[img]2016|right|Brenda Lee Eager||no_popup[/img]No matter the tempo of last week’s performers or next week’s, you will need skates tomorrow evening when Culver City’s Boulevard Music Summer Festival reaches the halfway mark of its six-week season.
At 7 o’clock in the Courtyard of City Hall, Brenda Lee Eager, subbing for the originally scheduled Barbara Morrison, brings her spectacular Motown, rhythm and blues show to Downtown.
An uplifting, rocking, show of classic soul and Motown music that will stir memories of the ‘60s and ‘70s, says producer Gary Mandell.
“With classic songs and stories, Brenda narrates her own history with artists with whom she has performed including Etta James, Jerry Butler, Smokey Robinson, and Ray Charles,” says Mr. Mandell.
She recorded several chart hitting singles with Jerry Butler and had two R&B hits on her own. She will be performing with an all-star band with special guests.
As a solo singer, she had two minor R&B chart hits, “Good Old Fashioned Lovin’” and “Watch My Body Talk.” She worked as a backup singer for such artists as Ray Charles, Prince, Diana Ross, Mavis Staples and others. Ms. Eager released an album, Startin’ Over, in 2000.
She performed in the musicals The Message is in the Music and Wild Woman Blues, in Europe with singer Maine Weldon. Since 2006, she has directed The Heaven on Earth (T.H.E.) Choir at the City of Angels Church in in Culver City. Ms. Eager has written and performed in a one-woman musical theatre show based on her own life, Grace, which premiered in 2010.
http://www.boulevardmusic.com/livemusic/439.html.
