Davina and the Vagabonds
Davina and the Vagabonds, a blues/jazz band, will be playing at Derby Days from 5 – 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31st, 2009.
Quotes
"At first listen to Davina and the Vagabonds, you imagine the tones escaping from a 300-pound blues musician. It seems unlikely that much power is coming from the slight frame of one Ms. Davina. It sounds like an unnatural force, pulled from some secret spot in the belly no other singer has yet discovered. It's a low bellow, most closely aligned with Amy Winehouse's walloping alto. But Davina takes 'retro' back further than Winehouse and her Phil Spector reminiscing. She beckons an age when bad girls wore red lipstick and pin curls. Her music may be adorned with exceptional groaning trumpets, rat-a-tatting drum rolls, and staccato piano lines, but nothing deserves the complementing position to her voice. She's in a league of her own."
Erin Roof, City Pages 2009
"Hardest-working blues woman in Minnesota, but......two things remain consistent at all her shows, though: her throaty but cushiony voice, which has a sort of hard-mattress comfort to it that's part Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and a little Amy Winehouse, and her band's rollicking New Orleans flavor, driven home by dueling horn players and a bayou-thick standup bass."
Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune
"Davina and the Vagabonds are based out of the Twin Cities and play hot jazz-blues-cabaret-soul-lounge-rock that warms the soul and just plain makes ya wanna dance."
John Hammer, Blue Monday
"When I listen to her sing all I can say is 'Fun, fun, fun.'"
Diana Skope, Skope Entertainment