Dixon Place hosts Gone To Glory Rachelle Garniez
About This Show
Rachelle Garniez’ latest recording, Gone to Glory, chronicles her interpretation of songs written or made famous by a variety of dearly beloved artists, all recently departed. The project began in 2016, a year which brought shocking and unexpected losses on many fronts. David Bowie, Prince, and Leonard Cohen had all died over the last twelve months, and there was, alongside that immeasurable cultural bereavement, a national political climate of unrest and seemingly irreconcilable division. At the original 2016 Farewell Party concert people were starved for the chance to mourn and celebrate, and the Farewell Party became an annual event. The resulting Gone to Glory collection is a covers album that’s also about recovering, an uplifting assertion that while death may wreck our world, we still survive to enjoy all that’s been bequeathed.
The concert will celebrate the official March/2020 release of Gone to Glory, and features a 10-piece band with a 3-piece horn section and 2 backup singers, and will include songs originally recorded by Prince, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, and Glen Campbell.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rachelle Garniez is a songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and multi instrumentalist. Her genre-fluid story-songs combine the influences of time honored Tin Pan Alley/Brill Building craft mixed with folk, Latin, blues, and a touch of jazz. Her vocal and musical expression span a broad range of emotion and character, converging at the crossroads of comedy and tragedy. From her first adventures as a street musician and a fixture in the 80s New York boho scene to being hailed by the New York Press as “one of the greatest songwriters of our time,” Rachelle’s career has been marked by an unwavering muscial integrity and startling originality. Rachelle is truly “a diva with a difference” (Billboard), “romantic, rhapsodic, and causally hilarious” (The New York Times). Or, as The New Yorker has it, “Garniez wanders through the genres of country, jazz and pop, leaving behind nothing but sweet wreckage.”
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