About
Sally Cooper is a singer for hire in Brisbane, QLD.
Background music that stays interesting is a skill of its own. Sally Cooper plays sweet, bluesy acoustic sets across Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, drawing on jazz, blues, folk, pop and soul classics: Moondance, Fields of Gold, Purple Rain, a Norah Jones number, a run of Beatles songs. Solo, she sings with guitar, keys and live vocal looping; add a cellist or a second guitarist for a duo or trio. She carries her own small PA and lights, and a battery inverter means she can play where there's no power at all.
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The show
Bright, sweet and a bit bluesy is the short version. Sally sings and plays guitar and keys, and loops her own vocals live, which fills out a solo set more than you'd expect from one person. The material is popular jazz, blues, folk, pop and soul, the classics rather than the deep cuts. If you want a fuller sound, add a cellist for a duo, or a cellist and a second guitarist for a trio. Same repertoire, more layers.
On the day
She brings her own small PA and lights if you need them, and there's a battery inverter in the kit, so a spot with no power at all still works. Otherwise, power nearby is ideal. Space needed is modest: roughly five foot square, and it doesn't have to be a raised stage. Anything booked longer than an hour is played as 40-minute sets with a 10 to 15 minute break between them.
Performance options
Solo is the starting point, and from there you can add another player. A cellist, a pianist or a second guitarist, depending on the sound you're after and the room you're filling. A duo suits a ceremony or a dinner that wants a bit more body to it. Say what the event is when you enquire and she'll tell you which line-up she'd pick.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
This is me (from Worlds’ greatest showman)
• Everybody’s talking: Harry Nilsson
• Missing: Everything but the girl • Whats going on: Marvin Gaye • Hound dog: Bessie Smith • Masquenada • Key to the highway • Cold shot: Stevie Ray Vaughan • Moondance: Van Morrison • Beautiful: Christine Aguilera
• Something Stupid: Sinatra • Turn me on: Norah Jones
• You’re so Vain: Carly Simon
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Every Breath you take: Police
• Sorry: Tracy Chapman
• Purple Rain: Prince • Fields of Gold: Sting
• Oh Darling (Beatles)• Day tripper (Beatles) . I wanna hold your hand (Beatles) • Money cant buy me love (Beatles) • Fragile: Sting • Under the milky way; The Church • One: U2
• Cecelia
• Mrs Robinson: Simon and Garfunkel
• Feeling Groovy: Simon and Garfunkel
• Three little birds: Bob Marley
• Norwegian Wood
• Eleanor Rigby: (Beatles) • Inner city blues: Marvin Gaye • Knocking on Heavens Door/ Rise (Medley)
• Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
• Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
• I walk the Line (Johnny Cash)
• Respect: Aretha • Somewhere over the rainbow • Moon river • Say a Little Prayer: Aretha • People get Ready: Eva Cassidy
• These boots are made for walking: Nancy Sinatra • Georgia: Ray Charles • When I fall in love: Nat King Cole
• Red Sails in the Sunset • Stormy weather • Besame Mucho: Latin Jazz • I’ll be seeing you: Billie Holiday • La Vie En Rose: French/Edith Piaf• Summertime • Never make a move too soon: B. B King • The Water is Wide • Wayfaring Stranger
• Dance me to the end of Love: Leonard Cohen
• Crazy: Patsy Cline • Jolene: Dolly Parton • Walking after Midnight • Don’t fence me in • Stuck in the middle with you: Stealers wheel • Son of a preacher man: Dusty Springfield • Billie Jean: Michael Jackson • Ring my bell: Anita Ward • Lady Marmalade: Patti Labelle
