Singer/songwriter, guitarist - folk, rock, pop, jazz

The 21 year-old Newport Beach-native has traveled across the states and back to bring Orange County an album rich with rock, jazz, and folk music. Sam Avalon maintains the honesty of a singer/songwriter while stretching her music to new heights. The album “Room 325” showcases her extensive vocal range as well as the collective creativity of over a dozen musicians during her time at Vassar College. For more information on Sam Avalon visit: http://www.samavalon.com

Performing since elementary school on piano and guitar, Sam Avalon has built a solid following in her home town and a has growing fan base around Poughkeepsie, and on-line. Sam’s original folk-rock and ballads show an eclectic blend of 60’s folk and contemporary indie-pop, augmented by her classical and jazz background. Her vibrant energy and warm personality connects her audience with the candid self-awareness of her lyrics, creating an instant bond whether she is playing solo or with a band. She debuted in New York opening for Al Stewart at the City Winery in 2011 and again in 2014.

Sam has won awards for her original musical compositions and singing, and at age 17 founded her own non-profit children’s community choir, which she continues to direct, and which has raised money for disaster relief in Haiti and the Philippines as well as other charities. She has studied music in Senegal, conducted music workshops for Aids orphans in Uganda, and fronted Vassar’s Half Sam jazz ensemble. In March 2014 she participated in a 2-week concert tour of Japan, directed by John Caird (director of Les Miserables), raising funds for the Ashinaga Foundation.

Sam is a regular performer at popular venues around her hometown, including the Blue Beet, the Harp Inn and the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, where she has opened for Al Stewart, Crash Test Dummies, David Wilcox, Dick Dale, and the Young Dubliners. Sam has been featured regularly in the press, on KOCI 101.5 FM, and her music is rotated on WABG Radio in Mississippi.

A family life immersed in music, culture and travel has cultivated in Sam an appreciation of the world and a maturity in her songwriting far beyond her years. She is fluent in French as she has summered in France since her birth, and has had the opportunity to perform both in the US and abroad, including “Off-Jazz” with the Pierre Christophe trio at the Jazz-a-Juan Festival in Antibes, France. Samantha sings regularly for community, charity and sporting events, specializing in the American, Japanese and French National Anthems.

Instrumentation
Sam Avalon - solo artist - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano

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The Vassar Devils were started in the fall of 1987, and are now one of six co-ed a cappella groups at Vassar. The group was formed when two members of a different campus a cappella group fell in love and, forbidden by their group to be together, split off and formed their own group. The group ultimately took its name from the universally-loved campus dessert (of ice cream, brownies and marshmallow cream), the "Vassar Devil".
The Devils are known for their tight harmonies, polished sound, complex arrangements, and infectious sense of fun. Their diverse, constantly growing repertoire includes every genre of music imaginable, from techno pop, to indie ballads, to classic rock, to sexy jazz, to Beyoncé. In addition to performing a number of informal concerts for the Vassar community, every year the Devils hold a winter final concert and spring final concert.
Outside of the Vassar scene, every year the Devils travel to new places, bringing their music and group energy to colleges, churches, high schools, art museums, and street corners up and down the East Coast. On their Florida trip, they even serenaded the Coast Guard from the deck of a boat in Ft. Lauderdale harbor. The Devils love to share their music and bring new people into their constantly growing a cappella family!

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