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PHOEBE LEGERE & Washboard Slim / Lys Guillorn - Sunday June 23, at East Rock Concert Series @ mActivity
Fernando Pinto Presents: PHOEBE LEGERE & Washboard Slim / Lys Guillorn
Sunday June 23, at East Rock Concert Series @ mActivity
Doors: 6:30 PM / Show: 7 PM
Tickets $15. In advance, $20. at door.
All-ages
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PHOEBE LEGERE
http://www.phoebelegere.com
~Phoebe Legere is a rollicking blues piano player,
~an award-winning Cajun accordion player,
~a folk-blues guitar stylist,
~a powerhouse vocalist,
~an award-winning songwriter
~a playwright
~a painter whose works are in major museums and collections
~Phoebe Legere has been called "The World's Greatest Entertainer."
~Phoebe Legere is a standard bearer of the Acadian/Abenaki Renaissance.
~Legere has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC, NBC and PBS.
~"Her talent will take your breath away." - NPR
Phoebe Legere is an Acadian-Abenaki performance artist, author, multi-instrumentalist, artist, and community organizer.
She is a Juilliard-trained composer who underlines her philosophical and social message with music, text, movement, image, and dance.
Legere began her career as Resident Composer at the Wooster Group where she learned acting, movement, speech, improvisation and experimental, environmental theater with Willem Defoe , Richard Schecner, Victor Turner, Ron Vawter and Spaulding Grey.
Phoebe Legere has had numerous academic appointments including Resident Artist at the School of Visual Arts where, in 2003, she invented a musical instrument, the Sneakers of Samothrace, a wearable computer for disabled children.
"At SVA I learned about installation art from Perry Hoberman. SVA taught me how to program computers and build circuits. I loved it!"
As a teenager Phoebe Legere sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and debuted at Carnegie Hall. Now she plays with classical ensembles all over the world.
She wrote an epic poem called The Waterclown about water issues and water rights. She sang the poem with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony(Ed London, conductor). Legeres work,(with music co-composed by Morgan Powell) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2001.
Legere received an NYSCA (New York State Council of the Arts) grant to write The Queen of New England, an experimental multimedia opera about the Massachusetts Native American Holocaust. The opera, produced by Roulette Intermedium in 2002, featured eleven Native Americans and four classical musicians.
In 2004, Legere revived her 1992 political play with music: Hello Mme. President about the first female President of Color. The original cast included Rock n Roll Hall of Fame great, LaVerne Baker, with Phoebe Legere playing the First Partner.
In 2013 Legere created an alternative fuel vehicle, a giant Eagle puppet entirely made from upcycled and repurposed metal harvested from car wrecks. Legere transmuted the pain of car crash relics into beauty. She cut 1000 eagle feathers from discarded iced tea cans. Legere learned how to braze, forge and manipulate metal to make this "magnificent, mythic, giant, rideable sculpture that can be seen today as the giant mascot of the nonprofit allies Foundation for New American Art on the East Coast and Curious Forge on the West Coast. " She rode it around Northern California, doing performances on the solar stage, teaching school children about the environment. The SHAMANCYCLE was the subject of her 2015 film The Shamancycle Story.
Also in 2013, Legere wrote Shakespeare and Elizabeth. She starred as Elizabeth l. The play investigated the Shakespeare authorship question and the roots of the Protestant Reformation. Legere also played Mary Queen of Scots. She was decapitated by Rhys Tivey who played her Executioner.
Legere has recorded seventeen albums.
She shoots, directs and edits her own videos.
Her video for her award-winning song Marilyn Monroe was seen by David Bowie. He invited her to open for him on his 1991 National Sound and Vision Tour.
Legeres 2017 album Heart of Love went to #18 on the National Roots chart. She has had over a million views of her videos on Youtube. Legere, signed as a teen to Epic Records, has, throughout her career been a vital part of the downtown
avant-garde music and art world.
Phoebe Legere was Head Writer and Host of the Roulette TV, a show about the global experimental art and music scene. Legere is an Acker Award Winner and MC of the annual Acker Awards. The Acker is an award given for service to the Avantgarde Community. She was also an on-air DJ "The Grand Duchess of the Blues" for Sirius-XM radio for two years.
She has recorded for Mercury Records in England and Epic, Island, Rizzoli, Funtone, ESP Disk and Einstein records in the United States.
Legere is a prolific painter whose works are held in major museums and collections around the world including the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. She has performed and exhibited all over the world, from Art Basel to the Venice Biennale.
In 2006 Legere formed the New York Underground Museum and in 2014 she broadened the mission to bring art and music to underserved children at her 501(c)3 entity Foundation for New American Art.
Phoebe Legere's 2018 Musical SPEED QUEEN,The Joe Carstairs story, (Book, Music, Lyrics by Phoebe Legere) ran for 3 weeks at Dixon Place:
"Her witty lyrics are matched by music that echoes the melodies of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim with dashes of Joni Mitchell. Her piano playing is virtuosic and she sings superbly."- THEATRE SCENE
Blessed with a swinging croon as dynamic as Judy Garland's; magnetic intensity that recalls Carol Channing; and a swaggering exuberance that would wow Ethel Merman, Phoebe Legeres talent is the sort that uplifts sinking ships.
"Legere has outdone herself in crafting infectious tunes that set the audience bopping with delight. As a tunesmith, she is Cole Porter's feminine flipside. - Theater World
"Legere's delivery is of the sort that Fred Astaire used to sell a song: dashing execution wedded to precise elocution. When impersonating her lovers and their hijinks - notably Marlene Dietrich and Tallulah Bankhead - Legere shows a madcap brilliance for salty comedy that would make SNL or MAD TV blush." BROADWAY WORLD
If you've never heard of Carstairs, it's probably because, like many bold women throughout history, her story has been suppressed. That's something Carstairs and Legere have in common. .One of the show's most powerful sequences recalls when Carstairs was nearly murdered by a German solider during WWI until she seized a rifle and dispatched him with savage fury. But when a British army officer came upon the scene, instead of commending her, he dismissed her as "just a girl." Legere also knows what it's like to be written off, and her empathy for Carstairs is obvious throughout. It's challenging to be a woman ahead of her time, but that's what led both Carstairs and Legere down such singular paths at breakneck speed. -THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND
Bursting onto the scene as Joe to sing a few cabaret numbers, you feel enthralled by Legere who matches her characters fierceness. Blessed with a voice that belts DRAMA!; she could transform a hum into an opus. Legere truly delivers the essence of cabaret as an art form and test of human beings capacity to grab attention and transform it into amazement. -DIANDRA REVIEWS IT ALL
Legere's sonorous and wide-ranging voice fills the room during the original songs, and it lends itself well to the larger-than-life characters she inhabits in the show. When playing Joe, she embodies an excited, gee-whiz attitude. When embodying Marlene Dietrich, the famous movie actor and one of Joe's lovers, she exudes a slinky, sly sexual confidence with a killer German accent.- DOWNTOWN EYE
Legere's performances as Joe and four of her lovers are hysterical and consummately performative. -WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS
"I loved it" - Janet Coleman, Theater, WBAI
"Witty, high-octane mega-watt stardom, sings like an angel, plays sizzling piano and a mean accordion...she pulls out all the stops..." Patrick Christiano, THEATER LIFE
country-infused acoustic semi-electric psychedelic dark pop music is your thing, please say hello to Lys Guillorn, you'll get along just fine. Geraint Jones, Comes With a Smile #14 (UK)
+ LYS GUILLORN
http://www.lysguillorn.com
Lys Guillorn is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and discipline-hopping artist from Shelton, Connecticut. She is a stylistic shape-shifter, dipping her blue cowgirl boots in folk and psych-rock. In 2018, Guillorn won CT Nows Best of Hartford Readers Poll for Best Singer-Songwriter. She has two full-length studio records of original material, an oddities collection, and a couple of EPs and singles on her own label Little Cowgirl Records. Her most recent single is called Chipped Fingernails.
So if oddly uplifting, folk, blues country-infused acoustic semi-electric psychedelic dark pop music is your thing, please say hello to Lys Guillorn, you'll get along just fine. - Geraint Jones, Comes With a Smile #14 (UK)
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