highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
"Popular American singer Linda Ronstadt may have been out of the spotlight for a while now, having retired from singing ten years ago due to illness, but she made news in the past year due to receiving a 2019 Kennedy Center Honor and the praise for the documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice. Last week, cabaret icon Ann Hampton Callaway paid tribute to Ronstadt in a winning concert at Arizona Musicfest entitled The Linda Ronstadt Songbook. The combination of Callaway's beautiful singing voice and personable stage presence with the iconic songs of Ronstadt made the evening into a moving tribute to this pop rock icon. Over a career that spanned four decades, Ronstadt won acclaim and awards for singing in a vast range of musical genres, including rock, pop, country, opera and mariachi. As Callaway mentioned in the concert, almost all of these styles of music were ones that Ronstadt had heard at a young age. The concert featured many of Ronstadt's biggest pop and rock hits...The numerous musical styles were presented expertly by Callaway, who delivered the songs with grit and grace, emotion, power and passion. This was Callaway's second appearance at Arizona Musicfest, having debuted last year with her Barbra Streisand Songbook concert and, based on the near capacity crowds, I'm hopeful Callaway will be back next year as well." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
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