KIM TRUSTY CD RELEASE PARTY
“I Will Be Waiting”
Sunday, November 22, 2009
4:30 – 8:00 PM
The Hi Hat
3 Davol Square
Providence, RI
$20.00 Admission Price, in advance
$25.00 At the Door
Special Sponsorship Rates Available
"The time has arrived for Rhode Island singer-songwriter Kim Trusty to become the next woman whose name is synonymous with international star-power, and you can help accelerate that fact."
Kim Trusty hails from Media, Pennsylvania as one of eight adopted children. Her foray into songwriting began at a young age and eventually brought her to Boston, Massachusetts to Berklee College of Music in the early 1980’s, where she was known as “the girl with the golden voice.” Eventually moving to RI, Kim has spent the last three decades refining her remarkable musical skills and crafting her own brand of jazz, R&B and gospel with bluesy, smoky soul. Over the last twenty years, her reputation has moved well beyond the Ocean State as a consummate technician, lyricist and songstress.
There are the inevitable comparisons to women who have set the standard for this genre – Ella Fitzgerald, Anita Baker and Joan Armadtrading, to name just a few. But to say that Trusty is more than the sum of these parts is a vast understatement. As a music educator in Providence, Trusty’s work includes elementary school classroom instruction, private lessons in the community, and helping to found a performing arts charter school, which is due to open in September of 2010.
Trusty’s other work in the community includes within the Children's Theatre Company, whose participants are primarily African American and Latino girls, and singing in the newly formed RI Gospel Choral Society. Her talent, presence and warmth combine to invariably develop and nurture communities and bring audiences to their feet time and time again, whether in the classroom or on the stage.
In September 2005, Kim released her debut album, Sweet Novena, which Providence Journal reporter Rick Massimo called ‘long in the making,’ and ‘a stone cold winner.’ Well Kim is at it again, with a new album to be released in late fall 2009.
On Sunday, November 22, 2009, from 4:30-8:30 PM, Kim and her band will share the fruits of their labor with a CD release party at The Hi Hat, 3 Davol Sq in Providence, RI. Besides providing the first site where one can acquire this highly anticipated second release, Kim’s intentions are to publicly recognize the recording studio and engineers, her fellow musicians and band members featured on the album, and all the partners who made the project and release possible. You can be a part of this roll call by showing your support on November 22. VenusSings.com will be there. Will you?
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, visit www.kimtrusty.wordpress.com, click
here to download the letter, or click
here to see the sponsorship rates and corresponding recognition. Or purchase a concert ticket directly from the Hi Hat (3 Davol Square in Providence, RI; 401-453-6500).
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