This job has been closed by the job poster on Oct 7, 2014 @ 10:14 am.
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DUO - PIANO/VOCALIST, WANTED for 5 Star Hotel Contract.
 
Overview
Status: CLOSED
Posted: Sep 10, 2014 @ 12:16 am
Updated:Sep 9, 2014 @ 10:36 am
Views:2,121
Bids/Applications:14
Categories:Single Musician, Band/Ensemble, Player
Genres:Blues, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul
Skills:Singer, Piano Player
Band/Ensemble:mixed duo
Other Requirements:Can be from anywhere but with a preference for a duo from Russian or East Europe country.

Compensation

More than $1,000

Time Frame

Within one month

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Bids/Applications: 14
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Posted on September 12, 2014 @ 5:55 pm
Updated on September 12, 2014 @ 7:34 pm
Location: Skarpnäck (SE)Compensation: as proposed #14
by blueswalker blueswalker is currently offline. Click to send a message.
 
Joyce Hurley and Derrick Walker are both American citizens living in Europe.
Each with 40 years of experience in the entertainment business.

Both will be preforming on Silja Line's Silja Serenade from October 16th to November 30th.
Both artists are free for long term engagements after December 3rd

Joyce Hurley's performances are currently centered in Sweden (Grand Hotel, Stockholm,
Casino Cosmopol, Stockholm, and Scandic Hotels throughout Sweden), Norway(Hurtigruten
and Color Lines), Switzerland (Hotel Post, Zermatt), Monaco (Hotel de Paris), and Italy (Costa Cruise Lines).

From basic piano studies at the Detroit Art Center Music School, she went on to obtain a
Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance from the University of South Carolina and a
Master of Music Degree in theory and composition from the University of South Carolina in
conjunction with the University of Sydney in Australia. She also completed other postgraduate
studies at the Conservatory of New South Wales,Australia.

Miss Hurley has entertained as a solo pianist and vocalist all over the world, beginning in
Chicago, where she played in some of the city's finest hotels and restaurants such as the
Hilton, Radisson and Marriott, as well as Eugene's and Sage's, among others, before entering the international circuit. Since then,

Joyce has performed widely in Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, Greece, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and

Australia. she has also played on a variety of cruise ships including the Birka Princess and
those of the Silja, Viking, Color, Stena, Portuscali and Hurtigruten Lines.
A short video

Derrick Roy Walker AKA Big Walker plays Tenor, Alto Saxophone and Harmonica.
Derrick, with little more than then a high school education and two years of college at the
College of Marin, California, has toured the world and backed up some very famous people in
the blues, such as Luther Tucker, Lowell Fulson, Percy Mayfield, Big Mama Thornton, Sonny Roads, Jimmy Mc Cracklin and Sugar Pie De Santos. Derrick has also played with Michael Bloomfield and Eric Bibb.

Derrick began playing with a band called the Soul Rebels (1981), who were working for Bill
Graham as a warm up band in Bill's nightclubs. They fronted acts such as The Dead
Kennedy's,The Ramones, Greg Kihn, The Beat and many others. The Soul Rebels were
considered to be San Francisco's most popular band at the time.

Derrick performed two and one half months together with Joyce Hurley on the Silja Serenade.

Most recently, Derrick has completed two three month contracts with his own band at the Hotel
Muse in Bangkok. He is recommended by Nicolas Perth, General Manager, and Caroline
Trichet, Manager of the Hotel Muse. They say:
"Derrick Big Walker's life time of playing different styles of music make him the perfect
soloist for any ensemble." Large photo attached. For more info please write derrick@blueswalker.com


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Posted on September 12, 2014 @ 10:22 amLocation: Riga (LV)Compensation: $5,000 #13
by Eriks Eric Key (nick Name) Avotins Eriks  Eric Key (nick Name) Avotins is currently offline. Click to send a message.
 

HELLO! WE ARE ROSSANA RUSSIA (BRASIL)& ERIC KEY (LATVIA) DUO WITH VARIOS STYLES REPERTOIRE AND WE INTERESTED YOUR OFFER. ERIC KEY( POP, COUNTRY, BLUES, ROCK,N,ROLL), ROSSANA RUSSIA(LATIN, JAZZ, BLUES,SOUL). HIER IS OUR LAST VIDEO DEMO. IF YOU NEED ANY INFORMATON YET-LET ME KNOW. OTHER POSITIONS I CAN APLY:COCTAIL PIANIST-SINGER, DUO, TRIO, HI-TECH DUO.
KIND REGARDS,
ERIC KEY
+37129919303
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07H5VNWfT_w

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