FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mary Alice Gagnon, Publicity, HighViz
Phone: (703)-753-4100
E-mail: maryalice@highviz.net

Fundraising information (2000-2003): www.abbebuck.com/singers.html

NIGHTCLUB SWING IS BACK WITH ABBE BUCK and THE EDMOND CHARLES TRIO!

Abbe Buck, a professional vocalist and entertainer specializing in vintage jazz standards and the big band sound, is joined by Edmond Charles, accompanist and head of the Edmond Charles Trio, a well-known group in the Washington, DC - Baltimore area, is currently booking engagements through 2003. Miss Buck tells us that she is "absolutely thrilled to be able to share (my) love of telling a story through words and music" and to perform on the east coast. She is currently in negotiation to start to perform globally, in Hawaii and the Far East.

Miss Buck began is no stranger to singing; she started voice training at 13 while growing up in Chicago. Yet she claims to be a late-bloomer, resuming a serious singing career in her mid-30's with Al Raymond's and Vincent Lopez Jr's big band in New York City, and Philadelphia. While performing in New York, Abbe made contact with the great vocalist Rosemary Clooney, who urged the completion of Buck's CD "Big Band Swing and Saloon Style - Songs from a Bygone Era."

Miss Buck has been active on the board of The Society of Singers, an organization that supports many older or infirm singers who did not receive royalties from their earlier works (http://www.singers.org/) . Abbe performs in many venues other than the ‘cabaret/jazz’ circuit, which includes major benefits and even singing at Barnes & Noble Bookstores in the greater DC area as of late, to spread the Society’s message. Buck donates proceeds of her CD to the Society, with the full intention of preserving "timeless pop" and the memory of the great pop swing vocalists who came before her, such as Clooney, Tony Bennett and Fran Warren.

The Society of Singers also has an active scholarship program, and members of the Society also work with school educators and curriculums K-12, in conjunction with NARAS, ASCAP and VH1’s "Save the Music" Foundation. Miss Buck says, "we need to teach kids, like my boy Eugene, (age 12) all about where the "pop" music they like to listen to came from. It’s more than Britney Spears, DMX and Pink. "Pop" music has touched all of us through generations. I would like them to learn where it all began, from some of the performers who made it happen."

To find out more about Miss Buck’s work with The Society of Singers, and to purchase "Songs from a Bygone Era" you can find the CD on AMAZON.COM (keyword: Abbe Buck) or on The official Abbe Buck website (WWW.ABBEBUCK.COM).

For the Edmond Charles Trio and Abbe Buck's performance schedules and for booking and benefit (Society of Singers) information, please contact HighViz Consulting Group at 1-800-380-BUCK (2825), or e-mail highvizpr@yahoo.com.

Abbe Buck's CD is on AMAZON!