is available as
a four-piece band (vocals, guitar, stand-up bass,
saxophone/trumpet) though various configurations of band
members are available to suit your event/venue size, budget,
and space requirements. Tara can also simply be accompanied
by her pianist.
“Tara O’Grady
has a fierce soul, because her glorious voice is positively
dripping with it.” Dr.
Christine Ranck, Co-Author,
Ignite the Genius Within
Nominated as one of
Irish Voice’s Most Influential Women of 2010 presented
by Ireland’s Prime Minister, Tara’s voice has been compared
to Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and even Patsy Cline,
depending on the genre of the music. Her look is reminiscent
of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was raised on Irish
traditional music, as well as the sounds of the great jazz
and early rock and roll musicians. Her unique style and
repertory combine celtic, folk, blues, old time rock and
roll and especially jazz. If you can sing it, she can swing
it.
Her “remarkable debut” album Black Irish
is.. ‘one of the most charming vocal albums of the last
months….in the tradition of the best jazz singers from the
fifties and she is thereby splendidly assisted by some
excellent musicians who are able to intuit her retro swing
‘n blues style with closed eyes.’
Martin Overheul,
www.altcountryforum.nl
Tara is currently
recording her second album of original jazz and blues songs
in Nashville called Good Things Come to Those Who Wait.
She is collaborating with some of the top jazz musicians in
the music industry. Stay tuned for that release in early
2011.
This native New Yorker with Irish roots initially formed an
Andrew Sisters tribute band and was a regular headliner at
the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan. She has performed at
Lincoln Center, The Museum of the City of New York, The
Jewish Museum, The Cupping Room, and Battery Gardens. Her
band currently performs at the Bowery Wine Company and The
Astor Room, as well as private parties, weddings and
corporate events. She has performed with various artists
while touring in Ireland, Spain and Argentina.
Tara’s repertory include jazz standards from the 1920s, 30s
and 40s, as well as country and rock and roll oldies from
the 1950s performed in her unique retro swing and
blues style. So in any given set, you may hear Elvis’
Are You Lonesome Tonight, Etta James’ At Last,
Patsy Cline’s Crazy, Peggy Lee’s Fever,
Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon, Ella
Fitzgerald’s Cow Cow Boogie, Nat King Cole’s
Frim Fram Sauce or Route 66, Edith Piaf’s
La Vie En Rose, Audrey Hepburn’s version of Moon
River from Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Billie
Holiday’s Stars Fell On Alabama or All of Me, Nina
Simone’s Since I Fell For You, Hank Williams’
Tennessee Waltz, Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful
World, or Dean Martin’s You’re Nobody Til Somebody
Loves You. As well as Blue Moon, Cheek to Cheek,
I’ve Got the World On a String, On a Slow Boat to China,
Black Coffee, Lullaby of Birdland, Stairway to the Stars,
Pennies from Heaven, Why Don’t You Do Right, and
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To.