Catie Curtis & "Friends" Concert
w/Very Special Guests Lindsay Mac & Rose Polenzani
Saturday, November 7, 2009
at the Regent Theatre
8:00 pm
Tickets: $27, add $2 day of show
* Ticket Prices include $3 venue facility fee
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Saturday November 7th we welcome back Catie Curtis touring behind her new album "Hello Stranger" with special guests Lindsay Mac & Rose Polenzani.
For Catie's 2nd annual hometown BIG THEATRE SHOW expect a great night of music as Catie has lined up a great band including Elana Arian (on violin & harmonies), Kevin Barry (on guitar) & John Sands (on drums). As of now we can also share that both Lindsay & Rose will be performing with Catie during her set and there are some special surprise guests expected as well.
The new string-band CD "Hello
Stranger" features a duet with Mary Gauthier on the title
track, plus 5 other cover songs (by Cat Stevens, Richard Thompson, Nina Simone,
local legend Don White and others) and 5 of her older songs (including
Dad's Yard and Passing Through). The band is Alison Brown, Stuart Duncan, George
Marinelli, Todd Phillips, Darrell Scott and Kenny Malone. Stellar playing by
these legendary musicians infuses the entire CD with humor and intensity as they
play off each other in loose, improvised arrangements. Cover art is by
best-selling humorist Suzy Becker.
When the singer/songwriter movement boomed in the mid-1990s, Catie
Curtis was at its core. A veteran artist with a 15 year career, Curtis has
recorded nine solo albums and has toured with the Lilith Fair as well as Dar
Williams and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Her songs have appeared in numerous
television shows (
“Known in and outside the Boston folk-music community for her accessible, socially conscious songwriting and gorgeous voice, Catie Curtis returns here with her typical mix of insightful
wit and pitchperfect vocals.”
—Boston Phoenix
"Singer-songwriter Catie Curtis is one of those rare talents: someone who can spin compelling, interesting and engaging music out of domestic happiness...Highly recommended."
- All Music Guide
“Seventeen caught up with singer/songwriter Catie Curtis, whose songs have been featured on TV shows including Desperate Housewives and Alias, as she gets ready to release her ninth album, Sweet Life. She's also in the midst of the launch of her new charity initiative, "Aspire to Inspire"!”
— Seventeen Magazine
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Lindsay Mac was born in Iowa to bohemian, party-hungry parents who likely fed her pork tenderloin and Midwest microbrews for breakfast. She was classically trained starting at the age of six in church choir and formal training in piano and cello came shortly thereafter. After attending a public high school and, in the summer, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Lindsay enrolled in Dartmouth College to study what else but medicine. She took advantage of the College's foreign study opportunities and moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music and then briefly left Dartmouth to study at The San Francisco Conservatory as well as to be a professional ski patroller in Utah and bike messenger. She returned to Dartmouth, graduated, and starting experimenting with her music while living in a cabin heated by a wood stove. It is there that she found her voice and her unique style was born. Fearing the cello might be used for kindling, she enrolled in Berklee College of Music and shortly thereafter began touring full-time. The rest is yet to come.
Radio station WUMB in Boston named Lindsay's "Stop Thinking" the #2 in their Top Albums of 2008. "Cry, Cry, Cry" has been selected as a winner in the 16th Annual Billboard Song Contest. It snagged #3 in the Pop category. WFUV picks Lindsay Mac as Artists You Need To Know 2009
Lindsay has been on the front cover of the Boston Globe and the cover of Strings magazine. She has also been on the cover of the Globe's Weekend section and featured in other publications such as The New York Times’ About.com, Northeast Performer, and the largest Spanish-language music magazine, Musico Pro.
"Stunning and goosebump inducing. Mac’s sound is simply beautiful."
- Show of the Month, Northeast Performer Magazine.
“I can’t rave enough about this dazzling debut, one of the year’s best in every way.”
- Indie-music.com
"Primal and arresting."
"Spunky!" - The Boston Globe
"Piercingly beautiful and truthful." "Mac’s voice is so sincere that it cuts through to your heart."
- Northeast Performer Magazine
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Rose Polenzani was raised in the Chicago area and attended Knox College before leaving to pursue a singing career. Her singing style is distinctive and emotionally charged. Her lyrics often consist of rich blends of obscure images and emotions.
Rose has performed in Lilith Fair in 1998, and the Sundance Film Festival in 1999. She has opened for the Indigo Girls, David Gray, Vic Chesnutt, Patty Griffin, Joan Baez, Jonathon Brooke, and Shawn Colvin. She also performed as part of Voices on the Verge, a collaborative musical project with Beth Amsel, Jess Klein, and Erin McKeown. She has been reviewed positively in the Utne Reader, BUST Magazine, and the Boston Globe.
"Somewhere in-between the raw emotion of singer Patty Griffin and the poetry of Anne Sexton, you'll find Rose Polenzani."
--Utne Reader
"In their psychic intensity, Polenzani's compositions sometimes evoke the spirit of the late Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico, albeit without that singers icy aloofness. Indeed, Polenzani's breathy, tremulous voice has a beckoning power more akin to that of a child ghost in a graveyard."
--Request Magazine
"One of the best songwriters around...Rose Polenzani actually has a chance to pick up the Mitchell mantle."
--BUST Magazine
"[Rose has] an otherworldly quality that transcends musical categories, much like Rickie Lee Jones's early work. Anybody has me searching for Polenzani's self-released 1998 debut, Dragersville."
--CMJ