"You've got a singer here who is willing to
stretch and is not content to live in the safety zone." - Elvis Costello

  

Bettye LaVette's new CD, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook debuted at #55 on Billboard Top 200 in it's first week of release! She also charted at #26 on the digital chart, #5 on the Indie releases chart and #1 on Billboard's Blues chart! ..read more >>

Bettye's new CD, Interpretations - The British Rock Songbook will be released on May 25, 2010 featuring songs composed by The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd among others.

Bettye returned to Carnegie Hall March, 2010 as part of an All Star Tribute To The Music of The Who, performing "Love Reign O'er Me." According to Rolling Stone Bettye delivered "definitely the vocal highlight of the night."

Featured guest on Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor in February 2010. Bettye performed live from the Fox Theatre in Detroit along with Soul Legend "Sir" Mack Rice and Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele.

Nominated for a 2010 Blues Music Award (Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year), a category she won in 2008. In 2004 she won for Comeback Blues Album of the Year for her CD, A Woman Like Me.

Filmed in concert, backed by The Drive-By Truckers (who played on Bettye's GRAMMY Nominated album, The Scene of the Crime) featured on Live From The Artists Den episode on PBS.

One of the top ten Blues Artists per Downbeat magazine's 57th Annual Critics Poll, 2009.

On CNN.com, Peter Grumbine (Current.com) praises Bettye, stating that of "living singers who are actively releasing music now, there is no one more soulful than Bettye LaVette." (July 2009)

Performance with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Radio City Music Hall in New York for David Lynch Foundation's Transcendental Meditation Benefit, April 2009.

Performed at The Obama Inaugural Celebration at The Lincoln Memorial in a duet with Jon Bon Jovi (broadcast on HBO, January 2009).

Standout Performance of "Love Reign O'er Me," honoring The Who at Kennedy Center Honors (broadcast on CBS December, 2008).

2008 Grammy Nominee for The Scene of the Crime

 
  Austin City Limits Bettye LaVette / Pinetop Perkins
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Appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, Austin City Limits.

Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Award Honoree - 2006

Sampling of Festival appearances, among many others:
Blues in Hell 2010 (Norway); 2010 Vancouver Folk Music Festival; 2010 TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival; 2010 Doheny Blues Festival; Congressional Blues Festival (Washington D.C.); Long Beach Blues Festival (CA); Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival (San Francisco, CA); Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland); Chicago Blues Festival; Bridgestone Music Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil); Lucerne Blues Festival (Switzerland); Great Atlantic Blues and Beyond Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia); Oslo Jazz Festival (Norway); Blues in Chedigny (France); Fuji Rock Festival (Japan); Festival International de Jazz de Montreal; Rothbury Festival (MI); Wakarusa Festival (KS); New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Jazzablanca (Casablanca, Morocco); WOMAD (Spain); Women's Arts International Festival (UK); Moulin Blues (The Netherlands); Bumbershoot (Seattle, WA); Newport Folk Festival (RI); BBC Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival (UK); North Sea Jazz Festival (The Netherlands); Belgium Rhythm and Blues Festival; Bonnaroo; Celebrate Brooklyn (NYC); Monterey Jazz Festival (CA)