Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris -
8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER - Live @ Smokin With Chris,
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT.
Saturday June 26th, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table! (860) 620-9133
Here is a rare opportunity to hear internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's songs from his long-awaited brand new CD "An American Record", as well as his past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
GRAYSON'S NEW CD "AN AMERICAN RECORD" WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE SHOW!
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On May 1, 2010 Grayson released his eagerly-anticipated "An American Record". It is his first record in fifteen years. The physical CD is now available worldwide on the official Grayson Hugh website http://graysonhugh.net/ and CDBaby. Digital downloads of it are available on most digital retail outlets, including iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody and CDFreedom.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Friday, November 26th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris -
8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER - Live @ Smokin With Chris,
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT.
Saturday June 26th, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table! (860) 620-9133
Here is a rare opportunity to hear internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's songs from his long-awaited brand new CD "An American Record", as well as his past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
GRAYSON'S NEW CD "AN AMERICAN RECORD" WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE SHOW!
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On May 1, 2010 Grayson released his eagerly-anticipated "An American Record". It is his first record in fifteen years. The physical CD is now available worldwide on the official Grayson Hugh website http://graysonhugh.net/ and CDBaby. Digital downloads of it are available on most digital retail outlets, including iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody and CDFreedom.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris -
8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER - Live @ Smokin With Chris,
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT.
Saturday June 26th, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table! (860) 620-9133
Here is a rare opportunity to hear internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's songs from his long-awaited brand new CD "An American Record", as well as his past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
GRAYSON'S NEW CD "AN AMERICAN RECORD" WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE SHOW!
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On May 1, 2010 Grayson released his eagerly-anticipated "An American Record". It is his first record in fifteen years. The physical CD is now available worldwide on the official Grayson Hugh website http://graysonhugh.net/ and CDBaby. Digital downloads of it are available on most digital retail outlets, including iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody and CDFreedom.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.