What: Leslie McClure Record Release Party
When: March 7, 2009 7 pm
Where: Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church - Sanctuary
502.893.5381
http://www.crescenthill.org/
Contact: Soni Castleberry 502.417.6481
Leslie McClure, a Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church youth group alumna, is coming home for a Release Party for her new CD entitled "Back Home to You." Leslie has graciously agreed to use the event and the proceeds from all CD sales to benefit the church’s Guatemala Partnership Fund which supports the mission trip to Guatemala to build relationships with a new presbytery in El Estor.
The concert will be held in the church’s sanctuary. The event is free but donations are requested. Coffee and a sampling of desserts from Guatemala and the Dominican Republic (DR) will be served after the concert. Leslie credits her 2002 youth group mission trip to the DR as playing a huge role in her interest in Spanish. As a result she majored in it, studied abroad and now speaks fluently in Spanish and Portuguese.
By age 12, Leslie and her father, John, began singing various cover songs in local bars in Louisville such as Jake and Elwood’s, Browning’s, Clifton Pizza, Cumberland Brewery, and Pat’s Steakhouse. Throughout her high school career her mother, Annie, acted as her booking agent. This family-band dynamic continued when John was offered a job teaching at Vanderbilt University and the whole family moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
Leslie recently spent a semester studying abroad in the Galician city of Santiago de Compestela, Spain. Accompanying herself on a Martin backpacker guitar, she began to write her own songs and play them in various bars. When she returned to Nashville, she and her father collaborated to produce a recording of the songs she wrote in Spain. The result, “The Santiago Set,” also involves top notch musicians. For more information: http://www.lesliemcclure.net/ .
Leslie finds herself hard-put to find a comfortable genre to describe her music, though in every case where a description has been necessary, she has called it “gypsy-folk” or “Galician bluegrass.” Four songs on her latest album incorporate Spanish or Portuguese lyrics. The album mostly demonstrates influences such as bluegrass, gypsy folk, and Americana.
When: March 7, 2009 7 pm
Where: Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church - Sanctuary
502.893.5381
http://www.crescenthill.org/
Contact: Soni Castleberry 502.417.6481
Leslie McClure, a Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church youth group alumna, is coming home for a Release Party for her new CD entitled "Back Home to You." Leslie has graciously agreed to use the event and the proceeds from all CD sales to benefit the church’s Guatemala Partnership Fund which supports the mission trip to Guatemala to build relationships with a new presbytery in El Estor.
The concert will be held in the church’s sanctuary. The event is free but donations are requested. Coffee and a sampling of desserts from Guatemala and the Dominican Republic (DR) will be served after the concert. Leslie credits her 2002 youth group mission trip to the DR as playing a huge role in her interest in Spanish. As a result she majored in it, studied abroad and now speaks fluently in Spanish and Portuguese.
By age 12, Leslie and her father, John, began singing various cover songs in local bars in Louisville such as Jake and Elwood’s, Browning’s, Clifton Pizza, Cumberland Brewery, and Pat’s Steakhouse. Throughout her high school career her mother, Annie, acted as her booking agent. This family-band dynamic continued when John was offered a job teaching at Vanderbilt University and the whole family moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
Leslie recently spent a semester studying abroad in the Galician city of Santiago de Compestela, Spain. Accompanying herself on a Martin backpacker guitar, she began to write her own songs and play them in various bars. When she returned to Nashville, she and her father collaborated to produce a recording of the songs she wrote in Spain. The result, “The Santiago Set,” also involves top notch musicians. For more information: http://www.lesliemcclure.net/ .
Leslie finds herself hard-put to find a comfortable genre to describe her music, though in every case where a description has been necessary, she has called it “gypsy-folk” or “Galician bluegrass.” Four songs on her latest album incorporate Spanish or Portuguese lyrics. The album mostly demonstrates influences such as bluegrass, gypsy folk, and Americana.
-- Janine
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