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Pink Martini
Three
Leg Torso
Date:
June 25 & 27, 2001
Doors:
8:30 PM
Show: 9:00
PM
Tickets:
On Sale Now
$16 Advance/$18 Door
General Admission
Age Restrictions:
6 and over
Kitchen:
Limited
Seating: Limited |
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"If life is a cabaret,
Pink Martini is the band in the existential orchestra pit." -
CMJ
Pink Martini blends influences from classical chamber music
to Cuban, from French music halls to foreign films, resulting in a
dynamic frenzy of percussion, brass, strings and lyrics that span
the continents. Pink Martini's debut CD, Sympathique,
was released independently on their own label,
Heinz Records, in the Pacific Northwest in November of 1997
and nationwide in April of 1998.
Comprised of 10 musicians, the Portland, Oregon-based Pink
Martini was a fortuitous accident, thrown together as the opener
for the 3-gal, 3-guitar ensemble The Del
Rubio Triplets in the Fall of 1994. Since then, the band has
performed in France, in Los Angeles with soul legend Al
Green at theWilliam Morris Agency
's Centennial Anniversary, with the Oregon
Symphony and opened for Squirrel
Nut Zippers and Eartha Kitt,
among others. Pink Martini's live
performances have included special guest vocal appearances by Kim
Coles, Queen Latifah and
Gus Van Sant. Pink
Martini members sat in on "Twist and Shout" with
Elton John and Ringo
Starr at the AmFAR Cinema Against
Aids Fundraiser at the 1998 Cannes
Film Festival.
Pink Martini is also notorious for
its parties including the Wild Kingdom
Rhumba, Let's Get Lost, Havana
3am and the Blue Blue Danube Waltz,
an annual formal waltz featuring a 25-piece symphony orchestra
performing Strauss and Vienesse waltzes.
Pink Martini represents what is
refreshing and new in pop music, respecting the traditions of classical,
jazz and Latin, and inspiring a new amalgamation that is hypnotic,
cinematic and above all else -- beautiful.
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