Singer-songwriter-actor Alicia Witt has just inked a deal with Newark, NJ-based entertainment services company Rock Ridge Music to manage her music career. Says Witt of her new representation: “I am thrilled to be working with Tom [Derr, Rock Ridge Music CEO] and Jason [Spiewak, Rock Ridge Music President] and everyone at Rock Ridge Music. Their reputation in the music business as passionate, driven artist support, development and management makes this a dream partnership for me, and I am so excited to announce the start of this relationship. Making and performing music has been a huge part of my life for the last three years and a lifelong dream, but this marks the first time I’ve been represented in the music business and I couldn’t be any more delighted to be working with Rock Ridge.” Witt joins artists such as Sister Hazel, Tony Lucca, Ernie Halter, Ingram Hill, Matt Duke, The Revere, Benjy Davi s Project and others on the Rock Ridge Music management client roster.
Says Derr of the deal: “With some artists you just know, and Alicia is one of those.”
Fans of TV and film will likely know Witt from her work as an actor on shows including “Friday Night Lights,” “Law & Order,” “The Sopranos” and “Cybill,” and from the films “88 Minutes,” “Two Weeks Notice,” “Last Holiday” and “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” to name but a few. Witt appears in the forthcoming “Joint Body” (with Mark Pellegrino) which just premiered at the Newport Beach Film Fest and the film “The Boarding House” (with Nick Stahl). She is currently filming “Cowgirls n Angels” with James Cromwell in Oklahoma. Witt is also a classically trained pianist and an accomplished singer-songwriter: for the last three years, she has been performing her original songs at venues across the country such as Hotel Cafe and Universal Citywalk in Los Angeles, and Joe's Cafe and The Living Room in New York. She has played piano since the age of seven and competed both nationally and internationally on piano for a number of years prior to starting her acting career.
Witt’s recently released self-titled EP is available on iTunes ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alicia-witt/id319275064), and her first music video (for the single “Anyway,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmGnODFWPT8) has received play on MTVu and VH1.com. Witt also appeared as a musical guest on the “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” in 2010 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TduFqUob4o). She is currently working on her next album and just released another single, “Me Or New York,” which is available on iTunes. Planned tour dates include:
5/15/2011 Los Angeles, CA / Cafe Was
5/28/2011 Denver, CO / 16th Street Mall - Denver Day of Rock
5/29/2011 Evanston, IL / SPACE (ticket sales benefit Art of Elysium)
6/15/2011 Los Angeles, CA / Cafe Was
Alicia Witt can be found online at:
www.aliciawittmusic.com
www.twitter.com/aliciawitty
www.facebook.com/officialaliciawitt
www.myspace.com/aliciawittmusic
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