Amy Nuttall

[kcuteus1]

She is coming out with a cd on Nov 7th . It is a classical crossover cd. Here is what is going to be on her cd.
It is called best days
www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=222;3;27;-1&sku=423052

1. Scarborough Fair

2. Friends For Life

3. Io Le Canto Per Te

4. No Greater Gift

5. Shenandoah

6. Fields Of Gold

7. I Can't Make You Love Me

8. Best Days

9. So Far Away

10. Greensleeves

11. The Water Is Wide

12. Suo Gan

13. Time To Say Goodbye

14. I Could Have Danced All Night

[kcuteus1]

here are some Videos of three of the songs.

www.wanadoo.co.uk/music/videos/amy_scarbrough.htm

I think she has a very nice voice.

[kcuteus1]

here is some stuff I found on her.
www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=17250
Get your questions in to 'My Fair Lady' star Amy Nuttall - she joins us for a live webchat on Thursday
With a new album deal and the starring role of Eliza Doolittle in Cameron Mackintosh's UK tour of 'My Fair Lady', Amy Nuttall is certainly a young lady going places.

The 23-year-old grew up near Manchester and began her musical schooling at the

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Buy Amy Nuttall's new albumArts Educational School in Tring, as well as playing various leads with the National Youth Music Theatre.

At just 16-years-old she was chosen to understudy for the lead role of Christine in 'The Phantom of The Opera', becoming the youngest person to ever play this role.

Emmerdale

In 2000, Amy joined the hit ITV soap opera, Emmerdale, playing the role of Chloe Atkinson, a feisty young redhead who gave as good as she got. She quickly established her character as one of the viewers favourites.


During her time on Emmerdale, Amy performed in a variety of concerts, most notably at the Royal Albert Hall for a 'Celebrity Christmas Charity' and the Royal Festival Hall for 'Children In Need'.

In 2004, Amy won 'Stars In Their Eyes: Celebrity Special', with her impersonation of Sarah Brightman.


Currently starring on the stage, Amy is also about to release her debut album, entitled 'Best Days'.

The album will showcase Amy's extraordinary vocal talent, featuring both classical works and orchestrated traditional folk songs.

UK Tour dates

However, you might be able to catch Amy in her Eliza Doolittle guise on one of the following dates:

Manchester Palace Theatre - 28 September - 5 November 2005
Birmingam Hippodrome - 9 November - 3 December 2005
Edinburgh Playhouse - 6 December - 7 January 2006
Bristol Hippodrome - 24 January - 18 February 2006
Plymouth Theatre Royal - 21 February - 11 March 2006
Liverpool Empire - 14 March - 1 April 2006
Bradford Alhambra - 4 April - 29 April 2006
Sunderland Empire - 2 May - 27 May 2006
New Victoria Theatre Woking - 30 May - 10 June 2006
Milton Keynes Theatre - 13 June - 1 July 2006
Mayflower Theatre Southampton - 4 July - 22 July 2006
Wales Millenium Centre Cardiff - 25 July - 12 August 2006

[kcuteus1]

Here is her website.

www.amynuttall.com/

It has some nice clips on it.

[gareth]

Amy Nuttal is one of 5 nominations for vidoe of the month November.

Here are voting details (UK residents):

Amy Nuttall 'Scarborough Fair'
text: 'CLASSIC 4' to 84211
phone: [phone]

Amy Nuttall's debut album 'Best Days' showcases her extraordinary vocal talent, featuring classical works and orchestrated traditional folk songs, all highlighting Amy's exceptional voice. Her latest single from the album being “Scarborough Fair.”...

[kcuteus1]

Here is something I found.

www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/11/02/141105_best_days_feature.shtml

Amy reveals her Best Days
Not content with starring roles on stage and TV, Bolton beauty Amy Nuttall is returning to her first love, music, with the release of her debut album, Best Days, on Monday 14 November.




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The album showcases Nuttall’s powerful yet tender voice and is a mix of new songs, classical works and folk tunes including old favourite Scarborough Fair, Sting’s Fields Of Gold and Andrea Bocelli’s Time To Say Goodbye.

The album was recorded with top name producers Simon Franglen, Jon Cohen, Tolga Kashif and Jonathan Allen, who between them have worked with such luminaries as Madonna, Vanessa Mae, Lesley Garrett and Celine Dion.

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Nuttall, who currently appears as Eliza Doolittle in Cameron Mackintosh’s production of My Fair Lady at the Palace Theatre, is understandably excited by the album.

"Singing has always been my first love," she says. "It’s been an absolute pleasure working with some of the best producers in the business and I just hope people enjoy listening to the album as much as I enjoyed recording it."

[roger]

Hi Kimberly,

I have just got around to playing the videos and I am really impressed. Ideally, I would like to hear a little more but, as her CD is out in just two days' time, I think I will just buy it.

Roger

[kcuteus1]

Her website has clips of like 6 of the songs and they are the whole song.

www.amynuttall.com/

[kcuteus1]

Here is a artice on her.

icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/whatson/tm_objectid=16332364&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=luvverly-star-role-for-amy-name_page.html

Luvverly star role for Amy Nov 4 2005







SHE is best known as bitchy sex kitten Chloe Atkinson in the TV soap Emmerdale but next week Amy Nuttall returns to her first love at Birmingham Hippodrome - musical theatre.

"I've always enjoyed singing and musicals are what I always wanted to do," says the 23-year-old flame-haired beauty who takes the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.

"When I was younger I won a scholarship to study musical theatre and during that time I auditioned for Les Miserables just to see what auditions were like. When they saw me I was offered the understudy role of Christine in Phantom of the Opera. I said 'Are you sure you have the right person?'

"It changed my life. I left school and was with Phantom for two years, taking the lead role on stage around 30 times."

As with her Phantom of the Opera job there was a touch of luck when it came to Amy gaining her role in Emmerdale.




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"I asked my agent to look into getting me an audition for a TV show, again just for the experience," she says. "Emmerdale was the first thing that came along and I was offered the job. That was four-and-a-half years ago and time has just flown by.


"But I knew I couldn't stay in a soap, there's a danger of being typecast. Casting directors can be very narrow-minded and tend to pigeonhole you.





"I'd never say I'd never do another soap - but if I was in another it would probably be Coronation Street because it's set in the north and I'm from Bolton."


Not only is Amy launching a new phase of her acting career in My Fair Lady, she's also mounting an assault on the charts with an album, Best Days, released on November 14.


She was signed to EMI Classics after appearing on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes as Sarah Brightman performing Time To Say Goodbye.


Best Days is a mix of old and new songs, ranging from the folk of Scarborough Fair and Greensleeves to the balladry of Neil Young's Fields Of Gold and the operatic Io Le Canto Per Te.


"I'm quite an odd one when it comes to describing my music," she laughs. "I'm not opera, but I'm not pop. I suppose you could say I was classical crossover."


Amy will be taking a little time out from My Fair Lady to promote her album, with the Eliza role being taken by West End actress Lisa O'Hare.


Says Lisa: "I will be doing two shows a week and Amy will be doing six. It's brilliant, and the best way, really, for a role as big as this which is so challenging and tiring."


Amy adds: "We have been working very closely together learning the part together and helping each other. We have been side-by-side every step of the way. It's the only way... if we were in competition with each other it just wouldn't work."


Edit: I fixed the link using noubbc tags.
Richard

[nicola]

Hi all,
I saw an advertisement of her on TV and bought her album straight away. I hadn't heard of her before. However, I got the CD and was very disappointed. Normally, it would be the perfect formula for a CD that I like, since it has many original and unpredictable songs on there. But her voice is actually horrible. Well done for trying... but her voice doesn't suit the classical crossover market at all. I actually thought she had no talent whatsoever until the last song came along 'I could have danced all night'. She suddenly came to life (she sounds bored on the rest of the album). I think she should hang up the mic and get herself down to west end. I was going to write a review on amazon, but I don't want to stop her sales by writing a bad review. Good luck to her, but I hope she realises quickly this isn't the direction she should take.

[Dave]

Hi Nicola,

I've heard a few tracks from Amy's album played on the radio (can't remember which stations) and my immediate reaction was exactly the same as yours! I think her voice is much more suited to show tunes etc. than classical or classical crossover material.

Cheers, Dave

[portia]

I like her arrangement of Scarborough Fair. It's lush and the pan flute(?) in the beginning is wonderful. However, I don't like how she puts awkward and unnecessary emphasis on words and certain syllables. It's too affected. Scarborough Fair isn't a song that sits well with affectation.

[nicola]

I felt bad earlier for leaving my post as it did without reasons as if I was just slagging it off so I thought I might elaborate a bit.

There are some good songs on this album, one gem in particular is Io Le Canto Per Te. It's too ambitious for Amy however (she fell flat so many times during it) but I hope another artist somewhere picks it up. Amy's voice is not suited for classical at all, in any shape or form. It doesn't fit and when she tries to hit the high notes it has no elegence or beauty - it just sounds like a shriek. She DOES sing with emotion, but again, her vocals take what could have been good away. Her rendition of Scarborough Fair is what made me buy the album to be honest. I only heard a tiny clip of it in the advert though so it was misleading. It's a pretty arrangement (I prefer it to Sarah Brightmans) but ... argh... just a different singer.

I guess what I am trying to say is for you to try another singer out, don't waste your money on this. I noticed there is some hype about her here before her CD was released. There is absolutely nothing to get excited about here. It's as bad as Martine McCutcheons 'Musicality' album.

I have only just read this post back and I didn't know she was already at the West End. Wow, I've never found my judgement to be so accurate before. Maybe I am starting to know what I'm talking about... ha!

[gareth]

Hi All,

Amy Nuttall will also be on the BBC Children in Need programma coming Friday, I belive between midnight and 1 am. That's the hour before Katherine Jenkins is scheduled to appear. I will be recording it - and most likely fairly soon there will therefore be extra Amy Nuttall video material available.

Gerrit

[gareth]

Hi All,

Amy did I could have danced all night on the Children in Need programme - and it does appear to be well suited to her voice!

Pity the applause at the beginning was so loud she missed her cue .....

www.classicalrelatedperformances.com/amnu/amy_childreninneed191105.wmv

Gerrit