Shana Morrison in Concert

Shana Morrison's musical style has been called pop with a side of blues and a side of rock. She has also been known to include other ingredients, like country, R&B, and jazz into the mix. Her material seems to be ever-changing and hard to pin down categorically. What always remains the same is Shana's unique and wide-ranging voice.

When people learn that singer/songwriter Shana Morrison is Van Morrison's adult daughter, the first thing they want to know is how much she has been influenced by her father. Van Morrison's writing has influenced his daughter's work, but not tremendously; Shana's gritty, bluesy, approach to pop/rock and roots rock actually owes a lot more to female singer/songwriters like Bonnie Raitt and Melissa Etheridge. When Shana's recordings are playing, one doesn't think of "Brown-Eyed Girl" or "Moondance". One is more likely to think of Sheryl Crow, Joan Osborne, Patti Rothberg, and some of the other female singer/songwriters who emerged in the '90s. Nonetheless, Van Morrison did a lot to encourage his daughter's interest in music. Growing up in the same house, Shana was inevitably exposed to a great deal of music: rock, R&B, blues, jazz, and folk, as well as Irish/Celtic music. After graduating from college in 1993, Morrison went on the road with her father's Rhythm and Soul Revue as a featured artist along with legends such as Jimmy Witherspoon, Junior Wells and John Lee Hooker. She did a lot of songwriting then and when the tour ended in 1994, she formed her own band Caledonia. She soon acquired a small local following in the Bay Area and in 1997, she recorded her debut album, which was also called Caledonia. Her album was originally released on her own label, Belfast Violet, but in 1999, the CD was reissued by the Brisbane, CA-based Monster Music. It was also in 1999 that Morrison collaborated with Northern California bluesman Roy Rogers on the album, Everybody's Angel. In 2001, she signed with Vanguard and recorded 7 Wishes, which was produced by guitarist Steve Buckingham. The CD received favorable reviews from newspapers and magazines across the country, as well as airplay on KMTT in Seattle; KINK in Portland, Ore.; KSGR in Austin, Texas; and KBCO in Denver.

Since 2002, the band has been busy with tours across the United States, Germany, Italy, Ireland and the UK, playing The Warfield in San Francisco, the Viper Room in Los Angeles, the House of Blues in

Cambridge, the Bottom Line in New York, Meinisfree Open Air in Germany, the Arezzo Wave Pop Festival in Italy, the Borderline in London, the Cork Jazz Festival and the Galway Arts Festival in Ireland and soon the 200-seat Arena Theater in Point Arena, California. 

2006 through 2008 saw Shana singing beside Van Morrison again during his U.S. and U.K. tour dates. Twelve years have passed since her beginnings singing duets with Mr. Morrison in his Rhythm and Soul Review. Since her first foray into recording on the Van Morrison releases A Night in San Francisco (1994) and Days Like This (1995), Shana Morrison has grown as a singer, a songwriter and an artist. Her self-produced 2007 release, the R&B-flavored CD  is on Belfast Violet Records. songwriter and an artist. Her self- produced CD That's Who I Am is on Belfast Violet Records. 

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  Tickets are $25.00 in advance, $30.00 at the door and are available at the following locations: the Four-Eyed Frog Bookstore and The Sea Trader, Gualala; The Record Market & Cafe, Point Arena; Tangents, Ft. Bragg. Tickets may be available at the door on the night of the show, but advanced tickets are encouraged to guarantee admission. Arena Theater doors open at 7:00pm, show starts at 7:30pm. Concessions will be open and wine and beer will be available for purchase.
The Arena Theater is located in downtown Point Arena, California at 214 Main Street (Hwy1).

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