Macklam/Feldman

Sarah McLachlan has signed with Sam Feldman of Macklam Feldman Management for worldwide management representation.

A multiple Grammy and JUNO Award-winner, Sarah McLachlan is celebrated as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the past two decades. McLachlan has sold in excess of 40 million albums worldwide and became a force in championing female artists with the inception of the groundbreaking touring festival, Lilith Fair. McLachlan was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada by the Governor General in recognition of her successful recording career as well as for her role in Lilith Fair and the many charitable donations made to women’s charities across Canada. She was also honored with the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award for advancing the careers of women in music on the 150th Anniversary of the first women’s rights convention. Continue reading →

World renowned artist Bette Midler has signed with a new management team.

Ms. Midler has brought together an experienced team that includes Sam Feldman, David Steinberg, and Larry Brezner to represent her diverse talents.

Sam Feldman is a partner in Macklam Feldman Management, a division of A & F Music Ltd., that represents James Taylor, Diana Krall and Elvis Costello, among others.

Steinberg and Brezner are partners at MBST Entertainment Inc, a division of Core Media Group. Their firm represents Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, among others. Continue reading →

Six-time Grammy Award-winner and legendary New Orleans singer-songwriter, Dr. John, has recently signed with Sam Feldman and Michael Gorfaine for exclusive management representation.

Sam Feldman is a partner in Macklam Feldman Management, a division of A&F Music Ltd. that represents artists such as Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Bette Midler, The Chieftains and James Taylor*, among others.

Michael Gorfaine is a partner in The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency and represents world-renowned composers, including John Williams, James Newton Howard and Randy Newman.  *Sam and Michael also provide exclusive management representation for James Taylor. Continue reading →

Effective immediately, Christi Thompson joins Macklam Feldman Management (MFM) as an Artist Manager.  Thompson currently manages Xavier Rudd, who joins the MFM roster under Thompson’s division, Thompson Management, a division of Macklam Feldman Management.

Sam Feldman says, “Christi’s experience in management, label and publicity makes her a welcome addition to the team at MFM.  It’s an added bonus that she brings the exceptional Australian artist Xavier Rudd to our roster. ”

Enthuses Steve Macklam, “We’ve had the pleasure of watching Christi grow Thompson Management over the years and her continued success with Xavier speaks for itself.  We are thrilled Christi is joining the MFM team.”

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stltoday.com: Daniel Durchholz: July 3rd, 2011

Costello interpolated songs like Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Help Me,” and Them’s “I Can Only Give You Everything” into his own tunes, creating something new along the way. The technique was never more effective than when he began Bob Dylan and the Band’s apocalyptic “This Wheel’s on Fire,” then moved into his own impassioned post-Katrina plea for New Orleans, “The River in Reverse.”
It was a powerful but sobering moment in a concert that otherwise offered nearly three hours of hilarity, musicality and unabated joy.

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Riverfront Times: Christian Schaeffer: July 2nd, 2011

“As Costello and his crew left the stage, drummer Pete Thomas gave an errant spin of the wheel as the house lights came on. It landed on “I Want You,” almost certainly Costello’s darkest song of violent lust and barely contained sexual rage. Fitting, then, that after a night of excess, the wheel leaves us with a message about insatiable desire. The crowd certainly would have stuck around for one more song, or twenty, but Costello understands that showbiz adage: Always leaving them wanting more”

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The Larryville Chronicles: July 1st, 2011

“I especially dug the second-encore jamboree with the Southern sisters from the opening act, who added some sweet pedal steel to ‘Sulphur to Sugarcane’ with Costello vamping it up to lyrics like ‘I gave up married women cause I heard it was a sin / Now I’m back in Kansas City I might take em up again.” Who doesn’t love when singers include the name of the city they’re in!”.”

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ReviewSTL: Allison: July 1st, 2011

“He selected a preteen who excitedly danced her way onto the stage and spun “Bedlam” as the next song. She jived first in an on-stage lounge and later in the go-go dancer’s cage as the band performed a version that had been slightly slowed down and jazzed up since its release on 2004′s The Delivery Man.”

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The Pitch: David Hudnall: July 1st, 2011

Down in front, a night’s convention of happily married couples chicken-danced to devilish and desperate songs about the hells of divorce and infidelity. “I Want You,” turned the stage lights blood red. In this trial-like song that throws a cheating heart and its victim through an incinerator, he wrenched and wailed some of his sickest lyrics three times over: Did you call his name out as he held you down? The irony was rich, jolly and irreproducible.

Then he sang the lines of the once-TV-banned “Radio, Radio.” I wanna bite the hand that feeds me / I wanna bite that hand so badly / I wanna make them wish they’d never seen me. In this bizarre world, Costello’s conquest of America turns the would-be gimmick of the Revolver Tour into a rising phoenix…

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Sarah Rodman, Boston.com / June 26, 2011

“You’re in the living room, but if you take two steps this way, you’re in the kitchen,’’ says Andrea Zonn with a smile.

Zonn is gamely giving a visitor the nickel tour of the cozy confines of the tour bus that she’s been living on for the past few months as part of James Taylor’s backup band.

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