Music/Life Part II: I found some footage from the original shoot Music/Life, in 2012.
Documentary style footage with Clara Lofaro. Some real talk and great music.
Hope you enjoy it. There is a link to Part 1, below.
Clara has stopped performing.
Her music is still a fine body of work.
Perhaps with things as they are unfolding,
We may see her again.
Here's a link to the original Music Life
An always delightful event, Champian Fulton, keeper of the American song book.
This time, at the best club in Chicago, Winter's Jazz Club
Accompanied by Dennis Carroll, bass and Pete Zimmer, drums
Champian covered everything from Billie to Basie. And of course one of her own compositions.
Her skill on the keys just seems to get better with time. Her arrangements always spot-on.
Smooth and natural are the words. Like an athlete, she has a gift.
Looking forward to seeing her in New York's Birdland in September.
People in general think performers, actors, musicians, fell from the sky as they see them now.
Not so. It's a process. Years of trials and tribulations, mistakes, discoveries and path changes.
Sometimes they just grow up, like Nikki Yanofsky
Here's a video of Nikki as she is today.....
VIDEO: Nikki with Stevie Wonder
VIDEO: A Nikki You Can't "Forget"
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| Nikki Yanofsky |
It's been a joy watching you over the years.
Thanks for the music, Nikki!
People in general think performers, actors, musicians, fell from the sky as they see them now.
Not so. It's a process. Years of trials and tribulations, mistakes, discoveries and path changes.
Here's a young woman who has talent to spare. She made a niche for herself.
Soprano, violinist, composer, she leaped into the twenty first century, and is here to stay.
Here's a VIDEO "Now or Never" of Lucine today
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| Lucine Fyelon |
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| Maggie Rose |
I'm not a journalist. I'm not good at mashing adjectives and superlatives to form a 'critical' opinion. I do have eyes and ears. I know what I see and I know what I hear.They have served me well in the seventy plus years I have been listening to music.
What I see when I watch Maggie Rose perform live is, a woman and her music. I attended two shows in the last week (December 18th) of the "Have A Seat" tour, which by the way began in July.
What I saw was 110 percent. A woman who did not back up one inch in any of her performances, after six months. Every show was from the gut and her heart. Two different audiences, the Brooklyn crowd and the Chicago mid-west gang. Both were buzzing about what they had just seen.
I read reviewers who write "she's gifted"... "she has a gift" Maggie has several gifts. She has a heart, a personality, a stage presence, and the voice. A versatile voice with range and a soul. And she leaves it all out there every night. Her lyrics are, simple, universal, and attached to melodic lines that stay with you. Her musicians, her support group on stage, is top notch.
Maggie sings from the inside out. "All good art is self revelation"
Whatever you do, don't tell Maggie...It is what it is.
Here are some images from the shows~~ VIDEO~Maggie Rose
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| Pete Carma and Maggie Rose |
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| Kristin's web site |
Songs about 2020, unquestionably the worst year of their young lives.
Natalie Gelman and Maggie Rose have composed songs for us to reflect.
VIDEO: Offical, Natalie Gelman 2020
VIDEO: Maggie Rose Official 2020
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| Maggie Rose |
Two great tunes written in the troubled times of 2020!!
Thank you ladies!
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The coming of a star. Maggie Rose
Her latest album, "Have A Seat"
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| Maggie's website |
