{"id":61210,"date":"2015-04-12T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61210"},"modified":"2015-04-11T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T15:21:01","slug":"christine-ohlman-rebel-montez-to-perform-at-the-odeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61210","title":{"rendered":"Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez to Perform at the Odeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ChristineOhlman\"<\/a>(Town of Nelson, NY \u2013 April 2015) The Queen of blue-eyed rock n’ soul grew up loving equally the sweetness of a Memphis horn line and the raunch of an electric guitar riff, whether played by Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, or Pop Staples. Teased her blonde hair into a beehive in honor of Ronnie Spector and never looked back, picking up a guitar and forging a career as a songwriter in the process.<\/p>\n

The group will perform April 18 at 8 p.m. at The Nelson Odeon. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s the current, long-time vocalist with the Saturday Night Live Band, who sang at SNL\u2019s 25th Anniversary telecast, Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary bash at The Garden (with George Harrison, Chrissie Hynde, and others), the 2009 Obama Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C., The Lincoln Center \u201cAmerican Songbook\u201d series with Sting, Lou Reed and Van Dyke Parks, and the Central Park Summerstage Tribute To Janis Joplin (fronting both Big Brother & The Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band); appears on Grammy nominees\u00a0A Tribute To Howlin’ Wolf\u00a0(with Taj Mahal and Lucinda Williams) and Charlie Musselwhite\u2019s\u00a0One Night In America\u00a0(with Marty Stuart); sings the theme song for NBC\u2019s 30 Rock; worked on a musical with the late Cy Coleman (who compared her sense of timing to Peggy Lee’s); duets live whenever possible with blues giants Eddie Kirkland and Hubert Sumlin as well as with the aforementioned Miss Spector, Americana stalwart Paul Thorn and New Orleans legends The Subdudes (she joins The \u2018Dudes, BB King, Irma Thomas, Richard Thompson and others on\u00a0Get You A Healin\u2019\u00a0to benefit the New Orleans Musicians\u2019 Clinic and guested during the 2010 Jazz & Heritage Fest\u2019s \u201cDown On The Bayou II\u201d with Widespread Panic\u2019s JoJo Hermann, again to benefit The Clinic); collaborated on critically-acclaimed tracks with Marshall Crenshaw, Big Al Anderson, and Ian Hunter; edited legendary Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham\u2019s autobiography\u00a02Stoned\u00a0and is a cover-story-writing contributor to Elmore Magazine.<\/p>\n

She also worked with Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder and others on the Rhythm & Blues Foundation Awards, all the while continuing to torch clubs up and down the Eastern Seaboard in support of her recordings (Strip, The Hard Way, Radio Queen, Wicked Time, 2008 career retrospective Re-Hive, and 2010\u2019s The Deep End, her first CD of original material in five years, featuring special guests\/duet partners Ian Hunter, Dion DiMucci, and Marshall Crenshaw, plus Levon Helm, GE Smith, Andy York, Eric \u201cRoscoe\u201d Ambel, Catherine Russell, Big Al Anderson, and others) with her band Rebel Montez (Michael Colbath-bass; Cliff Goodwin-guitar; Larry Donahue-drums).<\/p>\n

“I’ve come here tonight to set your souls on fire,”\u00a0she’ll tell an audience.<\/p>\n

The The Nelson Odeon is located at 4035 Nelson Road in Nelson (3 miles east of Cazenovia on Route 20).<\/p>\n

For ticket information, visit www.nelsonodeon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Town of Nelson, NY \u2013 April 2015) The Queen of blue-eyed rock n’ soul grew up loving equally the sweetness of a Memphis horn line and the raunch of an electric guitar riff, whether played by Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, or Pop Staples. Teased her blonde hair into a beehive in honor of Ronnie Spector […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}