  Young trumpeters from Hillcrest
Drive Elementary School sound off
in joyful harmony as directed by Carol Dodson during the 2001 Press
Conference for Los Angeles Music Week, in City Hall's new
Rotunda.
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LAMW Director Margie Evans
regales with 1997 honorees Charles Veal, Jr. and Daniel Pollack
as
Postmaster A. Kirby
Faciane presents framed stamp enlargements to the honorees for their artistic contributions. Table of Contents Index Introduction About LAMW Honorees Music Links Calendar of Events Souvenir Journal Events Highlights Music History Synopsis Through the Years Historical Highlights Contact Sign our Guestbook   "Chilly Waters" "Blue Blue Blues" "Your Love is Painful" "Don't Throw No Stones At Me" "Come to Me" "Two Lovers in One"  |
 "Success
is
there for those who prepare:" Internationally renowned Louisiana-bred artist, Margie Evans, the Executive Director and Founder of Los Angeles Music Week, Inc., is a legendary entertainer, businesswoman, spokeswoman and historian. As the only African American President of the civics-oriented 5-4 Optimist Club of Los Angeles, she taught music history, respect for law, educational achievement, endless perseverance and integrity to local schoolchildren and citizens. These are the tools of community building that springboarded the conception of L. A. Music Week. Executive Director Margie Evans is well established as a multi-talented lyricist, classy multi-genre entertainer, blues historian, community leader and motivational speaker. She represents the Blues Genre with an uncategorical poise, dignity and trademark robustly effervescent, jovial sophistication, unlike the typical blues stereotypes. She shares, "I've been around a long time and I've really paid my dues." A woman full of love, ideas and understanding of her culture, Margie's love for music is overwhelming! This is due to her background, for she arrived in Los Angeles in 1952 to stay which allowed Evans some breaks in the entertainment business. She performed with the Ron Marshall Orchestra at the Tikis in Monterey Park, California. In 1969, Margie was introduced to the famous Johnny Otis by Hector Revere and became internationally known by touring Far East Asia with the Johnny Otis Show. With an extensive discography, Evans has also served as both producer and co-producer of many records, including six records for Bobby "Blue" Bland for Monk Higgins Productions. The multi- talented artist has performed with many great entertainers: B.B. King, Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Albert King, Pee Wee Crayton and Willie Dixon, among countless others. Never complacent with just
one facet of her soaring career, Margie Evans' burden for musical
education
in our beloved city of Los Angeles, California allowed her to
establish
Los Angeles Music Week. Driven by
the
severe lack of parity in music education and the outcry of Los Angeles
artists who work abroad yet seldom receive proper artistic recognition
in their city of residence during their lifetime, Evans resolved to
actively
resolve these inequities. Thus, “Los
Angeles Music Week,” an annual
celebration
designed to educate children while honoring
musical pioneers so that all citizens will appreciate Los Angeles'
unique music history, fills a desperately
needed and widely appreciated niche in L.A.'s community outreach, while
redeveloping the
skills
pool that is so vital for the maintenance of the vast entertainment
industry.
This has garnered Evans the highest regard from all citizens and
elected
officials in the City and County of Los Angeles, in addition to those
of
other cities, who admire and support Evans’ ebullient initiative,
vast experience,
legendary artistry, varied talents, profound insights and
trademark leadership.
Supplementary
Reference: LA
Times Archives : "Instrument
for Unity; |
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JAZZ, BLUES, GOSPEL AND MORE....
MARGIE EVANS, THE CONSUMMATE
ENTERTAINER
"Listening is believing."
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"Mistreated
Woman," that's the Blues of today, funky, groovy, that kind of
Blues
you want to jump up and dance
to.
Yet it is full of power and intensity. You cannot just play
Margie
Evans' songs and just
walk
by.
You are forced to listen from the first to the last note.
This
is 100% Margie Evans! The
preparations for each of these recordings was all precision,
performance,
impeccable
quality, punctuality and perfection, which are Margie's trademarks.
This is how she
gained
the reputation she has today in Los Angeles. She worked with
the
Johnny
Otis Show, coordinated and co-produced Bobby Bland's albums, has
been on
television and
local radio as a lecturer and DJ, clarified Naras' Tradtional Blues
format, founded the Blues
Society
of Southern California and worked with countless landmark artists.
Evans presents her family in the LP, "We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace," which delivers the message of the Lord in serious doses. Her passionate messages are heard in "Another Blues Day" and "Blues for the Lady," done with the Checkerboard Blues Band, as well as "Trouble People," performed with the Mighty Reapers. A Shreveport native,
transplanted
to Los Angeles, Evans is always making a positive
impact on all she meets, encouraging others to reach their goals.
Her music and community
service are cathartic and inspirational, motivating us all to use our
resources
to overcome.
After more than 40 years in the music business, after travelling around the world, preaching the Blues with a strong gospel influence, she is the penultimate standard for "clean Blues" and is the inimitably consummate Blues entertainer, businesswoman and historian. She is truly one of a kind. |
Artist's Tracks and Reviews
Birdland
Australian Jazz - Rufus And Reckless Records
Live
Photography - Margie Evans
Philipp
Fankhauser
The Checkerboard Blues Band
Terra
Nova Records
Rufus
And Reckless Records
Sample Tracks
| 1. Drowning
in the Sea of Love 2. Don't you Worry 3. Another Blues Day 4. Trouble Trouble 5. Giving up the Streets for Love 6. Good Thing Queen 7. In His Eyes |
8. Let
the Telephone Ring 9. It's A Shame 10. I Can't Get You Off My Mind 11. Evil Gal Blues 12. Just a Closer Walk with Thee 13. Women I Wonder Why 14. Mistreated Woman |
To purchase the digitally mastered CD of LAMW
Executive Director
Margie Evans,
"Drowning
in the Sea of Love," TND 9015, United States residents
may contact Terra Nova
Records at Post Office Box 455,
Sunland, California
91041-0455.
Citizens of Europe, Australia and Asia
may contact Rufus
Records.
Toronto
Jazz Review of the
2002 DuMaurier Festival
  These photos show various youth performances by LAMW honoree, American Youth Express.   |
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