Biography
LISA MARIE & ALL SHOOK UP gives you sizzlin' R&B, rock & soul, funk & swing, rockabilly & jumpin' red-hot blues... AND NEVER THE SAME SHOW TWICE!!
Catch singer LISA MARIE performing with ALL SHOOK UP, a revolving cast of New England's finest musicians from Portland to Providence, Worcester to Boston and beyond.
In the past five years this Boston native has appeared with many of New England's premiere R&B/blues/soul bands, as well as live radio broadcasts, webcasts, and telethons.
A versatile singer/songwriter with an expanding list of originals, she has a life-long love of traditional roots music that she enjoys covering: R&B, rock, funk, swing, blues, folk, gospel, country, rockabilly, pop, soul and jazz... She's also known for slipping into an Irish drinking song, a Dutch ballad, or a French folk song at the drop of a hat.
"With her range and powerful vocal delivery she can belt out a searing soul tune and then surprise you with sweet acappella. A true entertainer and performer, her presence on stage draws the audience right in. Cabasa or tambourine in hand, Lisa Marie bounces into the crowd, dancing with fans and emanating an infectious energy!"
Whether fronting her own 4-piece band, LISA MARIE & ALL SHOOK UP, crooning country jazz with her piano trio, working the singer/songwriter circuit with an acoustic guitar duo, performing with legendary 11-piece soul band Wilbur & The Dukes, singing Tower Of Power hits with the mighty Manchuka Horns, or as a featured artist with various R&B and rock 'n' roll outfits, LISA MARIE serves up a red-hot performance every time... Catch the next LISA MARIE & ALL SHOOK UP show or see LISA MARIE at one of her many appearances in the Northeast!
Visit www.allshookup.us or www.myspace.com/lisamarieblues for additional info, tour dates & music clips. Email lisamarieblues@yahoo.com to sign up for the weekly e-Newsletter. For festival events, functions & club bookings, send an email to lisamarieblues@yahoo.com or call the Booking Hotline at 508.981.7463.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
> Winner of a 2006 Worcester Music Award
> Nominated for Best Female Vocalist in the 2007 Turtle Boy Music Awards
> Nominated for "Hardest Working Musician" in the 2007 Turtle Boy Music Awards
> Nominated for Best Female Vocalist in the 2006 Worcester Music Awards
> Nominated for Best Female Vocalist in the 2006 Turtle Boy Music Awards
> LISA MARIE & ALL SHOOK UP nominated for Best Blues / R&B / Swing Act in the 2004 Worcester Sound Awards
> LISA MARIE & ALL SHOOK UP nominated for Best Blues / Roots / Swing Act in the 2003 Worcester Sound Awards
> 2003 Boston Blues Challenge Semi-Finalist
Instrumentation
LISA MARIE - Lead vocals & percussion (guiro, claves, vibraslap, cabasa, shakers, tambourine, washboard, cajon, jinglestick, cricket, kazoo, various noisemakers, body parts & any item nearby that isn't nailed down.)
Acoustic duo with several guitarists: Silvertone Steve, Reid Trevaskis, Greg Tower, Billy Loosigian, Bruce Marshall, Domenic Frizzi & more.
4-piece band: guitar, bass & drums.
6-piece or larger: Piano/B3 & killer horn section added whenever possible. Who says bigger isn't better?!
Trio: piano/drums or piano/upright bass.
ASU is a very flexible unit that can accomodate a variety of settings... Plus we're a heck of a lot of fun!!
The ALL SHOOK UP crew is a revolving cast of musicians that includes members of Roomful Of Blues, the Duke Robillard Band, Johnny A, Peter Wolf Band, The Commitments, Susan Tedeschi Band, Sugar Ray & the Bluetones, The Love Dogs, Heavy Metal Horns, James Montgomery, Trey Anastasio -- the list just keeps growing! Regular members include Jason James, Greg Tower, "Papa Dick" Souza, Per Hanson, Mark Taber, Dima Gorodetsky, Travis Colby, Billy Loosigian, Johnny P., Domenic Frizzi, Dana Bonardi, Reid Trevaskis, Odell Washington, Jack "The Swinger" Hanlon, Ephraim Lowell, George McCann, Dave Saginario, John Hyde, Silvertone Steve & oh so many more!
Discography
New CD of original music released in October 2007. Wake Up, Baby! tempts the listener with 13 tracks and features members of Roomful Of Blues, the Duke Robillard Band, Jason James and the Bay State Houserockers, and Loaded Dice.
RADIO
WZLX 100.7 FM Boston * www.wzlx.com
WBOS 92.9 FM Boston * www.wbos.com
WICN 90.5 FM Worcester * www.wicn.org
WCUW 91.3 FM Worcester * www.wcuw.com
WMFO 91.5 FM Boston * www.wmfo.org
WMWM 91.7 FM Salem * www.wmwmsalem.com
Links
| http://www.allshookup.us |