Paisley Beebe sings Ella Fitzgerald at Tribute Island

Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald: September 19th – 2PM SLT

The one-and-only Paisley Beebe pays homage to “Lady Ella” and the “First Lady of Song”, Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century.

Together with  Radio Riel, lastingtribute.co.uk and Associated Northcliffe Digital (the online version of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Prim Perfect presents a series of live music concerts on Tribute Island, featuring the very best musical artists of the Second Life world, paying tribute to the artists who have inspired them.

Each concert (held on Fridays during the summer and autumn months) features a live performance of an hour to an hour and a half, together with at least 2 – 3 hours of music from Radio Riel.

Ella Fitzgerald and Paisley Beebe
Ella Fitzgerald is a  lady who, over a recording career that lasted 57 years, won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Art by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation, and a “horn-like” improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She is widely considered to have been one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.

And Paisley Beebe, one of the top vocalists of Second Life, is the alter ego on Second Life of the beautiful Leonie Smith, an Australian Jazz Vocalist, and Radio Host. Leonie Smith has released 2 Albums “Sweet Jazz” and “Never The Less”. She is a professional Jazz Vocalist of over 15 years standing. Paisley is also CEO of the Film Production Company “In A Perfect World” which produces “Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe” (Second Life’s first, and best, Weekly TV Talk Show) filmed live in front of a studio audience in Second Life every Sunday at 6pm slt.

Remaining Concerts:
September 19th – Paisley Beebe’s Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

October 3rd – Louis Volare’s Tribute to Frank Sinatra.

Need to know more about the concerts? The artists and those they are paying tribute to appear here on the Prim Perfect blog.

Come and catch the best in live SL music, paying tribute to those who’ve inspired them.

Why Tribute Island?
It’s been created as what it says – a Tribute. And that means it combines a place to both remember and reflect, and to salute those who have gone before and given us knowledge, and beauty and even sheer unadulterated fun.

So, you can enjoy your Fay Wray fantasies, or visit the cinema complex to remember your favourite films (and those who created them) – or even visit the film studios and play a part in their making. You can pay tribute to your favourite poets or dance under the benevolent gaze of favourite musical luminaries such as John Lennon, Elvis and Dudley Moore (a noted jazz pianist).

But you can also visit memorials to ordinary people caught up in the horror of war, or terrorism, or sheer ghastly accidents.

And there’s emphasis on commemorating ordinary people, throughout the island. Every exhibit contains a link – sometimes leading you to discover more about the individual or the event that is commemorated, but also supplying links to the website Lasting Tribute, an amazing UK site where you can leave a tribute to well-known people you have admired, or create or join a tribute to people who may be less well-known in the wider world, but have nevertheless touched your life in important ways.

Tribute Island was built during October ’07 by Associated Northcliffe Digital (part of the DMGT Group), with the senior design consultants and master builders of Wind Meta Works.

It’s UK-centric, reflecting the nationality of its main creator, Nikk Huet, although many of the tributes reference international figures – such as the stepping stones which salute a variety of American musicians, including Nina Simone, Tupac Shakur and Barry White. And, despite its corporate input, it’s also a very personal choice by Nick as to what to feature – which is no bad thing. At the very least, you will find yourself learning a variety of new and fascinating facts about people and events you may know well – and some that you’ve never heard of. And – especially if you visit with friends – you may well find yourself in the sort of ‘lists’ discussion, in which you can decide who and what YOU would put on your own personal Tribute Island.

Actually, you could find them commemorated on Tribute Island itself – Nikk has asked that if anyone has an idea for a tribute they should contact Nikk Huet inworld.

And you can also see a video on the Island here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qugPEjEfdsU.