June 16, 2010
Name Dropping!
The Genie Grant Tribute - March 18, 2010
Today was the best night of the year. The Genie Grant Zoller Tribute at the Sammons Center for the Arts. Dave Zoller invited friends of Genie to perform at the center. Shelley, Lyles, Tony, Jack, Trella, Deanna, Drenda, Victor, Carolyn, Abby, Buddy, Janet, Randy, Mark and others not named yet. Stay tuned for more chat about that night.
Leigh Tomlinson - March 2, 2010
Leigh was on of the finer persons in our business and I will miss her.
Local singer, actress Leigh Tomlinson dies at age 47
12:00 AM CST on Thursday, January 10, 2008
Lawson Taitte
Dallas singer-actress Leigh Tomlinson died Saturday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 47.
Born in Fort Worth in 1961, Ms. Tomlinson graduated from Fort Worth Country Day School and Texas Christian University. She led her own jazz quartet and sang with the Sammons Jazz Program, for which she also worked as a volunteer. She and Tim Wardell wrote the sketch comedy Porn for Puritans and performed it frequently at several venues in 2004 and 2005.
Survivors include her mother, Sandy Tomlinson; father, Dr. Paul Saperstein; brother Stephen Alton and his wife, Judy (all of Fort Worth); brother George Saperstein of Bangkok, Thailand; and stepsisters Edith Yentis of Fort Worth and Diane Tomlinson of New York City.
A memorial service will take place at the Sammons Center for the Arts on Jan. 19, with details to be announced later.
Contributions in Ms. Tomlinson's memory may be made to Operation Kindness, 3201 Earhart Drive, Carrollton, Texas 75006, or to Planet Cancer, 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 306, Austin, Texas 78752.
Lawson Taitte
Local singer, actress Leigh Tomlinson dies at age 47
12:00 AM CST on Thursday, January 10, 2008
Lawson Taitte
Dallas singer-actress Leigh Tomlinson died Saturday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 47.
Born in Fort Worth in 1961, Ms. Tomlinson graduated from Fort Worth Country Day School and Texas Christian University. She led her own jazz quartet and sang with the Sammons Jazz Program, for which she also worked as a volunteer. She and Tim Wardell wrote the sketch comedy Porn for Puritans and performed it frequently at several venues in 2004 and 2005.
Survivors include her mother, Sandy Tomlinson; father, Dr. Paul Saperstein; brother Stephen Alton and his wife, Judy (all of Fort Worth); brother George Saperstein of Bangkok, Thailand; and stepsisters Edith Yentis of Fort Worth and Diane Tomlinson of New York City.
A memorial service will take place at the Sammons Center for the Arts on Jan. 19, with details to be announced later.
Contributions in Ms. Tomlinson's memory may be made to Operation Kindness, 3201 Earhart Drive, Carrollton, Texas 75006, or to Planet Cancer, 314 E. Highland Mall Blvd., Suite 306, Austin, Texas 78752.
Lawson Taitte
Honing In On The Act - February 7, 2010
Please don't get me wrong, I love people and have lots of friends but I can't maintain friendships with ignorance. Get this one: A singer wanted to sing on my show, got there late, didn't speak to my piano player and expected to sing on a professional show that had twenty minutes left. I didn't call the subject up to sing and the subject called me an evil bitch over it. Well, if you feel that way about it, GET OVER IT!
False Advertisment OR Great Publicity? - October 26, 2009
There is a night club in Hangzhou, China who is advertising that I am playing there. This advertisement has been online for at least one year. I have not contacted this night club because I cannot fathom such a mistake. I have not been to China in all of 2009, I have only been out of the country once this year, in June. Maybe I should contact the night club in question.
What I Do Know For Sure: - October 13, 2009
The main reason so many people fail at singing The National Anthem:
After seeing more than a dozen people make a non-triumphant
effort to sing The National Anthem, I am compelled to go on record with a possible solution.
The National Anthem is a great song, that does not need any extra help, and many people seem to not understand this. A great song will stand alone, all we need to do is to interpret the song without trying to be Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. Just do what you do. The first thing we have to do is to secure a key that is comfortable for our particular voice. You must make a sound effort to memorize this lyric and once the particulars are in place, anyone should successfully sing this song. It is not as difficult as we all seem to think. Now, go to that audition and WIN with this song!
After seeing more than a dozen people make a non-triumphant
effort to sing The National Anthem, I am compelled to go on record with a possible solution.
The National Anthem is a great song, that does not need any extra help, and many people seem to not understand this. A great song will stand alone, all we need to do is to interpret the song without trying to be Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. Just do what you do. The first thing we have to do is to secure a key that is comfortable for our particular voice. You must make a sound effort to memorize this lyric and once the particulars are in place, anyone should successfully sing this song. It is not as difficult as we all seem to think. Now, go to that audition and WIN with this song!