| Performer / Band Name |
Roberta Chevrette
Acoustic Guitar, Vocals |
| Original / Cover Material |
100% Original Material |
| History of Performer / Band |
Roberta Chevrette, a new face on the Sacramento music scene, has been successfully building an audience locally and beyond through her relentless playing schedule and the sales of a homegrown demo CD, Roberta Chevrette: Can You Hear This?, which has managed to catch the attention of people as far away as Belgium and Germany. It seems that with her funky hairstyles, her untraditional approach on the guitar, and her direct personal-political-feminist informed lyrics, Roberta catches people's attention everywhere she goes. Playing solo or as a band (The Roberta Chevrette Trio featuring Ken Burnett on mandolin and harmony vocals and John Bellizia on percussion and banjo), her high energy performances blend percussive folk pop sounds with rootsy influences to create a sound that has been described as "groovy, funky folk music." Her full-length debut CD, Roberta Chevrette: Woman Mother Earth Sky, will be available locally at the end of this month, and will be released nationally March 13, 2004.
Although she played classical piano for many years during her childhood in rural Plymouth, California, Roberta Chevrette did not pick up her first guitar until age eighteen. She taught herself to play using guitar tabs off the internet and, as a result, ended up with a unique playing style that mixes percussive plucking with alternate tunings, unusual chord formations and melodic fingerpicking. Now twenty-two, she has relocated to Sacramento, California (via San Francisco, Philadelphia and Quincy) where she has become a strong force in the local music scene. Making her debut in February 2003, Roberta caught the attention of many local booking agents, and was selected to perform at the Whole Earth Festival (in Davis, California) alongside such seasoned veterans as Utah Phillips. She has also appeared at Sacramento's Chalk it Up! Festival, the Sac-Town Xpress Political Arts and Culture Festival, the Organic Food Fair, the Women for Peace Festival, the Women's Choice Clinic Benefit for the West Coast Feminist Health Alliance (in Oakland, California), and various events hosted by the Davis Peace Coalition. Certainly no stranger to the areas bars and coffeehouses either, Roberta has played over a hundred shows since her debut a year ago and hosts a weekly open mic and a monthly women's music night at the Fox & Goose. Having toured briefly in the Southwest and on the East Coast, Roberta is preparing for a full cross-country tour this spring, following the release of her new full-length album, which is being released on her own record-label, Earth Girl Records. |
| Press Reviews / Credits |
"She'll sing an anti-war lament, a lost lovers longing, a glass of beer with the hippies in Chicago, an errant piece of poetry, an accidental bit of whimsy, and a melody that tugs and pulls like an anxious steed."—Ben Brenner, Songwriter/Blues Guitarist |
| Albums / Where Available |
Miss America, 2005
Woman Mother Earth Sky, 2004
Available at CDBaby.com and at Walden's Coffeehouse |
| Contact |
robertachevrette@yahoo.com
866-436-5547
P.O. Box 95
Plymouth, CA 95669 |
| Comments |
Has performed solo and with Ken Burnett.
|
= Music samples available for download
