The Journey from Home, Back Home featuring Molly McFadden & Bistro Bad Boys
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The Journey from Home, Back Home featuring Molly McFadden and the Bistro Bad Boys
Molly's Bistro and the State Theatre present:
The Journey from Home, Back Home featuring Molly McFadden and the Bistro Bad Boys.
Show date is Friday, April 23, 2010 at7:30 PM
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Molly Scates McFadden
You can find Molly singing every weekend at 'Molly's Bistro' in downtown Midland that she owns with her husband, Brian McFadden and their daughter Kate. Most recently Molly and the Bistro Trio appeared in New York at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan and have been invited back for next Fall.
Prior to moving to Midland, Molly was a featured cabaret and supper club singer in Manhattan and along the Eastern Seaboard for 20 years.
Besides being a cabaret singer Molly holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from Florida State University. Her theatrical credits include productions at the Asolo State Theatre, St. Louis Repertory and the Geva Repertory performing such roles as Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' and Marjorie in 'My Love to Your Wife' (her husband Brian McFadden's musical adaptation of 'The Country Wife').
While living in Manhattan, Molly also appeared in dozens of soap operas, commercials, and off-Broadway productions and at the Circle Repertory Theatre in her one-woman show based on the women in the plays of Tennessee Williams.
She has been living in Midland for almost 9 years now and during that time has appeared as a member of 'The Divas' a cabaret group she formed with her sisters in song Lisa Rosenstock and Carol Rumba as well as appearing in a number of shows at the Midland Center for the Arts, most notably as Mama Rose in 'Gypsy' for which she won the Center?s Best Actress in a Musical Award. Molly has also performed at the Bay City State Theatre with Leo Najar and his wonderful Bijou Orchestra and the Center for the Arts with her jazz trio from New York (Art Deco) Music Society's Jumpin' January Jazz; and Music Society's Cabaret Series.
Molly has also performed with Don Mayberry and Tad Weed in the Royal Oak Jazz Series.
Dave Smith, Piano.
Dave grew up in a musical family near London, England: dad was a tenor and cellist. Mum played piano for many years and has been singing in a choir for over 40 years. His sister is also a singer. His grandfather was a professional piano player and accompanied some of the great performers at the famous Crystal Palace before it burnt down in 1936. Dave toyed with drums and cello, then piano and acoustic guitar, but piano was not a serious passion until he heard his Mum play a re-harmonized version of 'God Save the Queen' (My Country Tis of Thee). The 1st movement of the Moonlight Sonata was his first classical piece which won him first prize in a competition at High School. His fascination for harmony was clinched after seeing Dudley Moore on TV in a piano trio setting. This led him to pursue jazz with a passion.
At seventeen he wrote a meticulously researched original article for his English paper on the development of jazz from Africa and European influences. (no Internet in those days!). It was so polished that his teacher suspected him of copying it verbatim from a book. He was a jazz geek before the word was invented.
On arriving at University in 1970, he found the jazz piano spot was taken for the University Jazz Quartet, so he took up electric bass playing for a year until he formed his own piano/saxophone quartet with professional musicians from outside the University. He remembers trying to transcribe the most difficult charts from Herbie Hancock then audaciously performing them with the quartet. He realizes now that the voicings he played were often wrong but it sure sounded good at the time. Some colleagues would say nothing has changed!
While doing a 4 year Chemistry degree he would often find himself without access to a piano so he often used the guitar for chord progression workouts. A year after graduating in Chemisty he was accepted to attend Leeds Music College in 1975 as a jazz piano and guitar student but he could not afford the fees. Hopes of a professional music career were dashed. Since he did not want to go straight into the chemical industry from University, he decided to take a break and visit the USA. He arrived in NYC in 1975, with two changes of clothes, a guitar and $150. He fell in love with America and a lovely young Colombian woman who is still his wife today. Two kids and two grandchildren later.
After working 12 years for ink companies in New Jersey, and playing the occasional professional gig and doing music transcriptions in New York City, he moved to Midland to join Dow in 1988 and became an American Citizen in 2004. He was disappointed with the music scene in Midland so had to be content studying jazz and classical piano at home. Luckily there was some good jazz on 89.5 FM and 90.1 FM. It took a while before he finally met other jazz musicians within Dow. Roland Wallace hired him for the Dow Jam Band in the late 1990s where he met Ed Carney, John Anderson, Tom Haynes, Tom Hofelich, and several other fine musicians.
Six years ago Molly hired Dave to be her accompanist and weekend soloist. Later Roland joined the group and then Peter Simonson completed the trio two years ago. Many local musicians have been featured playing in front of the trio particularly Ed Carney and Mike McHenry, John Regenmorter. We have also accompanied world class professionals, Donna McElroy and Joe Wilder, and recently joined up with Bob Smith and Jon Nichols from CMU for the 2008 Marine Corp Ball.
Peter Simonson, Drums
Peter Simonson made his professional debut at age 16 in his native Minnesota. He moved to the Midland area in 2007 from Des Moines, Iowa, where he played with a wide variety of musical groups, including jazz, Classical, Afrobeat, and Afro-Cuban music. An award-winning graduate of The University of Northern Iowa, Simonson has performed with headliners such as Mark Murphy, Deborah Brown, Sonny Wilkerson, The Paul Winter Consort, including Jamie Haddad and Glenn Velez, Kenny Rankin, Leslie Gore, Frank Perowsky, Mike Freeman, Chip O'Neal, Richie Cole, and Gary Dial and Dick Oatts. He has recorded with Stu Calhoon, Sam Salomone, Richie Cole, Scott Davis, the Tribble Leaverton Project, Irene Miles, Jeff Burak, and World Port, featuring Grammy-winning composer Paul Micich. In 2003, he received a Special Achievement Award from the Central Iowa Community Jazz Center.
Simonson performs most Friday and Saturday nights at Molly?s Bistro in Midland. He can also be heard accompanying the vocal group 'Good Company,' and he has performed for the Midland Center for the Performing Arts productions of Camelot, Singin' in the Rain, Scrooge, Urinetown, and Ragtime.
Mr. Simonson began teaching percussion while still in high school. For fifteen years, he taught percussion for the School for Music Vocations at Southwestern Community College in Creston, Iowa before moving to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, where he taught for three years. While in Des Moines, he also maintained a private studio of forty to fifty students. He currently teaches at Camp Music in Midland as well as in his home studio.
Roland Wallace, double bassist
Roland Wallace is a retired Chemist & Human Resources Leader from the Dow Chemical Company. He attended Elizabeth City State University on a music scholarship and holds a Bachelor's Degree in chemistry from Norfolk State University.
In addition, he is a certified Industrial Hygienist in Occupational Health and Environmental Sciences. Roland continues to teach music privately and perform as a free-lance double bassist in many musical venues. He's 34 yr professional double bassist in the Midland Symphony Orchestra(MSO) and performs weekly with the Jazz Trio @ Molly's Bistro. He has served as member of the Industry Corporate Advisory Board for the NAACP-ACT-SO (National Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics of the Mind) program and also serves as a mentor/director of the Saginaw ACT-SO Youth Jazz Ensemble. Roland is married to a retired Midland Public School teacher and has a son, who's a college graduate, licensed airplane pilot and percussionist.
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