Emily West
But West is a wonderfully charismatic singer with an ingratiating sense of self-aware humor.
Shanara Gabrielle: Rated SG
Gabrielle came across as a very smart, funny, and self-aware entertainer.
Eric Yves Garcia: Pour Spirits
Garcia possesses a warm baritone, but it’s his command of phrasing and timing that drive the story with power and poignancy.
Sept. 10: Marissa Mulder
Mulder's remarkable evening of the words and songs of Waits was a startling act of theatrical legerdemain.
Tim Hockenberry: Feinstein’s at the Nikko
Who else but Tim Hockenberry, the Bay Area’s greatest male troubadour, could wring the wistful longing out of “Rainbow Connection,” Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher’s theme from The Muppet Movie.
Anne Bobby: Back to My Roots: The Songs I Took with Me
As a little girl growing up in New Jersey, Anne Bobby would gaze eastward over the rooftops toward the bright lights of Manhattan, hoping one day to be among them as a singer on Broadway
Bettye LaVette at Yoshi’s San Francisco
Bettye LaVette is very cognizant of her current favor, both popular and commercial.