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Anne Kerry Ford. Cont'd.
"Personally, I think this " ill-regard for the French" is utterly ridiculous...Actually, I am in complete agreement with the French that Mr Bush is making huge mistakes.", said Diva Anne Kerry Ford to the Monthly Herald's David Nye.
Her
cinema credits include the role of Dudley Moore's wife in Marshall
Brickman's "Lovesick," as well as memorable appearances in "Clean
and Sober," and Peter Weir's "Fearless." Stage credits include
musical theatre appearances in "Harry Chapin, Lies and Legends" in
Chicago (also recording the cast album of that show), Broadway's
Threepenny Opera with Sting and Jekyll and Hyde opposite Mr John Cullum.
In 1996, Ms Kerry Ford made her debut cabaret appearance at The Gardenia in
Hollywood. Mr Robben Ford, her husband, a renowned guitarist and four-time
Grammy nominee produced her first solo CD,
In the Nest of the Moon
. Later on, she began her longtime collaboration with her musical director
John Boswell on a tribute to Stephen Sondheim and his mentor, Oscar
Hammerstein, which L.A. Weekly called , "An earful of some of the best
interpretations of both Hammerstein and Sondheim," and caused L.A. Jazz Scene
to declare, "She is more than ready for stardom." Selections from that show
entitled Something
Wonderful was released on the LML Music label in 1998.
In the spring of 2000, she performed as the vocalist for the West German Radio Orchestra's Big Band as a tribute to Kurt Weill's centenary in Cologne's Philharmonic Hall, also touring to Dusseldorf and Liege, Belgium. In May, 2001, joined by a twenty seven piece American orchestra, she made her US concert debut with an encore presentation of the Weill's concert at The John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles. In 2002, she returned to The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre to be the vocalist in Blue Skies, in collaboration with her husband and jazz great Russell Ferrante. Later, to be followed by a month long "Great Songwriter Series" at The Gardenia in Hollywood and an appearance at Judy's Chelsea in New York early in 2003. In addition, Ms Kerry Ford appeared at The Mabel Mercer Palm Spring's Cabaret Convention, The Herbst Theatre in San Francisco and New York's Town Hall, The Cinegrill, The Jazz Bakery, The Boston Court Theatre and The Alex Theatre in Los Angeles, Sculler's in Boston, San Francisco's Plush Room, Blues Alley in Washington DC, and many other stages across the United States. She will be performing "Something Wonderful", songs of Hammerstein and Sondheim at The Gardenia, Hollywood, California, on April 28th and May 3rd, and the Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wisconsin (USA), on May 7th and 8th, as well as at Danny's Skylight Room in New York on May 16th and 18th along with Ms Barbara Brussell.
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