Rebecca Loebe w/ Raina Rose March 17, 2009

Rebecca Loebe is best known for her songbird voice, spirited live shows, and effervescent wit. Her combination of southern charm and intelligent humor captivate audiences and have them laughing, shouting and singing along. Fans of the Americana/folk tradition identify with her breezy storytelling while audiences of mainstream pop/rock sing along to her catchy, confessional original songs.

It has been almost two years since 23-year old Atlanta native Rebecca Loebe began secretly recording her own songs at the Boston recording studio where she worked as an engineer. Encouraged by support and participation from 2-time Grammy award winner Robert Hadley (mastering engineer whose credits include Stevie Nicks, Carly Simon and The Dixie Chicks), Rebecca released this collection of material as her full-length debut solo album, Hey, its a Lonely World.

A breakout performance on the Spotlight stage at NACA South 2006 earned Rebecca the honor of a standing ovation and being one of the top-booked musical acts from the conference. Her spring 2007 calendar is rapidly filling up with dates booked at colleges eager to fill their coffeehouses and auditoriums with the energy and passion Rebecca brings to every performance. In the past year she has performed close to 150 shows and has shared the stage with Sophie B. Hawkins, Ellis Paul, Halcyon and classic rock legend America. Rebecca recently relocated from New England to her childhood hometown Atlanta, and performs reguarly to ever-growing crowds at singer/songwriter hotspots such as Smith's Olde Bar and Eddie's Attic.

Fueled by creativity and independance, Rebecca has a unique approach to her music career: she doesn't take it too seriously, she avoids doing business with mean or selfish people and tries to involve her audience in the journey as much as possible. With the launch of the Rebecca Loebe Book Exchange (after writing and performing a song called The Awakening by Kate Chopin, inspired by and named after one of her favorite novels) audience members are encouraged to bring books to her live shows to exchange with one another. In late 2005 she organized and performed in a fundraising event for Rosie's Place, a Boston-area women's shelter. Rebecca's music has been featured on television and is currently the subject of SOLO, a feature length documentary film project about the life of a travelling folk/pop minstrel.
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A little about Raina Rose:

Press Quotes "Portland native Raina Rose is everything a young female folksinger should be. If occasionally a touch too naive or overreaching in her eagerness to express a surfeit of emotion, she's always so sincere, sweet and disarmingly goofy and such a heckuva singer that one instantly forgives such transgressions with a grin. From her late duo the Gypsy Moths to her latest and best-yet CD, The Prophet, the Panhandler, and the Moon, her vocal, guitar and songwriting chops continue to flourish."
- Jeff Rosenberg, Willamette Week, May '07

"If a bottle of champagne could sing, it would sound a lot like Raina Rose: positively effervescent, sparkling with youthful exuberance -- she's a joy."
- Tracy Grammer

"Her voice is clear and sweet, recalling at times Suzanne Vega or Dirty Martini's McKinley, and even -- when she opts for a slip-and-slide sort of phrasing popular with young female folkies these days -- Ani DiFranco.

She is most compelling when she gets serious, as in the ruminative See You Singing, on which her multitracked vocals create a haunting effect, or the dark literary vignette Back Alley Butcher.... Suffice to say, this moth has taken wing."
- Marty Hughley, Entertainment Editor, the Oregonian

"The fact of the matter is that, like Paul Simon after Simon and Garfunkle, Raina Rose has the strength to stand alone, performing music she's written, and her audiences will sit up and take notice."
- Linsel Greene, NW music scene blogger

"You jumped on every song like a cat, broke my heart, made me laugh and I knew that I could brag about you to anyone and feel completely justified."
- Jonathan Byrd, singer-songwriter

"There goes the Courtney Love of folk music!"
- Multi-instrumentalist Joel Tepp [after meeting me for the first time while i was riding on a luggage cart drinking whiskey out of a flask i had in my boot at a Folk Alliance conference].

"There has to be space for hope somewhere in there. And Raina Rose, her tongue not-so-firmly in cheek, is a mischievous tease who enlightens you without insulting your intelligence. Her music is joyful, buoyant, exhilarating, and radically silly. It's smart, grin-inducing artistry that's thankfully grounded in the real world."
- Dr. Scott's Pulp Culture blog

"Listening to Raina Rose makes you wanna use the word 'amazing' twice in one sentence!"
- Gingus

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/perkscoffeehouseproductions