Dear Friends!!
On the last day of this August month, Anders Nilsson and myself (as the ExPosed Blues Duo) release our debut recording, BARE, on Greene Avenue Music.  I’m so excited about this project being released and we’re looking forward to hearing the feedback that’s bound to come – one way or the other.  Preparing for the release also bought me back in touch with why I love the blues so much and how that came to be.  I’d like to share some of that with you…
A couple years after I …

Dear Friends,
It’s with deep gratitude and a little shock that I share with you the great news of the Fay Victor Ensemble’s The FreeSong Suite making NINE year end lists as of this writing! This all-original program of songs, improvisation and the spaces between seems to have hit a chord in the big, big world out there and I just want to say A Big Thank YOU!
Here’s where we are:
>>The Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll 2009 – 4th in the Best Vocalist Category
>>Jason Crane’s Top 10 of 2009 – …

 A small update on some info on how The FreeSong Suite is doing and how to purchase your own copy!  Thanks for reading.
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**Currently #11 on the CMJ Jazz Charts
**Recommended New Release in September issue of All About Jazz – New York
What the press are saying:
“A jazz singer who makes her notes slow, wide and meaningful—she often sounds like an evening-out of Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln—Fay Victor uses a great and simple concept on The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue …

Dear Friends…
Interview on the Jazz Session with Jason Crane is up!
http://thejazzsession.com/2009/10/12/the-jazz-session-95-fay-victor/
Please check it out and pass on your feedback too…thanks for listening if you do.

Ben Ratliff included The FreeSong Suite in Sunday’s Playlist in the New York Times!  I am thrilled and grateful…
“A jazz singer who makes her notes slow, wide and meaningful — she often sounds like an evening-out of Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln — Fay Victor uses a great and simple concept on “The FreeSong Suite” (Greene Avenue Music).”
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/arts/music/11play.html?_r=1

So excited about the release of the FreeSong Suite and to presenting to the world the evolution of the Fay Victor Ensemble and our approach to creative vocal music that we think is as accessible as it is challenging.  Legendary and eminent guitarist Gary Lucas wrote the liner notes and mentions that the record is “…hypnotic in its flow, every song in the three sections of the suite a masterpiece of compressed story-telling…”
We will celebrate the release on the first day of October at Roulette in New York and on …

A couple performances coming up…one historical and one nice and local but with an added foreign flavor.  I’ve also added a few early reviews of The FreeSong Suite which comes out next week Tuesday!   And our CD release is on October 1st at Roulette…(www.roulette.org)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
The DIA:BEACON
http://www.diabeacon.org
A site specific work at the DIA:BEACON
“Stuyvesant Reluctant”
Pocket Oratorio for 3 voices and cello
Kyoko Kitamura
Yoon Sun Choi
Fay Victor
Tomas Ulrich
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
55 Bar
www.55bar.org
7:00-9:00PM/Early Set
No cover, 1 drink minimum
Twisted Standards and Free Explorations
FV-voice
Hilliard Greene – double bass
Dom Minasi – guitar
with special guest …