Vonda Shepard: Feinstein’s at The Nikko

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Vonda Shepard

Feinstein’s at the Nikko, San Francisco, CA, January 16, 2015

Reviewed by Steve Murray for Cabaret Scenes

Vonda-Shepard-Cabaret-Scenes-Magaine_212After decades of touring, TV and stage success and charted songs, singer/songwriter Vonda Shepard has her formula down pat. Mixing hook-driven pop hits with boisterous blue-eyed soul belting, the talented Shepard rockshard and writes songs that creep into your psyche and right to your feet and hands. Her very distinctive vocal style and slamming piano skills are a merger of Jerry Lee Lewis and Carole King on steroids.
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“Hemispheres,” “In July,” “January,” and “Maryland” are all well-crafted pop compositions – tight and expressive tales of life on the road and the relationships between lovers. Her newer material is more funk and R&B-based, evidenced on “Need Your Love” which followed a blistering rendition of “Proud Mary.
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” It helps that her guitarist, James Ralston, played with Tina Turner for 22 years.
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Her encore of “Chain of Fools” put an exclamation point on a satisfying evening by an accomplished trouper.

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Steve Murray

Always interested in the arts, Steve was encouraged to begin producing and, in 1998, staged four, one-man vehicles starring San Francisco's most gifted performers. In 1999, he began the Viva Variety series, a live stage show with a threefold mission to highlight, support, and encourage gay and gay-friendly art in all the performance forms, to entertain and document the shows, and to contribute to the community by donating proceeds to local non-profits. The shows utilized the old variety show style popularized by his childhood idol Ed Sullivan. He’s produced over 150 successful shows, including parodies of Bette Davis’s gothic melodramedy Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and Joan Crawford’s very awful Trog. He joined Cabaret Scenes 2007 and enjoys the writing and relationships he’s built with very talented performers.