Tell Mama Hosting Food Bank Bash Again this Year
Author: shelley // Category: Night Before Xmas
Local band, Tell Mama, steps forward to plan foodbank fundraiser for the fourth year in a row. Working together with Patricia Prescott of Zen Healing and Rejuvenation clinic, Tell Mama band leader Shelley Montreuil is taking a lead role in organizing an entertaining and successful fundraising event.
Playing jazz and blues infused folk-funk, Tell Mama has been steadily carving a niche for themselves in Eastern Ontario since 2002.
Tell Mama’s “Kick Ass Jass” – a blend of sophisticated jazz, hungry blues, edgy rock and mellow funk – is as entertaining as it is eclectic. The band’s sultry vocals, infectious beat and inventive style deliver original material and timeless favourites in a way that is strong, sexy, danceable and, above all, fun to listen to.
Tell Mama have eschewed falling back on any of the old jazz warhorses out there. Instead, they have penned a batch of songs that comprise stories about tough or abandoned women, sex, feckless men and confused love without dipping into the sweet waters of sentimentality and self-pity. You will even find some half-decent poetry here and there … Definitely Juno material with not a weak song on the CD. Buy this one while you can.
Jeremiah Sutherland
Bullfrog Music Reviews
March 7, 2009
