Pink Martini
JUNE 21ST AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE
The exciting 13-piece Pink Martini band falls somewhere between a 1930's Cuban dance orchestra, a classical music ensemble, a Brazilian marching street band, and Japanese film noir. "We're kind of like musical archaeologists, bringing melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something which is modern," says founder and pianist Thomas L. Lauderdale. "It's like an urban music travelogue," he adds. Lauderdale formed the Portland, Oregon-based "little orchestra" in 1994. Soon after, they took the world by storm performing a mixed bag of swinging Afro-Cuban rhythms, Parisian café tunes, Caribbean calypso, and Hollywood golden-era string arrangements at sold-out concerts on several continents. The group's debut album, Sympathique, sold almost a million copies. A follow-up album Hang on Little Tomato was even more successful. The current CD Hey Eugene!, with its deft songwriting and no-holds-barred cabaret showmanship, has propelled the band to new heights of popularity. Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, Pink Martini continues to draw huge and wildly diverse audiences to its multi-lingual repertoire. The Washington Post calls it "rich, hugely approachable music, utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious. And it speaks to just about everybody...from grade-schoolers to grandmothers to the young and hip and beautiful."
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