New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Leighton Media) New York City-based singer-songwriter Jann Klose was excited to hear that
Paul McCartney is scheduling a performance in Jann's borough, the Bronx this July 15 and 16 at Yankee Stadium, and has sent him an offer to open for the legendary Beatle star. The prospect makes sense. "Paul's playing the Bronx, I live in the Bronx," Jann told NEW YORK DAILY NEWS gossip editor Frank Diagacomo on June 29.
Jann is a favorite to Liverpool audiences, having performed at the Cavern Club twice in 2010 and at Zanzibar in 2009. He'll be teaching a Master Class on DIY touring and the importance of collaboration at the Liverpool
Institute for the Performing Arts (the college Sir Paul McCartney co-founded) and performing in Liverpool, March 2012.
Like the Beatles, Jann started performing in Hamburg, Germany, where he spent his teenage years. Hamburg was also where Jann first heard music by
Paul McCartney and the Beatles. Born in Germany, raised in Kenya, South Africa, and Germany, Jann first came to the States as an exchange student in Cleveland. After fulfilling his civil service in Hamburg, he returned to the States to start his career.
After a stint in touring companies of Broadway plays (JEKYLL & HYDE, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR) and portraying the Pinball Wizard in the NJPac production of TOMMY, Jann released BLACK BOX EP and the album REVERIE, both critically-acclaimed. In the past seven years, Jann's shared the stage with and opened for an array of artists, including Rusted Root, Renaissance, Marshall Crenshaw, Jonathan Edwards,
Roger McGuinn, Pete Seeger, and the late Les Paul. He appears on the GRAMMY-nominated album, HEALTHY FOOD FOR THOUGHT: GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT along with Julian Lennon, Sweet
Honey In the Rock, Russell Simmons, Moby, and St. Louis, MO scenester Beatle Bob.
Jann is an eligible artist for the New York
Music Awards, and listed between "Carole King" and "Lady Gaga." His music has been heard on MTV Cribs, the soundtrack to the Paul Sorvino film Dead Broke (Warner Bros), plus on compilations in France, Indonesia, and the UK. Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson found him representation in Germany.
Through the years Jann's praised
Paul McCartney in his interviews. On the eve of Paul's 2009 tour, The Washington Examiner asked Jann about the former Beatle's impact and reason for longevity. Jann explained the singer's influence, "The melodies are so powerful and catching without being boring. You just don't forget them. I think more than anything that's what has staying power."
SCORE MUSIC's Paul Barile reviewed Jann's album, REVERIE, and wrote, "This sounds like what the
Beatles would have made if they had grown old together." Some of the album's songs can be heard at https://www.myspace.com/jannklose .
Links to live music, including Jann's performance of "
Something" from ABBEY ROAD at an annual BANGLADESH tribute and cancer benefit from New York City's BB
Kings are at https://www.youtube.com/jannklose.
Paul McCartney and his staff have received invitations to any of Jann's upcoming shows. Come on out.
July 9: HOUSE CONCERT, Trenton, NJ
August 11: MUSIKFEST 2011, Bethlehem, PA
September 10: STEPHEN TALKHOUSE w/ Jonathan Tiersten, Amagansett, NY
September 11: COFFEE WORKS w/ Jonathan Tiersten, Voorhees, NJ
September 15: BB KING BLUES CLUB w/ Vonda Shepard, New York, NY
October 5: HUGHS ROOM w/ Jim McCarty (of the Yardbirds, early Renaissance), Toronto, Ontario
October 6, 7: TBA w/ Jim McCarty, Ontario
October 26: IRON HORSE w/ Shawn Phillips, Northampton, MA
November 26: HIGHLINE BALLROOM, BanglaDesh revisited, New York, NY
March 2, 2012: MASTER CLASS, LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, Liverpool, UK
