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Colleen Sillver
Colleen Sillver, originally from Michigan, lives in California on a Flower Farm by the ocean.
She grows 10's of thousands of flowers for enjoyment.
She has been playing music since the forth grade, and began writing songs about 20 years ago.
Most of her songs have a fast paced dance tempo that gets people moving. She can walk into a venue, see people bored out of their minds, and when she starts playing, within a few minutes they have perked up and are dancing in their seats. From playing many bar scenes,
and outside stages, she has mastered getting people's attention with the words, and tempos of her well crafted songs. She goes in to a venue to rock the room and she drives all the way through to the last song played.
Her song "Go With the Angels" just landed in a great movie, "Under the Board Walk"
A movie about the Santa Cruz Ukelele Club. She is the only one playing mandolin doing an instrumental version during a beach memorial.
Lately she is working on a new Cd, with many love songs. Slower, some love gone bad, love is great and some wow, you are wonderfuls. Then mixed with some fast dance songs.
Colleen produces lyrics, melodies and vocals for Americana, Alt-Country, Alt-Folk, and Easy Listening Genre. She has songs that have originated from the theory of old folk melodies that have been stretched with a jazz chord twist. Some of her songs blend several theories giving them an individualistic integrity. The highest values of her compositions have come from a traditional framework but with more current embellishments. This is inspiring all of her music. She has an original compositional mind. Words of songs come easy to her, many are lost to the wind, sung once while driving or working, never written down.
Currently writing for Americana, Acoustic, Country, Folk and Bluegrass, some leaning towards a jazz chord progression. She has several Cd's worth of new songs not recorded yet. You just have to be there hear them.
Colleen has a trained high soprano voice, with a range of 4 octaves. She also sings classical concerts, in order to keep her voice strong and consistent with a driving force to it.
She just sang the "Requeim" by John Rutter, in New York City , at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center for Memorial Day, 2010 weekend. Then her band did 6 nights of gigs through out New
York City.
Her band does about 70 performances throughout California in a year as an independent grass root musician. Colleen said, "Lots of shows just show up these days. An email comes through and someone is inviting me to some distant stage. Like being the Valentine act for Sexy Sunday, that was cool."
Colleen has a way of slipping onto stages and as many as possible. She's playing hand-in-gloves lines at times and warping off something different at others. She says" I'm bringing out a different side, a few different rhythmic accents and then super impose a few. It all seems to work"
Coming from an orchestra background, of playing cello and violin, she now plays
mandolin, and some cello, as well as rhythm guitar. She mostly plays rhythm guitar on stage
and likes the results of the Banker Boys handling the leads much left to improvisation.
The selections are structured that give room for individual expression. Each stage
takes on a new form into another great level. You will hear lickety-split fiery leads,
and warm soft emotional stuff that's at the heart of a great musician all for the moment.
Jim Lewis is her full time Bass player. HE is a rock solid stand up bass guy. The Banker Boys change periodically. They are always seasoned, profession pickers.
Mustang Records is now distributing her CD as an independent grass roots artist. The CD is being aired across the U.S.and throughout other countries.
As a songwriter, and BMI member, she currently is performing around the U.S., and
working with Nashville.
Mustang Records
p.o. 1149
Carmel, Calif. 93921
Email: elkhorng@earthlink.net
Phone Direct: 831- 262- 1120
