Pamela Means, award-winning, singer-songwriter and jazz musician, has toured from Anchorage to Amsterdam, Stockholm to Sydney, and Honolulu to New York, thrilling audiences with her razor wit, "mad guitar-and-vocal skills" (Time Out New York) and "insanely brilliant" (Press Herald, Portland ME) tunes. Frequently, many live show attendees exclaim, "I've never seen anyone play guitar like that!"
Pamela Means was voted by its audience, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival #1 New Artist, where Means also set a record for highest CD sales by a new artist. Indie Gods of Guitar International Guitar Competition Silver Award Winner, Pamela Means, is a must-see live artist, delighting audiences of folk, jazz and all grooves in between.
Talented and versatile, Pamela's seminal jazz release, Pamela Means Jazz Project, Vol. I, was named Top Ten Album of 2007 by Muruch Entertainment Blog. Curve Magazine reviewed, "with her snappy delivery of lounge classics...Means takes her rightful place among contemporary superstar jazz vocalists such as Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones."
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Audience Voted #1 New Artist Falcon Ridge Folk Festival New Artist CD sales record Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Outstanding Contemporary Folk Artist Boston Music Award Nomination
"Means is, quite simply, superb..."
HiFi Magazine, London UK
"Good stuff." Neil Young
"You groove so deep, so deep, I can't get out. And, I wouldn't want to." Ani DiFranco
"...visionary...combination of Michael Franti and Chet Baker..."