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KANSAS MEMBER AND PROLIFIC VIOLINIST  RELEASES NEW ALBUM WITH STRATOSPHEERIUS ENTITLED ‘IMPOSTOR!'  SPECIAL EVENT WITH JOE DENINZON & JASON GIANNI ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS   Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I'm your host Ray Shasho. Joe Deninzon has been hailed by critics as “The Jimi Hendrix of the Violin,” because of his innovative style on the “Viper” seven-string electric violin. Most recently, he became electric violinist/backup vocalist/rhythm guitarist for the legendary rock band, Kansas. Joe is also the lead singer and violinist for the progressive rock band, Stratospheerius, which has just released their 6th album, “Impostor! He can be heard on over a hundred albums and jingles as a violinist and string arranger. The band's recently released album "Impostor! features an impressive array of guest musicians from the prog rock world, such as Michael Sadler (Saga), Randy McStine (Porcupine Tree), Fernando Perdomo (Jacob Dylan), Chloe Lowery (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Val Vigoda (Groovelilly), and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Flowers. Produced by Joe Deninzon and mixed and mastered by Rich Mouser (Neal Morse, Dream Theater, Tears for Fears), "Impostor!" promises to be a standout release. PLEASE WELCOME ELECTRIC/ACOUSTIC VIOLINIST/GUITARIST/COMPOSER/SINGER/MANDOLINIST JOE DENINZON AND DRUMMER JASON GIANNI TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS.   PURCHASE THE NEW ALBUM BY JOE DENINZON AND STRATOSPHEERIUS Entitled IMPOSTOR! “Impostor!” The new album from Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius is available now on bandcamp & all streaming platforms. https://7dmedia.com/impostor   Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius Impostor! Led by the remarkable Kansas violinist/guitarist Joe Deninzon, who also serves as the frontman and lead singer, Stratospheerius boasts a talented lineup including guitarist Michelangelo Quirinale, keyboardist Bill Hubauer, bassist Paul Ranieri, and drummer Jason Gianni. Impostor! features an impressive array of guest musicians from the prog rock world, such as Michael Sadler (Saga), Randy McStine, Fernando Perdomo, Chloe Lowery, Val Vigoda, and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Flowers. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JOE DENINZON AND STRATOSPHEERIUS JOE DENINZON VISIT https://joedeninzon.com/ Official website https://www.facebook.com/josephdeninzon/ Facebook https://www.instagram.com/joedeninzon/ Instagram https://x.com/joedeninzon?lang=en Twitter STARTOSPHEERIUS https://stratospheerius.com/ Stratospheerius Official website https://www.facebook.com/stratospheerius Facebook https://www.instagram.com/stratospheerius Instagram https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RSICpqKgZ2IRsreeYtWZQ?view_as=subscriber YouTube https://open.spotify.com/artist/0lZ0G7PIgJsdjpq4394FLK Spotify KANSAS https://www.kansasband.com/ Kansas official website https://www.facebook.com/KansasBand Facebook https://x.com/kansasband Twitter https://www.youtube.com/kansas YouTube   K A N S A S  TOUR DATES Nov. 24, 2024, Nashville, IN Brown County Music Center KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 5, 2024, Fayetteville, NC Crown Theater KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 6, 2024, Roanoke, VA Berglund Center KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 8, 2024, Reading, PA Santander Performing Arts Center KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 11, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center for the Performing Arts KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Jan. 23, 2025, Coconut Creek, FL Seminole Casino Coconut Creek KANSAS Classics Jan. 25, 2025, Immokalee, FL Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee KANSAS Classics Feb. 1, 2025, Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live Orlando KANSAS Classics Feb. 2, 2025, Tampa, FL Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa KANSAS Classics Feb. 14, 2025, Catoosa, OK Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Tulsa KANSAS Classics Feb. 15, 2025, Durant, OK Choctaw Grand Theater KANSAS Classics Mar. 15 - 22, 2025 Fort Lauderdale, FL  70's Rock & Romance Cruise 2025   DISCOGRAPHY STRATOSPHEERIUS 2004- Live Wires 2007-Headspace 2012- The Next World 2017- Guilty of Innocence 2023 Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius: Behind the Curtain (Live at ProgStock) 2024- Impostor!     Support us on PayPal!

Welcome to The Lounge!The theme of this month's Lounge is Take a Break, and in the spirit of that sentiment, we're taking a break ourselves and presenting you with an Unashamed and Unabashed Best of the Lounge Episode.We'll return to Thanksgiving for a musical story that Matt and Carol Almos wrote with Brendan Milburn.Keythe revisits his time at Marching Band Camp to remind us that taking the first step is often the most difficult part of the journey.David O and Michelle East talk about their journey through the pandemic as parents and theater professionals.And we'll revisit lots of our favorite musical offerings from John Ballinger, Ruby Farley, Val Vigoda, Ryan O'Connell and, of course, Double Batch Daddy.Follow, subscribe and donate at livefromtheloungepodcast.com.

The Lounge this month is all about letting go!Carol Almos shares a story about being part of The Great Resignation.Keythe talks with Kathryn Venable about her continuing recovery from the loss of her dearest love.Double Batch Daddy debut a new song about taking The 101 Way to discover a deeper love in the face of loss.Keythe and Ann talk about leaving the Beatles behind as they look at a pair of documentaries about their breakup.We welcome Val Vigoda & Ryan O'Connell to the Lounge with their take on one of the greatest songs about moving on that's ever been written.And Keythe talks about letting sh*t go– in some cases quite literally.

We've interviewed a lot of great string players so far, and it seems almost every one of them has a nightmare story about losing their instrument. This show, The Lost Episode, is a compilation of just some of those stories from Patrick Contreras (1:31), Ross Holmes (6:50), Joe Deninzon (17:10), Val Vigoda (22:14), Jesús Florido (26:31), Dr. David Wallace (31:57), Sarah Charness (42:09), Scott Laird (46:00), and Haydn Vitera (52:01). Rockstar Violinist is the Electric Violin Shop podcast, hosted by Matt Bell and featuring interviews with the most creative and noteworthy electric strings performing and recording artists. Electric Violin Shop is the world leader in amplified strings. Shop at www.electricviolinshop.com or contact us at info@electricviolinshop.com for advice.

Val Vigoda is a transformational musician that had a very traditional and classical training until she joined the army. Her natural curiosity and love of learning, combined with a rebellious spirit, led to a highly unusual educational path: skipping three years ahead in school, she headed to Princeton at age 15, and joined Army ROTC to pay for college. The discipline she learned in the military served her very well and switched from classical to electric violin. She became world renowned violinist and performer, and now she is expanding her reach in the realms of performing, writing and speaking: writing with new collaborators, spreading her wings as a solo performer and in-demand musical keynote artist, as well as Off-Broadway actor-musician. Listen to learn more about how she broke away from her regimented rule a-biding life to gain her own fulfilling career as a transformational musician, and how she is now sharing her life’s story to inspire others. The post Episode #20: Peak Aliveness: Feel True Connection & Freedom with Val Vigoda appeared first on Creative Women's Co..

Welcome to episode one hundred and forty nine of The Inspired Women Podcast. In today's episode your host Megan Hall interviews Val Vigoda. Val Vigoda is a talented musical keynote speaker, award-winning electric violinist and Off-Broadway star. She honed her... Read moreFinding Your Voice Featuring Val Vigoda Episode 149

My guest today is Val Vigoda. She started to sing and sight read at a very young age, and then started to play the classical violin at the age of eight. She wound up joining the Army ROTC to pay for school, so she rocked Princeton and went on to serve in the military. Then she actually made a switch. She continued with the music but began playing the electric violin, and that lead to her touring the world with well known artists like Cyndi Lauper, Joe Jackson and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. She went on to form her own band called Groove Lilly and continued to tour the world with them. Next, she decided to take some time off from the road so that she could focus in on raising her son, Mose.  That's when she spent about ten years writing music for Disney. Then, most recently, she has won awards for additional musicals, including her most recent called Ernest Shackleton Loves Me. If that were not enough, she's been touring the country as a speaker, sharing the stage with people like former First Lady Michelle Obama. She speaks with audiences about facing your fears, rising to challenges, pushing your edges, and thriving in uncertainty. Listen To The Podcast: RESOURCES: Website: ValVigoda.com INTERVIEW: Thank you so much, Mitch. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you. Absolutely. I can say, watching some of your performances, it's just so captivating to see you play, and see you sing, and then see you inspire the audience. I want to hear about all of it, but as I was doing my research, this question kept coming to me; you were classically trained on a standard wood violin. You now use an instrument that is, let's just say, technologically advanced.  What was it like when you made that transition to go from that classical, classically-built wood instrument to something using this level of technology? What was that transition like? Well, it was actually a gradual thing. The violin that I play now is actually called a Viper. It's a six-string flying V-shaped violin that's sort of strapped onto my body with a guitar strap. Of course, it's called a Viper. Of course, it is. Growing up as a classical violinist and also a singer, those two activities were always very separate for me, and I loved both of them. I loved playing the violin. I loved singing. I loved singing in choirs and singing by myself. As I grew up, I realized that what I really wanted to do was combine those two. I wanted to write my own songs, and I wanted to sing, and I wanted to use my violin in that way. So I started experimenting with that. Playing an acoustic violin in more of a pop setting, in a band, can be challenging regarding projecting sound. I bet. You can put a pickup on the bridge, and there are many different ways to amplify an acoustic violin that way, but there are also some trip-ups, especially if you're singing. If you have a mic on the bridge, your breathing can be picked up by the violin mic. There are many feedback issues, and the natural warmth of the instrument is hard to capture when you're doing it in an electric setting, so I started looking at electric instruments. The first couple that I used were sort of like regular violins but just electrified, so it's a resonant chamber on the hollow body. It would be a solid body instrument, and it would be sort of like an electric guitar. You plug it in, and sound would come out. As I started experimenting with that, the violin was sounding pretty good, but I couldn't very well sing and play at the same time. I saw someone very inspiring when I was living in New York. This woman played at The Bitter End. Her name was Allison, and she was amazing because she could play and sing at the same time. I said, "Oh, she can do it. I can do it," so I started working on that. Then I heard about this amazing inventor, a violin maker named Mark Wood, who makes a bunch of different styles of violin.

After her husband and creative partner of over two decades left her, Val Vigoda went through one of the roughest moments of her life. Creating was no longer the joyous process it used to be. But through working on Earnest Shackleton Loves Me, she discovered what “peak aliveness” felt like. Now she hopes to help others find that joy.Valerie “Val” Vigoda is a successful electric violinist who has written or starred in musicals such as Striking 12 and Earnest Shackleton Loves Me and her own one-woman show “Just Getting Good.” She's even shared the stage with former first lady Michelle Obama. She uplifts and connects with people through her unique combination of vocals, electric violin, trailblazing technology, and heartfelt, authentic musical storytelling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast.

After her husband and creative partner of over two decades left her, Val Vigoda went through one of the roughest moments of her life. Creating was no longer the joyous process it used to be. But through working on Earnest Shackleton Loves Me, she discovered what “peak aliveness” felt like. Now she hopes to help others find that joy.Valerie “Val” Vigoda is a successful electric violinist who has written or starred in musicals such as Striking 12 and Earnest Shackleton Loves Me and her own one-woman show “Just Getting Good.” She's even shared the stage with former first lady Michelle Obama. She uplifts and connects with people through her unique combination of vocals, electric violin, trailblazing technology, and heartfelt, authentic musical storytelling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Val Vigoda is a compact bundle of talent. She plays a strapped-on electric violin like a demon. She sings with a voice that pushes the walls into expanded dimensions. She acts with great charm.” This is how drama critic David Finkle opens his HuffPost review of our guest’s rock musical ’Ernest Shackleton Loves Me.’ An electric violinist, singer, writer, former Army lieutenant, and founding member of the band GrooveLily, Val has toured the world with Cyndi Lauper, Joe Jackson and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and is now launching her solo live-looping multimedia project, Just Getting Good. In this episode, sponsored by Wood Violins, Val and Matt—both Viper players—sat down to discuss her projects, her unique theatrical approach to the electric violin, and her proficiency as a singer/player and complex live looper. Learn more about Val's current and past projects at https://www.valvigoda.com/ Special thanks to Wood Violins, makers of the Viper, for their sponsorship of this episode. Visit https://www.electricviolinshop.com to shop our selection of instruments and gear. Music heard in this episode: •Intro music: “Just Getting Good” from the Album “Just Getting Good” by Val Vigoda •Opening Number from Ernest Shackleton Loves Me: video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIOWm2XUD2Y •Apocalyptic Love Song (I Don’t Care) - Groovelily •Striking 12 at 54 Below - video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PniqNsBpHXg •Money and Musicians - preview track from the upcoming Cast Album “Ernest •Shackleton Loves Me" •Outro music: “This Sucks (from Ernest Shackleton Loves Me)” from the Album “Just Getting Good” by Val Vigoda

Musician/lyricist/actor Val Vigoda talks about transitioning from indy pop to musical theatre, playing a six-string electric violin, live looping, and her new Off Broadway show “Earnest Shackleton Loves Me” - which we offer an exciting way to see! Antonia shares her thoughts on the ENO production of Carousel - that ran at the London Coliseum.