bLuE daHLia
NEWS
10.05.09
FALL TOUR
Blue Dahlia has announced their upcoming fall tour schedule. Check out the tour dates page for more information. In October, the band will tour throughout Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio performing their original score to NOSFERATU.
Derek is still hard at work reviewing tracks for the upcoming collection of released and unreleased re-mastered recordings featuring past and present line-ups. The new collection will also feature a new studio recording of FATE and an, as of yet, untitled song. It should be out by year's end.
Check here for more details and dates!
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.
Booking, Press, & Technical Contacts
Band Members
DEREK MENCHINGER, Guitars and Mandolin
LESLIE BOUGHTON, Lead Vocals and keys
CARA LIEURANCE, Flute and Vocals
CAROLYN KOEBEL, Percussion and Hammer Dulcimer
Booking handled by:
All Things Horse & Drum
Contact
Carolyn Koebel
Engineering & Technical Coordination handled by:
Egg Media
Derek Menchinger
Press & Contracts handled by:
Jerusalem Cherry Publishing
Leslie Boughton
Websites
www.myspace.com/bluedahliamusic
