HoneyBody Moonbee (feature performer) @The Hotel Utah Open Mic February 9, 2009

THE HOTEL UTAH WEEKLY OPEN MIC
with host JJ Schultz
http://theutah.org

The Hotel Utah open mic is the epicenter of San Francisco's singer-songwriter community. Its stage attracts performers at all stages of their careers: from seasoned veterans to first-timers. It attracts music fans who know a good thing when they see it.
The musicians who come regularly don't come just to get a little "stage time" - they come because of the community that calls Monday at The Utah home - and the musicians that come in for the first time eventually start to come regularly...

So come on down this monday, have a beer, bring your guitar if that's your thing, and sit back and enjoy.


This week's feature performer - HONEYBODY MOONBEE
http://www.myspace.com/emilyritz

Hey I am very pleased to announce that this week's feature is Honeybody Moonbee (from Honeybody an the Moonbees) (aka Emily Ritz!). I will tell you this: nobody sings like Emily and Emily sings like nobody. She has an ethereal natural vibrato, and you know, sometimes performers with the natural vibrato - they let it run wild and use it everywhere much like a chef who's comes across a big bottle of truffle oil and suddenly uses truffle oil on everything. A little truffle oil is good, (unless you're allergic, in which case it'll kill you), but if you use it everywhere, it becomes too much. Same is true for Old Spice. Anyways, where was I... right! Emily and her vibrato - I sense it comes natural to her, but she keeps it under wraps until the opportune moment when it came be used most effectively, and then, with skill and precision, she'll tickle you with it and it drip it slowly down on you like... honey from the moonbee. and I find her singing straddles the divide between a cooing fairy singing sweet lullabies and a dust drunk screaming fairy trying to wake you from said lullaby, and I find she floats between these two poles effortlessly and not only within the same song but within the same phrase and sometimes within the same word. The effect this has on me is hard to describe but it makes me giggle and sweat and wish I used more Old Spice. (Not too much though.) So yeah, come out this monday and check out Emily - she's the feature! Hey for more info on Emily, have a look here: http://theutah.org/artist/honeybodymoonbee

FREE ADMISSION

Official Website: http://theutah.org