Yvette Landry, a Grammy-nominated songwriter will be featured by Arts Alive on March 20, Friday. Landry is a great sudden bloomer of the country music scene who has been reputed in her skills of creating the most enticing songs.
Landry’s career boomed like a fast approaching rocket that just recently made a blast in the world of music. As a multi-instrumentalist, she toured with several known artist such as alfa Toujours, Red Stick Ramblers, Pine Leaf Boys, Walter Mouton, Steve Riley, Dirk Powell, Donna the Buffalo, Bill Kirchen, Cindy Cashdollar, Carol McComb, John Lilly, Geraldine Gay and Darrell Scott. She is also the founder of the all-female group, Cajun super-group BonSoir Catin.
“When Yvette Landry makes music, the smile on her face is as wide as her Cajun roots are deep…you won’t be able to resist the urge to dance.” said Mary Flower admiring Landry’s astounding talent.
With the of help Joel Savoy and members of the Red Stick Ramblers, Landry co-written and produced 16 songs of her first solo album in 2009 including the single, “Should Have Known”.
Dan Willging of Offbeat Magazine described Landry’s 2014 CD, “Me & T-Coe’s Country” as “an amazingly deep album full of layered listens and focuses”.
While Bill Kirchen left the words to describe the songwriter as, “rooted in country music, drawing on Cajun, blues and rock n roll…telling stories that sound like it actually happened, songs where you can still hear a heart breaking…”
“Country music should know it needs Yvette Landry,” said Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express-News who seemed to fall in love with Landry’s works.
The amazing The Red Stick Ramblers, River Road, The Wilders and other staggering artists will back up Landry’s show on center stage this coming March 20.
Tickets are on sale online at the Arts Alive Web site: www.tillettfoundation.org or at one of many ticket outlets around St. Thomas: Arts Alive office in Tillett Gardens, Natural Food Grocery & Deli in Mandela Circle, Fish Face in Palm Passage and Rhiannon’s in American Yacht Harbor.
Attendees should call for reservation at 776-8566 for the dinner that will be served at Lucky Tree Restaurant in Tillett Gardens, prepared by Chef Jean-Phillippe Galli.
For more information about Yvette Landry and to hear her music, visit www.yvettelandry.com.
Arts Alive Features The Grammy-Nominated Songwriter, Yvette Landry
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