"There's plenty to enjoy in Amber Martin and Shannon Conley's production of The Carnaby Street Girls regardless of whether you're old enough to remember the British Invasion or just discovering that there was a whole lot of great music that came out of England in the '60s. Playing last weekend at The Cutting Room in Kips Bay, the two powerful singers had a great time, singing together and separately, with a repertoire of fab tunes that were hits for a number of swinging British gals."
"The show originated with Steve Walter, the owner of the venue. He suggested the concept back in 2016, and the girls loved it. They're too young to know that music, but they researched it, he recalls. Their voices were just so good. We were thinking that Amber should do a Dusty Springfield song, and then one thing led to another. Why don't we do a whole British Invasion girls thing? Nobody's doing it."
"Conley notes that once we started doing the deep dive, we were like, this stuff is great! Let's, let's do this! So it was kind of a no-brainer once we realized there was a whole world of music that we had yet to discover. Martin was also on board immediately. I love Steve's musical taste, she says. When he came up with the idea, I didn't even have to think about it."
Amber Martin and Shannon Conley perform The Carnaby Street Girls, a revue of British Invasion girl-group songs at The Cutting Room in Kips Bay. The repertoire includes Dusty Springfield numbers and other swinging 1960s English hits, with the singers alternating solo and duet performances. The concept began in 2016 with venue owner Steve Walter, who proposed the idea; Martin and Conley researched the material despite being too young to remember the era. The production features a full band, guest vocalists and dancers, and emphasizes discovery and celebration of overlooked 1960s British pop music.
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