Lucy Wainwright-Roche + Rebecca Pronsky listings

Midnight Mango & SNG presents...

LUCY WAINWRIGHT-ROCHE
REBECCA PRONSKY



Saturday 20th March 2010

COLSTON HALL, Colston Street,
Bristol BS1 5AR

Doors 8:00 pm
Unreserved Seating

Tickets: £10 in advance

Colston Hall Box Office 0117 922 3686
Online: http://www.colstonhall.org
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LUCY WAINWRIGHT-ROCHE (USA)
Genre: Acoustic
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lwrlwr
Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lucy-Wainwright-Roche/23683116196
YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPf5KQ9ycYY

Lucy Wainwright Roche grew up in Greenwich Village, New York City. She is the daughter of two performing musicians, Loudon Wainwright and Suzzy Roche (The Roches). Her childhood was spent living out of a suitcase, either on the road, with her parents or being ferried around to different relatives in her big musical clan. About her childhood, Lucy has this to say: "I loved being on the road as a kid. It was like traveling in a pack, which is something that is fundamentally appealing to me. It included the best parts of a good book: the ups and downs of an ever-changing, ever-moving adventure, new characters in every town and all along I had everything I needed with me. My family, music and a window seat in the van."

In a family of rebels, she proved most rebellious by completing her Master’s Degree in Education and has spent several years teaching second and third grade in New York City. After singing backup with her brother, Rufus Wainwright, over the years 2005 & 2006, she decided to take some time off from the classroom to explore her life long relationship to singing and song writing. Described by the New York Times as having the best qualities of both her parents and a voice "clear as a bell", Lucy is a refreshing, pure, alternative to the jive pop culture. She is alarmingly straightforward and unadorned. A young singer just beginning to find her own point of view from a unique perspective.

In the past year Lucy has toured the US doing solo shows and opening for many different musicians from Dar Williams to her brother Rufus. She ended 2007 with a special sold out birthday celebration at Joe's Pub in her hometown of NYC. In 2007 Lucy released her first recording, and EP entitled "8 Songs". In the spring of 2008 she released her second EP, "8 More". She says, "A person can inherit their family's name and a person can inherit their family's stories but experience is something everyone aquires themselves. That's what I'm thinking about as I'm starting to perform on my own."

"Sincere and raw, at times recalling Joni Mitchell and Patty Griffin, Roche's bittersweet voice leaps out; she paints an indelible image..." - NPR's Song of the Day


REBECCA PRONNSKY (USA)
Genre: Acoustic
Web: http://www.rebeccapronsky.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/rebeccapronsky
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rebeccapronsky
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz7dnDMUh34

Rebecca Pronsky is a Brooklyn, NY native who continues to stake her claim as one of New York's finest young singers and songwriters. Rebecca's songs are "literate, passionate, and wry" (Time Out NY) with "brutal, cutting lyricism" (Ithaca Times), and "a little twang and a lot of empathy" (Philadelphia City Paper). Her Nine Mile Records debut 'Departures & Arrivals' was named a Top Ten Album of 2008 by the Philadelphia City Paper and has been featured on XM Radio. Her new EP "The Best Game in Town" is out this spring.

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