Susan Ashley ~ Clients & Testimonials
Around Town
 April
24 – May 7, 2009
Pat Mascola “Townbeat”
SUSAN ASHLEY: UNHERALD
The Lighthouse Cove Tike Bar, 14th street and A1A, Pompano
is a favorite late Sunday afternoon stop for me and hundreds
of others, to appreciate the wonderful world of our tropical
paradise. Al Nero’s band is featured with
lots of guest entertainers taking turns. Also on the bill
with Al is a little lady with a powerful voice,
Susan Ashley. I have heard her sing many times
and always enjoyed her performances. But last Sunday, for
some reason, I was sitting at a table, not the usual bar
stool and started to listen to this lady, I mean really
listen. I became captivated with her vocal control and exceptional
range and phrasing, all accented with her shapely body movement
and great facial expressions to the lyrics. She just easily
triumphed with a swinging “New York, New York” to a melancholy
“My Man”, a sizzling theme song from the academy award winning
Chicago. Her repertoire is endless from standards, to top
40s, to show tunes. I listen to her deliver hit after hit
to great applause and wondered why she was unheralded and
not the musical stage star she should have or could have
been? Only she knows. In her vocal delivery I heard the
best of Streisand, Edie Gourme and Ethel Merman. She is
ours to listen to and enjoy, as she delivers her mini concerts
at this popular outdoor ocean front nightclub.
"Leading Ladies" Review by Howard Salus
Below is a review that Susan received after performing for
the "Leading Ladies" at one of their
charity luncheons. The Leading Ladies is a group of fellow performers
who get together periodically to raise money for
The Transplant Foundation.
"Don Casino Productions has always presented acts for
this unique group, and they're all high professional quality
(who they regularly book at local venues and on the ships),
but "this" act was sensational! Susan Ashley just
blew the audience away. She has a voice and an energy that makes
me impatient to see and hear her again, and real soon! She did
her tributes to New York and Broadway, she "whoopied"
for Eddie Cantor, she captivated the group with "Clowns"
by Sondheim and she wiped me out with her Streisand renditions.
Whew! If you learn this lady will be appearing somewhere-run
out and buy a ticket!"
Howard Salus Founding Director at ENV
Magazine, Inc.
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