GUEST CRAIG FRAZIER

Craig Frazier is one of the funniest comedians on tour. His one-of-a-kind humor has cracked up audiences all over the world and is currently on tour with comedian DL Hughley, one of the original Kings of Comedy.

Craig began his comedy career at Howard University in Washington D.C. doing open mic nights. He competed in and won first place in the Miller Lite National Comedy Search beating out comedians from all over the country. The show was hosted by comedy legend Redd Foxx and judged by a panel of celebrity judges and agents. This led to Craig going out to tour as the opening act with several musical artists including singing great Patti Labelle and Jeffrey Osborne. While on tour, he was discovered by Keenan Ivory Wayans and was invited to be the Audience Warm-up guy for the break-out hit TV show “In Living Color”.

Craig’s other TV and Film credits also include working with Will Smith on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, “The George Lopez Show”, “Moesha”, “For Your Love”, and “Bruno”.

In addition to touring the US, Craig has also done numerous tours for the military troops in Japan, both performing himself as well as organizing other talent to entertain our troops stationed abroad.

Accomplishments

•Performs live stand-up comedy routines throughout the U.S. and internationally including recent performances as the opening act for D.L. Hughley at various comedy and improvisational clubs.

•Audience warm-up for TV shows including D.L. Hughley’s Break the News, George Lopez Show, Moesha, Half & Half, the Hughleys, For Your Love, The Parkers, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Living Single, and In Living Color.

•Guest star and performer for film and television shows including Nickel & Dime, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, For Your Love, In Living Color, Best of Comic View, and Love Hurts.

•Radio voice-overs for the Tom Joyner Morning Show and others.

•Booking Agent and Promoter of entertainment for U.S. military troops based in Japan, Guam, Hawaii, and Korea.

•Winner of Miller Lite National Comedy Search.

•Member of AFTRA/SAG.

COMEDIC GUEST:  DINAH LEFFERT

Dinah Leffert is a stand up comedienne, and actress, known for Drinking Games, An Angel’s Deed, More Dogs Than Bones (w/Whoopie Goldberg). Dinah is a regular on The Sunday Show-Rated Best Weekly Show by LA Weekly at The World Famous Comedy Store. Dinah is a recurring opener for Tim Allen, has guest starred on The Kevin Nealon Show, The Rob Schneider show, and hosted The Dinah Leffert Show all at the World Famous Laugh Factory on Sunset Strip. On the road Dinah has featured for Pauly Shore, Bob Marley(comic), Jimmy “JJ” Walker among many others. Dinah just headlined the prestigious “The Dinah Shore Weekend-Club Skirts 25th Anniversary” April 2nd 2015 to a wildly receptive over 1k audience.

Upcoming events:
Regular in LA Weekly’s #1 rated show every Sunday at The Comedy Store
Crazy Bitches Comedy Tour-Movie promotional tour
Uproar Entertainment to record comedy album in 2015 (TBA)

Dinah is also a first time Director/Producer of GALACTICOS-11 KIDS ONE GOAL with American Soccer Legend, Landon Donovan. (Currently under review at HBO) She Is Managing Director, 3Hats Productions LLC.

Awards: LA Comedy Awards: “National Breakthrough Comedienne” 2010 1st Place Winner, Funniest Comic in LA Contest 2006
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MUSICAL GUEST GRANT MALOY SMITH

Grant was born in Jacksonville, Florida about 60 miles from the Georgia state line. His dad was a pilot in the US Navy, so the family moved around a lot during Grant’s childhood, living in Corpus Christi, Texas, San Diego California, Pensacola Florida, and finally up to Rhode Island.

Grant’s maternal grandmother was from the mountains of Kentucky, and even though she moved eastward, she loved that bluegrass sound for the rest of her life, and she encouraged Grant to appreciate it. She gave Grant a real gift – an appreciation for traditional American music.

Like most kids his age, Grant became infatuated with the Beatles, and he taught himself to play the guitar. But he was always good with a pen or paintbrush, and he seemed destined to become an artist one day. So after high school he dutifully headed off to art school. But music had already taken took hold of him, and he left art school to pursue it.

Despite the fact that his early work was primarily in the pop/rock genres, there was always something “country” about his songs. They all told stories, and painted pictures with words. After hearing from more than one friend and colleague that he should give American Roots a try, he finally gave it a try, and never looked back.

“It all got synthesized in my heart and mind during those years, and it changed me forever. I will never go back to writing songs like I did before. Don’t get me wrong: they were good songs, I hope, but they didn’t express everything that I was trying to capture. There is an honesty and immediacy to the kind of songs I am writing now. Sometimes they are painfully honest, but that’s what makes them connect with people: honesty.”

Americana is a celebration of American roots music, a unique blend of Bluegrass, Country, Pop, Rock and Folk music. The reviews are coming in, and they are nothing short of exuberant, and filled with high praise for Yellow Trailer.

This breakthrough album is available for digital downloads from iTunes, CDbaby.com, Amazon, and other places … and in physical CDs (and downloads)

In his next album, Dust Bowl, Grant picks up where Yellow Trailer left off, and carries on down that same road, but with new twists and turns. According to the songwriter, “You can’t keep writing the same record over and over again; you have to reach beyond where you think you can go, and challenge yourself. So that’s what I am doing. The next album uses the great environmental and economic disaster of the mid 1930s as its context. It’s not a documentary, but the songs are set against that as the backdrop. That place and time is very special to me. The people are real, and what they went through was incredible.”

“I was drawn to this era because of Woody Guthrie, who captured so much of this time in his music, since he lived that time. For me the most interesting aspect of the Dust Bowl is the great migration of southerners and mid-westerners westward, to places like Bakersfield, California. They brought their traditional instruments and roots songs and sensibility with them, spreading my kind of music nationwide.”

“The most fun I have had on Dust Bowl so far are all of the collaborations with other artists. So far the list includes finger style acoustic guitar master Peter Janson, and Jody Quine, a Vancouver-based singer/songwriter. Guest appearances by several other Grammy nominated artists including flautist and world musician Wouter Kellerman of South Africa, and amazing New Age Indian composer and arranger Ricky Kej.”