Performing on Sept 9th - Pamela Ruby Russell Performing on Sept 9th at 12:30 PM at "Celebrate Norfolk" - Reopening of Norfolk's Town Hill: PAMELA RUBY RUSSELL and Her HIGHWAY OF DREAMS Songstress, Photographer Making honest music and photographs that uplift and enlighten is what Ms. Pamela strives for. There are no strangers and life is short, dealing us tough cards at times. "Playing those hands wisely with generosity and compassion," Ms. Ruby says, "helps us move through our time together on this planet with grace in profound and useful ways. It is about joy! With all I've seen in my life, what I've learned must be worth sharing! That's why I sing! And besides, it is fun!" Pamela Ruby Russell, a long time community activist who has recently moved to Norfolk, has done everything from owning her own restaurant on the Cape to riding an elephant in a Mexican circus and reading Tarot cards in Spanish and designing jewelry on the beach on St. Barths. Besides having managed, recorded and performed with her own eclectic rock and cabaret bands for years, she is also an accomplished photographer. Ms. Ruby is a two time BILLBOARD Magazine award winning songwriter and has produced and recorded her own independent CD, HIGHWAY OF DREAMS along with guitarist Peter Calo, who performs with Carly Simon and is now on Broadway in HAIRSPRAY. PAMELA RUBY RUSSELL'S CD, HIGHWAY OF DREAMS is available at www.cdbaby.com/rubytunes. For more information about this talented and dedicated artist, please contact her at: Rubytunes@aol.com or at www.Nextcat.com/rubytunes. Accompanying Ms. Ruby on Guitar will be: MASAHI NAKAMURA Guitarist Extraordinaire, Vocals Masashi performs as well with the award winning world beat band, WILDEST DREAMS. He was born in Fukuoka, Japan. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, while living in Japan, Masashi was voted Best Guitarist in 1988 in the Yamaha Band Explosion Contest in Hagi City. HIs band won the award of Best Band award in the same contest (1986-1988). Mashashi won 2nd place in Yamaha's Classical Guitar Competition in Kyusha, Japan (1989). He has performed with Slide Hampton; Robert Stanton; Shane Phillips; Sandra Rodrigues;The Ethiopian Reggae Band; Clarence Thompson, Sr.; as well as with the "New Spirits Appeared" band, at the South By Southwest (Austin, Texas) & Mob Fest (Chicago) Music Conferences and the World Hunger Year Conference (NY). 9/5/2006 ###