Concert

Whit Hill & The Postcards
www. whithill.com

 

Concert Information:
Wednesday, August 8 th
8:00 pm
Studio Stage, Lake Street, Glen Arbor
Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door

Whitley Hill was born and raised in New York City, the child of Southern-born actors: a WASP from Mississippi and an Armenian from the moonshine mountains of West Virginia. A child actor herself, she performed at New York's famed La Mama Theater, with the New York City Shakespeare Festival and the New York City Opera. She is a drama graduate of NYC's High School for Performing Arts and has a degree in dance from the University of Michigan. For years she was a professional dancer and choreographer; her dances have been commissioned and performed by companies across the country. But she really likes music. As a singer, Whit was a member of the renowned folk band Dick Siegel and the Na-Nas, with whom she toured the country – from New York's Bottom Line to the Vancouver Music Festival. A prolific songwriter, Whit formed the Postcards in 2001. The band's two albums, "We Are Here" (2003) and "Farsighted" (2006) have received wide critical acclaim. Whit plays a Martin guitar and loves it very much.

Other interesting things about Whitley: Her Armenian grandfather owned a saloon in West Virginia called the Sanitary Lunch. She once unintentionally delivered a friend's baby by herself. Her dad was on the Sopranos. Whit Hill and the Postcards was formed in the winter of the year 2001 in order to bring interesting, literate and unexpectedly beautiful alt-country music to the good people of the greater Detroit area.

The Postcards are:
  • Singer/songwriter Whitley Hill,
  • Singer/keyboardist/guitarist/husband Al Hill
  • Bass player Patrick Prouty
  • Drummer Chuck Navyac.

Whitley's husband Al Hill's credits are too numerous to fully recount here, but in brief, this native son of Ann Arbor has toured the country with his band, the Love Butlers, and is currently music director for soul legend Bettye Lavette with whom he tours internationally. Al's album "Willie Mae" , co-written with Whitley, was voted Best Blues CD by the Detroit/Windsor Blues Society, and helped the Love Butlers win the 2000 “Best Unsigned Band” competition at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago. Patrick Prouty is a graduate of Wayne State University's music department. He, too, tours with Bettye Lavette. Chuck Navyac is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan Department of Music and plays throughout the Detroit area. Whit Hill and the Postcards has played at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, the Wheatland Music Festival, the Toledo Music Festival, FarmFest, and at concert venues, bars and clubs throughout Michigan.