Zoë Lewis
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Zoë Lewis is an English
folk music
ian from Brighton
.
She started out as a member of the London Latin jazz ten-piece band Avanti, but has more recently been active primarily as a solo performer and as the title member of Zoe Lewis and her Rubber Band and currently resides in Provincetown, Massachusetts
, United States
.
She employs a wide range of styles, including vaudeville
and world beat. She sings primarily songs of her own unique creation and perspective on life. Her instruments include the tin whistle
, guitar, piano, harmonica, ukulele, accordion, human trumpet and sometimes spoons.
She was nominated in 1998 for best "Out Song" of the Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA).
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
folk music
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
ian from Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
.
She started out as a member of the London Latin jazz ten-piece band Avanti, but has more recently been active primarily as a solo performer and as the title member of Zoe Lewis and her Rubber Band and currently resides in Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,431 at the 2000 census, with an estimated 2007 population of 3,174...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
She employs a wide range of styles, including vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
and world beat. She sings primarily songs of her own unique creation and perspective on life. Her instruments include the tin whistle
Tin whistle
The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
, guitar, piano, harmonica, ukulele, accordion, human trumpet and sometimes spoons.
She was nominated in 1998 for best "Out Song" of the Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA).
Albums
- A Cure for the Hiccups (2008)
- Small is Tremendous (2005)
- Fishbone, Wishbone, FunnyboneFishbone, Wishbone, FunnyboneFishbone, Wishbone, Funnybone is an album by Massachusetts folk musician Zoë Lewis, released in 2001.- Track listing :#Bastille Day#Fortune Cookie#When the Developers Came to Tea#Lullaby on 24th and Mission#Going Song#Sarcophagi#Jam#Funnybone...
(2001) - SheepSheep (album)Sheep is an album by Massachusetts folk musician Zoë Lewis, released in 1998.-Track listing:#Auntie Gladys#Slow Boat to China#Sometimes#Sheep Talk#Sheep#Harvey#Here I am Again#That Thing#Yellow Room#Tea Talk#Cuppa Tea#Through the Window...
(1998) - Full of Faraway (1996)
- A Little Piece of Sky (1994) (cassette only)