Brooke's News 2011 Brooke is currently finishing her new original CD, "For You", which is being released in early May. The CD is produced by Grammy Award winning guitarist and producer Will Ackerman, and features world-class musicians Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, John Lennon), Jeff Pevar (Crosby Stills & Nash, Marc Cohn, Ray Charles), and Aaron Sterling (John Mayer). The CD is available for pre-order in the Online Store. May 22 -- Brooke is opening for the legendary Peter Asher and his show, "A Musical Memoir of the 60s and Beyond". 2010 In the past few years Comedy Central continues to feature Brooke's song "I Wanted You to Know", which has become a fan favorite and now has a cult following around the world. Brooke performed at The Coach House with Raul Malo (February 26), Judy Collins (March 21), Nanci Griffith (April 23), Bill Medley (May 7), and Colin Hay (October 6). August 5 -- Brooke performed with Lisa Loeb at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, CA. Brooke met Will Ackerman while performing at a close friend's wedding over Memorial Day weekend. He invited her to come to Vermont to his home and studio to make a new album and offered to produce the project. Will Ackerman is a Grammy Award Winner and founder of Windham Hill Records. He has produced George Winston, Michael Hedges, and more than 70 artists in his career. In the fall Brooke spent nearly three weeks in Vermont recording all new original songs. She teamed with Jeff Pevar on Guitar (who recording credit include Jackson Browne, Ray Charles, Shawn Colvin, David Crosby, Carly Simon, James Taylor, and Graham Nash) and Tony Levin on bass (who has recorded with Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan, David Bowie, Judy Collins, Paula Cole, Karen Carpenter, Tracy Chapman, and more). The new album will be released in early 2011. December 12 -- Brooke debuted many of her new songs with her full band at a holiday show at The Coach House. 2009 Brooke's song "Make Tomorrow Up" is featured in the film "Sunshine Cleaning", released in theaters March 27, and on DVD in August. Listen carefully during the boy's birthday party. April 9 -- Brooke performed at an NSAI Songwriter's Night at Hallenbeck's & Cahuenga General Store. NSAI is the Nashville Songwriter's Association International. June 11 -- Brooke performed with J.D. Souther and Jill Sobule at The Coach House. J.D. Souther is a songwriter who has worked with The Eagles ("Heartache Tonight", "Best of My Love", "New Kid in Town"), James Taylor ("Her Town Too"), Linda Rondstadt, and countless others. Earlier in the year she opened for Little River Band ("Reminiscing", "Lonesome Loser", "Lady") at The Coach House. Brooke performed two shows with her band members at the acclaimed Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, CA. June 27 -- Brooke and her band opened for Chris Botti at the first concert in the Lake Mission Viejo Association summer concert series.
Brooke spent most
of the year being a full time mommy to her first child! She did make
time for about 100 shows and various professional activities. Here
are the highlights: 2007 The biggest news
of 2007 were Brooke’s marriage and pregnancy! Needless to say, her
performance schedule slowed down greatly as her pregnancy advanced.
However, here are a few noteworthy shows: 2006 December -- Brooke appeared on a morning news show in Kansas City over the Christmas holidays and also did a show back in her hometown. December 3 -- Brooke did a show with Melissa Manchester ("Ice Castles", "Don't Cry Out Lout", Midnight Blue"). Melissa was one of Brooke's early influences so it was an honor to share the stage with her. November 14 -- Brooke did a band show at the Key Club on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Summer -- Brooke again appeared at the LA County Fair. This year she split the stage with Latin guitarist Benise. Brooke's song "Let It Out" was be featured in the film "Bonneville", starring Jessica Lang, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen, and Christine Baranski. "Bonneville" debuted at the Toronto film festival in September. Brooke is featured in the ninth episode of a new PBS show called "Branson Jubilee", which is airing nationwide this summer and fall. Brooke's performance includes "When I Saw You See Me", "Let It Out", and "Landslide". The episode also features The Dillards and guest stars Bill Medley. Summer -- The WB used Brooke's song "Someday" throughout the summer on commercials for its hit series, "Gilmore Girls". August-November -- Brooke participated in NBC's music competition, "Star Tomorrow", making it to the final round. Brooke appeared at The Coach House several times, opening for Raul Malo (of "The Mavericks") and John Corbett (of "Northern Exposure" and "Sex and the City"), opening for Howard Jones, and headlining with her band. Brooke sang background vocals for Ziggy Marley's CD, "Love Is My Religion", released on July 2. 2005 MGM used Brooke's song "Now" in the trailer for the DVD release of "Kiss the Bride". October -- Brooke's original song "Someday" was used in the commercial for NBC's new series, "Three Wishes". Summer -- Brooke performed many nights at the LA County Fair. This is a wonderful place to reach huge numbers of new fans. And, it's always tons of fun at the fair! August 15 -- Brooke's song, "A Long Way", is featured on ABC Family's new series, "Beautiful People". July -- Brooke finishes recording her latest CD, "By Request", which is a guitar/vocal CD of her most requested songs at shows. The CD features guitar/vocal versions of two of her songs, along with her most requested cover tunes, three in French. July 4 -- Her favorite outdoor summer concert with her band was the July 4th celebration in La Mirada. She played along with "The Answer" and enjoyed the fireworks after her set on a beautiful July night in Southern California. In addition to headlining with her band, Brooke's shows at The Coach House Brooke included opening for David Wilcox, Deana Carter, Duncan Sheik, and one of Brooke's musical influences, Shawn Colvin. 2004 October -- Brooke's song, "I Wanted You to Know", was heard on Comedy Central's "Drawn Together". Brooke returned to the studio to record a new CD of all original material, "Turn It Around", which was released in September. Brooke's new creative partner, Mike Busbee (known as "busbee") wrote the songs with Brooke, and produced the album. Summer -- Brooke performs with her band at a number of summer concert events throughout Southern California, including Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Rialto, Ladera Ranch, and La Cañada. She also performs for the first time at the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach, California. April 18 -- Brooke opens again for Vonda Shepard at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. 2003 December 14 -- Brooke and her band headline a holiday show at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. Earlier in the year she opened for Vonda Shepard. September 7 -- 95.5 KLOS, one of the premier rock radio stations in Southern California, featured Brooke's music for a second time on its "Local Licks" show. A remix of Brooke's song "If You Love Me" was included on "Home", a compilation CD to benefit Children International that was released during the summer. The CD is available at www.homecd.net. Brooke recorded two songs for Disney's "Air Bud Spikes Back", which was released on DVD and video during the summer. March 23 -- HBO's "Six Feet Under" used Brooke's song "As For Me". March 3 -- NBC's "Meet My Folks" used another of Brooke's song -- "Make Tomorrow Up". March 1 -- Brooke's CD "Be" and song "Only" were recognized by the Just Plain Folks music awards in the pop album and pop song categories. "Someday" was also nominated in the Best Pop Song category. January -- NBC's "Meet My Folks" used Brooke's song "Walk Through The Flowers". January -- Two of Brooke's songs -- "Anything" and "The Answer" were selected for a customizable "Dawson's Creek" soundtrack that's available on www.dawsonscreek.com. 2002 December 2002 -- Brooke was nominated for three Just Plain Folks music awards. She received a nomination for Best Pop Album of the Year for "Be", and nominations for Best Pop Song of the Year for "Someday" and "Only". The awards show was held in March 2003. In the fall, two motion pictures featured Brooke's original music. Stealing Harvard, from Sony Pictures, stars Tom Green, Jason Lee and Dennis Farina. Listen for Brooke's song "Anything", from "Tulips Bleed". The Warner Brothers motion picture White Oleander features Brooke's song "Someday" from "Be". The film stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger and Robin Wright Penn. April 7 -- Kelly Cox on 95.5 KLOS, one of the premier rock radio stations in Southern California, featured six songs from "Be" -- "Superhuman World", "No Fear", "If You Love Me", "Someday", "Now", and "Colors" -- on her program "Local Licks". That same week, "Make Tomorrow Up" was used on a commercial for the hit WB series, "Dawson's Creek". Winter -- The WB Network's new series "Glory Days" featured five of Brooke's songs -- "Someday" and "Now" (both from "Be") on February 6 and 13, respectively, two songs from "Tulips Bleed" ("Goodbye" and "Tornado") on February 20, and "Be" on March 18 -- and made Brooke a featured artist. And three of Brooke's songs -- "Make Tomorrow Up", "Love Is Gonna Find Me", and "Movie Star" -- were used on the NBC Saturday morning series "All About Us". Brooke started off the year by releasing her fourth album of original material, "Be". 2001 In October and November Brooke returned to the Midwest for her second tour of the area. Besides playing in local venues, Brooke performed at a number of schools and brought her positive message to the students and staff. This visit was written up in the Johnson County Sun newspaper -- click here to read the article and find out more about Brooke's school visits. The motion picture "Tart" featured two of Brooke's songs from Tulips Bleed -- "Time Space and Distance" and "The Answer". And "Venus and Mars", starring Lynn Redgrave, featured "Anything" from Tulips Bleed. During the summer Brooke performed with her band (including an awesome string section) at a number of really great events -- mostly outdoor events. In July, Brooke opened for Sophie B. Hawkins at the Galaxy Concert Theatre and in September she performed a series of concerts at the L.A. County Fair with her fantastic band of highly talented musicians. During July and August Brooke opened for some amazing acts at the Fashion Island Summer Concert Series, performing to an average of 2,000 people per concert! The headliners included Christopher Cross, Starship, Royal Crown Revue, The Nelsons, Scott Wilke, and A Flock of Seagulls. In April, Brooke completed a very successful tour in Kansas. She played at a number of schools in Kansas during the week and then also performed at local venues on the weekend. Brooke opened for the extremely talented Jonatha Brooke at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano on March 29. She is a wonderful singer/guitarist/songwriter. Brooke had a lot of fun and also managed to play a few of her new songs. In March, Brooke traveled to Nashville where she wrote six news songs for the soon-to-be released album, "Be". On February 18th, Brooke opened to a capacity crowd for Shawn Colvin at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano. 2000 Brooke appeared on an episode of the hit TV show "7th Heaven" on December 11, 2000, singing the title track of her new CD "Make Tomorrow Up". This episode was aired for a second time on March 19, 2001 and has been seen many times since in syndication. The new NBC TV show "Ed" used Brooke's song "Anything", from "Tulips Bleed", on their November 12, 2000 episode. Late in the year Brooke finished shooting her first music video to "Make Tomorrow Up" (the title track of her third album) directed by Robert Cassard for Edge Films. On October 8, 2000, Brooke opened again for her musical hero, David Wilcox at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, California. She says it was one of her favorite shows of all time. In September 2000 Brooke performed with her band for the one year anniversary of The Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. They performed outside in a traditional French street fair, singing in both English and French. Summer -- Brooke records and releases her third CD of original music, "Make Tomorrow Up". Brooke and her band performed twice at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles, on a stage next to the movie theatres. June 30, 2000 -- 95.9 The Mix interviewed Brooke on air and played her song "The Answer". They were hosting the Taylor Dayne show earlier in the week -- where they saw Brooke perform -- and invited her to be on the air! Brooke performed the National Anthem on June 29, 2000, at Staples Center before the LA Avengers Arena Football game. She performed a cappella in front of thousands of people! It was sponsored and broadcast by KIIS-FM, so if you think you heard her on the radio saying, "I'm Brooke, and I'm singing the National Anthem," you were right! April 5, 2000 -- A second song from "Tulips Bleed" -- "Anything" is featured on an episode of the WB Network's "Dawson's Creek". March 1, 2000 -- Brooke's song "The Answer", from "Tulips Bleed", was featured on an episode of "Dawson's Creek" on the WB Network, and she is an "Artist in the Spotlight" on the Dawson's Creek Music website. Click here to check it out. 1999 Brooke performs over 250 gigs in 1999. "The Answer" is featured on the hit WB Network television series "Charmed". Brooke continues playing LA clubs, and shares a stage with acts such as Vonda Shephard, Beth Hart, Richie Furay, Bernie Taupin and the Farm Dogs, and David Wilcox. 1998 Brooke records and releases her second CD, "Tulips Bleed". The hit Fox television series "Party of Five" becomes the first of many television series to feature Brooke's music, using her song "Down” in one of its episodes. Brooke receives her first radio airplay when KROQ radio celebrity Rodney Bingenheimer debuted her song "Mainstream" and chose it for his "Top 5 Picks of the Week". 1997 Brooke puts together her first band and starts playing small Los Angeles clubs. Brooke performs for the first time at the legendary Los Angeles club The Troubador. 1996 Brooke records and releases her debut CD, "Movie Star". |
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