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Marta Christmas & Scaldcat

Jul 11, 2015

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    $9.32 - Must be 21 or older
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Overview

As a 40 plus year veteran of performing music, Marta Christmas continues to belt it out with the outfit Marta Christmas and Scaldcat. Some points of her career has been sharing the stage with Bill Hanna, a Charlotte jazz icon, who was 1st trombone with the Glenn Miller, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman Bands, and Willy Gillon, 1st alto saxophone with the Glenn Miller Band. She has toured the East coast of the United States with the 10-piece Motown show band; The Legendary Black and Blue Band in the early to mid 1980’s and has maintained a music companionship which started in the late 70’s with Greg James and has performed everything from Big Band music in tight 3 part harmonies in the group Public Melody #1, to standards, and top 40. While maintaining respect to the song, Marta is able to propel to the audience a very strong vocal delivery rarely heard in today’s commercialization of music. She will get your attention. Marta is currently teamed up with expert musician Greg James on bass, NC Hall of Fame drummer Rob Thorne, seasoned musician Dennis Johnson on keys, and edgy lead guitarist Michael James Simonetti.  After being on the road for many years, she returned home to Charlotte and worked with Rodney Shelton in a band that won a national battle of the bands for the Southeast region in 1984. Budweiser flew the band to L.A., and she performed at the Hollywood Palace. In 1988 she entered a national singing contest and won 1st prize, which was a recording session with Luis Martinez of Pantera Records (Expose, Pet Shop Boys, etc).in Miami. She has stayed in Charlotte to the present, and works with Greg James, Dennis Johnson, Michael James Simonetti, and Rob Thorne in the blues band Scaldcat.

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