Clare Donohue will play at Charles and Myrtle's Coffeehouse on Saturday at 8 p.m. The coffeehouse is inside Christ Unity Church at 105 McBrien Road. There is a $10 suggested donation at the door.
Review for Clare Donohue:
Clare’s unique sultry sound easily reminds one of the greats: Sarah Vaugn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Lamott, Anita O’Day, Diane Schur, Keely Smith and on.
Her two greatest influences were Billie Holiday and Doris Day and you can hear both of them in her voice.
She performs jazz, torch/cabaret, standards and much of the Great American Songbook. She has the clarity of Frank Sinatra as well as the heavy NY accent when she speaks! Her debut CD “Torch Baby Torch” is available through her website (claredonohue.com).
Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Clare sang back up for rock bands and played all over NYC. She sang with Joe Leone in his original act 911 and was in the studio at 19 years of age improvising on the spot. She later teamed up with Bonnie Cameron doing “acoustic soul” around the village and the upper west side.
The smoothness of her voice/sound had her singing soundtracks and commercials and voice over work.
In Ft. Lauderdale the late great Fred Silver accompanied her and wrote songs for her. She was the featured vocalist with the Doc Rogers Big Band as well as her own duo, trio and quintet with John Aubrey, Rob Sherber, Ariel Ramos and Anthony Cassimassima. Since moving deep south she is a featured vocalist with The Rocket City Jazz Orchestra; has started playing around town with veteran jazz cats Tom Cordell, RT Bowden, Ryan Crabtree, Stephen Powers and Harry Wilkinson. .