JACQUI NAYLOR will be ringing in 2008 at the Crossroads Theater in New Brunswick, NJ, on Monday, December 31 at 8pm. Tickets range from $99 - $375 depending on dinner options. At this show, the vocalist and songwriter will perform the music from her acclaimed new album, Smashed for the Holidays, as well as select songs from her previous five recordings. This gala concert event is presented by The Restaurant Guys, Stage Left, Catherine Lombardi Restaurant, Champagne A. R. Lenoble, and The Heldrich Hotel. For tickets and more information, call (732) 828-4444.
For her long-awaited holiday CD, Smashed for the Holidays, Jacqui Naylor has melded a seamless combination of classic rock and holiday classics. Tying everything together is the artist's trademark “acoustic smashing," where here she sings a holiday standard while the band plays a well-known rock tune. Picture “Santa Claus is Coming to Town" over Lynyrd Skynyrd's “Sweet Home Alabama," “Santa Baby" sung to the groove of Led Zeppelin's “D'yer Mak'er," and “We Three Kings" smashed with their classic “When the Levee Breaks." Add to the “smashes" Naylor's sensitive treatment of ballads and lyrically-inspired originals and it becomes clear why JazzTimes calls this artist a “triple threat." Check out her relaxed versions of The Kinks' “Father Christmas" and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in 5/4 time. Naylor brings this recording home for the holidays with the originals “Winter," sung lovingly as a bossa nova, “Christmas Ain't What It Used to Be," with its hard driving funk groove, and the light-hearted “Celebrate Early and Often."
People are taking about Smashed for the Holidays...
“The most adventurous Christmas album of 2007..." - Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
“...she applies her mixing and matching to Christmas music ('Santa Claus is Coming to Town' over 'Sweet Home Alabama') and also performs some terrific originals, such as 'Celebrate Early and Often,' in her smoky style. Grade: A" John Fleming, St. Petersburg Times
“Jacqui Naylor found a way to make even the most familiar Christmas standard sound fresh on Smashed for the Holidays." - Jonathan Takiff, Philadelphia Daily News
WHO: JACQUI NAYLOR
WHAT: RINGING IN 2008 WITH MUSIC FROM SMASHED FOR THE HOLIDAYS
WHERE: CROSSROADS THEATER, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
WHEN: NEW YEAR'S EVE
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2007 AT 8PM
For more information contact Impress Media - Jennifer Niederhoffer.
