What's Left

We're slimming this Friday:

The Christine Stone Orchestral Ensemble with Ben Littenberg
(Same great taste - less filling!)
Friday, May 30
6-8 pm
Nightcrawlers Club
127 Porters Point Road
Colchester, VT

The rest of the band will be back on Friday at Leunigs in Burlington (3-7).

Who?

What's Left is a collaboration of four music veterans with over a century of combined performance experience. Over the years, band members have been seen performing in New York, Cleveland, San Antonio, Baltimore, Boston, California, St. Louis, and Muncie, Indiana. Formed in 2006, they now dish out a musical goulash of jazz, mo-town, blues, alternative rock, and R&B to over-stimulated audiences in Northern Vermont and New York.

Christine "Left Bank" Stone is an accomplished vocalist with roots in R&B and soul music who has recently ventured into movies as the star of the Vermont-made feature-length film, "Not Totally Naked." Trained in Boston and Baltimore, she moved to Milton in 2002 "for the excitement" and has been providing it ever since. Chris not only sings, she plays guitar and composes some of the band's most popular pieces. Her life-long ambition is to be a short-order cook in an Edward Hopper painting.

Andrew "Left Behind" Albright is a classically-trained upright bassist who doubles on electric bass and cello. His musical goal is to "trash a hotel room in Vegas after the second set backing up Liberace." (Please don't tell him that Liberace died in '87.) He can play any style of music, but it all sounds like "The Elephant" from Saint-Saëns' Le Carnaval des Animaux.

Douglas "Left Out" Pomeroy is a long-time Vermonter who has drummed with rockers, jazzers, bluesers and boozers in every dive in three states. His deep commitment to music is exemplified by his specially modified drum set that enables him to pack up quickly after the gig while there are still girls hanging around the stage. When asked by police why he was banging his head against a phone pole on Church Street, he replied, "Everything is percussion, man!"

Ben "Left of Center" Littenberg is a guitarist and frustrated singer. (His friends cannot explain why he is not frustrated by his guitar playing.) Although well-known for his penchant for rapid (and uncalled for) key changes, his greatest claim to musical fame is his ability to sing bawdy lyrics to the tune of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." He does not give interviews.

Why?

Because of the songs:
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Annie Had a Baby
Avalon
Baby, Baby All the Time
Black Horse and a Cherry Tree
Calcutta
Crown of Thorns
Destination Anywhere
Do Right Woman
Don’t Know How
Don’t Know Why
Drift Away
Drive My Car
Fever
Frim Fram Sauce
Georgia
How Sweet it Is
I Can’t Stand the Rain
I Want to Come Over
If I Only Had a Brain
Is You Is?
It’s Only a Paper Moon
Java Jive
Lady Marmalade
Let’s Stay Together
Love Me Like a Man
Mr. Song and Dance
My Blue Heaven
My Way or the Highway
Nagasaki
Night and Day
Rich Girl
Route 66
Smackwater Jack
Smiling Faces
Son of a Preacher Man
Sophia
Sweet and Lovely
Temptation
Warm Breeze Blowing
Was I?

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