Victoria Has a new website located at http://www.victoriahart.co.uk

Diehard Victoria Hart supporters WHLI Long Island 1100 am invited the singer in to talk about her present and future projects during a lightning visit to New York.  The radio station conjured up a guitar donated by the band Train and Victoria, together with long time collaborator Geoff Gurd, performed her latest songs, "My Best Impression", "Silent Type" and "Secret Kiss"

see the youtube video here

Victoria and 12 year old Claudia Fielding have recorded a duet version of the Johnny Nash classic "I Can See Clearly Now".  Claudia's family won an auction to record a single with Victoria as part of Terry Wogan's 'Children In Need' auctions on BBC Radio 2 at the end of last year.  The single is released on itunes worldwide this month by Specific Jazz/Proper and is the perfect record to chill out to during the hot summer ahead.

see the youtube video here

Victoria on ITV Alan Titchmarsh Show January 29, 2009

Victoria and Her Majesty's Guards Big Band live appearance on the Alan
Titchmarsh show - sang 'Almost Like Being In Love'.
See the video on youtube here

Victoria's Christmas record is a remake of "Santa Baby" featuring the army Guards Big Band and recorded at Wellington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace. Victoria and the band had a fabulous day together recording and being photographed. The single will be released on 8th December on itunes and 15th December on CD but can be pre-ordered now from Amazon and HMV. All profits are being donated by Discrete Recordings to the Army Benevolent Fund, the Soldier's Charity. Please be generous and buy a copy or 2!

buy 'Santa Baby' on Amazon

buy 'Santa baby' on iTunes

Victoria's new album "The Lost Gershwin" was released on 27th October 2008

Available online here:

Amazon.co.uk:
buy The Lost Gershwin on Amazon.co.uk

HMV.com:
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx
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Alan Titchmarsh stirred

Victoria Hart has been getting tips from the original forces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn.

The 19-year-old British swing singer - who was discovered by George Clooney - is going out to entertain British troops in Afghanistan and has been taking advice from the top.

Victoria revealed: "I met Vera Lynn at the Goodwood Revival. She was reminiscing about how much fun it was. I told her my boyfriend was in the army and he was in Afghanistan and he was saying I'm going to be singing in front of hundreds of horny men. She said 'Now you'll be surprised how well behaved they are' and I told her 'Yes, but that was in your day'.

She's really lovely. She's 91 and she's SO with it. She wished me luck and said they'd love me."

She added: "I was so honoured to be asked, it's such a privilege. I think it's quite quirky that I'm going out there because my music is quite reminiscent of WWII and I can be a real sweetheart!

I'm so going to get a little 1940s dress made in camouflage, I think it will be really cute."

The young Marilyn Monroe look-alike is also fronting a Give Blood campaign to help the injured armed forces.

She said: "My blood type is O negative, which is universal so everyone can use it. They are really in need of it because when it's a serious injury they don't have time to check the blood type, which has definitely egged me on to give blood regularly."

Victoria's new album ‘The Lost Gershwin’ is released on Monday October 27.

pa.press.net Friday 24th October 2008

It’s 1942, America has entered the Second World War and Britain is full of GIs and American airmen.

The American Air Force personnel are restless and miss their homes and their music. At one such air base at Mildenhall in Suffolk, a young British female pianist called Eve Stannard entertains the troops with her piano renditions of famous standards.

Eve has a problem – the British have stopped printing sheet music because of the war effort so she has no music to enable her to play the latest standards. So Eve asks the young airmen returning to the States to ask their buddies to bring back as much sheet music as they can find from America. Over the months she builds up a huge collection of music.

The war is won, the piano lid is shut, the music is put away into a very large suitcases…..

Fast forward 53 years. It’s 1997 and Fay Peacock, whose daughter Kerenza is studying violin at the Royal Academy, is in a hospital bed waiting for an operation. In the bed next to her is…. Eve Stannard. The two get talking, realise their mutual interest in music and discuss Kerenza’s love of show tunes. However when Fay returns from her operation Eve is no longer there.

Some weeks later, a knock on the door at the Peacock home and standing outside are the suitcases full of musical treasures that Eve Stannard amassed during the war. She has gifted it to Kerenza who, busy with her studies, puts it away in an attic for several more years.

Fast forward again to 2007, when Kerenza, whose string quartet Pavao has now gained international recognition, is having a conversation with Victoria Hart and her record producer Geoff Gurd about standard catalogue and the Great American songbook. Victoria and Pavao have met through myspace, have done some concerts together and are now thinking of recording together.

On recounting the tale of Eve Stannard, Victoria and Geoff ask to take a look inside the suitcase and to their astonishment they discover several thousand pieces of sheet music. Among the collection is hundreds of unknown/little known songs by famous American composers like George Gershwin.

The team contacts Leopold Godowsky III, one of the sole surviving relatives of the Gershwin family, and are invited to visit the American Library of Congress in Washington DC to unearth some more original Gershwin manuscripts. Proper Records become interested in the story and the decision is made to record “The Lost Gershwin”.

The result is a unique take on songs from one of the 20th century’s greatest composers. Instead of opting for the usual big band style, the producers have gone for a more subtle and varied approach, relying on intricate arrangements and skilful playing by the quartet and their fellow musicians.

Some of the arrangements echo the jazz tinged melodic style of the composer, whilst others see Victoria Hart stray into hitherto unfamiliar territory – musicals, country music, even Vaudeville.

Gershwin lovers may well enjoy listening to the rarities on this album, most of which haven’t been recorded for a long time, if ever. At the same time Victoria and Pavao hopie to reach a whole new band of admirers who, like them, will come to appreciate the beauty and sophistication of George’s melodies.

The Lost Gershwin is available on 27th October in shops
throughout the UK (HMV, WH Smith, etc) and on-line
(www.amazon.co.uk, etc) and worldwide on iTunes....