Artists:Groovelily
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Valerie Vigoda, electric violinist and singer, is the founding member of GrooveLily. Originally from McLean, VA, Valerie is a classically-trained musician, honors graduate of Princeton University, and former Army lieutenant. She has toured the world with Cyndi Lauper (opening for Tina Turner and Cher), Joe Jackson and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. She founded GrooveLily (originally "The Valerie Vigoda Band") in 1994, with a critically-acclaimed CD called "Inhabit My Heart." Dirty Linen Magazine wrote:"to call Valerie Vigoda talented barely seems to do her justice. She has a great voice, is an intelligent lyricist ... and an ace violinist. Methinks we'll hear more of her." Winner of a 2006 Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award for excellence in writing for the theater, along with her longtime collaborator and husband Brendan Milburn, Valerie is delighted to be spending less time in the GrooveLily van, and more time creating new projects with her bandmates.
Brendan Milburn (keyboards/vocals) graduated from Pomona College and NYU's MFA program in Musical Theatre Writing. He does a lot of arranging for GrooveLily, and he's an accomplished record producer as well. He often yearns for his native San Francisco. Seth Rogovoy wrote: "Milburn was a deft pianist, his nimble fingerwork doing double-duty as the band's bassist and provider of its harmonic foundation, delivered with the jazzy sophistication of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and the rock and roll theatrics of Billy Joel." Brendan's music and/or lyrics have been/will be featured in a growing number of off/on-Broadway shows, and he's always on the lookout for new projects/productions which will add more slashes ("/") to his bio/credits.
Gene Lewin plays the drums and sings, and hails from Princeton, NJ. Like many of his heroes (Jack DeJohnette, Russ Kunkel, Vinnie Colaiuta), Gene joyfully blurs the lines between jazz and rock, supporting and complementing the music but unafraid to instigate when the time is right. After graduating from Princeton University, Gene earned a Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He has toured with Audra McDonald and has appeared on CDs with George Coleman, John Patitucci, and many others. "His gift lies in his frenzied dynamo attack of cymbals and skins. Think Tony Williams sits in with Weather Report." (Mark Corroto, All About Jazz).
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| Groovelily on MySpace |
| Groovelily on Wikipedia |
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| Song | Album | Length | Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| Velvet Prison (1992 Home Demo) | Brendan & The Extenuating Circumstances | 3:03 | 4 |  5 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Piano / Upbeat / Happy | Caution To The Wind | Striking 12 | 4:40 | 31 | 11 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Electric / Solo vocalist / Band / Piano / Live / Pop / Major key / Am's fav of favs / Inspiring / Pretty / Upbeat / New year's | The Odometer Song | Brendan & The Extenuating Circumstances | 3:47 | 4 | 3 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Pop / Fiddle / Electric / Band |
| Total Time | 11:30 |
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Artist name is|Groovelily Last played| more than 1 week ago ---------------------------------------- Show name| Songs by Groovelily Length| 15 minutes Order by| random Limit| 3 songs ----------------------------------------
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- Spotlighted: Sunday, June 20th 2004
- Songs on WWR: 99
- Total plays: 1247
- Total requests: 789
- Total listens: 28762
- CDBaby referrals: 4
- CDBaby sales: Are we there yet? (Sold 3 copies)
Little Light (Back Issue Series) (Sold 1 copies)
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