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Territory of Representation
- Europe (excluding UK & Germany)
Availability
- July 2025 + upon request
Upcoming Shows
- Oct 5th 2024, Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
- Oct 6th 2024, Empire Music Hall, Belfast, UK
- Oct 8th 2024, Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
- Oct 9th 2024, The Fire Station, Sunderland, UK
- Oct 11th 2024, Civic Hall, Cottingham, UK
- Oct 12th 2024, City Variety Music Hall, Leeds, UK
- Oct 13th 2024, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, UK
- Oct 15th 2024, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, UK
- Oct 16th 2024, Philharmonic Music Room, Liverpool, UK
- Oct 18th 2024, The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, UK
- Oct 19th 2024, The Stables, Milton Keynes, UK
- Oct 21st 2024, Old Market Theatre, Hove, UK
- Oct 23rd 2024, St George’s, Bristol, UK
- Oct 24th 2024, The Concorde Club, Southampton, UK
- Oct 25th 2024, Bush Hall, London, UK
- Dec 7th 2024, Le Foyau, Lustin/Profondeville, Belgium
- Dec 8th 2024, Eldorado, Humbeek, Belgium
- Dec 10th 2024, New Morning, Paris, France
- Dec 13th, Apollo, Helsinki, Finland
- Dec 19th, Stormen, Bodo, Norway
- MORE DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
Past Shows
- 2nd Dec 2023, 54 Below, New York, NY, USA
- 1st Dec 2023, My Father’s Place, Glen Cove, NY, USA
- 30th Nov 2023, Broadway Theatre of Pitman, Pitman, NJ, USA
- 23rd Sept 2023, Jammin Java, Vienna, VA, USA
- 22nd Sept 2023, The Avalon Theatre, Easton, MD, USA
- 21st Sept 2023, City Winery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 17th July 2023, Soho Music Club, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- 14th & 15th July 2023, Feinstein’s at the Nikko, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 13th July 2023, Vibrato Jazz Club, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 11th July 2023, Belly Up, Solana Beach, CA, USA
- 28th Feb 2023, Groundlift, Inning, Germany
- 26th Feb 2023, Babylon, Berlin, Germany
- 25th Feb 2023, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
- 23rd Feb 2023, Poppodium Boerderij, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
- 21st Feb 2023, Rock Lobster City Lodge, Antwerpen, Belgium
- 20th Feb 2023, Rock Lobster City Lodge, Antwerpen, Belgium
- 18th Feb 2023, Casino Barrière, Bordeaux, France
- 14th Feb 2023, Casino Barrière, Enghien-les-Bains, France
- 13th Feb 2023, New Morning, Paris, France
- 12th Feb 2023, Casino Barrière, Deauville, France
- 10th Feb 2023, Alter Schlachthof, Dresden, Germany
- 9th Feb 2023, Colossaal, Aschaffenburg, Germany
- 7th Feb 2023, Kulturkirche, Köln, Germany
- 5th Feb 2023, Alte Weberei, Nordhorn, Germany
Vonda Shepard was born in New York City in 1963. She started playing piano at the age of 6, writing songs at 8, and playing clubs at 14. Vonda has released fifteen albums, including eight solo albums, three live albums and four albums for Ally McBeal. Throughout her career she has played keyboards and sung with Jackson Browne, Al Jarreau and Rickie Lee Jones. Vonda has sold over twelve million albums and has won two Golden Globes, two Emmy awards and two Screen Actor’s Guild awards and the Billboard award for selling the most television sound track albums in history. While on Ally McBeal, Vonda was the “behind the scenes” music producer, producing over five hundred songs for the artists Sting, Robert Downey Jr., Gladys Knight, Chubby Checker, Al Green, Randy Newman, Jon Bon Jovi, and many more. Vonda continues to tour the world, playing her original material and the faves from her days on Ally McBeal. Vonda’s eagerly awaited 9th solo album titled “Red Light, Green Light” was released in September 2022.
Vonda Shepard was born in New York City in 1963. At a very early age, her family moved to L.A., where Vonda spent most of her life growing up. She began playing piano at age six, took voice lessons, dance and acting for many years, and has been playing clubs since the age of fourteen. At the age of twenty, Vonda was invited to join Rickie Lee Jones’ band, as keyboard player, singer, dancer and “alter ego” of Rickie Lee. During this time, she was also in artist development for four years with Warner Bros., and finally got signed to Reprise Records at the age of 24, where she released her major label debut in 1989, titled Vonda Shepard. Don’t Cry Ilene was a hit on V.H.1 and made it to top 11 in the A.C. charts. In 1986, Vonda also had a major pop hit with the duet, Can’t We Try, with Dan Hill; this one made it to #6 on the Pop Charts. In 1991, Vonda released The Radical Light on Warner/Reprise, which had the original version of Searchin’ My Soul, the theme song for Ally McBeal. Indie life followed, with It’s Good, Eve — Vonda’s most critically acclaimed album, to date, about which Chris Willman from Entertainment Weekly wrote; “the singer/songwriter genre doesn’t get any better than this.”
From 1986 – 1990, Vonda toured as keyboard player/back-up singer with Al Jarreau. Vonda also did two tours with Jackson Browne in 1995 and 1996. For the first tour, she sang back-ups with Jackson, which helped her get back on the horse after having been dropped from Warner Bros. after her second album, The Radical Light. Jackson lent Vonda his studio for a month, after hearing her play her new songs at soundcheck everyday, and said “if you can have an album finished by next summer, you can sing with me and open for me”. Jackson lending his world class studio was monumental in Vonda being able to finish the album, It’s Good, Eve, which eventually led directly to Vonda’s friend, David E. Kelley, offering her the job on a new show he was writing, called Ally McBeal. The songs on Eve really resonated with David Kelley’s vision for the emotional timbre of the show. Vonda was the “Greek Chorus” for Ally’s emotions and thoughts. There were often cover tunes from the 50’s, 60’s and earlier back, but David would always interweave Vonda’s original songs throughout the 5 years of Ally McBeal.
Vonda’s most demanding job on Ally was as music producer, where she produced over 500 songs, for artists like Al Green, Sting, Randy Newman, Robert Downey Jr. Jon Bon Jovi, Gladys Knight, Chubby Checker, Barry Manilow and many more, including the amazing cast. When musical guests would appear, Shepard was the “behind the scenes” producer of the music, reading the scripts and interpreting David Kelley’s message, through the emotion of music. Four Ally McBeal albums accompanied the five year run, including a Christmas album.
In 1999, Vonda recorded and released By 7:30, an album of all original material, right in the middle of the frenetic, yet thrilling schedule of Ally McBeal.
Vonda has sold over twelve million albums, has won two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards and two Screen Actor’s Guild awards. She also holds the Billboard prize for selling the most T.V. soundtracks in history.
When the show ended, Vonda immediately wrote and recorded Chinatown, continued touring the world, then wrote and recorded From The Sun, released two live albums, including From The Sun, Live in San Javier, released Solo, rerecording many of the favorite songs from Vonda’s catalog, as well as some beloved cover tunes, and finally Rookie, in 2015, for which she again toured extensively with her stellar band, James Ralston, on guitar, (Tina Turner 22 years), Jim Hanson, on bass, (Bruce Springsteen, Rodney Crowell, Johnny Cash), and she alternates drummers, from Michael Urbano (John Hiatt, Cracker) to Christopher Hafer (many bands, including Hertz-Van-Rental!) to Fritz Lewak, (Jackson Browne, 26 years).
In 2021 Vonda started recording her latest album with Mitchell Froom (Elvis Costello, Crowded House, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt). Froom has been behind the boards for all of her albums since By 7:30 in 1999. The new album, titled “Red Light, Green Light”, has “Vintage Vonda” tracks with some deep, funky grooves, but the woman who wrote and sang “Baby, Don’t You Break My Heart Slow” is never about to leave every eye in the house dry. “I’ve heard that Paul Simon fills four legal pads with lyrics for one song alone,” she says. “I may not fill four, but when I’m writing an extremely honest, painful ballad, of which there will be a few on this album, I do fill up at least two.”
Vonda’s influences, growing up in the 70’s, were those classic singer/songwriters; Elton John, Carol King, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, as well as the soul icons, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan. You can certainly hear the fusion of these two styles, in listening to Vonda’s albums.
A few years back, Shepard had one of the most unexpected and exhilarating experiences of her career; her belated debut as a musical stage actress. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legend Randy Newman hand-picked her to play the part of Martha in his version of Faust, which thrilled audiences at New York’s City Center. For her first stage acting role, Shepard earned grand reviews from New York’s tough theater critics; Said Playbill: “Indie-pop singer/songwriter Shepard was the find of the evening, at least for audiences unfamiliar with her five years of acting and singing on Ally McBeal.” The Theatermania.com critic called the Newman/Shepard duet of “Feels Like Home” “one of the year’s great stage moments to date.” New York Times theater critic Christopher Isherwood weighed in with a rave, too, calling her duet with Newman on “Feels Like Home” “the song that received the warmest reception” and adding: “Ms. Shepard’s soulful singing brought out the yearning quality in Mr. Newman’s own.”
PAST SHOWS:
- 20th Oct 2022, Bush Hall, London
- 19th Oct 2022, St George’s, Bristol
- 18th Oct 2022, Plough Arts Centre, Torrington
- 16th Oct 2022, Symphony Hall, Birmingham
- 15th Oct 2022, The Stables, Milton Keynes
- 14th Oct 2022, Concorde Club, Southhampton
- 12th Oct 2022, Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
- 11th Oct 2022, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
- 9th Oct 2022, City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds
- 8th Oct 2022, Sage, Gateshead
- 7th Oct2022, Waterside Arts, Sale
- 6th Oct 2022, The Venue at Oran Mor, Glasgow
- 4th Oct 2022, Arts Centre, Pocklington
- 14th & 15th Jan 2022, Myron’s Cabaret Jazz, Las Vegas, USA
- 21st Mar 2020, NV The Smith Center, Las Vegas, USA
- 20th Mar 2020, NV The Smith Center, Las Vegas, USA
- 16th Mar 2019, Flow, Paris, France
- 14th Mar 2019, The Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
- 13th Mar 2019, Empire Music Hall, Belfast, Ireland
- 11th Mar 2019, Oran Mor, Glasgow, UK
- 10th Mar 2019, Sage, Gateshead, UK
- 8th Mar 2019, RNCM, Manchester, UK
- 6th Mar 2019, Town Hall, Birmingham, UK
- 5th Mar 2019, Union Chapel, London, UK
- 4th Mar 2019, The Stables, Milton Keynes, UK
- 5th Jan 2019, Feinstein’s, San Francisco, USA
- 4th Jan 2019, Feinstein’s, San Francisco, USA
“She’s incredible. With the energy of Girls Aloud all combined, Shepard gracefully pounds the grand piano and despite sitting behind the instrument for almost the entire set, she manages to ooze a presence which seeps into the spellbound audience. Her band complements the relaxed yet professional ambience to perfection, leaving the limelight to the star. .. Of course, the Ally McBeal theme “Searching My Soul” is much-anticipated; it’s rousing, uplifting and the entire venue can’t help but sing along. In an age where music is all too often styled, fashionable or fake, it’s thoroughly refreshing to see such inherent talent performed naturally with such sunny disposition. Delectable.”
RED, RedHotVelvet.com
“Shepard’s the classic singer/songwriter type; her soul-baring confessionals are tempered by flashes of wit and whimsy along with a hook or two and often bittersweet underpinnings.”
Darryl Morden, The Hollywood Reporter
“Shepard favors a more organic and introspective approach… Indeed, those who have appreciated the emotional complexity and depth of Joni Mitchell and Sarah McLachlan will find a lot to admire.”
Alex Henderson, AllMusic.com