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 …

 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…
I’m writing from somewhat sunny Puerto Rico…here for a week to chill-ax and regroup after a hearty small run for the release of The FreeSong Suite in New York and Philly! We had great listening audiences and there has been so much love shown for the project along the way.  I want to send a big THANK YOU to all that came out, checked out the music and gave invaluable feedback which I LOVE.  Seems that I may be on to something here! Speaking of The FreeSong Suite, the …

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 …

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 …

Next Wednesday The Fay Victor Ensemble will have our debut performance at John Zorn’s space the Stone!  The monthly revolving curatorial system keeps the venue and the programming fresh and guitarist Brandon Ross is curating this month and invited the FVE to take part. We’re thrilled and I hope you will join us.
We’ll perform music from our upcoming  release,  The FreeSong Suite and unleash our wacky, witty strange show with lots for you to enjoy.  The details are below.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 2009
The Fay Victor Ensemble
FV-voice
Anders Nilsson-guitar
Ken Filiano-bass
Michael TA Thompson-drums
The Stone
10PM …

I had the quietest 4th of July holiday in recent memory.  Life has been so hectic and chaotic of late that having a couple days to do nothing was perfect.  The idea of heading to someones BBQ, the least appealing in recent memory.  The only problem is my husband and I  are a restless pair, not too content to stay motionless for long.  I try, he tries..I manage when I meditate and that took years to get to.
So we ended up doing a couple things anyway.  One of those was …