Santa Rosa, CA (Top40 Charts/ Lola Danza Official Website) We are pleased to announce the premier of Lola Danza 's project "East & West" which will make its debut at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on the
Millennium Stage, Friday May 13th 2011 at 6pm. Please reserve tickets online- See below for details and listings.
Ms. Danza will also be launching her new foundation,Nikka Artsand music series M.A.K.in April 2011. Lola Danza is the Co-Founder of the Nikka Arts Foundation. The mission of Nikka Arts is to keep the creative arts culture alive within the United States by supporting artists in their creations. Nikka exposes audiences to creative options and choices, a source to investigate and experience the diversity in music and the visual arts.
Nikka Arts is sponsoring the new music series M.A.K.which has an all star line up. Upcoming special guests will include:Shelia Jordan, Kendrick Scott and Bill Laswell to name a few. Stay tuned by visiting www.NikkaArts.org- see listings below.
Nikka Arts is a new foundation and is excepting donations- Please visit www.NikkaArts. org for more information about you can help.
"Jazz has had many forms and styles. Singer and composer Lola Danza is leading an intriguing new area of exploration in the music, blending classical and rock music with improvisation in her dramatic compositions. Floating and full of meaning, her voice is an intuitive instrument that blends mellifluously with her impressionistic, visionary and emotional music."- (All About JazzSimon Harper)
"Lola Danza- The adventurous Singer/Composer, whose patiently flowing voice evokes atmospheres from the ethereal to the ominous"-(Boston Globe)
"With a stunning voice that elongates words and phrases with almost ethereal clarity,Danzafollows her ownmusestylistically, preferring the spare and airy to the busy and hot."-(The Boston Herald- Bob Young)
"Lola Danza is a part of a new breed of jazz singer writing original material and experimenting. And she has the chops to pull it off." -The Boston Phoenix Jon Garelick
Ms. Danza has performed with world renowned jazz artists such as Ornette Coleman, Steve Kuhn, Lewis Nash, Bob Moses, John Lockwood, Ben Monder, Mat Maneri, Dave Tronzo, Bob Gullotti, Luciana Souza and Leni Stern.
Lola Danza has a Bachelors Degree from Berklee College of Music and a Masters Degree from Aaron Copland School of Music.
Stay tuned for Lola Danza's new albums to be released in 2011- Recorded at Bill Laswell's Studio.
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