On-Line Concerts for the Virus Age

ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY
The Linda Ronstadt Songbook April 19, 6:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzBH4zmudFQ

Ann Hampton Callaway, one of the leading pop/jazz singers of our time, has created an exciting night of songs and stories in celebration of one of America’s most beloved artists, Linda Ronstadt. This show celebrates the many faces of love in Ronstadt’s iconic songs. Callaway performs with her brilliant MD Billy Stritch, Martin Wind on bass, Tim Horner on drums, and Linda’s long time guitarist and arranger, Bob Mann. Romantic, rousing, and joyous, The Linda Ronstadt Songbook promises to be the perfect night of music.

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A native of Chicago, her father, John Callaway, was a journalist and her mother is a singer, pianist, and vocal coach. She learned scat singing from her father and a love of jazz from his record collection, and she learned classical music from her mother.[1] Her sister, Liz Callaway, is a singer and actress on Broadway. Callaway performed in musicals at New Trier High School in Winnetka.[2][3] After graduation, she studied acting for two years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She moved to New York City in 1979. During the 1980s, she worked as a cabaret singer accompanying herself on piano, performing jazz, traditional pop, and standards from the Great American Songbook.[1][2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Hampton_Callaway


Ann Hampton Callaway and Liza Minnelli - Stormy Weather
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqDNe_Kjp5g

Ann Hampton Callaway ’Someone To Watch Over Me’ | Live Studio Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0zbRrm6oA

JOSH GROBAN

Remember When It Rained
 (#ShowerSongs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoYF0vUtFtY

CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON
songs of connection

SUNDAY APRIL 19 9pm CDT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ER7oICz_Do

Craig Morris Johnson was born on June 15, 1962 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota to Morris Melvin Johnson (1929-2015) and Marjorie Kathryn (Danielson) Johnson (b. 1931).[2] He and one of his sisters adopted the name Hella, after the village in Norway that their family came from.[3]

Originally from Minnesota,[4] he studied piano and sang in the St. Olaf Choir at St. Olaf College,[5] graduating in 1984.[6] He went on to study at Juilliard, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Yale University, from which he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree.[7]

He founded and is the artistic director of the group Conspirare.[7] He is also the artistic director of the Victoria Bach Festival and in 1998-1999 was the artistic director of Chanticleer,[8] the second person to hold that position (after founder Louis Botto).[5] In January 2001, Johnson was named director of the Houston Masterworks Chorus, a position he held for two years.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Hella_Johnson

The Road Home - Stephen Paulus - Conspirare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbwhSP3ZIq4

Requiem - Conspirare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYg8T6w2L8Q

Conspirare performs "Let The River Run"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArIoBORaYs