Artist News
Imagine sailing from Venice to Rome in August of 2015, with Emile Pandolfi at the piano onboard the Royal Clipper, the only five-masted, 42-sail, fully-rigged sailing ship in the world. A ten-day cruise from Venice to Rome via Croatia, Corfu, Sicily, Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast awaits. Too stunningly gorgeous to believe — and with music to match! This is the second annual experience-of-a-lifetime with Emile Pandolfi as your host on this dream-worthy ship. Set sail from Venice on August 12; only 227 passengers onboard. For information, visit Travel Odyssey.
Pianist Emile Pandolfi is among select official Steinway Artists participating in a special private reception on October 1 at Steinway Hall in NYC in commemoration of the company’s relocation from its historic 109 W. 57th Street home. The visiting pianists will take part in the opening of a 1925 Steinway time capsule, and each Steinway Artist will perform in the hallowed venue during the afternoon event.
THE MALPASS BROTHERS have signed an exclusive recording contract with Crossroads’ Organic Records, with the new recording to be produced by Bluegrass legend, Hall of Fame member Doyle Lawson. A spring 2015 release is projected. The label signing comes in the same week as the NC brothers’ performance during the World of Bluegrass festival in Raleigh, and a week after drawing accolades for their showcase appearance at Atlanta’s FOX Theatre during Performing Arts Exchange. The Malpass Brothers appeared by invitation in the elaborate showcase produced by JRA Fine Arts of Nashville, featured alongside the Annie Moses Band, Mike Farris & others. They have been selected to appear in juried showcase at the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Performing Arts Market in Lancaster, PA on Nov. 11.
MIKE WILEY
Listen to PRX public radio 8-min. news feature about Mike Wiley’s DAR HE: THE STORY OF EMMETT TILL.
SHANA TUCKER was one of six Nevada artists recently awarded a $5,000 Artist Fellowship by the Nevada Arts Council in the fields of literary, visual and performing arts. Shana’s award will be used to help support the international release of her recording Shine later this year. A Nevada resident since 2011, Tucker is featured cellist and vocalist in Cirque du Soleil’s production of KA at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. She recently made a special appearance at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, sharing the stage with singer Lisa Fischer from the Oscar-winning documentary TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM.
THE MALPASS BROTHERS will appear by special invitation in showcase at the historic FOX Theatre in Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday nights, Sept. 29-30, hosted by JRA Fine Arts of Nashville, during the 2014 Performing Arts Exchange. The showcase will feature performances by the Annie Moses Band, Mike Farris, Alex Depue and the Malpass Brothers. Visit goingbarefoot at booth 304 and JRA Fine Arts at booth 1018 at PAE.
MIKE WILEY has been jury-selected to perform a Spotlight Showcase of his play DAR HE: THE STORY OF EMMETT TILL at the Arts Midwest Performing Arts Conference in Minneapolis, MN on Thursday, September 18. Visit goingbarefoot at booth 932 at Arts Midwest.
MIKE WILEY and THE MALPASS BROTHERS have been selected for juried showcase presentations during the upcoming inaugural Mid-Atlantic Performing Arts Market in Lancaster, PA November 10-11 2014. The Mid-Atlantic Performing Arts Market is sponsored by PA Presenters and will be produced biennially, on opposite years from the biennial North Carolina Presenters Consortium-sponsored ArtsMarket in Durham, NC.
BILL LESLIE & LORICA is the newest addition to the goingbarefoot artist roster. Leslie, a longtime award-winning broadcast news anchor at CBS affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC is a renowned composer and musician whose most recent recording “Scotland: Grace of the Wild” was named World Music Radio Album of the Year for 2013.