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NEW YORK, NY - March 20,2006 - The Bay Area's best-kept jazz secret, Tammy Hall, and her debut musical odyssey portrayed in her newly released DVD "Tammy Hall: Reflections," will be featured in two film festivals this Spring. Both the Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, running from April 5-9 in Tampa, Florida, and the Mendocino Film Festival, running May 18-May 21 in Mendocino, California will be screening the film featuring Hall's jazz favorites and original compositions. "Tammy Hall: Reflections" was released along with Hall's first CD with a jazz quartet, "Blue Divine," on February 28.
Produced by elfenworks, "Tammy Hall: Reflections" combines Tammy's musical artistry with sophisticated cinematography by the elfenworks team, and visual effects by editor-animator Tim Schaller. Director Lauren Speeth blends Hall's performance with dream-like imagery, inviting viewers to escape into a world of visual metaphor inspired and driven by the emotional qualities of the music. Among the original tunes are: "Pink Lightning," "Lauren's Step," and "Pour Tania," an ode to Tania Maria, a critically-acclaimed Brazilian pianist who sings along with her improvisational playing and who has inspired much of Tammy's music.
Recognized as one of Tampa's most recognized and celebrated film festivals, The Ybor Festival of the Moving Image will showcase "Reflections" in April. The Ybor Festival presents a wide variety of exciting cinema, highlighting artists who work not only in traditional ways such as narrative and documentary, but also artists using a moving image component in any medium, especially music, dance, theater and the visual arts of sculpture and painting.
On the heels of her DVD debut at the Ybor Festival in April, Tammy will be performing at the gala opening of the Mendocino Film Festival on May 18 in Mendocino, Ca. About 25 independent films will be shown over the four days of the Festival and honored guests will include, Sydney Pollack, Laszio Kovacs, and Rich Aguilar.
About Tammy Hall: Pianist, organist, composer, and arranger Tammy Lynne Hall is one of the most in-demand musicians in the Bay Area. In particular, her prodigious accompanist skills make her a top choice for such singers as: Rhonda Benin, Frankye Kelly, Lady Mem'fis, Kim Nalley, Denise Perrier, Little Jimmy Scott, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Voz Do Brazil and the great Etta Jones. Stylistically, Tammy Hall is equally gifted in Classical, Gospel, Jazz, Brazilian, Salsa and Funk. Her major influences include Tania Maria, Beethoven, Liszt, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mary Lou Williams, Dorothy Donnegan, and Thelonious Monk. Like her influences, Tammy brings a virtuosity to the piano that is never ostentatious, and her approach to the music is always genuine and fresh.
Hall has worked with award-winning cabaret singer Connie Champagne, violinist Jeremy Cohen, Ruth Davies, Mark Epstein, Philip Hamilton, Etta Jones, Frankye Kelly, Veronica Klaus, Lady Mem'fis, Allison Miller, Kim Nalley, Denise Perrier, Houston Person, Sassy Divas, Liza Silva, Robert Stewart, and Linda Tillery. Her arrangements have been used for live music performances, including Sassy Divas, Veronica Klaus At the Plush Room, TARC and A New Leaf Benefits and most recently, Equality California. She maintains a very busy performance calendar, accompanies the U.C. Santa Cruz Porter College gospel choir, and teaches privately. She is also a member of the highly acclaimed Montclair Women's Big Band whose new CD, recorded at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch, is due for release later this year. Her charity work includes performances for Help Is On The Way, Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center & Children's Hospital of Oakland's Miracle Network. For more information, visit the artist's website at www.tammyhall.com.
About elfenworks: elfenworks LLC is the executive producer of "Tammy Hall: Blue Divine" and "Tammy Hall: Reflections." An ambitious multimedia communications company, elfenworks LLC was created in 1998 to help individual artists promote themselves within the industry and to fans through websites, printed materials, recordings, and marketing / publicity campaigns. For more information about elfenworks, visit www.elfenworks.com.
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