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[PRESS RELEASE] Ann Hampton Callaway and Duke Ellington Orchestra to headline Mahaiwe gala
9.5.06
(Great Barrington, Mass., September 5, 2006) -- Ann Hampton Callaway & Duke Ellington Orchestra will appear at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 16, at 6:30 for a gala performance. One of the finest singer/songwriters of our time, the statuesque Callaway dazzles music lovers as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, and educator. Her talents have made her equally at home in jazz and pop as well as on stage, in the recording studio, on TV and in film.
She is best known for starring in the hit Broadway musical "SWING!" and for writing and singing the theme to the internationally successful TV series, "THE NANNY". Ann is a devoted keeper-of-the-flame of the great American songs with fresh interpretations to timeless classics, writing songs with Cole Porter, Carole King, Barbara Carroll and others. Her soulful charisma have won her a diverse fan-base including notables as Barbara Streisand, Clive Davis, and Carly Simon. Ann has become a favorite in the jazz and pops concert circuit, appearing as special guest artist with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood. She has sung with over twenty-five of the nation's top orchestras and big bands. Her performances in the Carnegie Hall tributes to Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and Harold Arlen were memorable and show stopping. She performed for President Clinton in Washington D.C. and was the invited guest performer for President Gorbachev's Youth Peace Summit in Moscow.
The New York Times writes, "For sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway." Ann attributes her voice and love of music to her mother, Shirley, who throughout her childhood sang and played torch songs, Gershwin and German lieder at the piano. Of the uniquely musical household she says, "I didn't know it at the time, but we were sort of the Von Trapp family of Chicago." While her voice teachers suggested she could have a career in opera, Ann was happier singing the music she most loved. Inspired by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder, she was fascinated by the challenge of drawing these threads together into her own original singing style.
Ms. Callaway's newly released CD Blues in the Night (Telarc) is the latest and most ambitious installment in her ongoing body of work with performances by the all female Diva Jazz Orchestra and arrangements by Tommy Newsome (Johnny Carson's longtime musical director on The Tonight Show).
For information and tickets, please call 413-644-9040. For upcoming Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center shows and Monday Movie listings, please visit www.mahaiwe.org or call the box office 413-528-0100.
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