About this project
It might be July, but Christmas is just around the corner!
This winter, MAC Award winner Suzanne Carrico with The Don Rebic Quartet, will release… This is What Christmas-Time Means to Me
SUZANNE CARRICO, winner of the 2008 MAC Award for Best Female Debut for THE ART OF THE CAHN, Music from the Sammy Cahn Songbook, has taken off part of this past year to record THIS IS WHAT CHRISTMAS-TIME MEANS TO ME, her first holiday CD. She will be joined by The Don Rebic Quartet, Dan Gross on percussion, Jim DiMatteo on bass & Windham Hill recording artist, Sean Harkness on guitar.
On the CD will be tunes ranging from the popular (“Silver Bells,” Stephen Schwartz’s “Day by Day,” “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” by Irving Berlin & “Baby It's Cold Outside/Let It Snow” by the wonderful Frank Loesser,Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn) to the spiritual (“What Child is This,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “Do You Hear What I Hear” & “Gesu Bambino”) to an original tune by Musical Director Don Rebic, “Merry Christmas to Us All.”
We've been working on this project since January & FINALLY we're going into the studio starting August 2nd! We've pinched every penny & are looking for backers to get us over the finish line so we can put a fantastic professional product online & in stores by November 15th. Your support would help with production costs such as mixing & mastering as well as licensing fees & of course manufacturing the physical product!
I can't wait to share this music with you & to bake you all cookies! I'll even put your name on them!
What the critics say about Suzanne Carrico…
"Suzanne Carrico definitely has pipes to wake Rip Van Winkle from a sound slumber!”
David Finkle, Back Stage
"Carrico is a promising performer with a pleasing voice and an engaging manner!"
Peter Leavy, Cabaret Scenes
“Suzanne Carrico is a lovely performer. Poised. Confident. See her. Support her. She has the potential to become a major force in cabaret and musical theater. With her beauty and a voice that could charm a snake, she has to come out on top!”
Oscar E Moore, Talk Entertainment.com
"Ms. Carrico colors what is essentially a legit sound by judiciously straightening her tone and utilizing a sexy mix; musically. A tall, slender, very attractive blonde in an elegant strapless dress, she displayed a poise and a seriousness of purpose!"
Jennie Litt, NiteLife Exchange
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A Digital Single recorded just for my Kickstarter Backers prior to the album release! ALL BACKERS will recieve a listing in the Credits on the actual CD as well as a personal thank you from me.
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Handmade Christmas Card from me - using construction paper, glitter & all that jazz....
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2 Signed CDs so you have 1 to enjoy & 1 to give as a gift!
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All of the above + Dozen Christmas Cookies baked for you by ME! (yummy)
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All of the above & 2 free tickets to see us perform our Christmas Show LIVE in NYC or another venue (dates TBD)!
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All of the above & 4 free tickets to see us perform our Christmas Show LIVE in NYC or another venue (dates TBD)! Also - extra Christmas Cookies - LOTS of em!
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All of the above + we will come to your home or office & give a live private performance to make your Holiday Party one to remember - AND I will provide enough cookies for ALL of your guests. We will even take special requests - both in terms of the songs and the cookies!
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Suzanne Carrico began her life as singer and an actress in Flint, Michigan in a local production of the Sound of Music, after which her life upon the wicked stage has brought her to roles such as Katherine in Taming of the Shrew , Joy in Cinderella and Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro. Suzanne has for some time been one of New York’s rising young opera singers, having performed twice as a Young Artist Fellow at the Caramoor Bel Canto Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. The victim of a high-priced education, Ms. Carrico holds a Bachelor of Music from Webster University College of Fine Arts in St. Louis, where she was awarded the Dysart Family Prize from the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and a Masters of Music Degree from Manhattan School of Music. Suzanne currently studies with Ashley Putnam.
Suzanne spent a week exploring American Popular Song at the Sundance Institute with the Mercer Foundation working with the likes of Margaret Whiting, Melissa Manchester, Charles Strouse, Michael Rupert, Jimmy Webb, Billy Stritch and Don Rebic. This experience inspired Ms. Carrico to return to her roots in Musical Theatre and American Song as a "belter". Now working together with her Music Director Tedd Firth and Director Mary Cleere Haran; in 2007 Suzanne brought her cabaret show THE ART OF THE CAHN, featuring the Sammy Cahn songbook, to New York City's Triad Theatre & The Metropolitan Room, this show won her the 2008 MAC Award for Best Female Debut. Her follow up show, THE FRIENDLIEST THING won rave reviews, called "The Smartest Show about Sex or The Sexiest Show about Smarts".
In 2010 Suzanne is recording her first Studio Album THIS IS WHAT CHRISTMAS-TIME MEANS TO ME, featuring The Don Rebic Quartet.
