Upcoming
Music Events at the ACA:
http://www.boreal.org/music/
Summer
2009
July
11 at 7 PM
Susan
Cowsill Band
August
15 at 7 PM
Chic
Gamine
For more
information on any of these events, contact Nathan Baker at 218-387-1284
ext. 3 or email music@boreal.org
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North Shore Music Association
The North Shore Music
Association sponsors music performances in Cook County. Visit
our website:
http://www.boreal.org/music/
July
11, 2009
Susan
Cowsill Band
The singer/songwriter
made her initial mark on popular culture at the tender age of
eight with The Cowsills, the 60s family pop group that scored
Top Ten singles The Rain, the Park and Other Things, Hair, and
We Can Fly and served as the real-life inspiration for TV's fictional
Partridge
Family. During Susan’s decade with roots-pop supergroup The Continental
Drifters, she won the hearts of discerning listeners with her
impassioned vocals and personally-charged songwriting, gracing
three widely-acclaimed albums and a decade’s worth of riveting
performances.
Cowsill's
vocal talents have beautifully supported recordings from artists
as diverse as Dwight Twilley, Redd Kross, The Smithereens, Giant
Sand, Nanci Griffith, Carlene Carter and Jules Shear, while her
compositions have been covered by The Bangles and Hootie and the
Blowfish.
Whether
she's delivering a heart-tugging ballad or belting out a punchy
rock tune, critics agree that Susan Cowsill has an exceptional
talent for connecting with a song's emotional core. Rolling Stone
praised Just Believe It as "The hardy, heartbreaking sound of…a
bar-band angel…in the prime of her singing and songwriting life."
The Washington Post proclaimed "As good as Cowsill’s voice is,
her smart, emotional songwriting is her biggest asset." All Music
Guide raved "Cowsill has stories to tell and she tells them with
a skill and vigor that never lets artifice get in the way of cutting
to the emotional truth… Quite
simply,
debut albums are rarely as moving, as revealing or as accomplished
as Just Believe It. This is masterful music from a major
talent.
August
15
Chic
Gamine
Chic Gamine,
the roguishly charming Winnipeg/Montreal-based vocal quintet has
been serenading its audiences since the summer of 2007. By complete
coincidence, the group is composed of the 5 « A’s »: singers Ariane
Jean, Andrina Turenne, Alexa Dirks and Annick Brémault and
drummer
Alexandre Sacha Daoud. Gospel, Soul, R’n’B, 50’s Doo-Wop, Brazilian
forro and French Chanson are infused into the voices and rhythms
of these 5 schemers and effervescent songmakers. Come showtime,
their vintage chic vibe is catching and no one gets left behind!
And the whole is liberally doused with the most total, sibylline
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