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 …

The Evolving Music/Voice Series is a weekly series run by RUCMA/Arts for Art. Inc. on Monday Nights at THE LOCAL 269, a venue in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.  The Evolving Music Series started back in April of last year with the Vocal Series starting up in August 2009.  I curate the Vocal Series and I’ll talk mostly about that…so you have some information on what the series is about and why it is turning into such a wonderful thing!
When the owners of THE LOCAL 269 approached Patricia Nicholson Parker, Executive …

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.
Purchase The FreeSong Suite:
itunes     amazon.com    downtownmusicgallery    cdbaby.com

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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

Fay Victor Ensemble DVD Reviewed in the DMG Music Gallery Newsletter
In April 2008, the Fay Victor Ensemble went on tour for the first time, performing a couple gigs Upstate New York.  One of the venues,  The Sanctuary for Independent Media,  in Troy, NY, offered the opportunity to record a DVD of the performance alongside the gig.  This was great news! The venue ended up received a grant for a 13-part series of jazz performance entitled Free Jazz from the Sanctuary videos featuring some of the world’s most talented improvisers such …