Lina Marquez
http://www.myspace.com/linamarquez1
http://www.linamusic.com
Performing at the OUTDOOR PATIO STAGE @ TBA
Born in Barranquilla, Columbia, where the streets are used as soccer fields and voracious December winds run by, Lina was talented from an early age. Her older brother, sister, twin brother and she were submerged into the music’s hemisphere since before their birth. Her father was a frustrated musician who loved the guitar. He would only play when he thought no one was listening. But Lina was listening. Breathing the first gasp of Columbia ’s government collapse her mother decided to leave the country and take her and her twin brother with her. With a supermarket bag of belongings they embraced crowded living rooms and bulb-less bedrooms. They shared what they had. Once when she was thirsty and waiting with her mother outside a supermarket a man with a yellow tie gave her a can of coke. She saved it and used it as a bank to buy her first guitar. After she said we would encounter many ’yellow-tie’ people in this country.
Dreams danced behind her head when she would listen to music. When inspired Lina would quote Eddie Vedder’s "Oceans" by saying her dreams were fifty percent tangible now. The can of coke was replaced with a red guitar. Where there was one green pear for dinner there were now more. A flinty rug was replaced with a bed. Her orange notebook and blue pencil helped her write autobiographical stories, flavored with the influence of Pablo Neruda’s vivid romanticism and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s honest irony and concrete singular verbal depictions. Her essence remains the same. She writes songs that, like her influences, amplify the hope and zoom in the dreams of many people.
When Lina takes the stage the crowd is mesmerized. They know she is the real deal. Her passion is very inspiring. Her beautiful voice and moves will captivate you. Her words will make you think.
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Hilary McRae
http://www.myspace.com/hilarymcrae
http://www.HilaryMcRae.com
Performing at the OUTDOOR PARKING LOT STAGE @ 1:00 A.M.
Hilary McRae - Keyboards/Vocals
Fernando Perdomo - Bass
Derek Cintron - Drums
Jacin Nagao - Guitar/Vocals
Every once in a while, an artist emerges and changes everything - bucking common trends by offering the extraordinary. Hilary McRae is that artist. This native of Boca Raton, Florida, combines 70's and modern pop, soul and R&B to create hip swaying, heartbreaking and smile making songs about love, angst, and the trials of life. Her sensual and soulful style has been compared to 70s icon Carole King, Joss Stone, and Alicia Keys.
This 21 year old classical-and-contemporary-trained pianist is already a very accomplished songwriter having composed numerous original pop/rock songs as well as original music for musical theater. Hilary studied at the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston thanks in part to a substantial scholarship award she received from the school as a result of her audition for their 2003-2004 World Scholarship Tour.
In June, 2006, Hilary was invited to join a Central and South American tour with Latin pop superstar Christian Castro to play keyboards and sing background vocals as a member of his band. The young artist has recorded a full length album of her original material with GRAMMY award winning producer/engineer Zach Ziskin and arranger Charlie Calello, which will be released in Spring 2008 on Hear Music - an innovative record label and partnership between Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Music Group.
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Megan Lipsky
http://www.myspace.com/meganmusic84
Performing at the UPSTAIRS STAGE IN THE CABARET @ 5:00 P.M.
Megan Lipsky is a pianist and vocalist. She has performed at clubs such as Jazid and Churchill's. Her songs are reminiscent of early shoegaze artists such as PJ Harvey. Megan has also performed at The Broward Center of Performing Arts, and at Fat Cat's Jazz Club in New York City.
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