Ellie Ven Presents “Give Into The Groove 2012” | April 27th, 2012

 

       
   (LEXINGTON) – “Give Into The Groove,” a feel-good community benefit featuring live music, multimedia art, fashion, and more, takes place at Buster’s Billiards & Ballroom, 899 Manchester St., Lexington, Friday, April 27. 8 p.m. $5. All Ages. Info: (859) 368-8871 or www.bustersbb.com/?p=5151.  Presented by local Pop singer and music impresario, Ellee Ven, and Hot Sauce Records.

       Now in its ninth year overall (and fifth consecutive year in Lexington), 100% of “Give Into The Groove”‘s proceeds benefit such area charities and organizations as the American Red Cross; Local First Lexington, which promotes locally-headquartered Lexington businesses; Carnegie Center For Literacy And Learning, which empowers people to explore and express their voice through imaginative learning and the literary arts through workshops, tutoring, youth and family programs, exhibits, readings, and arts-related events; Chrysalis House (for women with domestic/family issues); Lexington Humane Society; Kentuckians For the Commonwealth; Living Arts & Science Center; Susan G. Komen For The Cure (Lexington affiliate); and a variety of Lexington-based workshops for local musicians and after-school arts programs for kids. There will also be indoor games and a gaming raffle section. This year Give Into tThe Groove also welcomes  Moveable Feast Lexington – which delivers hot, freshly-cooked meals, five days a week, to people living with illnesses as well as individuals who are patients of Hospice of the Bluegrass, using all volunteer drivers.    

     The creator and driving force behind Give Into The Groove is Lexington musician, Ellee Ven, profiled here in recent features in the Los Angeles Examiner and All Access Magazine.  The former Los Angeles Music Awards winner’s music is an exciting, cutting-edge blend of electro-pop, hip-hop, and rap that can be heard to fine effect on her body of work including CDs Dangerous Diversions and most recently, Her Wildcat Lovin’ Majesty.  Working with a posse’ of talented musicians including rapper Prodeje, DJ Swamp, and Anthony Lee, Ellee Ven also operates a music/pop culture website, Groovetonics (whose mantra is “Groovetonics – Enhance Your Senses”), home to both English Dance-Pop duo Goldfrapp as well as Ellee Ven herself.   
 
     What The Media Is Saying About Her Wildcat Lovin’ Majesty And Ellee Ven
 
“Electronic-dance act Ellee Ven’s mesh of of seemingly disparate elements unifies for an upbeat ethereal grab bag of tribal beats and treats, accompanied by Ven’s dreamy, girlish vocals…who needs chemical enhancement? Ellee Ven’s “Her Wildcat Lovin’ Majesty” is one fervent elixir.”         BILLBOARD   
 
“The beautiful Ellee Ven, hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, is a gifted singer…”Signals” is Indies-’80s-meets Brittney Spears, a throwback from the heydays of freestyle dance music legend, Debbie Deb, and the best track on the album. Please don’t take my word on this – check out the CD for yourself music lovers.”                                                                        THE URBAN MUSIC SCENE