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The Rosebud Agency is proud to welcome the Soul Queen of New Orleans, Irma Thomas. Irma won a 2010 Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year, an award for which she is nominated again in 2011 and which she has won eight times overall. She is also featured on "Heart of Steel" by Galactic which was just named by the New York Times as one of its Top 10 songs of 2010. Among her other recent honors are her 4th Grammy nomination in 2009 for her Simply Grand CD, as well as a 2007 Grammy Award win. She has also been honored with a 2009 induction into the Blues Hall of Fame, MOJO Magazine's Legend Award in 2008 and an induction into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Irma recently appeared on HBO's hit series, Treme, in which she sang with an All Star backing band including Rosebud's Allen Toussaint. Irma is at the top of her game, winning awards and demonstrating with every performance how much she deserves them.
Winners of 5 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and honored as Gospel Music Hall of Fame Inductees, The Blind Boys of Alabama are indisputable Gospel legends who have thrilled a generation of audiences over their storied 70 year career. The Blind Boys will release a new CD in Spring 2011, produced by Jamey Johnson and featuring guests such as Hank Williams Jr., Vince Gill and Lee Ann Womack.
In 2003, The Blind Boys of Alabama received a Grammy Award for Go Tell It On The Mountain, their best selling CD of holiday hymns, carols and seasonal pop standards. That year the group launched their first Christmas tour featuring material from the CD and other traditional favorites. The Go Tell It On The Mountain tour performed before capacity audiences at such prestigious venues as Washington DC's Lisner Auditorium, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Atlanta's Symphony Hall and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and also led to a popular PBS special and DVD of the same name. For the 9th consecutive season, the gospel legends return with a joyful holiday concert celebration to inspire and uplift audiences of all ages.
Legendary R&R Hall of Fame inductee, 2010 Grammy nominee, 2009 Grammy Trustees Award winner, producer, pianist, writer, arranger and singer, Allen Toussaint has collaborated with, produced, or had his songs covered by The Rolling Stones, The Band, Paul Simon, Robert Plant / Alison Krauss and many more. Allen guests on two songs on Eric Clapton's new CD and is a featured guest on Cyndi Lauper's 2011 Grammy nominated CD. He has been featured on HBO's Emmy nominated hit series Treme, playing himself and last September supported Neil Young on select dates of his solo tour. Allen Toussaint's world class virtuosity and incomparable contribution to music history is matched only by the incredible warmth he generates in concert with his old school Southern charm.
The New York Times' Jon Pareles proclaimed Bettye LaVette "now rivals Aretha Franklin as her generation's most vital soul singer." Her latest CD, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook, just garnered Bettye a 2011 Grammy nomination. Her best selling CD ever, the record features her versions of classic rock songs so inventively reinterpreted that they won raves from the songs' original writers including Elton John, Keith Richards and Pete Townshend. In the past few months alone Bettye has been featured on Good Morning America, Today, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Lopez Tonight, and The Late Late show with Craig Ferguson. Highlights of her 2010 live performance summer schedule include a three-night sold out run as a featured performer of the Hollywood Bowl's special Beatles Anniversary Celebration and a two-week U.S. tour as a special guest with Robert Plant. Bettye was also joined recently by Herbie Hancock for a performance at the United Negro College Fund's, An Evening of Stars Tribute to Chaka Khan which also featured Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones and Faith Evans (airdate on BET January 29 & 30, 2011). Bettye's growing legion of fans is confirming her new role as one of America's iconic treasures crossing the genres of Soul, R&B, Pop, Blues and Rock.
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars came together in West African refugee camps as their homeland was being racked by years of bloody warfare. Touring in the wake of their award winning documentary Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, audiences around the world embraced the band and their extraordinary, moving story. The group's two critically revered albums find them "establishing an identity based as much on skill, imagination and charisma as on their undeniably touching story" (The Los Angeles Times). SLRAS has performed on five continents, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, featured on CNN International, PBS's P.O.V. Series and CBS Sunday Morning as well as NPR's World Café. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars deliver electrifying and uplifting live performances and they have appeared at some of the world's most prestigious venues and events including the Lincoln Center, the Hollywood Bowl, the World Economic Forum, the Kennedy Center and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and soul/gospel legend, Mavis Staples has delivered the most acclaimed CD of her already stellar career with You Are Not Alone. Produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, the album has been nominated for a 2011 Grammy (Best Americana Album) and showcases the iconic singer at her most powerful. Rolling Stone named the title track the #6 Best Single of 2010. NPR, Mojo, The London Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Americana Music Association, among many others, have dubbed the record one of the best albums of 2010. The album follows We'll Never Turn Back, produced by Ry Cooder, and Live: Hope at the Hideout, which was named one of the Best Live CDs of All Time by Amazon.com and earned Mavis her first Grammy nomination as a solo artist. Named by Rolling Stone as one of the Greatest Singers of All Time and by VH1 as one of the Greatest Women of Rock and Roll, Mavis is enjoying a major career resurgence with recent television appearances on Jay Leno, David Letterman and The Colbert Report as well as features in USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Time Magazine; and performances from Lollapalooza, to The Kennedy Center, to the Fillmore in San Francisco, among many, many others.
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