Meet Tammy Hall
Meet Elfenworks Foundation team member Tammy Lynne Hall, one of the most in-demand musicians in the Bay Area. Ms. Hall wrote the original composition 'In Harmony With Hope' which will be featured in the forthcoming film A Concert for Hope and wrote all-original music to soothe and comfort, for our Rejuve CD which was released in 2007 in harmony with the Greater Bay Area Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Hall's charity appearances have benefitted Stanford University's Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, Help Is On The Way, Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center and Children's Hospital of Oakland's Miracle Network.
A truly versatile pianist, organist, composer and arranger, Tammy Hall can captivate her audience be they lovers of Jazz, Brasilian, or Classical. Her own compositions and arrangements are always crowd pleasers, and her prodigious accompanist skills make her a top choice for such singers as: Rhonda Benin, Frankye Kelly, Lady Mem'fis, Kim Nalley, Denise Perrier, Little Jimmy Scott, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Voz Do Brazil and the great Etta Jones. Stylistically, Tammy Hall is equally gifted in Classical, Gospel, Jazz, Brazilian, Salsa and Funk. Her major influences include Tania Maria, Beethoven, Lizst, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mary Lou Williams, Dorothy Donnegan, and Thelonious Monk. Like her influences, Tammy brings virtuosity to the piano that is never ostentatious, and her approach to the music is always genuine and fresh.
Tammy Hall began playing piano at age four in Dallas, Texas. Her Mother was an aspiring classical concert pianist and her grandfather played piano at clubs on Saturday nights and at church on Sunday mornings. Tammy's earliest memories were of climbing up onto the piano bench at the tender age of two and picking out the notes and chords to songs she had heard in church or on the radio. Later she became the pianist for her Junior Choir rehearsal group and her elementary school's musical program. A detailed historical biography is available on www.tammyhall.com.
