REBECCA NEWTON
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Rebecca Newton, has been labelled “The Triangle’s Impresario” by NC-based journalist Jack Bernhardt. Rebecca cut her musical teeth on show tunes and vaudeville acts as a young child of the late 50s and early 60s. Her first LP record was a 78, which her Grandmother bought for in her home state of Washington. She’d been to her 5th birthday dinner, at a restaurant called ‘Steve’s Gay 90s’ where she witnessed a Barber Shop Quartet comprised of banjo and ukulele-playing, pinstriped- suit-wearing men with straw hats who were singing impeccable harmonies. The record was a 78rpm of Sophie Tucker’s called “Cabaret Days” (1954), which she still owns.
Rebecca’s music career began at 19 with the band, “Mother Country” – a bluegrass, country band based in central North Carolina (1975). In 1978 she played in a 4-piece swing band (un-creatively) named “Rebecca & Friends.” Then, mid 1981 she and longtime co-writer Keith Guile put together “Rebecca & the Hi-Tones,” a North Carolina institution for 30+ years. The Hi-Tones were a 7-piece swing/early jazz/R&B band containing the “core four” members from 1981.
