March and April shows!
Greetings dear friends and supporters of my music.
2010 has started off to be a great year. Many wonderful things are happening and it's tough to keep it all straight! Hearing the Portland Symphony perform one of my songs with
Storm Large last month right alongside Nat King Cole, Elvis Costello and Cole Porter continues to blow my mind on a daily basis...Thank you Storm and James. After the show I met Greg Eklund who played drums with the Symphony that night. Greg was in a well-known band called Everclear for many years and will be performing with us in April for our Last Dancers shows in L.A. We are very excited to play with Greg.
Special Request: I sent out a free download of my entire first album "Gracious Living" with my last email and am anxious to hear your reviews! Please leave a comment on my
website!
The New Band
The first rough mixes of the album
Anna Sacks and I are working on are already sounding AMAZING. In particular "When You're a Dreamer". We have a great version of this song in the works as well as 10+ other songs. We are blessed many times over to have musicians like Kelly Le Mieux (Goldfinger) on Bass,
Pat Bohan on guitars and Dano Capristo playing drums and mixing/producing. We will have many special guest artists from the West Coast such as David Graham, James Beaton and
Eric McFadden making appearances on the record and will keep everyone posted as soon as we have some singles to advance through our websites, so keep your ears peeled. (I think that's a widwest corn reference...) Anna and I are in the process of naming our band and will gladly accept your ideas. Please send them to adam.mackintosh@gmail.com
Wisconsin Dates for the Summer
Adam Mackintosh and Friends Aug 20th
Woodwalk
Adam Mackintosh and Friends July 24th Husby's
Adam Mackintosh and Friends July 26th Evenings in Ephraim
Adam Mackintosh and The Last Dancers June
Steel Bridge Songfest 10 * 11 * 12 * 13
The Last Dancers (full band and acoustic)
Hear the album!
Click here.
New shows coming up here in the next six weeks and I'm sure it will continue on through the Summer.
Here are some dates:
Full Band Shows
Stronghold Music Lodge Friday April 16th with Joseph Arthur showtime 9pm $15
Silverlake (Venue TBD) Sat April 17th
Acoustic Shows
Genghis Cohen (Hollywood) Saturday March 20th 10:30pm Joined by Anna and John Groover McDuffie!
We will be recording this show live and will need an AUDIENCE!
So please confirm your attendance on the Facebook event page here.
THIS THURSDAY!!!!!!
Stronghold Music Lodge 1625 Abbot Kinney Blvd. (Venice) Thursday March 11th Joined by David Graham opening for
Shannon Moore (Shannon is joined by members of Bonnie Raitt and Jackson's band and we will play at 9pm SHARP)
Witzend (Venice) Monday March 15th Songwriter Night (
Filming in HD that night! Be in the crowd! )
Witzend Tuesday March 16th Read & White Author Night (Modern published authors read from their books and musicians break it up with short performances)
Lynda Kay
Having such an excellent time playing with Lynda. The Gold Standard was a blast!! A very special thank you to Jason with
Gretsch Guitars for letting me play the Jet Firebird! Playing it was like the Queen of The Rodeo kissing you on the eyelids with every sweet note. Thank you.
We have a show April 5th and you can find the details on her site.
www.lyndakay.com
That's all for now folks. Once again, thank you all so much for believing. I'll see you at the shows!
Portland Symphony performs "Forbidden Fruit" news!
Hello dear friends and supporters of my music. Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Portland Symphony performance with Storm Large was an absolutely divine experience. Over 3000 people filled the sold-out Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in downtown Portland to hear Storm sing with a 64 piece orchestra and they gave her 2 standing ovations. I was very honored to have had one of my compositions performed in the midst of such greatness as Cole Porter, Elvis Costello and many more. The arranger was Steven Taylor who is the head of the music department at Champaign-Urbana university in Illinois, and we had a great laugh afterwards talking about his inspirations for the arrangement. Really sweet guy. The Symphony board has voted to allow us access to the archival recording and at some point it might be available to hear the recording! Here are a couple of pics:
More great news! Anna and I have started recording our album! Tracked 6 songs in Portland over the weekend with Dano Capristo and will be joined by many of our talented friends as we record into the summer. Tracks will be available on both of our sites and I will keep you updated as we work. www.annasacksmusic.com
The Last Dancers will be playing at The Stronghold on Abbot Kinney Blvd. here in Venice March 11th at
9:00 pm with the lovely and talented Shannon Moore who is backed up by many members of Jackson Browne's band. We are also very happy to be playing the show with Greg Ecklund from Everclear on drums. Will be a great show!
And...I have been asked to host a Songwriter night this Sunday at a new Venice Venue called Witzend
Very exciting! As you all know I love hosting and really wanted to find a venue to work with here in my neighborhood. Cool space too, used to be the 4H club where The Doors and many other legendary acts performed in the 60's and 70's. Currently, Lynda Kay, Scott Clark and Shannon Moore are on the bill as well as several other incredible performers who I have yet to discover links to. We performed there twice this month and had an excellent time. Any songwriters in LA who would like to come and do 3 songs, get back to me right away as I have one slot left!
Current dates for Wisconsin this Spring:
Aug 20th at Woodwalk Gallery
June 10 * 11 * 12 * 13 Steel Bridge Songfest
July 26 Ephraim waterfront (evenings in Ephraim concert series)
July 24th on the deck at Husby's 7 till 10
More to come....
All of this and more will be copied to my blog which you can visit here BLOG
Take care and best wishes to you all! See you out. -AM
Grammy pre-party at the Figueroa Hotel
We had a great show yesterday playing a pre-party for the 2010 Grammy's at the Fig in Downtown L.A.
Photo's by Anna Sacks.
Looking forward to a good year with Lynda Kay's band.
Hello 2010!
Jan 29 2010
Hello dear friends, fans and supporters of my music. Today I have some great news. Nearly a decade has passed since I wrote "Forbidden Fruit", a sultry, haunting ballad that came to me all at once in what is now the back hallway entrance to Dante's. The piece was performed many times at Dante's by Storm Large on her ascent to stardom. She would often open one of her sets with the song and for such a gritty rock club, the silence was always surprising. Several years passed and the melodies and twisted chords slept softly in our hearts. Without a recorded version of the composition it was survived only by our collective consciousness. A couple of months ago, Storm's chief collaborator, musical director and brilliant musican, James Beaton called and requested the exact lyrics in the hopes of working the song into their Valentine's Day performance. The next time I heard from him was an email stating that the song would be performed by Storm, backed by the full sonic spectrum of the Oregon Symphony at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert hall in Portland. I am simply blown away, grateful, humbled, excited and honored to receive such a beautiful gift. The concert details are below and if you would like to see something rare and beautiful, get tickets right away. The PCPA opens sales to their members first and then to the general public and ticket sales are going quickly for this romantic, funny and highly entertaining performance. Storm is a brilliantly funny entertainer and with the Symphony backing her up...it will be a great show. Not to be missed. Thank you Storm and James.
P.S. there is an absolutely hilarious video for "8 Miles Wide" on her site so click the link.
Music Business news:
I have recently started working with El Camino Partners, an Entertainment Law Firm here in Los Angeles.
El Camino will be representing the music of The Last Dancers as well as my solo work and previous catalog to several entertainment entities. We are all very excited about this, more news on that to come....
The Last Dancers have plans to tour The UK in May and attend Steel Bridge Songfest in June
our new record is available for single song and full album download here.
Watch our new video for "Dear Dancers" and become a fan on Facebook by clicking here.
Anna and I have finally settled in in Venice and have started writing new songs! We have a deep desire to record an album of our originals and are making plans to do so as soon as possible. Until then, check out Anna's new site! www.annasacksmusic.com
We have acoustic dates booked in Door County, Wisconsin for the Summer as follows:
Woodwalk Gallery-Jeanne Kuhns Summer Concert Series Aug 20th
Evenings in Ephraim -July 26th
Steel Bridge Songfest JUNE 10 * 11 * 12 * 13
More of those to come as well....
I have also been having a wonderful time playing guitar with the brilliant Lynda Kay Parker around Los Angeles. Her CD release will be a blast! For show dates, click the link above.
In conclusion, I would just like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for their continued support in my musical endeavors.
Oregon Symphony presents
Storm Large: Crazy Love
She’s sexy, sassy and electrifying. Award-winning singer and actress Storm Large makes her Oregon Symphony debut with a romantic evening of beloved standards and some very special surprises.
Saturday, February 13th
$25.00 - $102.50
Tickets: The PCPA box office, Ticketmaster
