The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Elliott Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Rufus Wainwright, Bob Dylan, Laura Nyro, Carole King, James Taylor, Bette Midler-the divine ms. m, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Woody Allen, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Simon and Garfunkel, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Old Springs Pike, Gilda Radner, Flight of the Conchords, Jack Black, Yoga, M. Ward, White Stripes, Feist, Beirut, Kimya Dawson, Johnny Cash, Alan Langdon, Mama Cass, Regina Spektor, Avett Brothers, Ian Thomas, Jolie Holland, Otis Redding, JayMay, Matthew Landers, Murphy Cross, Lily Landers, the tv show Small Wonder.
everything and everyone recycled and new, and probably you.
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Fiona Landers hails from Los Angeles and sometimes hails cabs in New York City when she has the cabfare. But now she sort of lives in Los Angeles again. She began writing poetry at a very young age and was published at five years old, thanks to the renowned poet Cecilia Wolloch. At the age of seven, Fiona began acting, appearing in various television shows, commercials, and films, she also played the lead in a musical that ran for a year at The Groundlings Theater in Hollywood. A few years later, her father taught her three chords on the guitar and she wrote a song. Her guitar study and songwriting continued, in a very private sense, only playing for herself and sometimes her family until she was eighteen. Then she began working with an acting teacher named Alan Langdon, whom she had met while studying acting at Circle in the Square Theater School, and because of his belief in her as an artist and his encouragement in her creative growth, along with her artistically supportive family, she began to play out.
She played many known and not so known venues all over New York City, such as CBGB’s Gallery, Bowery Poetry Club, Mo’ Pitkins, Pete’s Candy Store, Postcrypt Coffeehouse, and The Bitter End. One of her first full sets was at 169 Bar, where she opened for a band called Old Springs Pike. One of the then-band members, James Cleare, offered to record and produce an EP for her. She took him up on his offer and the two collaborated on The Lake. James, a Berklee-trained musician, and 1/3rd of the swell band, The Spring Standards, offered his vast musical knowledge and vision, his artistic and technical services, not only engineering and producing the record, but also giving standout performances as a featured musician and vocalist. Fiona has been compared both lyrically and musically to Elliott Smith, Paul Simon and Stephin Merritt and vocally to Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, Leslie Feist, Cat Power and Janis Joplin. The Lake, an eclectic sampler of folk/pop songs, with a hint of jazz, is a wonderful introduction to a powerful new artist.
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also...'Bohemian Strip', a bootleg, live-take album is available. As is a live performance from Los Angeles...any inquiries about those recordings may be sent to fiona@fionalanders.com
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Dear Fiona, Hopefully your imaginary record label will become a reality...Innovative ideas and generally fun stuff. Keep playin' and singin'! Peace, Love and Justice, Bartholomew Bishop
Oh man, I have been listening to your new CD non stop in my car...I do a lot of driving. Haha. I love it, to say the least. Also, your show was awesome. I think the HPV song is my fav because I just laugh the whole time.
fiona! happy birthday! i totally hate myself cause i always seem to be stuck going to class whenever you have a show, but break a leg and/or other body part of your choosing. i crunched the numbers and you're getting to be a pretty old lady, so i want to kick it with you before you get any older, k?
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