Stevie Nicks Video at the Arizona Heart Foundation

[From April, 2007] A video clip of Stevie along with her Mother Barbara, Brother Chris, Sister in Law Lori and Niece Jessica Nicks at the dedication of the research building at the Arizona Heart Foundation in April, 2007.
By Kathy Shayna Shocket
Scottsdale Republic
April 3, 2007

The Arizona Heart Foundation hosted the grand opening of the Translational Research Center with the help of singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks.

On Sunday afternoon a small invitation-only group of bighearted people joined Stevie Nicks at the Arizona Heart Foundation for the dedication of its new research building at Thomas Road and 20th Street. It's been a nine-year, grass-roots effort - literally - starting when a small group of visionaries gathered on the lawn of Ted Diethrich's Paradise Valley home to plant the first fundraising seeds for the building's $4 million campaign.

Sunday's private dedication for the Arizona Heart Foundation's Cardiovascular Research and Education Building was bittersweet.

"This was my dad's dream," Nicks said of her father, Jess, who died two years ago of heart disease. Jess' heart gave out a few days after Nicks' Dodge Theatre concert benefiting the foundation in August 2005.

Nicks' mother, Barbara, who was by her side at Sunday's party, also has heart disease, and the Arizona Heart Institute has been an important part of the Nickses' lives.

"This is the house that Jess and Stevie built," noted Gerry Kroloff, the foundation's executive administrator, also a Paradise Valley resident.

Paul and Ellen Gerding of Paradise Valley led Sunday's private dedication catered by Paradise Valley resident Vincent Guerithault.

"I know my father's here," Nicks said. "He'd be saying 'Stevie, this is so great.'"

"So, Jess, this one is for you," said Kroloff of the platform to push the envelope for the future of cardiovascular medicine.

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks writes another solo chapter

Stevie Nicks began an abbreviated schedule of late spring and summer solo dates April 18 in Reading, Pa., hoping no doubt to continue the string of generally glowing reviews she received for her 2007 dates both with Chris Isaak and on her own.

In recent weeks, however, most of the chatter has been not about Nicks or her tour, but the band she sings with, Fleetwood Mac.

Late last month, the veteran rock group's plans to tour in the first half of 2009 became known when Sheryl Crow, who is close friends with Nicks, announced she might be joining the Mac lineup on the road.

Singer Lindsay Buckingham has confirmed that Mac is planning to tour, but says Crow's involvement is not yet a done deal. "I think we were all a little surprised she (Crow) was announcing that to the world with such certainty," Buckingham told Billboard magazine. "We have talked about the possibility of bringing another woman into the scene to kind of give Stevie a sort of foil and shake it up a little bit. She (Crow) was certainly a name that has come up. We'll have to see."

Nicks is still promoting her late 2007 CD/DVD release, "Crystal Visions ... The Very Best of Stevie Nicks," a collection of songs that samples material from her three-decade career as a solo artist and member of Fleetwood Mac.

The CD portion includes several previously unreleased live tracks and a couple of dance remixes, while the DVD has 13 videos with voiceover commentary by Nicks and an audio interview with the Grammy Award-winning singer by journalist David Wild.

Buckingham and Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, and with their help the band topped the charts with "Fleetwood Mac" in 1975, followed by 1977's "Rumours," which sold more than 17 million copies and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.

Nicks, who will turn 60 on May 26, is known for her tempestuous singing and mystical Gypsy hippie-persona. She started her solo career in 1981 with the "Bella Donna" CD, which made it to No. 1 thanks such hits as the Tom Petty duet "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," the Don Henley duet "Leather and Lace" and "Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)."

Her most recent solo album, 2001's "Trouble in Shangri-La," hit No. 5 on the Billboard chart.

According to an interview for the May issue of Q magazine, Nicks is working on a new solo album. "I've been writing continually," she said as she handed the interviewer a sheet of paper with a composition titled "The Soldier's Angel," inspired by her charity work. "It's one of the many poems that is ready to go to the piano right now.

Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks Up For Auction

The Edge [ tickets ] recently announced the Icons of Music Sale II to benefit Music Rising will take place May 31 at the Hard Rock Cafe New York in Times Square.

The second annual music memorabilia charity auction will be hosted by the U2 [ tickets ] guitarist with proceeds benefiting the campaign he co-founded in 2005 to aid musicians of the Gulf Coast Region in regaining their livelihood after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to a press release.

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Stevie's Mysterious April 17th New York Show Revealed

Stevie Nicks closed the 20th annual New York-Presbyterian Hospital black tie benefit Gala held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on April 17th. The event raised nearly $3 million in support of Emergency Medicine department that provides around-the-clock care for over 230,000 patients each year.

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Stevie Nicks Show Pleasant, Padded

By THOMAS KINTNER Special To The Courant
April 22, 2008

Stevie Nicks has seen more than her share of ups and downs over the last two decades, but the music she made with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo act has seen its popularity endure and given her any number of second chances. The 59-year-old singer's show Sunday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville played on that still-considerable nostalgia.

Settling comfortably into the raspy bark at the high end of her voice, Nicks belted her way through the opening "Stand Back," its thick synthesizer pulse rising from her 10-piece band's driving backdrop. True to the singer's long-established image, her multiple costume changes were largely exercises in donning new shawls and lace wraps, and though she kept her shows of agility to the barest of minimums, when she did extend her arms and spin in slow motion, the notably enthusiastic audience roared as though she were turning handsprings.

Her singing came largely in two packages, either the nasal bleating with which she batted at the chorus of "If Anyone Falls," or the more conversational manner with which she delivered verses like those of "Rhiannon." There was frequently an unbecoming monotony to her delivery, an evenness that played on her familiar sound in tunes such as "Gold Dust Woman," but never quite captured any mood.

During her cover of Dave Matthews' "Crash," she sang comfortably alongside the acoustic guitar rhythm laid down by Carlos Rios. Also pleasantly nuanced was Nicks' navigation of "Landslide," its wistful character enriched by her gentle vocal quaver.

Nicks was almost bubbly as she chatted between tunes, and took her time telling stories before the likes of the expansive "Sorcerer." Between her reminiscing and curiously long trips through the likes of "How Still My Love," there was room for only 13 songs in a set that ran just short of two hours.

Nicks muscled her way through most of the show's highlights, such as the buoyant sway of "Dreams," but her show-closing trip through "Edge of Seventeen" was bloated from its too-long guitar and percussion introduction to its expansive finish. She was the least dynamic element onstage during an undistinguished encore take on Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll." She closed the show with the piano ballad "Beauty and the Beast," its lyrics prodded and stretched as she took her time getting through one last number.

Stevie Nicks thrills Mohegan Sun crowd

by The Republican
Monday April 21, 2008, 9:23 AM
By DONNIE MOORHOUSE

UNCASVILLE, CT - While it may not have been as it was billed, the "Very Best of Stevie Nicks," the Sunday night performance at Mohegan Sun turned out to be the least of Stevie Nicks. The singer recited her biggest hits during a too short 13-song set in front of a sold out crowd.

Except for a few occasions, most notably a relatively earnest version of "Rhiannon," many of Nicks' offerings were more recited than rendered with any passion. If it was the "best" it was only in relative sense.

She opened with "Stand Back," relenting to her trademark twirl with her outstretched arms draped in a sheer cape. Following with "Enchanted," and "If Anyone Falls in Love," the night seemed filled with nostalgic promise.

Nicks can still hit all the notes and while her vocal mix both on stage and off (she spent much of the early part of the night adjusting the volume on her ear piece) seemed a little harsh, it was more the memories the songs inspired that carried the performance.

The first real stumble of the night was an ill-advised cover of Dave Matthews' "Crash" a song Nicks has recorded for an upcoming PBS "Soundstage" show that will air in the summer. It was a truly amateurish interpretation of the song.

Nicks recovered with the aforementioned "Rhiannon," and followed it up with "Dreams," telling stories of how the songs were written. She also offered some insight into the early years when she and Lindsey Buckingham were dropped from Polydor "waiting for Fleetwood Mac to come find us," and she went back to waiting tables.

"It's not very show biz-like to stand up here and tell these stories but what do I care," she said. "I'm almost 60 years old." After digesting that morsel of reality, the crowd was rescued with strong versions of "Gold Dust Woman," and "Landslide," which Nicks dedicated, as always, to her late father.

She introduced the band, and the audience tolerated a drum / percussion duet and Waddy Wachtel guitar solo simply because they recognized the riff of "Edge of Seventeen."

Nicks was called back to encore and delivered a strong cover of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll," finishing the song with a primal scream. She finished the show with "Beauty and the Beast."