Artist, musician, composer Phoebe Legere brings her Let's Get Creative Tour to
The Tin Pan in Richmond on October 26.
The performance-event is a fundraiser for Phoebe's 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Foundation for New American Art. The Foundation is dedicated to providing art and music to low-income, at-risk children in underserved communities.
All proceeds from the performance event will be donated to the Foundation.
Please lend whatever media support you can to this entertaining evening that will help introduce art and music education to neglected children.
For more information contact:
Susie Rakowski
mailto:susan@FoundationForNewAmericanArt.org 646-872-5992
PHOEBE
LEGERE KICKS OFF
Let’s Get
Creative! TOUR
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| Phoebe Legere is the Founder & Executive Director of the Foundation for New American Art |
WHERE:
The Tin Pan
October 26 8pm
October 26 8pm
8982 Quioccasin Road
Richmond, VA 23229
804-447-8189
New York, NY--Internationally known Artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,
and community advocate for children, Phoebe Legere will be
appearing at The Tin
Pan on Oct.26, 2016 , 8 pm, in an event-performance of her original
songs, music and art. The artist will perform her hit song Heart of Love from her new album Let’s Get Creative.
The event is a fundraisers for Ms. Legere’s Foundation
For New American Art, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit
organization dedicated to helping underserved children in low-income
communities discover and experience art and music.
NPR Radio labeled Phoebe Legere “an American Original” and
Studs Terkel called the musician, composer, and songwriter, “an American
Treasure.”
This modern day troubadour recently clocked more than 4000
miles in the past few months traveling the country, writing songs along the way
in her car or kayak, pitching her tent as she staked her claim right into our
hearts as an innovative and imaginative storyteller.
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| The Foundation for New American Art brings art & music to at-risk, underserved children in low-income communities |
Whether strumming her acoustic guitar, displaying her
uncanny blues piano virtuosity, playing her accordion or singing in voice that
“flows from a sultry alto moan to a dazzling clear achingly angelic cri de
coeur,” Phoebe Legere will combine her set with fundraising for a cause she is
passionate about: bringing art and music to low-income children who are
suffering school budget cuts and system failures.
Phoebe Legere is the Executive Director of the Foundation.
The nonprofit organization is dedicated to helping “educate, as well as nurture
and strengthen the artistic and musical spirit of, low-income communities.”
According to Executive Director Legere, “It seemed like a
perfect match to naturally blend an event featuring music and art and raising
awareness of The Foundation with fundraising.”
The Tin Pan is a Music and Events venue located in West End
of Richmond, VA near Regency Square Mall.
The event kicks off Phoebe’s Let’s Get Creative tour:
Phoebe Legere is driving across the country in her VISIONARY
VAN, which is loaded with Art and Music.
She visits schools, and libraries with encouraging workshops, most
notably her “Songwriting From The Heart.”
In a few lucky communities, Ms. Legere will bring her unique
interdisciplinary musical performances to the public. Phoebe is an Americana
artist who is known for her “highly intelligent lyrics” (Washington Post) and
the “heroic songwriting mastery” that combines “elegance and the beautiful ache
of truth.”
I saw American shining,
Coming up like the sun
behind our barn
running toward the light
She gives you a heart hug
Eyes closed.
You can feel it.
Heaven is the heart.
America we need water so
clean you can drink it
America Let’s Get Creative.
There was a time
Americans worked in
Factories
Worked together in war and
peace
Living for our families
But the Human Soul
Has been incorporated
We’re just drones working
for folks we don’t know
Looking for salvation in a
new iPhone.
- Phoebe Legere
From “Bar Code”
A tenet of The Foundation for New American Art is “To
encourage public awareness and understanding of the fine arts; to advance a
positive image of artists in under privileged communities.”
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| Nurturing the Visionary Artists of Tomorrow |
Phoebe has recorded 15 CDs and is currently working on an
album called “Let’s Get Creative.”
The Foundation for New American Art’s mission is to
“educate, as well as nurture and strengthen the artistic and musical spirit of
the children of low-income communities.”
Phoebe says, “I am dedicated to nurturing the visionary artists of the future. Art and Music are not extra-curricular. Art and Music are integral to the harmonious development of the human heart and soul. Schools that have music programs have significantly higher graduation rates than those without music programs.
The Rockefeller Foundation reports: music makers are 52%
more likely to go on to college than those who are not involved in music.
Secondary students who participated in band or orchestra
reported the lowest lifetime and current use of all substances. (Report from
The Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse).
Beyond the statistical data supporting the medicine power of
art and music, there is the powerful example of Legere herself. She ran away
from home at age fifteen and lived on the streets of New York City. Subjected
to hardship and hunger, Phoebe Legere discovered songwriting as an outlet for
her pain, and within a year was signed to Epic Records.
About Phoebe Legere:
PHOEBE LEGERE plays seven instruments including one she
invented to help physically challenged children play music.
Legere is a Juilliard trained composer in addition to being
an internationally recognized visual artist. She offers small collectible
paintings after each performance. Each original artwork has a CD embedded
within it.
Recently receiving a contract to record an all French album,
Phoebe Legere is offering her I Love Paris series: Paintings and prints can also be ordered
online http://www.phoebelegere.org
PHOEBE LEGERE is a singer-songwriter plays seven instruments
including one she invented herself (to help physically challenged children play
music).
PHOEBE LEGERE works across genres and art forms.
The New York Times raved:
“Legere plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses
Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery
a four octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous
phrasing.”
Glenn O’Brien, Interview
Magazine called her “ a genius.”
Provincetown Magazine said,
“Often copied, never equaled, Phoebe Legere is a transmedia virtuoso force who
zaps the listener into a new reality. Legere personifies the divine feminine;
her multi-octave voice has been compared to Edith Piaf, Aretha Franklin and
Maria Callas…Legere is a nuclear, spinning multi-dimensional, creative force
NOT TO BE MISSED.”
Patrick Christiano, Theaterlife,
said, “Phoebe shines: A soprano with a five octave range. Queen Phoebe, plays
both piano and accordion like nothing you have ever witnessed before, she sings
as well and is a radiant presence with all her gifts on dazzling display in her
outrageous new show, Shakespeare and Elizabeth.”
Studs Terkel said, “
She's multi-gifted, an American original and an American treasure!”
National Public Radio said,
“Phoebe Legere is superb!"
Liz Smith garlanded
her with the ultimate singer-pianist accolade, “Phoebe Legere is the new Bobby
Short!”
Iman Labedi of RockNYC
described Phoebe Legere as “a master writer… Heroic songwriting mastery.”
Ron Della Chiesa, host of Music America, told his listeners: “Phoebe Legere is
magnificent…Her beautiful voice will take your breath away!”
Where Magazine: “Phoebe
Legere’s brand of articulate genius will have its day—the time is ripe for a
legitimate, American original who has it all—beauty, brains, talent, sex
appeal, and a giving heart…A brilliant songwriter.”
Any donation amount to the
Foundation is cheerfully accepted:
Please make checks payable to:
Foundation for New American Art, Inc. All donations are 100% tax deductible.
Please mail to: Foundation for New American Art,
224 East 10th Street,
New York, NY 10003.
