bLuE daHLia
NEWS
1.23.10
"Raise the Roof" Fund Raising Event
"Raise the Roof" is a fundraising event to support Owosso's new Performing Arts Center. bLue daHLia will perform their original live soundtrack for Buster Keaton's silent film Seven Chances.
The event will be held at the Owosso Cinema located at 314 East Comstock Street, February 21st at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are:
$6 under 18/$12 Adults/$20 *Patron
$___ *Patron Plus any donation over $20
Patron and Patron Plus are invited to a Pre-Glow starting at 6pm at the OCP Annex located at 122 East Main Street . Tickets are available from the OCP box office at 989-723-4003 or contact Kit Kuhlman at
989-723-5386.
Please note the tickets will not be sold at the cinema.
BIO
bLuE daHLia is described by the Detroit Free Press as "more adventurous than anyone else dares to be." the exotic ripples through each composition, blending textural guitars, melodic bass, soaring multi-lingual vocals with ethnic, orchestral percussion. An independent alternative band formed in 1995 by former members of the underground Gothic/Punk band, The New York Room. .
After years of club performances, theatrical, avant garde concerts, bLuE daHLia has created five arresting studio releases and continues to create a hybrid mix of world fusion and adult alternative. Recent comparisons include David Byrne. PJ Harvey, The Decemberists, The Talking Heads, The Cocteau Twins, the Church, Echo & The Bunnymen, & Dead Can Dance.
In 1999, bLuE daHLia began a decade of visual arts collaboration when they received their first commission from the Sound of Silents Film Festival. Not unlike the Alloy Orchestra and Devil Music Ensemble, bLuE daHLia's work with vintage film eschews the traditional and melodramatic for a modern approach to film scoring, as found in today's independent and major film releases.
Using a broad range of instrumentation and style, bLuE daHLia has developed an extensive repertoire of silent film scores for live performance. Varying in emotional tenor from slapstick romantic comedies to drama and horror, these intricately orchestrated works are forging connections with great films, music, and generations of audiences everywhere.
In the tradition of independent groups creating music for visual media, Blue Dahlia has contributed to composed music soundtracks and penned their own original scores for silent and independent films including an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (CINE Golden Eagle award and official selection at The Palm Beach International Film Festival), Kalamazoo?, and Abductees among many others.
Royal Caribbean, Whirlpool, Cunard Cruise Lines, and The Lincoln Center's Education for the Arts program are among many who have commissioned Blue Dahlia's works for commercial and artistic licensing. bLuE daHLia offers a diverse catalog of finished music which can be licensed through Jerusalem Cherry Publishing/BMI, New York. bLuE daHLia publicity is provided by Jerusalem Cherry Publishing/Egg Media, Radio promotion provided by broadcast and satellite media agency, Peter Hay/Twin Vision, New York.
TOUR DATES
No dates currently scheduled.
VIDEOS
Music is now available for streaming!
Just click play and enjoy!
Click on the The General & This Floating World CD Covers
on the discography page for links to listen and buy at CD Baby .
Blue Dahlia /This Floating World
Music & Dance Collaboration with Wellspring
Blue Dahlia/Going Nowhere
From their original score to Clara Bow's IT
Blue Dahlia (Self Titled) 1996
St .Thomas Records
Estival
2001
Jerusalem Cherry
Seven Chances
2003
The General
2004
This Floating World
2006
Band Members
Booking, Press, & Technical Contacts
DEREK MENCHINGER, Guitars and Mandolin
LESLIE BOUGHTON, Lead Vocals and Keys
CARA LIEURANCE, Flute and Vocals
CAROLYN KOEBEL, Percussion and Hammer Dulcimer
bLuE daHLia press kit
Engineering & Technical Coordination handled by:
Egg Media
Contact: Derek Menchinger
Derek_bluedahlia.com
Booking handled by:
All Things Horse & Drum
Contact: Carolyn Koebel
carolyn.koebel_gmail.com
Press & Contracts handled by:
Jerusalem Cherry Publishing
Contact: Leslie Boughton
Leslie_bluedahlia.com
For questions and general
information contact:
Info_bluedahlia.com
bluedahliapressbookfull
Websites
www.myspace.com/bluedahliamusic
www.facebook.com/pages/bLuEdaHLia/66166942897
www.cdbaby.com/cd/bluedahlia1
www.cdbaby.com/cd/bluedahlia2
www.thenewyorkroom.com
www.egg-me.com
www.wmuk.org
www.widr.org
Visit these bLuE daHLia links below:
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MUSIC
