e-rezz/event/publicDetailsFull/308 Wow. Were welcoming back after 8 years a troubadour/vaudevillian/storyteller/singer-songwriter/piece of work! I promise you that you will never look at a Disney character in person the same way. :-) Zoë Lewis is a band in a body! She plays jazz, jump jive, latin grooves, swing, international folk, funk originals on anything from the piano to the spoons! Winner of the Colorado Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Troubadour Award in 2003, NEW FOLK WINNER 2002 at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and 2001 Falconridge Folk Festival AUDIENCE FAVORITE and now shes getting booked to play many of the main stages with virtuoso jazz recorder player Roxanne Layton (from Mannheim Steamroller). Her song SMALL IS TREMENDOUS received much commercial success and can be heard on ads for MINI PRINGLES and TJ MAAX. Another of her songs: SHEEP was part of a PUTUMAYO compilation and became #1 in the childrens satellite radio charts. Shes also written the soundtrack for a new documentary on the VAGINA MONOLGUES. Zoë has performed with a whole host of incredible musicians including JULIE WOLF (Ani DiFranco, Bruce Cockburn), GAIL ANN DORSEY (David Bowie), PAUL PIERCY (Dixie Chicks), FREEBO (Bonnie Raitt) and has toured with JUDY COLLINS and NANCI GRIFFITH. Originally from England, she now resides in Provincetown on Cape Cod, MA, where she performs every summer. Her music is upbeat, amusing and perfect for young and old alike. Shes traveled all over the globe picking up worldbeat grooves and stories on the way; jumping box cars, riding on freight boats and has even played music with an elephant orchestra in Thailand. Shes a mixture of swing, acoustic funk, latin jazz and folk. Her fast-paced lyrics poke fun at modern society and praise the rambling delights of childhood, secret worlds, and wandering love. Zoë started studying music (piano) in England at the age of seven in her little village on the south coast of England, Rottingdean. She began performing professionally playing the Hammond organ, piano and synthesizer for London Latin jazz ten-piece band AVANTI in 1986. The band toured the UK and cut a record. She went solo in 1988, performed piano / vocal jazz standards from the 30s and 40s in London pubs and later worked in South America and in the Caribbean. In 1990, she arrived in the United States and began performing originals on guitar, piano, harmonica, ukulele, penny whistle, accordion, and human trumpet and has since then toured extensively, performing at numerous folk clubs, coffee houses, colleges, music festivals and pride marches. She has taught workshops in schools and has written a musical for children entitled PESTS! Her workshop Music in our Pockets encourages people to redefine their meaning of music; theres music on the streets, on our bodies, in nature, even in our pockets if only we open up our ears. Loose change, a set of keys can be used to make wonderful noise. With the help of African calabash, Jamaican steel pans, gourds, coconuts, trash cans, thumb pianos, conch shells and musical saws she demonstrates the point! In 1992 she began to perform in a variety of different acts in Provincetown on Cape Cod for the summer season. She became a local favourite and won Provincetown Papers About Town Awards for best piano player and best comedy duo. Shes toured all over the Unites States, has performed in England, Germany, Australia and aboard OLIVIA cruises. As well as continuing her solo career she is receiving much acclaim for her quartet ZOË LEWIS and her RUBBER BAND with Seattle bassist KATE WOLF, Quebec City percussionist SYLVIE RICHARD and ROXANNE LAYTON, on recorder. Performing upbeat and edgy tunes on a variety of weird instruments, telling traveling tales thatll take you from England to New Orleans by way of Bangkok and Guatemala, they bend the notes and stretch your imagination! Shes got it all-a masterful combination of song,performance and artistry, with a contagiously positive attitude and free spirit. Probably the most charismatic performance Ive ever seen. -ACCESSLINE, IA With both sweetness and political astuteness shell remind you of a younger Michelle Shocked with a British accent. -BAY GUARDIAN, San Francisco, CA Clever and evocative. Her speaking voice is soft and lilting, her singing voice light but bright and occasionally punctuated by a satchmo-style growl. Equal parts musician and storyteller. Lewis is a charmer. -BAY AREA REPORTER, San Francisco, CA Lewis sweet melodic tunes sound Irish one minute, caribbean the next and her lyrics display the unambiguous joy often associated with childhood. -SEATTLE WEEKLY, WA I say that if Marcel Marceau were to put out a cd it would sound like this! Here is a clever lyricist with the talent to utilize any instrument or voice she fancies! -SING OUT MAGAZINE Not Janet Jacksons breast! Next year, maybe the superbowl folks should hire someone with actual talent, like folk/jazz/salsa musician Zoë Lewis, whose show last night was far more entertaining than anything on TV last Sunday. Think Smothers Brothers meets Ben Folds meets Ella Fitzgerald meets Nestor Torres. Add some spoons, a sheep, and a tear-away PVC corset....no, just kidding about that last one. But it would be one helluva halftime show. - THE UNNOFFICIAL DAVE BARRY WEBSITE When: Sunday, 06 April 2014 Music starts at 7 PM Optional potluck starts at 6 PM Where: Living room between Boulder & Nederand Cost: $20-25 suggested contribution, 100% goes to the artist RESERVATIONS: tinyurl/amhc14-zlewisRSVP See Zoe Lewis on video: youtu.be/SLXSXGxcLtU youtu.be/jtWvHBdwG20 https://youtube/watch?v=aJZdxNEE4PA For more information on Zoe Lewis see zoelewis/ LOOKING AHEAD: April 6 - Dana & Susan Robinson (living room) tinyurl/amhc14-dsrobinson April 20 - Pierce Pettis (living room) tinyurl/amhc14-ppettis May 15 - Bill & Kate Isles (living room) Halloween recording of Eliza Gilkyson & Nick Forster for Jamestown area Artists & Musicians (JAM) - tinyurl/pw95247 50% of this download fee goes to charity.
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