Stella

Stella is an a cappella group of seven women from North Carolina. About their free-ranging tastes, Stella member Julie Mooney says, "We have seven very different women with wildly diverse musical passions bringing new song possibilities to the table all the time. The quality of each of our voices is also pretty different. Those two ingredients, plus the flexibility of a cappella as a musical form, keep us compulsively eclectic." Since assembling loosely in 1998 to sing favorite songs among themselves, Stella has moved on to public performances at house concerts and such venues as the NC Museum of Art, Festival for the Eno, Artsplosure, Light Up Durham, and the LEAF festival in Black Mountain, NC.

Discography

Gimme Stella

Sweet Jane (Lou Reed, BMI Joan Armatrading, BMI)
I'm an Old Cowhand (Johnny Mercer, ASCAP)
I Want to Do Everything for You (Joe Tex, BMI
On Children (Ysaye M. Barnwell, Kahlil Gibran, BMI)
She's a Rocket (Alison Jones)
The Way You Look Tonight (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields, BMI)
Building a Home (traditional)
Sierra Nevada (Joel Herron, ASCAP)
Fire Down Below (traditional)
Oh My Little Darlin' (traditional)
The Burning of Auchindoon (traditional)
Cloud Dancing (Margaret Roche, ASCAP)
Moonshiner (traditional)
I'll Fly Away (traditional)
Sorrow Away (traditional)
Emoni Ennen (Mari Hannele Kaasinen, Sari Johanna Kaasinen, ASCAP)

The seven very different women of Durham, NC-based Stella have a varied repertoire that includes folk/traditional (from America and other lands), gospel, doo-wop, pop, Celtic, sea chanty, and a few unusual numbers the group describes as "compulsively eclectic," such as "Emoni Ennen," a traditional Finnish song. Performing before appreciative crowds in North Carolina, the group finally wanted to answer "Yes!" to the question, "Do you have a CD?", and "Gimme Stella" is the result. The group's creamy, complex harmonies are featured on 16 songs, mostly covers, but there's even an original tune, "She's a Rocket," inspired by Stella member and writer Alison Jones' 12 year old daughter. Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane," "I'm An Old Cowhand," Joe Tex's "I Want to Do Everything For You," Jerome Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight," the traditional folk tunes "Building a Home," "Fire Down Below," "Oh My Little Darlin'," "Moonshiner," "I'll Fly Away" and "Sorrows Away" are all sung with joyful feeling. A particular favorite of ours was "On Children," by Ysaye M. Barnwell, based on the words of Kahlil Gibran. "Gimme" is a wise, impressive first CD.
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