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Stanback Bob Weir Epiphany Park - Roger Witherspoon Advertising [email protected] or call 914-562-0834 We Welcome Your Comments Tell us if we are doing something wrong, and what we are doing right. WHYTEditor@ gmail.com WESTCHESTER HERALD July 13, 2009 3 Rain or Shine, Antoinette Montague will “Reign” at Free Jazz & Blues @ Dusk Concert @ Dusk series. “I could camouflage the emptiness not find an existing song that I was feeling. Producing to express all that I wanted this CD was a project of to, so I wrote it myself. both happiness and sorrow. What a blessing it was to It had a far more emotional be able to communicate toll on me than I ever could to others the music that, have imagined,” confessed initially, only I could hear. Montague. A group of versatile and Montague will also be interpretative musicians performing with her quartet gave it life and helped me at the Jazzmobile Summer turn it into a recording and Festival Monday, July 27, live performance piece.” 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at 143- Montague said the 22 109th Avenue, Jamaica inspiration for the title song Queens, NY and Friday, of her new CD came from August 21, 2009, 7:00 pm to a roller coaster of emotions 8:30 pm at Marcus Garvey that she rode this past year. Park, 124th Street and “We all smile to mask the Madison Ave., New York. anger, joy, and sometimes For a sample of her music even nice, nasty energy and a regularly-updated that’s really going on inside performance schedule, visit our hearts and heads. From www.antoinettemontague. my very happy loss of all com. that weight this past year, to the very sorrowful loss of my beloved sister, Barbara, and a best friend and co- worker, sometimes even my best stage smile could barely Yonkers, NY -- Rain never train station. blues provided the aesthetic dampens jazz vocalist The (Newark) Star- finale.” Antoinette Montague Ledger’s influential jazz Montague’s Westchester from opening up wide the critic, Zan Stewart, reviewed County fans, familiar with floodgates of her satiny- Montague’s headline her performances at the smooth pipes. Even a performance, last month former Jazz on Library Green torrential downpour with over 600 in attendance Series in New Rochelle and didn’t stop her scheduled at the Newark Museum the acclaimed Presbyterian performance at the Yonkers Centennial Celebration Jazz Jazz Society Series in Mt. Downtown Waterfront in the Garden Series. He Vernon, can expect a medley BID Jazz & Blues @ Dusk described her as “an assured of jazz classics and original concert, last year. She returns singer who delivered with material that will seamlessly for a third engagement, July zest and feeling… She blend the upbeat with the 17th, starting at 6:30 PM, worked hard, digging into sentimental. Her Yonkers rain or shine. “We’re ready her songs, and talking repertoire will include a for just about anything,” to the audience, telling a performance of “Behind the said the highly-acclaimed story or two as she did… Smile,” the title song of her performer.