User:The Stacy Brooks Band

Stacy has a powerful five octave range with a great ear for arrangements and harmonies. She began cultivating her talent at the age of five by writing her first song and singing jazz standards on Army bases in Germany. Presently, you can hear her powerful vocals on several other artist's CD's presently in stores and she is presently working on her own highly anticipated Love Peace & The Blues CD to be released this summer. Although her musical career has been diverse, the blues is her heart.

Her infatuation with the blues began when she joined Mike O'Meara's (radio personality from the Don & Mike show) Crap Blues Band in 2002. While with Crap she performed at the State Theatre, Sully's, The Shark Club to name a few venues. Stacy joined the group Free Rein and began performing at Bangkok Blues, The National Grill and other venues in the DC area. Contributed lead and background vocals on Free Rein's Blues/Jazz infused Cold Wind CD. This CD was nominated for a WAMMIE in the Best Blues Recording by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA). She sometimes stuns her audience by singing blues and jazz in German.

She sang lead, background vocals and contributed vocal arrangements on the highly anticipated Ras Iton's Reggae CD which is also projected to be released in the summer of 2008. The single Dirty Rumors is currently blazing the music charts in Jamaica.

Her most recent solo project is The Stacy Brooks Band, which she formed in February 2007. That same year in November, they placed 2nd in The DC Blues Society's Battle of the Bands. Closing out a great year of touring the east coast, she was also nominated for a "WAMMIE" in the The New Artist of the Year category by The Washington Area Music Association in 2007. This year has also been a busy year for the band as they toured again this summer and placed 2nd in The Sedalia Center/James River Blues Society's Blues Competition in the mountains of Big Island, Va. Her eclectic upbringing and background makes her style makes you think of Delta Style Aretha Franklin + Koko Taylor + Teena Marie + Celia Cruz + Shirley Horn + Etta James + Tanya Stephens + Billie Holliday + Diana Krall + Miriam Makeba + Big Mama Thornton + Angelique Kidgo = Uniquely Stacy Brooks.

Watch out, because she is just getting started…The CD is in the making and should be out by the end of the summer.

She is a proud member of WAMA (Nominated New Artist of the Year 2007)

SAW DC Blues Society WPFW Radio Station (the Messenger) DC Jazz

You might have seen her at one of these recent performances

The Mountains Edge, Blakeslee, Pa (Solo @ Pocono Blues Festival 2008)

Kreutz Creek Vineyards, West Grove, Pa (Stacy Brooks Band)

Media, Pa Blues Stroll 2008 (Quotations/Stacy Brooks Band)

Fox Chase Cancer Center Philly, Pa(Stacy Brooks Band)

Bangkok Blues,VA (Stacy Brooks & Friends)

Westminster (Blue Mondays) Stacy Brooks & Friends

Chick Hall’s Surf Club, MD (Stacy Brooks & Friends)

Media, Pa Blues Stroll 2007, Media Pa

(Plumstead Inn w/The Randy Lippincott Band)

Wiggins Park, NJ (Randy Lippincott Band)

Shades of Blue, DE (Stacy Brooks & Friends)

Saint Bourbon Street Restaurant, DC (Stacy Brooks & Friends)

Apollo Theatre with Culture Ranks (Reggae Artist)

Sully’s, VA (Crap Blues Band)

State Theatre, VA (Crap Blues Band)

Bohemian Caverns, DC (Solo Performance)

The Shark Club, VA (Crap Blues Band)

Saint Bourbon Street, DC (Allan Harrington & Friends)

The National Grill, DC (WAMMIE Nom’d, Free Rein Band)

Bangkok Blues, VA (WAMMIE Nom’d, Free Rein Band)