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JUNE 15
at 7 p.m.
Rachael Davis & Dominic John
Opening
act by Jetty Rae
Rachael
Davis
Rachael
Davis has been singing on-stage
since she was two years
old. Born to parents who never intended to keep her very
far from
music for very long seems to have made all the difference
in the world.
Before she was mobile Rachael would be set in a car seat
and placed in
the middle of a song circle and, with silver bells on her
ankles, she
would shake her feet to the rhythm. At one-and-a-half,
young Rachael
was singing "Somewhere over the Rainbow" to anyone who
asked, and at
two she started performing with her parents on stage.
Born in Lansing, Michigan, Davis spent almost six years of
her life in
Chicago before her parents -- musicians as well -- settled
in Cadillac,
Michigan, where she was constantly nurtured and encouraged
by family,
friends, and other respectable musicians. At the ripe old
age of eight,
Davis sang on second stage at Wheatland Music Festival.
Irish
chanteuse Maura O'Connell was backstage, and when Rachael
came off
the stage, Maura went up to her and grasped Rachael's face
with both
hands: "Never stop doing it for the love of it!"
Davis has spent most of her life involved with music in one
way or
other: whether as the lead in three of her high school's
musicals;
singing with her family-based group Lake Effect; or
performing solo
with a few friends as ‘Special Guests.’ In lieu
of her fourth year of
high school, she attended Interlochen Arts Academy in
Northern
Michigan -- which counts among its alumni Peter Yarrow,
Anne Hills and
Jewel (Kilcher).
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In the span of her so-far
twenty-two years, Rachael has shared the
stage with Boston’s Vance Gilbert, folk divas Claudia
Schmidt and Sally
Rogers, Prairie Home Companion regulars Robin and Linda
Williams, jazz
legends Marcus Belgrave and Winston Walls, amongst others.
She has
opened for Dar Williams, David Lindley, Garnet Rogers,
Chris Smither,
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Richard Shindell, Susan
Werner, Peter
Mulvey, Eddie From Ohio, Nerissa and Katryna Nields, The
Kennedys,
Clive Gregson, Hugh Blumenfeld, David LaMotte, and many
more.
September 2001 found Rachael moving from Michigan to
Boston.
Within the span of seven months was awarded a Boston Music
Award
for Best New Singer-Songwriter. In 2002, Rachael
contributed "Lonely
When You're Gone" to the Respond II compilation, which also
includes
such luminaries as Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Ani DiFranco
and Eryka
Badu.
With musical influences that range from the jazz styling of
Ella
Fitzgerald to the soulful pop vocals of Patty Griffin,
Davis is a
contemporary songwriter who is equally at home singing
traditional
ballads or Cole Porter or Joe Henry. In April, 2001, she
released Minor
League Deities, her debut CD, a
collection of original songs that
welcomed performances by some of those whose musical and
personal
paths she has crossed, including Claudia Schmidt.
Gerald Ross, of the recently re-united Lost World String
Band,
would often tell a three year-old Rachael to "Never get a
hairdo." Of
course, she didn't know what that meant then, but she not
only
understands it now, she heeds it. With good advice like
that, it's
impossible for Rachael Davis to lose sight of what is
really the
important thing… the music.
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Quotes
on Rachael Davis…
"[Rachael sings] with the
voice of the most beautiful color you've
never
seen.”
Mary Lou
Lord
"We don't have Eva Cassidy
anymore but we do have Rachael Davis."
Susan
Werner
"With a voice that moving
- we could listen to her sing the alphabet all night and
that would be enough."
Eddie
From Ohio
"Rachael Davis . . . has
one of those voices that you know will somehow find its
way to a national spotlight . . . keep an eye -- and an ear
-- out for her."
Ellis
Paul
"Rachael is a bold
explorer in the undefined and powerful territory of her
primary instrument - her human voice - and the stories that
come through it."
Claudia
Schmidt
"Davis is off to a faster
start than any Boston-based songwriter in memory."
Scott
Alarik (Boston Globe)
"Davis commands a voice
older than her years, an instrument that is equally sure
expressing strength and vulnerability… her
songwriting is fearlessly eclectic."
Ben
Edmonds (Detroit Free Press)
"Rachael shows a
refreshing depth to her writing, while at the same time
keeping a bit of playfulness. To top it all off, there's
Rachael's voice. She could
knock down walls with it…”
Matt
Smith (Club
Passim/FolkWeb)