Baltimore Post-Examiner Interviews Ronee Blakley

Posted on: April/30/2014 9:07 PM

The Baltimore Post-Examiner interviewed original Nightmare star Ronee Blakley for their piece “Nashville, Nightmare star Ronee Blakley: An intimate evening with a living legend.” Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Blakley was in Baltimore last night for a private appearance at the home of arts impresario Lorraine Whittlesey. With just a piano and microphone, the soulful singer shared an intimate evening of spoken word and song. This reporter was fortunate to be in the audience for Blakley’s moving mini-concert and to sit down for a few minutes with the amazing singer.

“Two weeks ago, I was at the San Francisco Film School to do a class with Steve Kovacs. Then last week I was at UCLA for a Robert Altman Retrospective where I shared the stage with Kathleen Altman, Elliott Gould and Ellen Barkin. And of course, because of Elm Street, I get invitations to do horror movie events like the Chiller Theatre Expo in Pasippany in New Jersey.”

Blakley also routinely receives invitations to do events from a litany of longtime friends. Over the weekend, she performed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the behest of poet and 2010 Pushcart Prize nominee, Jack Veasey. The proximity of that event prompted Whittlesey to extend her Baltimore invitation.

“Tonight is the first time I’ve done anything like this. It is so intimate. Performers work very hard to capture this kind of intimacy on a record but you never can.”

Read the rest by visiting the Baltimore Post-Examiner’s website.