recording artist and certainly one of the most requested gig and session players in New England, and a producer, in fact he produced my friend Maria Gillard's wonderful CD "Bound To Happen")
Tristan Greene on percussion and drums ... he plays with the bands Doja and The Scandals, and when I first met him some years ago, I believe he was in high school, he came up to me after a show and said, "I really like the way you use dynamics." And I'm thinking...what...wait....who IS this kid?? :) Luckily, I found out! Also luckily, I had learned what "dynamics" meant, probably not too long before that.
Len Ortenzi on harmonica... he hangs out teaching college physics most of the time, napping on beds of nails and shattering glasses with sound, you know, all that old physics stuff, until he gets an OK harp gig.
Bob Potter on Hammond B3 organ and acoustic bass...Bob has worked in the music field for ~ well, for a while~ and has worked with and toured with many , many amazing musicians and performers. (I lost count of the times I've heard, "how come you got so lucky, to work with the best-ears-in-the-business all the time??" ) He produced and engineered "Intrepid", and in addition, waters the plants, stacks wood (seriously, the guy can STACK that firewood!) and does dishes. In fact, he also goes by the name, "Dish Guy".
Elaine Verstraete on upright bass...let's see, Elaine, in her spare time, is an award-winning artist and illustrator, tennis star, bass player and vocalist with Brooke Pevear (as part of the duo Birds-On -A-Wire), and cat-feeder extraordiaire! She also teaches me a lot with her dedicated, focused approach to learning.
Somehow all these amazing people found time in their lives to rehearse, record, listen and share their gifts with me, and now to share them with all of you. I am sure the universe loves me.
OK....so....
That's the scoop. The day after the CD party I'll be travelling to Northampton, MA, where I will open for Brooks Williams at the wonderful Iron Horse Music Hall. But I'll be in touch before then, with details......
Lisa
(For those of you new to my music, FYI this CD has been quite a while in the making. Worth it, I think. Now I think that. The waiting wasn't easy, as I'm not so good at waiting, really. I learned a LOT, maybe most of all that good things take TIME sometimes. But that's why I am SO thrilled to have it be here, at long last. Otherwise I certainly would be hip and cool. No doubt.)