Deni on DVD

Cyndi Lauper's "Live... AT Last" DVD is now available. Filmed earier this year at Town Hall in New York, Deni is all over the video. Be sure to check out Track 13 which starts with her violin solo. Click here to buy the DVD at a great price on Amazon.com

"Duets With Deni" featured in Billboard Magazine
Deni's TV show "Duets With Deni" was featured in the November 1 issue of Billboard magazine. Click here to read the article (Adobe Acrobat format).

Deni "ambushed" by Fox TV
Deni appeared recently on Fox TV's "Ambush Makeover" TV show. Returning from the gym one day, and NOT looking as glam as she normally does, she was spotted by Fox TV's roving camera crew and dragged off kicking and screaming to a spa and a couple of boutiques for a complete makeover, new clothes, and shoes. See the results for yourself! RealPlayer and DSL or Cable Modem required.

Cover Girl
The week of the Dewey Beach Music Festival (over 175 bands attended) Deni made the cover of the local newspaper. Click here to read the article.

She also found time to get herself almost as large as life in the Charleston Gazette, which ran a story about Deni's career.

Noted producer discusses Deni's new tracks
Well-known producer Artie Skye (Madonna, Brandy, Pink), writing in the October issue of Home Recording, describes working with Deni on a couple of tracks for her new album. Click here to read the article.

Deni appears on Weezer tribute album
Deni's searing violin and viola headline half the tracks on this album of Weezer's greatest hits as performed by a string quartet. Must be heard to be believed! You already know how Deni's rock violin sounds - now listen to how she sounds channeling Weezer!

Buy it on Amazon, or just listen to some of the tracks!

Deni's performance reviewed by "Singer" magazine

Singer magazine puts it this way: "Violin Girl Conquers with Attitude and Axe"

Although their website (www.singermagazine.com) doesn't publish its articles online, (and until we get permission to reprint the article here), all we can say is they really like her, and a full-page review they call the album a "tasty musical cornucopia" full of "lyrical playfulness" reinforced by Deni's "exuberant live sound and stage presence". Pick up a copy at a newsstand today!

"Bigger" makes "Ten Best Albums of 2001" list

"Bigger Is Always Better" was reviewed by Intermixx Magazine as one of "The Best Albums Of 2001 That You Probably Haven't Heard Of (But Should Have)". She's in good company, as the other nine included such legendary artists as John Hammond, Boz Scaggs and Lucinda Williams Click here to visit the Intermixx website or click here to view the online magazine - select the February issue. You'll need Adobe Acrobat in order to view the article.

Deni is Femmusic's December 2001 Artist Of The Month

Femmusic.com recently voted Deni "Artist Of The Month" for December. Check out this "place for emerging women in music" at www.femmusic.com

Deni Endorsed by Daisy Rock Guitars

Deni has been professionally endorsed by Daisy Rock Guitars, makers of VERY kool guitars that "will inspire girls to learn how to play guitar because these are made for them". Check out their website at www.daisyrock.com to find out more. Watch for Deni playing her new guitar in the very near future!

Album Release covered in "Ice"

Ice is a Santa-Monica, California, based music magazine that covers what's new in the music business - and the release of Deni's new album "Bigger Is Always Better" was covered in the October issue. Get a copy at your local newsstand, or online at http:\\www.icemagazine.com

Intel's kool new Pocket Concert MP3/WMA player ROCKS because you can use it to get not one but TWO of Deni's songs from Intel's audio website. Check it out at http://208.244.143.14/home/audio/downloads.asp?iid=mm+downloads&vvv Better yet, go buy one and tell them Deni sent you. You can get it at Circuit City, The Wiz, CompUSA, The Good Guys, Best Buy, Intel's own website or just about any electronics store.

These two songs off Deni's new album are in downloadable .WMA format. (This is Deni's second collaboration with Intel - a couple of years back she was one of the featured performers at the Intel New York Music Festival).

Deni's career profiled in the Wall Street Journal!

Deni's career was profiled in the Wall Street Journal on May 22nd, in a long article by Wendy Bounds with a large color picture by fashion photographer Claudio Marinesco. Get a copy at your local library, online at www.wsj.com, or click here for the story.

Cover Girl
Deni appears on the cover of the Fall 2001 catalog from UNISON, the Hudson Valley's premier Arts organization. She's also scheduled to play there on October 6th - see the Gigs page of this website for details.

South Carolina's "spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, always passionate" magazine "Skirt!" talks about Deni in their July issue:

"If someone had recorded with REM, Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Richard Thompson and Bruce Cockburn, you think she'd be a household name. Well, that's what Deni Bonet will be if WomanSong has anything to say about it. Deni makes the violin sizzle and as a songwriter her tunes range from quirky to poignant to haunting. A truly talented musician, she also plays the mandolin and the accordion, giving her music a modern roots sound. Deni has released two EP's and is getting ready to release her first full length solo CD. This will include a little help from her friends Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew of Katrina and the Waves, and Steve Holley of Paul McCartney and Wings. Check out the songs "Sunshine," "Alone" and "Violin Girl." Once you hear what Deni Bonet does to a fiddle, you'll be hooked. You can hear Deni Bonet and other women artists every Friday night on WomanSong on SCERN at 8pm (89.3 in Charleston). - Mindy Spar, host of WomanSong

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review interviews Deni

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's online service has a great story and interview with Deni, in advance of her appearance at the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Festival. Click here for the story

The New Haven Register Reviews Deni's Career and Music:

It's Deni's Time
by Fran Fried
New Haven Register, Friday June 1 2001

I forget what year I said this about Deni Bonet: "If she's not famous in the next year, the music business is worse than I've imagined." Let's just say it's been a long "next year" (more like three), but she's finally on the verge of that fame; the quote (attributed to "the entertainment editor at the New Haven Register") resurfaced last week when the Wall Street Journal ran a feature story on the New York violinist/singer.

Thus, Bonet returns Saturday night to Bridgeport's Acoustic Cafe (2926 Fairfield Ave., Exit 25 off I-95, Black Rock; 9 p.m.; Von Em opening; $10; 203-335-FOLK) with a momentum she never got from her years of playing for "Mountain Stage," or her 1998 appearances at Lilith Fair, or from playing with Robyn Hitchcock in Jonathan Demme's 1998 concert film "Storefront Hitchcock." And it comes in handy as she nears completion, after three EPs, of her first full-length album.

"That article changed my life," she said Tuesday. "The CD sampler (she's been selling at shows), I got probably around 75 orders (since), I got a couple hundred e-mails. I'm going nuts. I don't know where to start. I've got offers for investments, from publicists, from people who just want to review the record, radio stations that want to play the record sight unseen. I've heard from people I haven't heard from in years, people I knew in college. It's been unbelievable."

After trying outside producers over the last three years, Bonet and manager/ex-husband Paul Bevan are doing the production themselves on the album, which will be released in Australia, New Zealand and the Far East on Zip Records. It will include a mix of her tried-and-true material ("Sunshine," "The Girlfriends of Dorian Gray") and new stuff ("Violin Girl"). There are guest appearances by Hitchcock, his Soft Boys mate Kimberley Rew (best known for playing guitar in Katrina & the Waves) drummer Steve Holley (Wings) and bassist Tony Shanahan (Patti Smith).

"Paul and I are maniacs" trying to get the album finished, the ever-optimistic Bonet said, adding, "This whole album will be the feel-good album of this year. It sounds so good, I'm just dying. I'm really excited to have this first record."

Bonet and Bevan have a lawyer shopping the album to the big American labels; she said it should be available at shows by September...

Deni interviewed in "On Stage" magazine

Deni was interviewed in the June issue of the nationally-distributed On Stage magazine. There's a picture there, too! Pick up a copy today! Or check it out online at http://www.onstagemag.com

Storefront Hitchcock Video Available Now on MGM Home Video! Buy the in-concert performance video featuring Robyn Hitchcock, Deni Bonet and Tim Keegan, produced and directed by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme ("Silence of the Lambs", the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" and others).

This movie has received rave reviews, and it's now available on MGM Home Video. Click here to order it from Amazon.com, and read reviews from people who've bought it.

Deni has known Robyn for many years, having toured and recorded together (see pictures), and this video beautifully shows the superb chemistry between these two enormously talented performers. A must-have for any Hitchcock or Bonet fan.

"Sunshine" on UK compilation CD

Deni's song "Sunshine" has been included on a compilation CD distributed with issue 58 of the respected British alternative music magazine "Bucketfull of Brains".

Featuring works by international artists signed to the Zip Records label, "Sunshine" is the #2 song on the CD.

"Bucketfull of Brains" can be hard to find in the USA, but it's enormously influential in the UK and elsewhere. Founded in 1979, the magazine reviews and highlights only the very best in alternative music from around the world.

"Sunshine" is ALSO on another compilation CD, this one released in Australia and New Zealand featuring Zip Records' impressive collection of local and international artists.

Click here for Zip's Australian website.

Other Deni sources on the internet:

You can also find Deni-related stuff at the following places on the internet:

FiddleChicks
The world's first website dedicated to women on electric violin

This site's "Players" link has a brief article about Deni and her exotic Bradley electric mandolin