• Sloan Wainwright Band CD Release Show with special guests Lucy Wainwright Roche, Suzzy Roche - 6/12
• 8:00pm

$25 in advance/$30 at door

An Evening With Sloan Wainwright and Friends including special musical guest Suzzy Roche.

City Winery presents a very special evening of music and family as Sloan Wainwright takes the stage to celebrate the release of her newest CD "Upside Down and Under My Heart".  Produced by Sloan alongside guitarist Stephen Murphy, this new CD boasts a collection of 10 original songs and can best be described as a musical, and often personal, exploration of love, loss, healing and learning to begin again.  Guest artists include Pat Wictor, David Mansfield, Thomas Bartlett and more.  

"Upside Down and Under My Heart" will be available on June 01, 2011.

ABOUT SLOAN WAINWRIGHT

Folk-pop artist Sloan Wainwright belongs to a musical dynasty of impossibly gifted singer-songwriters.

Her family tree (brother and folk-music luminary Loudon Wainwright, sister-in-law Kate McGarrigle, Suzzy Roche, nephew Rufus Wainwright, nieces Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche) reads like a who's who of contemporary folk music. Sloan's incredible gift is not only her unique songwriting ability but her dramatically voiced rendition of her original songs.

Read City Winery's Interview with Sloan Warinwright

"She's folk-influenced, obviously (you can't grow up in the First Family of Folk and not be, one imagines), but the real star here is her voice. Warm and smoky and smooth, it makes her earthy, ominous lyrics seem all the more intense."

Defying standard categorization, singer/songwriter Sloan Wainwright consistently demonstrates her easy command of a variety of American musical styles -- pop, folk, jazz and blues -- held together by the melodious tone of her rich contralto. The end result, a unique and soulful hybrid.  Sloan is an independent artist making grown-up girl music in the truest sense.

In addition, Sloan has written numerous musical compositions for theater and dance and teaches at many of the best-known master songwriter series and workshops. Sloan's open spirit and first-hand experience is welcome --year after year-- in the musical classrooms of such prestigious song camps as The Swannanoa Gathering, Summersongs, Wintersongs, and WUMB Radio's Summer Acoustic Music Week (SAMW).

"... Sloan Wainwright, whose regal voice could fell a redwood." - The Boston Globe

"Her songs, like her voice, cast a lasting spell." - The Washington Post

http://www.sloanwainwright.com

ABOUT SUZZY ROCHE

Since 1979, The Roches (sisters Suzzy, Maggie & Terre) have blended every possible genre from a capella, Handel and barbershop harmonies to country, folk and rock into a music marked by its refreshing honesty, eccentricity and humor. The Roche sisters, with their trademark harmonies, have released a total of ten albums, and made numerous appearances on shows such as Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show and A Prairie Home Companion.

With the Roches, Suzzy was always the front woman, knocking out audiences with her entrancing stage presence, actor's delight in performance, hilarious epiphanies and deadpan humor. Stepping out as a solo artist, she has combined her presence and wit with a sense of intimacy -- creating an exceptionally captivating performance.

Suzzy is also an accomplished actress, appearing in Crossing Delancey with Amy Irving and working in live theater with The Wooster Group and other ensembles. Her film work has also included her music - having composed the score for Steven Spielberg's The Land Before Time.

With such a background, it's no wonder that Suzzy's music is able to make you think as well as gasp with delight.

"Pure poetry... (Roche) has a knack for creating amazing turns of melody." - New York Newsday

http://www.roches.com