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latest rave review of “Freedom Songs” at Birdland
Powerful and driving, with rich arrangements featuring a four-piece band and two back-up singers, the show was riveting from start to finish. The songs, sixteen in all, were all ones that have been used to sustain fights for equality in such areas as women’s rights, voting rights and, predominantly in this show, racial equality. With Douglas front and center all the way, frequently introducing the songs and their contexts, she delivered them sweet and strong.
brand new rave of Natalie’s “Freedom Songs” at Birdland
“I begin to smile as soon as she walks on stage. Her beaming face and bubbly personality are contagious. My smile increases as she sings the first few measures...I know that I will be hearing someone who swings in that special musical pocket...same rhythm pocket that singers like Ray Charles, Marilyn Maye, Billy Stritch,...and many others live in.”
check out this rave review from the 4th Annual Rrazziversary
“And so, last Thursday’s highlights swung like a drunken metronome from Edna Wright—spark plug sister of Darlene Love—belting “Want Ads,” a 1970 hit with her group, The Honey Cone; to local percussion legend Pete Escovedo and his sons pounding out a volcanic set of Latin jazz; to CeCe Peniston riling up the crowd with her dance club classic “Finally”; to a revelatory rendition of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Natalie Douglas, who deserves to be a household name.”
check out this rave review of Natalie’s “Birthday Show” at Birdland
“That the same program can support the country-flavored Eagles’ “Lyin’ Eyes” (Don Henley/Glenn Frey) with game vocal back-up by the band (“Just pretend it’s the ‘70s, I’m Linda Ronstadt, high and sleeping with Governor Brown”), “The Masquerade Is Over” (Allie Wrubel/Herb Magidson) like a rueful, cinematic exit with the singer dragging a fur coat behind her, and Abbey Lincoln’s exhilarating “Wholly Earth,” a galvanic anthem that musically swirls, dives and loop-de-loops, is quite an accomplishment. Douglas is equally adept at all. She can be brassy, silvery, sizzling, enthralling.”
check out this hot review of Natalie’s “Nina 2” show at Birdland
“...Douglas proves in Nina 2, however, that the breadth of Simone’s charisma and music plays on and, like Nina Simone, Natalie Douglas is captured by the magic of humanity. This new tribute is in place, full and complete...Nina Simone had a lot of stories to tell, and Douglas is another lady who loves to tell stories with passion, nuance, fierce intelligence and her own infectious personality.”
check out the latest on playbill.com about “Broadway Swings”
read all about this upcoming concert with Natalie Douglas, Robert Cuccioli, Terese Genecco & Stephen Wallem at the White Plains Performing Arts Center on Saturday November 20th. Tickets will be available soon at the WPPAC Box office or online. Don’t miss this great night of Broadway tunes with a twist!
check out the latest on newyork.timeout.com - Natalie’s Nina 2 show is a Critics’ Pick
Septuple MAC winner Natalie Douglas, who made her Birdland debut with the 2005 (sic) Nina Simone tribute To Nina…, returns to the well for a sequel that includes rarities, as well as such signature Simone songs as “Wild Is the Wind” and “Mississippi Goddam.”
check out the latest on playbill.com about David Gurland: A Celebration
A few tickets available. Featuring Natalie Douglas, Lisa Asher, Phil Bond, Jason Cannon, Brian Farley, Michael Holland, Julie Reyburn, Tracy Stark, Alysha Umphress, Eddie Varley, Michael Walker, Jonathan Whitton and Mr. Gurland's partner, Rob Maitner, who is presenting the concert.
check out the latest on playbill.com about the BC/EFA benefit at Town Hall
Just added: Academy Award winner Liza Minnelli, Emmy winner Lucie Arnaz & Grammy winner Larry Gatlin.
check out Natalie Douglas’ mention on broadwayworld.com
Don’t miss reading all about this upcoming BC/EFA Benefit at Town Hall. Featuring Natalie Douglas, Chita Rivera, Marilyn Maye, “Miranda Sings,” Christopher Sieber, Sally Mayes, Hilary Kole, William Blake, Aaron Weinstein, Klea Blackhurst, Rudi Macaggi, Billy Stritch, Steve Doyle, Daniel Glassman & the Dueling Fiddlers.
check out Natalie’s interview on Cabaret Confessional:
Make sure to read this lively interview with Lena Nobuhara for this international Cabaret blog based in Australia.
check out Natalie Douglas’ mention NBC New York Oct 11, 2010:
Natalie Douglas has repeatedly proven herself too formidable and playful a vocalist to be bogged down by old-school cabaret tropes, and she’s got the Manhattan Association of Cabaret Awards (seven of them) to prove it. She tackles the music of Nat “King” Cole at Birdland in Nat on Nat. 7PM.
