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Oregon Festival of American Music 2015: "careless Love" at Oregon Festival of American Music at John G Shedd Institute for the Arts
Where
John G Shedd Institute for the Arts
Oregon Festival of American Music
868 High St
Eugene, OR
Map
(541) 434-7000
When
Thu, August 13, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Clairdee
vocalsTed Rosenthal
pianoByron Stripling
trumpetRod Fleeman
guitar, acousticDoug Miller
bassChuck Redd
vibraphoneAbout
For this evening's concert Jesse Cloninger and the Festival Hot Seven, fronted by Clairdee and Marisa Frantz, offer a tribute to three of the exceptional 1920s Columbia Records vocalist whose individual styles well-reflect the jazz- and blues-tinged spirit of their age: the versatile actress and multi-genre vocal stylist Ethel Waters, the classic vaudeville blues singer Bessie Smith, and the unusually gifted popular singer Annette Hanshaw.
The three had significantly different career paths and approaches: Styled "Empress of the Blues", Bessie Smith was classic vaudeville blues singer to the core and as such was always on one of Columbia's specialized ethnic series; her fortunes soared and fell as the blues craze came and went. Ethel Waters began her career as a vaudeville blues singer as well, but found her way into cabaret, the theatre and popular song. Signing with Columbia in 1923, the same year Smith signed with the label, she was listed in its mainstream popular catalog and thus enjoyed a more even market. Annette Hanshaw went straight to recording, first with a successful run at Pathรฉ Records, and after 1928 with Columbia, developing as well a successful presence on radio as "The Personality Girl"....