Courtney Weaver’s Album Release Set For Sunday at Columbia City Theater
COURTNEY WEAVER
Born on the after beat in Seattle, submerged in music since her inception. Courtney’s roots are in jazz, blues, and soul lined with vague memories of dreams asleep on the floor backstage as a child at her parent’s gigs. She began gigging professionally when she was 14 under the tutelage of world renowned vocalist Jay Clayton, doing jazz and soul standards at weddings, bar mitzvahs, and Cornish Vocal Showcases at Tula’s in winter 2001. Over the past several years she began to hone and expand her repertoire to incorporating blues and R&B elements. From 2003-2006 she was deeply immersed in her study of all aspects of Jazz while attending Cornish College of the Arts.
In June of 2006 she left Cornish and Seattle behind to pursue her music career and moved to Arcata, CA cultivating her art and building her chops in the local music scene, and was a featured artist at the legendary Blues Jam at the Jambalaya.
At 20 years old she began to explore herself as a vocalist and she honed her craft singing in various groups including a five female vocal revue, the Luscious Ladies, with Melody Walker. She also was a vocalist in an 80‘s cover band, Eyes Anonymous, that did the casino circuit performing as her alter-ego Roxy Chartreuse. She found her niche in winter 2008 in Saint John and the Sinners, a blues/rock cover band in which she flourished covering Etta James, Muddy Waters, Ann Cole, Willie Dixon, and Aretha Franklin.
In the year of 2009 Courtney Weaver had had over 95 musical performances in Northern California and had established herself as the resident blues belter at local blues festivals.
Just as her career was beginning to take off she was derailed when she was shot in the face and arm by her abusive boyfriend on January 15th 2010 in Arcata, CA. After moving back to her hometown of Seattle in January 2011 and 13 reconstructive surgeries later she is finally healed and has successfully rehabilitated her voice as of Summer 2013.
After writing and recording demos of her harrowing experience Courtney founded the Survivor Voice’s Collective in 2015. Summer of 2015 she began writing and recording songs about gun violence and domestic violence with grammy-nominated Josh Rawlings. Her forthcoming EP Paper Tiger is slated for release on August 21st 2016 at the Columbia City Theater.
THE COLUMBIA CITY THEATER on SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016 6:30pm – 10 pm
Featuring —
Courtney Weaver on Vox
Josh Rawlings on keys
Evan Flory Barnes on bass
D’Vonne Lewis on drums
Opening the show will be Champagne Honeybee and Chava Mirel
Tickets and more show info available HERE
