News
August 31, 2010
SHOWS!September is gigtember....
Shows, shows, shows with new songs and new friends.
September 3rd, Savannah plays FIRST FRIDAY in Oakland at Mercury 20 Gallery. This is an awesome space, filled with awesome art.
September 16th, Savannah plays at KNOCKOUT with Annie Bacon's divine vocal stylings and her killer band, The Oshen.
September 17th, Savannah plays the support set for Coles Whalen at Oh My Darling Studio.
July 26, 2010
Knitting Songs U.S Release, July 27thHowdy, folks. Release date has finally arrived and with it come some fun website pressies.
The first five people to review 'Knitting Songs' on itunes will get a handmade pressie. How do you get your mittens on such a thing? Go to the goodies page, click on the itunes icon, buy the album, review it on itunes, send me an email via the form on the contact page telling me you have just reviewed the album and I'll mail you a thank you pressie. It's o.k, you can be honest, you can be brief or effusive - I'll still send you a present :-)
Yay. Brown paper packages arriving in the mail.........
The San Francisco live launch of the album will be announced this week. It is going to be slightly unusual in terms of location, line up and delivery but I am really excited to share that with you soon... just a few more puzzle pieces to put in place before we announce the details.
Enjoy the full moon!
P.S, are you aware, U.S comrades, that QWERTY is a valid word in Websters Scrabble Dictionary?
Movie recommendation: "The Big Lebowski" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
Music recommendation: Dessa "A Badly Broken Code" http://www.doomtree.net/dessa/
Latest Press Chatter about 'Knitting Songs"
http://www.staticmultimedia.com/music/reviews/savannah_jo_lack_-_knitting_songs
http://juniorscave.com/Savannah-Jo.html
July 20, 2010
Films and launches and no more sitting on my haunches......Hi. How are you? Are you feeling Mercury in retrograde this week? I was. I was blaming her for a very blue streak of mood on the weekend. I had decided not to travel, not to start my German class, not to emerge without a hat on (retrograde=terrible hair) but then, something happened. The telephone rang. Mercury and I made up. I drank some water and slept for more than 5 hours and, now I am liking this little spell of retrograde very much.
NEWS!!!! I have some for you. Firstly, thanks to Goddess, Annie Bacon, and a stellar crew of musicians and humans, the Folk Opera is recorded. Yipppeeeee! The recording process was really quite incredible. We recorded everything live (ie. at the same time) a chorus, bass, violin, uke and 4 lead vocals. A group of very talented and kind hearted friends took over the running of "the tower" so that the Folk Opera cast could focus purely on performing. It was an amazing community effort - we had telephone operators, a chef, a Jeremy and a super fanstic sound crew and I'm pretty sure all of that love and community will come through on the recorded product. Click on the link below to find out how you can get your hands on a copy.
Secondly, I am playing violin on Fiora's original score for an upcoming Aussie movie, Scab Girl Assylum, whose content and story are both moving and profoundly important.
Thirdly, I am releasing "Knitting Songs".... it's coming and it's getting increasingly more exciting by the day.
For a look at the latest interview and reviews, click away :-)
http://superultradeluxe.com/music-news/savannah-jo-lacks-debut-album-with-one-hot-violin/
http://juniorscave.com/Savannah-Jo.html
http://anniebacon.me/Annie_Bacon/Folk_Opera.html
July 06, 2010
Hooooeeeeeee!
It's been an amazing month and I'm going to share just a little bit with you.....
I've been playing violin and singing the part of "Aunt Sara" in Annie Bacon's Folk Opera for the last few months. How did this happen when I had pledged a year of developing only my solo material? For starters, no woman can create in a vacuum. For seconds, Annie is an extraordinary human and lastly, she has written a work of transcendent genius - equal parts dirt and sky and I really, really urge you to check it out if you see it listed somewhere.
On that note, we are recording the aforementioned opera this weekend and it will be available for purchase, as an LP, yes, a record (!) in the coming months.
As for MY material? I have been writing. There are new songs... (Finally! I thought, perhaps, I might have to pursue a career as a professional dish washer, aka plate breaker) and they will be debuting at my next show. What do they sound like? You can check them out soon...... rough versions will be up on myspace and I'll be slipping them into my set for the next few shows. Hints? I've been reading Bukowski and peeling back the layers of my looping-folk-hip-hop goddess.
But WAIT.... There is another recording to talk about. My debut solo album, "Knitting Songs", is hitting itunes, stores and hopefully breaking through the stratosphere in AUGUST. THIS August. An SF C.D launch will be staged at 'the warehouse' - don't bother googling, it's a brand new space, undectable by google maps or the internet in general and invites will be hush hush but YOU are invited and I'll tell you more as the pieces fly together.
I hope you are well and happy and in love, with a song or a poem or a boy or a girl.
May 21, 2010
A huge weekend of gigs and a feature article in Penseyeview today. To check it out, go to..... http://www.penseyeview.com/content/savannah-jo-lack
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