Kirsten Price - Backstage Interview + Live Footage from CD Release Show @ Highline Ballroom

Kirsten Price had a CD release party for her debut CD, Guts & Garbage, last Friday night at the Highline Ballroom. I had a chance to catch up with Kirsten before the show and we talked about the new CD, the upcoming tour and some of her recent blog posts (Kirsten's blog is on her MySpace page - link below. Check out the post 'Kirsten With Her Knickers Down')



Kirsten's next shows in the area are:
JULY 27 2008 @ WORLD CAFE LIVE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
AUG 7 2008 @ JOE’S PUB, NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Don't snooze on tickets - this one will sell out)

Links:
Kirsten Price's MySpace Profile

Kirsten Price is Playing the Highline Ballroom on Friday, July 11th

After catching Kirsten Price's show last year at Crash Mansion, I was certain that she would be quickly moving up to playing bigger rooms. Kirsten went on to sell out Joe's Pub, open for Sly & the Family Stone's comeback shows at B.B. King's and she was handpicked to open for Wyclef Jean.

This Friday, Kirsten is headlining the Highline Ballroom. This show is the release party for Kirsten's debut CD Guts & Garbage which was just released on July 1st. (The disc is available on Amazon, iTunes, etc.)

Kirsten's music isn't that easy to classify with a single label so the closest label that I can come up with is "blued-eyed soul". This isn't the typical pop-charts type music though as Kirsten's music has a raw sexuality beneath it that is closer in style to Prince than some of her female contemporaries. I really like the quote from the Washington Post reviewer that is posted on Kirsten's MySpace profile: "London-to-Brooklyn transplant Kirsten Price has ferocious rock-and-soul pipes (think Joss Stone or Toni Childs with rougher edges and a mean streak)".

There are a number of tracks from Guts & Garbage streaming on Kirsten's MySpace profile (link below).

Tickets for Friday night's show are $15.00.

Links:
Kirsten Price's MySpace profile