Ann Treacy 9/4/19
Mostly Minnesota: Eleanor Dubinsky Singing International Elegance at the Parkway Theater, MN
"Sometimes you get lucky and you find yourself seeing an international musician in a suddenly intimate setting because it’s her first time playing in Minneapolis. And that was the case seeing Eleanor Dubinsky at the Parkway Theater on Tuesday night....Dubinsky is elegant and worldly with songs in French, Spanish and Portuguese... There were some nods to the world with an apropos version of 'Wind Won’t Knock it Down' in honor of the people standing strong in the face of Hurricane Dorian. 'You Are Special, You Are Beautiful' brought the room together in recognition of the people who feel disenfranchised or really unseen and unheard since the last election. The song is an anthem. Jazzy but with a pliant blues edge..."
Read the full review here.
Lori Walsh 7/25/19
South Dakota Public Broadcasting (SDPB) Radio interview, SD
"Touring on her third release, Eleanor Dubinsky's music is reflective of time she has spent in South America, Western and Central Europe, Portugal and Cape Verde. She composes in four different languages while exploring self and contemporary issues while building bridges between diverse listeners. Dubinsky performs Thursday at Levitt at the Falls in Sioux Falls. Her concert is part of the Levitt's World Music Series."
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Lauren Soulek 7/25/19
Kelolandland TV News at Five: Levitt At The Falls Performer Celebrates Diversity with Children in Sioux Falls, SD
"Before Eleanor Dubinsky and her band take the stage at the Levitt tonight, they wanted to share their multi-cultural and multi-lingual music with children in Sioux Falls...Today they shared their music and cultures with children at the Multi-Cultural CARE camp. On top of performing some of their own songs for the kids, the band also worked with the kids to write their own song..."
Watch the full story here.
Live Review
by Tom Pryor (Music Journalist; Nat Geo Music, Songlines, Afropop Worldwide)
"Eleanor Dubinsky is prodigiously talented: a gifted multi-instrumentalist with a strong, clear voice and a knack for catchy, open-hearted, multilingual pop that invokes the likes of Maria Bethânia and Carole King. While Dubinsky’s recordings are well worth your time, you need to see her live to appreciate the full package. Her recent performance at NYC’s Joe Pub celebrated the release of her latest album, Soft Spot of My Heart, and it was a knockout. Dubinsky’s multilayered songs — inspired by jazz, soul, Latin, and afro-Atlantic influences — opened up and revealed themselves in performance. Songs like the gospel-inflected “Turn It Around” and “You Are Special, You Are Beautiful” are relentlessly positive, but leavened with enough emotional grit and musical muscle to stop cynics dead in their tracks. The result was a joyous, uplifting and deeply generous performance — to her musicians and the audience alike — that was just the tonic for the frayed nerves of many New Yorkers after another long winter in these parlous times. Go. See her. This is music as medicine for your soul."
Album Review
by Petr Dorůžka (Czech National Radio, Radio Prague, recipient of the WOMEX 2017 Professional Excellence Award)
"It is so precious to hear carefully crafted songs, matching the standard of vintage era New York songwriters like Carole King. Unfortunately, this sense of quality is quite rare now. But at the same time, Eleanor Dubinsky is the exact opposite of routine singers sticking to retro formula. She bravely finds her own way and is willing to take risks. Her songs are filled with joy and desire, but also you hear personal reflections exploring the fragile links between human emotions and responsibility. She always finds a perfect balance between burning passion and understatement - and consistently, her message is supported by crisp musical ideas. Dubinsky plays guitar and cello, and has a wide knowledge of musical languages from Cabo Verde, Latin America, gospel and jazz. Yet her strongest weapon is her voice: a warm, flexible and very feminine tool expressing her stories, not ego."