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Listener Favorite - February 2009

Jonathan Levingston Click here for more information

Jonathan Levingston   Congratulations - The sixth Month as Listener Favorite! Violin and Piano ensemble:  Presenting original works of contemporary classical and jazz. The artist’s narrative artistry, a musical story form, uses his creative abilities to embrace the nuance of romance, jazz and dramatic expression.  Capable of playing all genres. Instrumentation Jonathan Levingston:  Violinist Brian Lockard:  Pianist Discography CD: And What Would You Like Me To Play?

Featured Artists for March 2009 - +Spanx and Lawrence Cresswell

+Spanx Biography
Soft spoken and withdrawn during early childhood, no one imagined that he'd pursue a career of performance & songwriting.  Attending schools in The West Indies, Japan and various parts of the states, exotic locales like Okinawa and Jamaica helped to shape +Spanx cosmopolitan worldview and love of different cultures and music.
      The eldest of three talented siblings, his father remembers the infant +Spanx (too young yet to walk or speak) humming in tune The National Anthem while being coddled during its repeated performance in a theater.
      As +Spanx showed great promise, his parents later encouraged him to study the cornet which led to a discovery of numerous instruments.  He became proficient on electric bass while performing with Top 40, retro-pop and classic rock groups, also developing a versatile yet powerful vocal which ranges from ballads & barbershop to hip-hop and hard rock... varying stage experiences led +Spanx to fronting the Miami-based trio kNiption FiT, an enigmatic power-pop band "best described as The Monkees meet Rush..."
    +Spanx brainchild evolved over several years as he experimented with many styles and talented musicians, even backing legendary performers like The Ink Spots and The Platters.  kNiption FiT released a self-titled LP followed by another self-released EP of lesser acclaim, although the group had tremendous local success (grand prize\Battle Of The Bands) and a fan base extending far beyond South Florida's music scene... visit groups.msn.com/TheKFanClub
      With desire for more experience, +Spanx dissolved kNiption FiT to focus on a few select projects.  After a brief stint with starring roles in a local theater company, he was invited to record a solo effort in Europe with Joseph LaRossi, a prominent Swedish producer based in Stockholm.  Following a series of song collaborations and performances with his return to the USA, +Spanx won Best Adult Contemporary in an international songwriting contest with a guitar ballad “I Pray (It’s A Mistake)”
        More recently, +Spanx has been commissioned to write the soundtrack for a new educational children's program titled "Dollar Ben" ~ also, his hilarious political spoof “God Luv Ya, G. Dub’ya!” is receiving awards and attention on talk radio and morning shows in several countries.  Alan Roy Scott, co-founder of Unisong International Song Competition wrote, "I was literally on the floor... in fact, the highest compliment I can offer as a veteran songwriter is to say how jealous I am... I wish I'd written this myself..."

Instrumentation
electric bass & acoustic rhythm guitars, keyboards, sequencers & vocals of all shapes and size ~

Discography
kNiption FiT - 92
Three Roads To Rome - 95
Have You Seen Her..? - '00
The Wake Of Her Yesterday - '04
God Luv Ya, G. Dub'ya..! - '07

Listen to +Spanx interview on AM Ocala Live ~ http://amocalalive.libsyn.com
and request other tunage @ iRadio LA - INDIE 104, Radio Crystal Blue, Martha's Vineyard Radio, VeTunes Radio, Banana Peel Radio and look for +Spanx new animated video "God Luv Ya, G. Dub'ya..!" now on YouTube

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Links

http://www.myspace.com/SpanxT

The Starland Gopher Band

NEW..!!!+Spanx animated music video on YouTube..!!

Chocolate Milk Society

+Spanx interview on W0CA News Talk 1370

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Lawrence Cresswell

Reflecting on the landscape, sea & sky Lawrence Cresswell composes and performs acoustic guitar music in the style that can be best described as Contemporary Classical, New Age and instrumental Easy Listening.  His expressions in music draws upon many years of his intimate connections to the outdoor  environment.

Lawrence Cresswell, who hails from Kitchener-Cambridge, Ontario, has played acoustic and classical guitar for over 25 years. He considers himself basically self-taught, despite formal training in theory and performance with the Royal Conservatory of Music and with several private tutors. His personal style of guitar playing draws upon various performance techniques such as rhythm methods and accompaniment styles, although he has come to favour finger-style and methods common to early music.

It is from both the acoustic and classical guitar that Lawrence obtains sincere satisfaction, for he feels they allow him to more fully explore the expressive potential of the instruments, both as a performer and as a composer. While the majority of his own compositions have been written for solo guitar, he has developed arrangements for guitar and flute, violins, cellos, and various sizes of vocal ensembles and choirs.


Instrumentation
Lead performer in classical & acoustic guitar (/lc)
Keyboard player
Percussionist

Discography
. GREAT HORIZONS 2007 (LP) 
  Available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/lcress;
  www.indiepool.com.

. NORTHERN DANCE 1996/2008 (LP)
  Available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/lcresswell2


Contact: lawcress@sympatico.ca

Links
http://www.lawrencecresswell.com

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