Tour Preview – Former resident to perform at Townside Festival Mall
MARTINSVILLE BULLETIN
March 25, 2004

ROANOKE – Singer/songwriter Manisha Shahane, formerly of Martinsville, will appear at Montano’s International Gourmet, 3733 Franklin Road, Roanoke, inside Townside Festival Mall from 7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Saturday to have drinks and appetizers during her final “short, but sweet” solo set of her Going Back in Time tour.

From 8:15 p.m. to 11 p.m., she will perform her vocal renditions of jazz, blues and pop standards. She will be accompanied by Jimmy Lax on drums and Flip Shoemaker on guitar.

Shahane toured Charlottesville, Washington, D.C., and Roanoke, three cities that contributed to a song on her recently released debut album “Peace in Progress.” In the song “Willows,” she refers to the willow trees by a creek running through an apartment complex in which she lived as a young girl in Roanoke, the Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the cherry blossom trees by the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., where she lived initially after college.

Born in Martinsville, Shahane is a graduate of Fieldale-Collinsville High School and the University of Virginia, where she studied economics and foreign affairs and sang with the all-female a cappella group, the Virginia Belles.

During high school, Shahane studied classical piano with Claudia Switzer-Deans. She also studied under Dyna McGriff, the high school choir director. She earned advanced degrees from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She lives in Boston.

Shahane’s original songs are rooted in folk, jazz and Indian traditions. During the solo tour, she will accompany herself on piano and guitar. CDs will be available at $11 each.

For more information, visit www.manishamusic.com.