Amateur Hour (2014)

Sep 19, 2014 | Audio/Visual, Fellowships and Artist Residencies, Shows/Events

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“Amateur Hour” is a high water mark for a confident, headstrong vocalist/songwriter who seems to level up with every endeavor—the crispness of the recording renders every skein of Ebert’s voicings audible with unprecedented and welcome clarity, showing off her strong, instinctive gifts for arrangement and lyric writing.
– Ron Kretsch

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Super stoked about the new record, Amateur Hour. Cleveland’s own  Gotta Groove Records and A to Z Audio are putting all the pieces together for the release.

For the new album, I wanted to complete and record some older songs, as well as have an equal amount of new material to include. Some stuff was dusted off from back when I started — from before I started using a metronome.

This new one is also the first Uno Lady release that includes collaboration. Nick Cross lends his talents on guitar to two tracks, You’re no fangtooth and Night ride. Tony Cross adds drums to Bikini weeding and End of time. And the talented Adam Boose, of Cauliflower Audio, mastered all the tracks

The album artwork is another thing I’m stoked about. It turned out better than I envisioned! A big thanks to Ryan Poorman for taking the photos and Angie Ruland for working in tandem with him on the layout.  Thanks to the lovely Kim Tran for the fabulous makeup and  Margaret Ruble at Senjiva Studio  for making the most beautiful yet hideous dress (by request) I have ever seen!

And last but not least, a heartfelt thanks to Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (CAC) and Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) for creating and sustaining the Creative Workforce Fellowship.  Thanks for relighting the creative fire within me and providing me support so I can invest in myself and music.  If it wasn’t for the fellowship, this would have taken another 10 years to make. Instead I am already working on the planning stages for the next record.

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Record release show:
October 18, 9:00pm
w/Delaney Davidson & Shale Satans
Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern
11625 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH

The LP is sold out but you can get the digital copy here

 

 

Creative Workforce Fellowship

Mar 31, 2014 | Fellowships and Artist Residencies

I am ecstatic and honored to announce that I was named one of the twenty 2014 Creative Workforce Fellows! The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC). The Fellowship program is supported by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture(CAC).

Many have inquired about my plan and so I decided to share my submission. In an effort to be transparent, below is a link to my application. I’m also sharing this in hopes to encourage others to apply and expand awareness that public funding exists.
Get it!

You can view all 3 parts of my application here: http://tinyurl.com/unolady
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With the fund I plan on:  1) increasing capacity,   2) developing my knowledge, and   3) expanding marketing efforts.

Expansion and evolution are this year’s themes.  I look forward to spending time creating cacophonic concoctions, testing my limits, and buying sweet stuff.  All jokes aside, it is important to me that I use these funds to support my community and fellow artists.  Within my application I pledged to spend 90% of the fellowship funds within Cuyahoga County: I am a lady of my word.

I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to CPAC and CAC for providing such an amazing opportunity to Cuyahoga County artists such as myself. Thanks to Lauren Voss for making the video and Angie Ruland for helping with the layout of the pdf (as well as the creation of this website).  I’d also like to thank Tony Cross and Erin Kray for being my advisers and proofreaders. Your help allowed me to present my best effort. I couldn’t have done it without you.

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