Pink Martini Featured On Starbucks Holiday CD
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Pink Martini Featured on
Starbucks Holiday CD
Pink Martini was asked by our friends in Seattle to record "Do You Hear What I Hear" for Winter Wonderland, the 2008 Starbucks Holiday CD. Did you know "Do You Hear What I Hear" was originally written in 1962 as a plea for peace in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Winter Wonderland is available at your local Starbucks store and online at hearmusic.com.
With 2008 coming to a close Pink Martini is busy preparing for 2009. We have announced a number of US concert dates including performances in Texas, North Carolina, Atlanta, Seattle, Tennessee, Washington DC, Boston, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and our hometown of Portland, Oregon where, in collaboration with the Oregon Symphony, we will be recording our first ever live album.
Many of these shows are On Sale Now and ticket information and concert details are listed below. Keep an eye on www.pinkmartini.com for updated concert dates.
Live at the Crystal Ballroom Dec. 28 - Exclusive Pre-Sale Begins Tuesday Nov. 4th
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Pink Martini
live at the Crystal Ballroom
with special guests
The Stolen Sweets
Sunday December 28, 2008
The Crystal Ballroom
1332 W. Burnside, Portland, Oregon
Showtime: 8pm
Pink Martini is excited to perform once again at Portland's legendary Crystal Ballroom where we will be featuring brand new material from our upcoming fourth album, due out in 2009. We hope you'll come celebrate during our final hometown performance of 2008.
Exclusive Crystal Ballroom Pre-Sale Begins Tuesday, November 4, 10am
An exclusive pre-sale for Pink Martini mailing list members begins Tuesday November 4 at 10am. Click http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0F00415DD89C4B4F and type in the password PINK to order your tickets.
Tickets On Sale to the General Public
Saturday November 8, 12 noon
Tickets $27.50 in advance/$30 Day of show.
Available at Crystal Ballroom Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets, by phone at (503)228-1353 or online at www.ticketmaster.com
Subject to service charge and/or user fee. All Ages Welcome.
Pink Martini’s FundFest 2008! Four Benefit Concerts in Portland, Oregon!
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Category: Music
Greetings Friends and Family of Pink Martini,
Pink Martini is excited to announce FundFest 2008! -- a four-night fundraising concert event at the Crystal Ballroom on June 3 to 6 to benefit four local non-profits. Pink Martini will produce the event and donate 100% of the net proceeds to the following beneficiaries which were selected by Pink Martini band members:
Friends of Trees KBOO Community Radio Outside In Bicycle Transportation Alliance
Tickets On Sale Now! at the Crystal Ballroom Box Office and through Ticketmaster!
The goal of FundFest 2008 is to raise a total of $80,000 or $20,000 each for the four beneficiaries. "Pink Martini is approached every year by dozens of organizations to perform at fundraisers and events, which is difficult because we spend so much of the year on the road," says Pink Martini bandleader Thomas M. Lauderdale. "FundFest -- which is four nights of fun and festive fundraising -- is an opportunity for the band to raise money for four different organizations whose work we want to honor and support." In 2006 the inaugural FundFest raised $84,324 and donated $21,081 each to four local nonprofits.
Pink Martini's FundFest 2008! Tuesday-Friday, June 3-6, 2008 8pm Showtime each night
Pink Martini will perform each night with a special guest opener:
Tuesday, June 3 benefiting Friends of Trees with Portland Cello Project Wednesday, June 4 benefiting KBOO Community Radio with 3 Leg Torso Thursday, June 5 benefiting Outside In with The Stolen Sweets Friday, June 6 benefiting Bicycle Transportation Alliance with Fjord Motor Company
The Crystal Ballroom 1332 West Burnside, Portland OR www.danceonair.com
Tickets On Sale Now! $20 in advance / $25 day of show available at the Crystal Ballroom Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge-by-phone at (503)224-4400. Subject to service charge. All ages welcome.
Patron Reception Friday, June 6, 2008 6-8pm in Lola's Room at the Crystal Ballroom
Tickets to the patron reception are $100 at Ticketmaster or through the beneficiary organizations and include admission to Friday's concert. Thomas Lauderdale will perform Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, and Pink Martini band members will be in attendance to thank the four non-profits for the important work they do for our community. There will be a hosted bar and hors d'oeurves provided at the patron reception.
We hope you will come out and join us in festive support of the organizations that make Portland such an amazing place to call home!
Here's more information about the beneficiaries of FundFest 2008!: Friends of Trees Friends of Trees inspires community stewardship of our urban forest by bringing people in the Portland-Vancouver metro area together to plant and care for city trees and urban natural areas. Since 1989, we have mobilized thousands of volunteers to plant more than 360,000 trees and native plants, increasing Portland's tree canopy during decades when a dozen major U.S. cities lost a quarter of their tree cover. For more information visit www.friendsoftrees.org
KBOO Community Radio KBOO Community Radio is a volunteer-powered, listener-sponsored, non-commercial community radio station celebrating 40 years of news, public affairs and music programming with an emphasis on community, diversity, creativity and activism. KBOO broadcasts at 90.7FM Portland, 100.7FM Corvallis, 91.9FM Hood River and online at www.kboo.fm
Outside In Outside In provides comprehensive services to more than 500 youth per year who are experiencing homelessness. Initially, these youth may have emotional walls they have built around themselves to survive. They have survived families that abused and neglected them as well as adults who exploited them once they were on the streets. Outside In focuses on their strengths and builds the confidence that is required for them to be able to leave the streets. Often, we are the first person that has told them "you can." For more information visit www.outsidein.org.
Bicycle Transportation Alliance The Bicycle Transportation Alliance creates healthy, sustainable communities by making bicycling safer, easier, and more accessible for people of all ages and abilities. For more information visit www.bta4bikes.org.
China Forbes ’78, long awaited solo disc, In Stores February 26, 2008
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China Forbes, Pink Martini's captivating lead vocalist, will release her long awaited solo disc on February 26, 2008 on Heinz Records.
A project dear to Forbes' heart that has been in the works for several years, '78 marks a stylistic departure from Pink Martini and a return to her roots. Steeped in the singer/songwriter tradition (Forbes wrote every track on the CD) with a bit of alt country, rock and folk mixed in, '78 is a passionate, highly personal song cycle filled with intimate stories of love, loneliness, friendship and alienation.
Forbes recorded the album in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, with producer Gregg Williams (Sheryl Crow, The Wallflowers, Dandy Warhols). Backed by Williams on drums and multi-instrumentalist Eric Earley (Blitzen Trapper), with a cameo by Eric Matthews, '78 features Forbes on an array of instruments including guitar, piano, bass, harmonium and Wurlitzer. The result is a wonderfully-crafted, original and brilliant solo record—one that only Forbes could create.
China will tour select US cities in the spring so please check out her MySpace page, add her as a friend and enjoy China's fabulous new disc. myspace.com/chinaforbes
Spring 2008 US Tour - On Sale Now!
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March 2008 Spring US Tour - Tickets On Sale Now!
Pink Martini will tour the Eastern US in the Spring of 2008. Tickets for most shows are on sale now but be sure to keep an eye on www.pinkmartini.com as additional performances will be added soon. We hope you will join us!
Tickets $36-$45 Available online at kimmelcenter.org, by phone at 215-893-1999 and at the Kimmel Box Office (300 S. Broad Street). Subject to service charge or user fee.
Tickets $33-$51 Available online at porttix.com, by phone at 207-842-0800 and at the Port Tix Box Office (20 Myrtle Street). Subject to service charge or user fee.
Tickets $29.50-$49.50 Available online at masseyhall.com, by phone at 416-872-4255 and at the Massey Hall Box Office (60 Simcoe St.). Subject to service charge or user fee.
Tickets $32.50-$62.20 Available online at ticketmaster.com by phone at 312-902-1500 and at the Chicago Theatre Box Office (175 N. State St.). Subject to service charge or user fee.
September 2007 California Tour - Tickets On Sale Now!
Pink Martini will pack their sunglases, sandals, surfboards and load up the woody in preparation for a month in the California sun. The band's California tour will include stops in Humboldt, Santa Rosa, Oakland, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Chico, Santa Barbara and three very special nights at the Hollywood Bowl with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and special guests Carol Channing and Henri Salvador.
For a complete list of tour dates and ticket information please visit www.pinkmartini.com We hope to see you soon.
Finally, Hey Eugene! is here. The record hits stores tomorrow, May 15. With its twelve flirtatiously fun and sultry songs, sung in everything from the romantic tones of French, Spanish, and Portuguese to the eastern timbres of Japanese and Arabic, Hey Eugene! is "Absolutely cool," (Italian Vogue) and "evokes nostalgia for a more glamorous era," (Marie Claire UK). Be sure to pick up your copy tomorrow, we don't want you to miss out -- we're excited for you to hear the record.
Also, for those of you in the USA don't forget to mark your calendars with this exciting Pink Martini news:
*NPR Morning Edition interview/performance with host Steve Inskeep airing May 15.
*Carnegie Hall concert confirmed, June 13 in New York City
New Single Hey Eugene posted-- New Album in Stores May 15!
We have posted the new single, Hey Eugene on our myspace page. Our new album, also by the same title, will be in stores May 15 and will be available for pre-order from www.pinkmartini.com very soon.
Pink Martini will also tour North America with additional dates in London & Paris, including a date at Carnegie Hall in New York. Please keep an eye on www.pinkmartini.com for dates and times. We hope to see you there.
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