From Deni Bonet's upcoming CD, "IT'S ALL GOOD". 

Not every classically-trained musician plays the violin like an air guitar. Deni Bonet is a college radio favorite who's performed with the likes of Cyndi Lauper, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan & Robyn Hitchcock and fits her string & vocal skills into ironic, catchy alternative pop. Bonet was an original cast member of the house band for NPR’s ”Mountain Stage”. She has just completed recording a new CD called “It’s All Good”, to be released this year. The first single, “Girl Party” featuring Fred Schneider of the B-52's, is now available on iTunes. Peter Buck of R.E.M, among many other notable musicians, also make guest appearances on the new record. For more information, check out Deni's website: www.denibonet.com


Girl Party (feat Fred Schneider)

From Deni Bonet's upcoming CD, "IT'S ALL GOOD".

Not every classically-trained musician plays the violin like an air guitar. Deni Bonet is a college radio favorite who's performed with the likes of Cyndi Lauper, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan & Robyn Hitchcock and fits her string & vocal skills into ironic, catchy alternative pop. Bonet was an original cast member of the house band for NPR’s ”Mountain Stage”. She has just completed recording a new CD called “It’s All Good”, to be released this year. The first single, “Girl Party” featuring Fred Schneider of the B-52's, is now available on iTunes. Peter Buck of R.E.M, among many other notable musicians, also make guest appearances on the new record. For more information, check out Deni's website: www.denibonet.com


Please Please Me

ONE IN A MILLION    4:05

Bonet/Clift
Last Girl On Earth Music, ASCAP/
EMI Virgin Songs Inc, BMI

Deni Bonet – Lead & background vocals, all violins & violas,
Hammond organ
Steve Addabbo – Electric, Rickenbacker 360 & acoustic guitars
John Conte – Bass
Bruno Esrubilsky – Drums & percussion
Richard Barone – Background vocals
All strings arranged and recorded by Deni Bonet 
at Fourth Floor Studio

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ACCLAIMED NYC SINGER/SONGWRITER AND VIOLINIST DENI BONET READIES TO RELEASE NEW CD, IT’S ALL GOOD, ON FEBRURY 12TH, 2013

When life gets you down, it’s time to turn to the girl with the blue violin who has been delighting audiences all over the world at concert halls, clubs, colleges, coffeehouses, summer festivals and house concerts with her high-octane blend of folk, roots-based pop and rock.  That’s Deni Bonet, the NYC-based pop/rock singer/songwriter and classically- trained violinist behind the brand-new, intentionally uplifting album, It’s All Good, which will be released on February 12th, 2013.  Known for her work with Cyndi Lauper, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan, Robyn Hitchcock, and many others, Bonet’s self-released third solo CD is a blast of energy and enthusiasm. 

Described by the Wall Street Journal as “…Sheryl Crow meets the B52’s”, Bonet says,  “If people are feeling blue, I hope they’ll say, ‘I want to put on Deni’s album’. I really want it to be something that can make people smile.” 

It’s All Good was produced by former Bongo frontman and baroque pop savant Richard Barone and mixed and mastered by Steve Addabbo (Suzanne Vega) at Shelter Island Sound.  On the record, Bonet is joined by an array of high-profile collaborators including R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, Fred Schneider of The B-52s, John Wesley Harding, ex-Wings drummer Steve Holley, Young Fresh Fellow/R.E.M. associate Scott McCaughey, and Broadway star Mary Testa.  

Barone’s distinctive vocal harmonies help lift disc-opener “Girl Lover.”  It’s an infectious, tongue-in-cheek ode to “somebody famous whose name I can’t tell you, or I’d get sued,” confesses Bonet with a chuckle. Meanwhile, erstwhile B-52 Fred Schneider adds his inimitable interjections to “Girl Party.”  But a few songs on It’s All Good remind us that we often have to laugh to keep from crying. “Safety Date” is a dark-hued ode to those girls who have to play second-best, featuring R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on 12-string guitar. And the title track actually chronicles the end of a relationship, becoming an anthem that defies us not to sing out our heartache.

Bonet, who continues to be an in demand session player, was an original cast member of National Public Radio’s premier music show, “Mountain Stage”, singing and performing in her own right and accompanying guests on the show - everyone from Richard Thompson to the Indigo Girls to Warren Zevon to Allen Toussaint.  She left the show to pursue a solo career, with a mission to prove that there is more to the violin than concertos and hoedowns.  Over the years she has recorded and performed with the aforementioned Robyn Hitchock (she appeared on the album Moss Elixir), Cyndi Lauper, R.E.M, Sarah McLachlan, amongst many others, before forming her own band.  

In 2001 she released her full-length debut, Bigger Is Always Better, which All Music Guide called “a glorious, intelligent hookfest.”  Her second solo album, 2006’s Last Girl on Earth, won praise from The Wall Street Journal and Time Out New York, which declared, “She could be huge.”

With her own band she has performed at CMJ, SXSW, NXNE, Bumbershoot, the Yapi Credi Festival in Turkey, and the Lilith Fair, where she received an enthusiastic response from concert goers as well as the media.  Bonet’s music has also been featured on HBO, NBC, American Airlines, and in several film and modern dance projects.  She tours the US regularly and has opened for Patti Smith, The Gin Blossoms, Lisa Loeb, Cracker, Midnight Oil, The Tubes, Marshall Crenshaw and Fairport Convention, to name a few. 

For a dose of instant uplift in sobering times, Bonet has a lot to offer - on disc and live. Over the years she has developed a reputation as an entertaining live act, featuring dynamic violin playing, conversational singing style and original, humorous performance and songs.  On It’s All Good, she had a vision, and she says, “Now I hope I can make other people feel good, too.” 

http://www.DeniBonet.com


One In A Million

Deni Live With Cyndi Lauper .mp4

This is the brand new single from DENI BONET, featuring Fred Schneider of the B-52's! It was produced by the fabulous Richard Barone, (of the Bongos) and will appear on Deni Bonet's upcoming CD, IT'S ALL GOOD! Download it from iTunes for a mere 99 cents from the BUY IT link, and the go ahead and THROW A PARTY FOR THE GIRLS!

Girl Party (feat. Fred Schneider)

This is the title track from Deni Bonet's unreleased CD, IT'S ALL GOOD. Produced by the fabulous Richard Barone, (of the Bongo's), this track features Deni's amazing violin, vocals and Kala Uke, and a chorus of hundreds of happy people!

It's All Good

Cynical Girl - Will be appearing on DENI BONET'S upcoming CD, IT'S ALL GOOD. Produced by Richard Barone, (of the Bongos). 

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