Lucy Woodward – Verve Recording Artist at Nighttown in August

LUCY WOODWARD has always received high accolades for her unforgettable live performances. But comparisons to Bette Midler and Peggy Lee aside, Lucy has been turning heads and drawing high praise from a completely new and hard-to-impress audience, with fans of the superstar band, PINK MARTINI. Performing as the premiere vocalist with the band across Canada and America at international jazz festivals and symphony music halls, Pink Martini fans and music enthusiasts have been blown away by Lucy’s vocal prowess, having observed the talented songstress reinterpreting Pink Martini classics as well as songs in Japanese, Croatian and Turkish. During a three-night stint with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Resident Conductor Donato Cabrera raved how Lucy “made every song her own” that she performed with the band.

On a break from touring with Pink Martini, Lucy is thrilled to be performing songs from her own album Hooked!,  recently released on Verve Records. "I grew up," she says of her work. "As you get older and make more music, you gain a better understanding of who you are and what you need to feel satisfied. That's what this record is for me."

Seamlessly drawing from a deep well of vintage jazz, swing, R&B and Latin music influences, Hooked! marks Lucy Woodward as an effortlessly engaging, deeply expressive vocalist, an insightful, charismatic and disarmingly witty songwriter. Her gorgeous tone, vocal versatility and incredible musicianship bring what Songwriter’s Monthly calls a "sultry intensity and scorching sensuality" to her bluesy jazz/pop performances, an altogether "jaw-dropping listening experience."

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