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rorie kelly in your living room! rorie recently joined ConcertsInYourHome.com, a community bringing together music lovers and musicians in living rooms across the country. Contact rorie to learn more about this inexpensive and fun way to bring a little music into your household.
23 September 2012
Live Album Recording. rorie brought the band and several special guests out to Live in the Lobby in Patchogue to record a live album on September 23rd. The album is currently being mixed and rorie is shooting for a release ASAP. Pre-order your copy today!
3rd April 2011
New Single!! rorie's new single Fall to Feel It is now available on iTunes and CDBaby. Commissioned for the documentary Comic On a Half Shell, this song is about uncertainty, travel, and the love of performing.
rorie is on the airwaves! rorie's album Wish Upon a Bottlecap has been getting airplay around the country. Click here to view a list of stations currently spinning Wish Upon a Bottlecap. Or, preview or purchase Wish Upon a Bottlecap online!
5th February 2011
New video for a new song.. The good folks at WhereforeArts.com have put together a beautiful video around a live performance of rorie's new song, Less Than Three. Click to watch the video.
9th January 2011
Free Song for Facebook Fans!. rorie is growing her Facebook page in 2012. She is sharing exclusive updates, videos and other news with her Facebook fans -- and giving away a song as a thank you for your support. Click here to claim your free song. Double plus bonus points if you share rorie's page with your friends.
5th January 2011
2012 East Coast Tour Announced.. rorie and her little blue Toyota are will be hitting the road for an east coast tour in May 2012. Do you know a venue that would be perfect for rorie in your city? Would you like to help out as part of the street team and get snazzy free perks? If so, send rorie an email. She would love to hear from you.
5th December 2011
Live at the Homegrown Music Cafe. The good people at the Homegrown Music Cafe filmed the entire set of rorie's performance there this past October. If you want to see a whole rorie kelly show from start to finish, here's your chance.
5th December 2011
Rorie's Guest Vocal on Manny Ytuarte's song "Ducky". Long Island songwriter Manny Ytuarte wrote a beautiful song called "Ducky" about a big sister's advice to a little sister being bullied. Rorie was honored to sing lead on this touching song dealing with an important topic. Click to view the Youtube video.
31st October 2011
Benefit Show for WBAI 99.5 FM. On Saturday, November 19th, rorie will appear in a benefit show for NYC's independent radio station 99.5 WBAI. Visit the tour page for more info or hear the radio promo spot below!
15th October 2011
Upcoming Performances: rorie's next performance will be a very special show with Larrin Gerard at the Homegrown Music Cafe on October 8th. For a full list of upcoming performances, check out her tour page.
18th September 2011
"Far from a Daydream." rorie was recently invited to record a short interview and performance video with Underground Artists Live. UGA Live is an awesome, female-owned organization dedicated to building community and performance opportunities for local artists. Click here to check out rorie's short, featuring clips of American Daydream and Girl Robot, discussion about bisexuality, and a tiny bit of Mariah Carey karaoke.
13th June 2011
Radio Interview. Seasoned radio hosts Garrison Leykham and Betty-Lynn White invited Rorie on for an interview on their BlogTalkRadio show INDIEvening. They played some tracks from Wish Upon a Bottlecap and talked about music, life, and Long Island. Check out the interview, which is still streaming at ConversationCrossroad.com. (Click "'Live' Radio Show" at the top to hear the interview.)
27th May 2011
rorie will be performing with her band, More of the Mess, on Wednesday, June 8th at Bobbique in Patchogue. rorie & the band are doing a lot of traveling this summer and this is the last local show for a while, so come on down & get your rorie fix. There is a strong possibility that rorie will be playing some newer stuff, alone with her purple guitar, as well. Click the flier to view full size.
18th April 2011
rorie is playing shows from Patchogue to Pittsburgh in Spring 2011, both with her band More of the Mess and alone with her purple guitar. She's also teaming up with an all-ladies band to play the Mother of Earth Day Festival at the Brickhouse Brewery on April 22nd. The band includes awesome female Long Island musicians Katie Pearlman, Tara Eberle of Iridesense and Pauline Salotti of Hypnosmoothie. For more information on all of these upcoming dates, check out the tour page.
8th April 2011
Local reporter Shana Braff covered rorie kelly & Jay Scott's live performance at the Sage Cafe.
"Three trail-blazing local musical artists took over the Sage Cafe to perform in the Blue Point restaurant's all acoustic singer-songwriter night, featuring prominent members of Long Island's thriving grassroots music scene.
Multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter, Chris P. Cauley; singer-songwriter and traveler, Rorie Kelly, and singer-songwriter Jay Scott have been showcasing their talents at venues near and far for the last several years..." Click to read full article.