Jacqui Naylor to Perform at Blues Alley

WHO:
Vocalist Jacqui Naylor

WHAT:
Performing at Blues Alley

WHERE:
Blues Alley
1073 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.337.4141

WHEN:
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Showtimes at 8pm and 10pm

TICKET PRICE:
$20

At this show, the artist will sing the music from her acclaimed album, The Color Five, as well as the most requested songs from her prior recordings. Sure to be included will be “Celebrate Early and Often," the highly-requested and celebrated original song from Smashed For The Holidays. Audiences can also expect a sneak peek at songs from her upcoming release, You Don't Know JACQ. Fans are always invited to write in with requests for the show directly to Naylor's website at www.jacquinaylor.com

Jacqui Naylor's recent holiday CD, Smashed for the Holidays, earned the vocalist and songwriter growing critical acclaim in the United States and abroad. The CD featured a seamless combination of classic rock and holiday classics. Tying everything together was Naylor's trademark “acoustic smashing," where she sings a holiday standard while the band plays a well-known rock tune. Picture “Santa Claus is Coming to Town" over the groove of Lynyrd Skynyrd's “Sweet Home Alabama." The record was called “the most adventurous Christmas album of 2007" by All Music Guide, and Jonathan Takiff of the Philadelphia Daily News marveled that “Jacqui Naylor found a way to make even the most familiar Christmas standard sound fresh." The record was rated the number one holiday release by Jazziz and in the top 10 from USA Today, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.

Naylor's previous release, The Color Five, incorporated many different permutations of the number “5," including five of Naylor's “acoustic smashes.". For example, Naylor sang the U2 favorite “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" over the music of Miles Davis' “All Blues" and sang Rod Stewart's “Hot Legs" over fellow Buddhist Herbie Hancock's “Cantaloupe Island."

Naylor and her band have just finished recording her seventh project, You Don't Know JACQ, due out later this year on Ruby Star Records/Ryko.