Friday, April 9th, 2010
BENEFIT CONCERT for NO VET LEFT BEHIND - 7 - 10 pm
20 Forest Street
Stamford Connecticut 06901
USA 203-348-0708
Price: $30 per ticket
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: In Concert - Friday, April 9th, 7 pm @ The Unitarian Universalist Society, 20 Forest St, Stamford, CT.
On Friday April 9 at 7PM, The Unitarian Universalist Society will be hosting a concert to benefit both UUSIS and No Vet Left Behind! Tickets for the concert are $30 each, and are 100% tax deductible.
The concert will have two acts. The opening act will be Superband, a local group who plays regularly in the Stamford / Bridgeport area. They have a monthly gig at Tracks on Hope Street. They play a wide range of music, from Pink Floyd to the Beatles to the Allman Brothers!
The main event will be internationally-acclaimed recording artist Grayson Hugh. Grayson had two successful albums released in the early 1990's. His album "Road To Freedom" was named one of Billboard Magazine's Top 10 Albums of 1992. His hits "Talk it Over", "Bring It All Back", "Tears Of Love", "Soul Cat Girl" and "How 'Bout Us" can be viewed on YouTube. After a long hiatus from the recording industry, he is releasing his first album in 15 years this March. Grayson will play some old hits, some songs from his large body of work and previews from his upcoming record. He will be available after the concert for a meet and greet and autographs, and we will be selling his new CD as well! Grayson will be performing with his wife and long time backup singer Polly Messer.
Tickets MUST be purchased in advance! Email me at trustees@uusis.org to reserve tickets and receive payment instructions!
NVLB is a CT-based organization dedicated to providing transitional housing to homeless veterans. They will be taking over occupancy of the housing unit on UUSIS' property most likely in the late spring or early summer. See www.thenovetleftbehind.org for more info.
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris - 8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER - Live @ Smokin With Chris,
Saturday April 10th, 2010, 8 pm showtime. Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table!
Here is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's new songs from his upcoming release "An American Record", as well as past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This Spring Grayson is releasing the eagerly-anticipated "An American Record" on his website, graysonhugh.net. It is his first record in fifteen years.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris - 8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER - Live @ Smokin With Chris,
Saturday June 26th, 2010, 8 pm showtime. Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table!
Here is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's new songs from his upcoming release "An American Record", as well as past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This Spring Grayson is releasing the eagerly-anticipated "An American Record" on his website, graysonhugh.net. It is his first record in fifteen years.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris - 8
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT, Saturday, August 28th, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table!
(860) 620-9133.
Here is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's new songs from his upcoming release "An American Record", as well as past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
Smokin With Chris is a critically-acclaimed restaurant featuring barbeque and southern cuisine.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This Spring Grayson is releasing the eagerly-anticipated "An American Record" on his website, graysonhugh.net. It is his first record in fifteen years.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris - 8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT, Saturday, October 23rd, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table!
(860) 620-9133.
Here is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's new songs from his upcoming release "An American Record", as well as past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
Smokin With Chris is a critically-acclaimed restaurant featuring barbeque and southern cuisine.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This Spring Grayson is releasing the eagerly-anticipated "An American Record" on his website, graysonhugh.net. It is his first record in fifteen years.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Friday, November 26th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris - 8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT, Friday, November 26th, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table!
(860) 620-9133.
Here is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's new songs from his upcoming release "An American Record", as well as past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
Smokin With Chris is a critically-acclaimed restaurant featuring barbeque and southern cuisine.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This Spring Grayson is releasing the eagerly-anticipated "An American Record" on his website, graysonhugh.net. It is his first record in fifteen years.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
Saturday, December 18th, 2010
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris - 8 pm
59 West Center Street
Southington Connecticut 06489-3533
USA 860-620-9133
Price: no cover - but reserve a table!
GRAYSON HUGH with POLLY MESSER: Live @ Smokin With Chris
59 West Center Street, Southington, CT, Saturday December 18th, 2010, 8 pm showtime.
Limited seating - Be sure to reserve a table!
(860) 620-9133.
Here is a rare opportunity to hear Grayson Hugh and Polly Messer perform some of Grayson's new songs from his upcoming release "An American Record", as well as past radio hits and previously unreleased songs, in an intimate, acoustic setting.
Smokin With Chris is a critically-acclaimed restaurant featuring barbeque and southern cuisine.
for directions & details: http://www.smokinwithchris.com/
"Have I heard any newcomer in the last decade who excites me as much as this guy? No." (Leonard Pitts Jr., 2004 Pultizer Prize winner, writing in The Miami Herald, Nov. 18,1992)
Grayson Hugh is an internationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter. His debut release "Blind To Reason" (RCA 1988) earned two gold records, in Australia and the U.S., and garnered several international radio hits. His songs are a unique combination of highly poetic lyrics set to a fascinating blend of folk, bluegrass, clasic soul and rock 'n roll. His rhythmic piano playing owes as much to his study of African Drumming (with John Chernoff at Wesleyan University) as to his experience as a pianist for a gospel church in Hartford, Ct. With a thorough classical background, Grayson also studied piano with Ran Blake and the late Jacki Byard. His second record "Road To Freedom" was called one of 1992's top-ten albums by Billboard Magazine. Two of his songs from that record were featured in Ridley Scott's hit film "Thelma & Louise" in 1991. In the same year Hugh arranged and recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Remember You" for the end-title song to the film "Fried Green Tomatoes". The result was a gospel-styled performance featuring Grayson singing and playing Hammond B3 organ, a recording "that could raise the dead" (The Cleveland Free Times).
Grayson taught songwriting at Berklee College Of Music in Boston (from 1999 through 2003) and has composed, performed and recorded several scores for modern dance choreographers, notably for the late Viola Farber in New York and Prometheus Dance in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This Spring Grayson is releasing the eagerly-anticipated "An American Record" on his website, graysonhugh.net. It is his first record in fifteen years.
Polly Messer began her career as a singer with the Connecticut swing band Eight To The Bar, in 1977. While touring up and down the east coast with them, she met Grayson in a recording studio and, soon after, began singing backup vocals in his band The Wildtones, in 1982. She performed with him throughout the mid-eighties, until he moved to New York in 1986. During the nineties, Polly sang with the rockabilly band Eugene Chrysler. She also returned to school where she obtained a bachelor's degree with a triple major in art at Western Connecticut State University. In 2007, she teamed up with Grayson once again to sing on his new record, and ended up co-producing it with him.
She and Grayson were married in August 2008.
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