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Grog Shop Presents @ State Theater: Pink Martini with special guest singer Storm Large
- Start:
- Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:00 PM
- Cost:
- $38-$65
- Venue:
- State Theater
- Phone:
- 216-241-6000
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Address:
- 1519 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, United States, 44115
In 1994 in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Thomas Lauderdale founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for progressive causes such as civil rights, affordable housing, the environment, libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks.
“All of us in Pink Martini have studied different languages as well as different styles of music from different parts of the world. So inevitably, our repertoire is wildly diverse,” says Lauderdale. At one moment, you feel like you’re in the middle of a samba parade in Rio de Janeiro, and in the next, you’re in a French music hall 1930s or a palazzo in Napoli. It’s a bit like an urban musical travelogue.
Featuring twelve regular musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia and New Zealand, South America and North America.
Pink Martini’s debut album Sympathique was released independently in 1997 on the band’s own label Heinz Records (named after Lauderdale’s dog), and quickly became an international phenomenon, garnering the group nominations for “Song of the Year” and “Best New Artist” in France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards in 2000. Pink Martini released Hang On Little Tomato in 2004, Hey Eugene! in 2007 and Splendor In The Grass in 2009. In November 2010 the band released Joy To The World. All five albums have gone gold in France, Canada, Greece and Turkey, and have sold well over 2 million copies worldwide.