{"id":23527,"date":"2017-03-19T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2017-03-19T09:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T13:37:39","slug":"featured-the-king-and-i-bang-jose-james-anuhea-candlebox-bestial-mouths-anuhea-jose-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=23527","title":{"rendered":"On Stage (Extra): The King and I returns to Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>Staff Writer, The Times<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The King and I<\/p><\/div>\n

“The King and I,\u201d which is running from March 22-April 2 at the Academy of Music (Broad and Locust streets, Philadelphia, 215-731-3333, www.kimmelcenter.org<\/span><\/a>) as part of the Kimmel Center\u2019s \u201cBroadway Philadelphia\u201d series, is one of the all-time great American musicals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on Margaret Landon\u2019s 1944 novel \u201cAnna and the King of Siam\u201d and derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s, the show was the fifth musical by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II.<\/span><\/p>\n

Set in 1860\u2019s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna Leonowens, a British schoolteacher whom the modernist King, in an imperialistic world, brings to Siam to teach his many wives and children.<\/span><\/p>\n

The timeless musical is a great show — an incredible romantic story. It also speaks to culture clashes — how people are polarized — and that\u2019s something that is still relevant today. All the themes are enduring. Somehow, Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s themes always stay timely.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThe King and I\u201d also is responsible for a number of songs that have become standards \u2013 familiar tunes that bridge generation gaps such as \u201cHello Young Lovers,\u201d \u201cI Whistle a Happy Tune,\u201d \u201cShall We Dance?\u201d and \u201cGetting to Know You.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes this national tour special is the talent of the actors playing the two main roles — Laura Michelle Kelly as Anna Leonowens and Jose Llana as The King \u2013 and the fact that it is directed by Bartlett Sher.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kelly just recently completed a year-and-a-half run playing Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in the Broadway production of \u201cFinding Neverland.\u201d Llana has returned to the role of \u201cThe King of Siam\u201d after two starring engagements in the Tony-winning Lincoln Center revival of \u201cThe King and I.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons I really wanted to do this show was because Bartlett Sher was the director,\u201d said Kelly, during a phone interview Friday afternoon from a otur stop in Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThen, when I found out that Jose Llana was playing the King, that was the icing on the cake.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with Jose has been a blessing since day 1. He brings something new to the show every day. He doesn\u2019t just do his lines the same way every time. I\u2019m the same way. We\u2019re both spontaneous and free with our performances.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe story is crazy \u2013 that his governess would have such an influence. It\u2019s an incredible tale. Rodgers and Hammerstein really developed this story and made a genius dialogue musical out of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Performing the role of such an iconic character as Anna could be almost overwhelming for some actresses \u2013 but not Kelly. In her brilliant acting career, she has portrayed many of theater\u2019s high-profile females, including Belle (\u201cBeauty and the Beast\u201d), Mary Poppins, Eliza Doolittle (\u201cMy Fair Lady\u201d), Eponine (\u201cLes Miserables\u201d) and Nellie Forbush (\u201cSouth Pacific\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese roles are fun,\u201d said Kelly, who is making her first national tour after years of performing on Broadway and London\u2019s West End. \u201cI don\u2019t see them as challenges. It\u2019s normal for me. I\u2019ve been on stage since I was 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnna is a great role. I like that she has a passion for teaching because that\u2019s something I would like to do someday. I like that she\u2019s authoritative. She won\u2019t take no for an answer. And, she wears beautiful costumes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe real Anna was ahead of her time. In the play, she says \u2013 I believe that women are just as good as men, just as intelligent as men and just as important as men. That\u2019s a feeling that was important in the 1950s and important today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video links for \u201cThe King & I\u201d \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/zp0gUMykOO4<\/i><\/span><\/a> and https:\/\/youtu.be\/TGPdfosMrqc<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BANG<\/p><\/div>\n

The show will open on March 22 and run through April 2 at the Academy of Music. Ticket prices range from $20-$125.<\/span><\/p>\n

BANG, the hard-rocking trio that plays Kung Fu Necktie (1248 North Front Street, Philadelphia, 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com<\/span><\/a>) on March 19, has a band history that looks as if it were written by a Hollywood screenwriter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The band was started by a pair of friends who began playing together when they were 15. They played shows locally, got popular on a wider scale and got signed to a major label.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fueled by promotion from the record company, they released several moderately successful albums in the early 1970s. Then, they got dumped by the label and disbanded a short while later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2016. A van went to each of their respective nursing home residences and took them to a rehearsal space where their instruments awaited them. Adrenalin started flowing again and BANG began playing shows around the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, the nursing home part is false but the rest of the story is true.<\/span><\/p>\n

The trio of \u201cforever young\u201d rockers — Frank Ferrara (vocals, bass), Frank Gilcken (guitar, harmony vocals) and Tony Diorio (drums, lyrics) \u2013 reunited and have returned to the stage\u2026rocking as loud and as hard as they ever did.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe just want to play,\u201d said Ferrara, during a phone interview Wednesday from his home in Delaware County. \u201cWe want to do the best we can and hopefully get back on the horse. Success is doing what you love. For us, playing music is such a great thing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the spring of 1972, heavy rock trio BANG was being touted as the proverbial \u201cNext Big Thing.\u201d A few months after signing with Capitol Records, the band released a single, \u201cQuestions,\u201d that was taking off in the Billboard Hot 100.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the enthusiastic support of Capitol, the band\u2019s debut album \u201cBANG\u201d was also climbing the charts. They were opening shows for a lot of major bands, including their favorite group Black Sabbath.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Frankie went to grade school together,\u201d said Ferrara. \u201cWhen we were 15, we started playing clubs in Philly. A couple weeks after Woodstock, we found a drummer. We rehearsed for 18 months in Claymont (Delaware) and then took a trip to Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked ourselves into opening for Small Faces and Deep Purple in Orlando. 72 hours after we left Claymont, we were playing in front of 15,000 people. We became a stoner rock band called BANG.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow, though, it didn\u2019t quite work out. Even as \u201cQuestions\u201d was charting, a corporate shakeup at Capitol saw the band\u2019s supporters moving on and replaced by A&R men who had their own signings to promote. With the band\u2019s producer, Michael Sunday, also leaving the label, BANG\u2019s support system was crumbling.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group\u2019s new producer engineered a change in personnel that led to drummer\/lyricist Tony Diorio\u2019s departure. Meanwhile, the label insisted that BANG develop a more mainstream, pop-oriented sound. Trying to keep the dream alive, they changed management companies.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a much more commercial approach, the group released a third album, \u201cBANG Music\u201d in 1973, which contained some very good songs but failed to chart. By 1974, just a couple of years after their initial success, a tired and disillusioned BANG had lost its direction, momentum and self-belief. The three members went their separate ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the relative briefness of their career, BANG left behind a powerful recorded legacy — four albums (including the unreleased 1971 concept album \u201cDeath Of A Country\u201d), as well as a trio of non-album tracks that were recorded as singles when the deal with Capitol was about to expire.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1996, much to everyone\u2019s surprise, BANG reunited. In 1998, the band recorded and released a new album titled \u201cReturn to Zero\u201d and followed with the more metal-oriented album \u201cThe Maze\u201d in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we got back together, we sat down and just started writing music \u2013 writing like it was yesterday,\u201d said Ferrara. \u201cWe found that we could still write music and the music sounded good.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe started doing gigs and found that we had a presence in stoner rock. We\u2019re not a metal band. We\u2019re a rock band. We\u2019re not about shredding. We\u2019re more about songs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for BANG — https:\/\/youtu.be\/MY2ca23B0dM<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show at Kung Fu Necktie, which has Weed Is Weed, Green Meteor, and Laura Lawless as the openers, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Candlebox<\/p><\/div>\n

On March 19, another musician from the Philadelphia area will be playing a local show as part of a duo that is an acoustic version of a band that got its start in Seattle, Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday night, the Sellersville Theater (24 West Temple Avenue, Sellersville, 215-257-5808,\u00a0www.st94.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>) will host Candlebox Acoustic, featuring Brian Quinn, a guitarist from Philly, and Kevin Martin, lead vocalist and only remaining founding member of Candlebox.<\/span><\/p>\n

Candlebox Acoustic does not mean that Candlebox is breaking up \u2013 or even slowing down slightly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCandlebox hasn\u2019t stopped touring since I joined in the summer of 2015,\u201d said Quinn, during a phone interview Tuesday morning from a tour stop in Cleveland, Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI picked up in the middle of a tour and we really haven\u2019t taken a break since. We\u2019re doing shows with the full band and we\u2019re also doing this acoustic thing with Kevin and me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAbout three or four years ago, Kevin decided he wanted to go out and do an acoustic treatment of Candlebox songs. Occasionally, he\u2019d do a duo with the bass player. When I joined the band, he pulled me in to do the acoustic thing. For the last two years, I\u2019ve been doing all the acoustic shows with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The duo has been doing an acoustic tour this winter to support the latest Candlebox release \u201cDisappearing in Airports,\u201d which debuted at number 9 on the\u00a0Top Rock Album charts the week of release.<\/span><\/p>\n

Candlebox recently wrapped up a six-week European tour in February and Quinn quickly departed for the acoustic tour with Martin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the late 1990s, Quinn moved from his hometown of Pittston (PA) to Philadelphia. Soon after arriving, he co-founded the Philadelphia-based rock band\u00a0Octane\u00a0(2000-2005).\u00a0During this time, Quinn was named \u201cBest Guitarist\u201d in the Philadelphia region by the Philadelphia Music Awards in 2001 and 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n

After five successful years with Octane, Quinn left the band to found a blues-based hard rock band that would later become known as\u00a0Fosterchild. Then, Quinn joined Candlebox a few years ago when the band needed to replace its guitarist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKevin and I were labelmates when I was with Fosterchild,\u201d said Quinn, who now lives in King of Prussia. \u201cWe met at a label showcase and stayed in touch after that. I played on two tunes with his side project Le Projet. When personnel changes started with Candlebox, he asked me to join the band.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The acoustic shows reflect a different side of Candlebox.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very much like a storyteller\u2019s situation,\u201d said Quinn, who is a graduate of West Chester University. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting for me \u2013 especially not being an original member. Their first album came out when I was in high school and I was a big fan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe acoustic show has its own feel. With electric guitars and amps, there\u2019s a lot to hide behind. With an acoustic show, there isn\u2019t. It really showcases the integrity of the writing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Candlebox Acoustic — https:\/\/youtu.be\/FsrXbuPVKAM<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show in Sellersville, which has Gifthorse as the opening act, will start at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $29.50 and $45.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another option for live music on March 19 will be when The Foundry at Fillmore Philadelphia (1100 Canal Street, Philadelphia, 215-309-0150, www.thefillmorephilly.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>) presents <\/i>Jos\u00e9 James\u2019 \u201cLove in a Time of Madness\u201d featuring Nate Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jose James<\/p><\/div>\n

James, who was born in Minneapolis, is a singer best known for his seamless vocal blending of two current styles of music \u2013 hip-hop and modern jazz. He has frequently been described as a jazz singer for the hip-hop generation<\/span><\/p>\n

On his new album \u201cLove in a Time of Madness,\u201d <\/i>James<\/b> is reborn as a powerful voice in contemporary R&B. Now, he is taking the album on tour with Nate Smith.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just two people \u2013 me and Nathan,\u201d said James, during a phone interview Tuesday afternoon from his home in New York\u2019s Lower East Side.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a full contemporary production with visuals and Ableton Live. We did a preview tour in Europe last fall without the visuals and it sounded great.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLove in a Time of Madness\u201d is James\u2019 fourth album for the world-famous Blue Note label. Working with an international group of writers and producers, James crafted a new sound and style inspired by influences such as Frank Ocean, Usher, Miguel and John Legend, and extending the R&B and hip-hop thread that has run throughout much of his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote it with a lot of different people who all have their own ways of writing,\u201d said James. \u201cAt one point, we were doing three songs at the same time. I know what I can do as a songwriter. I feel it\u2019s more interesting to collaborate with other people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s R&B. A lot of artists don\u2019t necessarily call themselves R&B but there is a new bedrock for African-American music. I think it\u2019s pretty exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a resurgence of something I haven\u2019t seen since the 90s or 00s, when hip-hop, R&B, and pop were converging in really thrilling ways through folks like Tribe, Erykah Badu, or D\u2019Angelo. There\u2019s a whole new generation now that\u2019s unafraid to blend it all together. The world is ready for this kind of thing again.”<\/span><\/p>\n

James\u2019 new album has a lot of influences \u2013 and a lot going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to James, \u201cI\u2019ve always had R&B in my work going all the way to my first albums. Tracks like \u2018Blackeyedsusan\u2019 on \u2018The Dreamer\u2019 and \u2018Made For Love\u2019 and \u2018Blackmagic\u2019 with \u2018Flying Lotus.\u2019 Working with Robert Glasper, Chris Dave and Pino Palladino on \u2018No Beginning No End\u2019 was amazing too. This album takes it to the next level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

James initially planned on \u201cLove in a Time of Madness\u201d<\/i> being a double album. One side would be about love, and the other about societal madness\u2014a response to the systemic and often physical violence perpetrated on U.S. citizens of color.<\/span><\/p>\n

But things changed. He said — \u201cAs I worked on the music, I began to feel that the madness part was getting out of control. The murders kept happening and it became overwhelming and depressing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So, instead of rehashing the pain, James doubled down on the part of the album that could provide healing. This is an album where romance isn\u2019t always romantic. James wanted to tell love\u2019s whole story.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at love as the antidote to the madness,\u201d said James. \u201cI thought it would be more productive with love songs healing. I was working on both at the same time and it seemed like the love songs flowed more freely\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Jos\u00e9 James \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/-Jqs-9DUoIg<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The all-ages show at The Foundry, which has Cory King as the opener, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bestial Mouths<\/p><\/div>\n

Bestial Mouths, which is playing a show March 20 at the Barbary (<\/i>951 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, 215-634-7400, www.facebook.com\/thebarbary<\/i><\/span><\/a>), has a band name that sounds aggressive and more-than-a-little threatening and unnerving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the same description fits the music the popular electro-gloom-industrial-goth trio makes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The leader of Bestial Mouths is vocalist Lynette Cerezo. She is joined by Eddie O on keyboards and visuals and Brant Showers on percussion. They are touring in support of their new album \u201cHeartless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBestial Mouths started in L.A. where I was living at the time,\u201d said Cerezo, during a phone interview Monday afternoon from a tour stop in New York. \u201cI grew up in Orlando, Florida and then was in L.A. for seven years. Now, I\u2019m based in Germany \u2013 in Berlin.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI chose Berlin because it\u2019s amazing. In the music scene here, there is a lot of focus on dark electronic music. There is also a resurgence of punk and a great Gothic scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEddie O lives in New York and Brant lives in San Diego. When we started working on \u2018Heartless,\u2019 we were sending digital files back-and-forth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The bi-coastal\/international effort resulted in a powerful, cohesive and intense album.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the band\u2019s bio, \u201cThis is the sound of creation, birthed naked-raw and shrieking. This is the song of a world split wide by bestial mouths.<\/span><\/p>\n

These words gather in about you like a shroud, encasing you in cold certainty. Vision and voice, ecstasy and agony \u2014 a breaking crescendo of majesty painted in embracing limbs and whip-sharp fractals of hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

The aura of these aurals speaks a language hewn from the language of vigilant systems caught forever in a whirl of suffering. These are not cries of victims, however, but of strength. The faces you see moving about in flashes of white light enrapture the mind with the words they spit upon reality\u2019s stage. They stalk like sentries, mighty in their agony.<\/span><\/p>\n

The echoes of their edicts rebound across the psyche long after; not nightmares, but the jagged stain of bitter memory cloaked in a caress. There are other things said upon their stage, other worlds born and obscured in an eclipse of horrific intent\u2014but we will not speak of them here. These words are to be heard by you only.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe new songs are very personal to me,\u201d said Cerezo. \u201cIt shows in the name of the album and the video. It\u2019s a very intense album. It was very cathartic to make and is also very cathartic when I perform it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy live performances are very important to me. I always do things very intensely and I hope people can relate to it. People have told me that it has helped them through their darkest time and they thank me for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The bio\u2019s description of the music is \u201cThe instruments of these Bestial Mouths are cacophonous: hammering percussion and industrialized synthetics wrapped in the lyrics of euphoric dread. The shapes they form\u2014crumbling mythologies, voided personalities and the clenched-fist orgasmic crush of lost desires\u2014are as immediate as they are intimate, glimpses into the world that these three inhabit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cerezo\u2019s lyrics and vocals sound like what could be the offspring if the music of Johnny Rotten and the music of Diamanda Galas had sex and reproduced.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe songwriting usually starts with lyrics and then cut-up,\u201d said Cerezo. \u201cA phrase pops out and I work off it. Other times, it\u2019s like automatic writing. Sometimes, there are times that there are things happening and I write them down. And, there are times that the music comes and I follow the theme.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI write constantly. I have a book of cut-ups that I go to. I have been doing more recording lately \u2013 working on demos. In our live show, half the songs are from \u2018Heartless\u2019 and half are older ones.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Bestial Mouths \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/rLKtCQ_0fWo?list=RDzPWa41URb_U<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show at the Barbary, which has Leisure Muffin as the opener, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.<\/span><\/p>\n

On March 22, the World Caf\u00e9 Live (3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>) will present an act from the other side of the world — and the opposite end of the rock music spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anuhea<\/p><\/div>\n

Anuhea is a singer-songwriter from Kona on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island whose music is folk-pop with heavy influences of Hawaii-style reggae. The music is soft and light \u2026lilting with a warm island feel.<\/span><\/p>\n

With a delicate balance of fragility, strength and sass, Anuhea blends engaging lyrics, acoustic soul, pop, rap and reggae into a style that has earned her a reputation as Hawaii\u2019s top female artist. Anuhea\u2019s signature guitar rhythms, sultry vocals and honest song writing weave acoustic soul, R&B, jazz and hip hop with pop appeal,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the studio right now working on my next album,\u201d said Anuhea, during a phone interview last week from a recording studio in Los Angeles. \u201cI\u2019m halfway done. This is the last day for this session and I fly back to Hawaii tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been working really hard \u2013 recording in LA. with producer Ross Vanelli. He is an amazing producer and songwriter. I got introduced to Ross and he came to my show at the Troubadour in L.A. After that, we came to his studio and everything clicked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a new kind of sound for pop-reggae. It\u2019s a new sound right now with island rhythms. I have a lot of reggae influences such as Bob Marley, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy, Steel Pulse, Third World and Black Uhuru.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Anuhea\u2019s full name is Rylee Anuheake\u02bbalaokalokelani Jenkins. She was born and raised on the island of Maui.<\/span><\/p>\n

Music has been in Anuhea\u2019s family for generations, so it was inevitable that her seeded passions would reflect the same. Anuhea\u2019s father is from the North Shore of Oahu in the surfing culture of Haleiwa.<\/span><\/p>\n

His younger sister, Nalani is a founding member of the most popular female group in the history of Hawaiian music — Na Leo Pilimehana. Anuhea\u2019s mother, an Oregon native, comes from a musical family as well. Her father is a popular country guitarist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up always watching musicals and Disney movies,\u201d said Anuhea. \u201cI started doing summertime musicals when I was young. It wasn\u2019t until I began having crushes on boys in middle school and high school that I started writing songs. I went to a boarding school in Honolulu and my roommate had a guitar.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After attending film school in Orange County for a year, Anuhea realized she wasn\u2019t heading in the direction she was most passionate about — music. So, she abandoned her scholarships and embarked on a soul-searching odyssey to Australia for three weeks. She returned to the islands and immediately got into the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time I was 21, I had gathered a collection of songs and was playing at local coffeehouses,\u201d said Anuhea. \u201cI was a waitress at Charley\u2019s in Maui that had big acts play there. Willie Nelson played there a lot. I put my band together and played there on off-nights.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started posting videos in YouTube and MySpace. That\u2019s how I met my manager. My first album \u2018Anuhea\u2019 was on a small label. After that, we released my albums on our own label.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her debut \u201cAnuhea\u201d was released on April 21, 2009. Her second album, \u201cFor Love,\u201d was released on February 14, 2012. Her third album \u201cButterflies: Anuhea Live,\u201d was released on September 17, 2013 through Mailboat Records, a record label started by Jimmy Buffett.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI released an EP in 2016 called \u2018Shoulder\u2019 and I also released a Christmas EP,\u201d said Anuhea. \u201cThe album I\u2019m working on now will be on SONO Records, which is based in Connecticut.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was in Philadelphia for an acoustic show at the World Caf\u00e9 Live last September. This time, I\u2019m coming with a full band. We have guitar, bass and drums and me on vocals, guitar and ukulele.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Video link for Anuhea \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/tT2a0GANopY?list=PL043P9X0zYuwUqCWo7NvGfla7sLeOKcW0<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The show at the World Caf\u00e9 Live, which has Boy Wonder as the opener, will start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff,\u00a0Staff Writer, The Times\u00a0 “The King and I,\u201d which is running from March 22-April 2 at the Academy of Music (Broad and Locust streets, Philadelphia, 215-731-3333, www.kimmelcenter.org) as part of the Kimmel Center\u2019s \u201cBroadway Philadelphia\u201d series, is one of the all-time great American musicals. Based on Margaret Landon\u2019s 1944 novel \u201cAnna and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23528,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions\/23528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}