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Mary Ann Redmond Band
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm
$12 advance, $15 door
Mary Ann Redmond is an American singer known for her soulful and wide-ranging vocal style in popular and jazz music. Both her live performances and her five CDs to date have earned her acclaim from audiences and recognition from the music industry. She has won an astounding 24 Washington Area Music Awards (Wammies).
"If Aretha is the Queen of Soul, Redmond must be considered an official Lady in Waiting." ~ Dave Nuttycombe, Washington City Paper
After moving from Richmond, VA to the Washington, DC area in the early '90s, Redmond was hired as a featured vocalist for the soul/funk-oriented band that saxman/flutist Al Williams led in DC and its suburbs. Eventually, the singer left Williams' employ and formed her own band, which performed a combination of covers and Redmond originals. As a solo artist, Redmond developed an enthusiastic following in the Washington DC area, and along the way, she won quite a few Wammie awards. Held by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA), the Wammies are the local DC equivalent of the Grammies, and in the '90s and early 2000s, Redmond won a total of 14 Wammies (including awards for "Best Rock-Pop Vocalist," "Best Female Jazz Singer," "Best Roots Rock/Traditional R&B Vocalist," "Best Urban Contemporary Vocalist," and "Best Female Blues Vocalist"). Redmond has opened for major soul veterans when they passed through DC, including the O'Jays, the Pointer Sisters, Smokey Robinson, Ashford & Simpson, and the Neville Brothers.
Nils Lofgren describes Mary Ann Redmond as, "a great, great singer".
Also in the DC area, one of Redmond's strongest supporters has been singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, who invited Redmond to go on tour with her in 1999 as a background vocalist. Another DC resident who was an enthusiastic Redmond supporter was her friend Eva Cassidy, an eclectic, hard-to-categorize singer who was only 33 when she died of cancer in 1996. Redmond's solo albums have included, Prisoner of the Heart, 1997's Live!, and 2000's Here I Am, all of which she released on her own Spellbound label. In 2002, Prisoner of the Heart was re-released by the independent Q&W Music Group.
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LocationBright Box Theater (View)
15 N Loudoun St, Suite 100
Winchester, VA 22601
United States
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