GrooveLily in Area Debut at Keene State
From Bill Menezes, Redfern: GrooveLily, one of the hottest cabaret/musical theatre ensembles in New York City today, will make its area debut at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, November 8, at the Redfern Arts Center.
GrooveLily is a trio of creative musicians who inhabit a contemporary space that ignores the boundaries laid down by such words as rock, folk, jazz, and pop. With backgrounds in classical music, musical theater, jazz, and rock, they toured the Indie music circuit for several years. GrooveLily is now making a new music that’s all its own.
The success of their first concert-musical — the critically acclaimed and award-winning off-Broadway holiday show, Striking 12 (liberally adapted from Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Match Girl) — has led them further into the world of theater, where they have carved out a unique niche as a rock band writing and performing shows. Watch and listen to an excerpt from Striking 12.
Striking 12 has led them to such commissions as Toy Story the Musical for Disney and Sleeping Beauty Wakes for Deaf West Theatre/Center Theatre Group, where it won two 2007 Ovation Awards, including World Premiere Musical. To read more about GrooveLily, see blogs from the members, and hear samples of their songs, go to http://www.groovelily.com/. Tickets are available through the Redfern box office (603-358-2168) or online at www.keene.edu/racbp.
Courtesy photo, GrooveLily
