NEW YORK (Creativity in Music/ www.creativityinmusic.com) - NYC "Urban Folk and Jazz Artist" KJ DENHERT is set to release "The Songwriters Notebook", a 2004 collaboration with songwriter and guitarist Adam Falcon. The CD has been selected as a finalist in The Folk Singer Songwriter category of the Independent
Music Awards. The CD is a showcase of acoustic guitars and vocals from the newly formed duo, with original tracks from Falcon and Denhert as well as notable arrangements of Jobim, The
Beatles and Van Morrsion tunes.
Adam and KJ were introduced by a mutual friend and former venue owner
Danny DiPaola who had a premonition that the two should meet and invited Adam sevral times to hear KJ and her band who were performing weekly at Danny's in Ossining. Denhert & Falcon have become regulars at a small venue in New Paltz, NY where the idea for the CD and it's improvisational style was conceived. Since then, the duo has appeared in St. Barth's in the French West Indies and at a number of benefits including the Westchester County AIDS Walk and The PNW Womens Resource Center annual fund raiser held at The Towne Crier in Pawling, NY.
Known for her amazing stage performances, KJ Denhert breaks new ground for her independent record label, Mother Cyclone Records with this release, which is the first to feature another artist. This year's Independent
Music Award nomination places Denhert's label in the finalist box for a second consecutive year, having received a nomination for her 2003 release "
Girl Like Me". Her website is www.kjdenhert.com.
Adam Falcon is no stranger to the music business having worked as a session and touring guitarist with Roberta Flack, Johnathan Butler, Phyllis Hymann,
Sophie B. Hawkins and many others. Adam is also a published songwriter who has written music for
George Benson and
Al Jarreau and penned the tune "In Search of a Dream" which was included on
George Benson�s million selling record "In Your Eyes." Producer Tommy LiPuma brought still another Falcon tune "
True Blue" to the
George Benson album "That's Right.". Adam released his first independent critically acclaimed CD "I Too am Colored in
Black and White" and is in the studio now working on a second CD with friend and producer Trevor Gale of SESAC. His website is www.adamfalcon.com.
KJ Denhert has headlined the Blue Note in Las
Vegas and performed in such legendary music venues as the Bitter End, the Bottom Line, the Fez, the Living Room, and plays regularly to "standing room only" crowds at the 55 Bar in NYC's West Village. KJ also has a month long stint in St. Barth's each year. KJ has also opened for great artists such as Roberta Flack, Tuck and Patti, Kenny Rankin, Loudon Wainwright, and Cliff Eberhart. Adam Falcon has performed at the 55 Bar, the prestigious Vail Film Festival, Sono Caffeine and Las Vetas Lounge in Connecticut, and a many concerts in St. Barth's.
Critically acclaimed, KJ was nominated for a 2003 Independent
Music Award in the Folk/Singer-Songwriter category and was nominated for best female singer songwriter in the Just Plain Folks music awards. In June 2004, Denhert received an OutMusic Award nomination.
Denhert's CD "
Girl Like Me" has been lauded for its stellar songwriting and unique blend of folk, jazz, funk and R&B. KJ has airplay on over 100 stations in the US and Canada . She has garnered press from the New York Times, Acoustic Guitar and was recently featured in Downbeat's e-newsletter which went out to over 13,000 subscribers. JazzReview.com says, "The CD is strongly recommended".
Both artists will tour extensively this winter/sping and perform together on several dates. For all the latest tour info and CD ordering, please go to www.kjdenhert.com and https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/denhert04.
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