Jason Feddy

Jason Feddy
Feddy in 2018
Background information
Birth name Jason Edward Feddy
Born (1966-02-22) 22 February 1966
Leeds, United Kingdom
Origin Harrogate, United Kingdom
Genres
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Blues
  • Folk
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • Songwriter
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1981–present
Website www.jasonfeddy.com

Jason Edward Feddy (born 1966) is a British singer/songwriter who now makes his home in Southern California.

Career

Feddy was born in the city of Leeds in the United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and, after a couple of years drifting around Europe and the Middle East, returned to England and formed the rock 'n roll band Officer Dibble, which he fronted as a singer and guitar player.[1][2] Going solo as a singer/songwriter soon thereafter, he spent the next couple of decades touring and making albums, acquiring accolades and notoriety along the way.[3][4] Feddy has been featured in the prestigious London based Time Out (magazine)[5] and on the cover of the Classic Rock Society journal.[6] He tours in Europe regularly to this day and has written songs for film & TV.[7][8][9]

Mad Dogs & The Englishman

In 2018 Feddy debuted a Joe Cocker tribute band, “Mad Dogs & The Englishman.” Along with Jason as lead singer, the band features John Troy on bass (formerly with Joe Cocker, Natalie Cole, Daryl Hall); Ray Weston on drums (Iron Butterfly and formerly with Tom Jones, Robert Palmer, Right Said Fred); Richard Bredice on guitar (formerly with Jules Shear, Fall Out Boy, Common Sense); Dave Witham on keyboards (formerly with Barbara Streisand, George Benson, Al Jarreau); Jimmy 'Z' Zavala on saxophone (formerly with Etta James, Eurythmics, Carole King, Rod Stewart); and back-up signers Pat Hawk, Janis Leibhart, and Lori Mark-Heingold (formerly with Michael Bolton).[10]

Beatroots Band

The Beatroots band was formed by Feddy in the spring of 2006 in response to a request from Laguna Beach's world-famous Festival of Arts (see Pageant of the Masters or Sawdust Art Festival). The Festival was looking for a band to play Beatles songs on their music stage every Sunday afternoon the following summer. They contacted Feddy, who brought the players together and formulated the show. The Beatroots are a different kind of "tribute" band. They don't dress up, they don't wear wigs. They play the songs of The Beatles in their own style, staying close to the original, but improvising when the feeling takes them. This makes for a truly energetic and alive experience for both the musicians and the audience. Not a dreary copy-cat, but a real, organic living tribute.[11]

The Beatroots show was a tremendous success at the Festival of the Arts—it ran for six incredible years—and to this day the band continues to appear at the Festival and various other venues.[12]

The Beatroots are: Jason Feddy (lead vocals and guitar); Geoff Perlman (vocals/guitars); John Troy (vocals/bass) and Evan Stone (drums).[13]

133 Band

In 2014 Laguna Beach resident Clay Berryhill gathered together eight local musicians with big time musical careers, including Feddy as guitar player and singer, to create a new band modeled after the Traveling Wilburys, called the 133 Band. In addition to Feddy, the 133 Band features Beth Fitchett-Wood (guitar & vocals), Steve Wood (keyboards & vocals) Poul Pedersen (guitar & vocals), Bob Hawkins (lead guitar), Alan Deremo (bass), Nick Hernandez (ukulele, guitar & vocals), and Drew Hester (drums).[14]

The 133 Band made its debut by opening for The Beach Boys at the Irvine Bowl[15] and continues to appear at numerous venues in southern California.[16] It is also producing an EP, a CD, and a documentary film about the making of the band and its members.[17]

Movies, Television, Theater

Feddy has written and performed songs for the Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen TV series So Little Time,[18] feature film Divorce Invitation (starring Paul Sorvino & Elliott Gould),[19] and soundtrack for the documentary film "Home Again."[20]

In 2018 Feddy wrote over a dozen original songs for the play “Two’s a Crowd,” a musical comedy written and produced by award-winning comedienne Rita Rudner and her British producer husband Martin Bergman, with the opening September 2018 run of the production starring Rita Rudner and Phantom of the Opera's Davis Gaines. Feddy also served as Musical Director for the opening run.[21][22]

Shakespeare's Fool

There are songs in the plays of Shakespeare. In the spring of 2010, Feddy and his band met with local performance poet, actor and teacher John Gardiner, to develop a performance piece of Shakespeare's songs with modern, acoustic based tunes combined with speeches from Shakespeare's plays.[23]

The result is a fast-paced, off the cuff and energetic performance called Shakespeare's Fool, featuring 10 songs and 10 speeches from the Shakespeare canon accompanied by performance art by Feddy's actress wife, Ava Burton. Feddy recorded the songs with his friends and musical collaborators David J. Carpenter (bass) and Bryan Head (drums).[24]

Feddy also regularly performs Shadespeare's Fool live at local venues such as Rockpile Amphitheater at Heisler Park, overlooking Laguna Beach's Pacific Ocean lagoon.[25] His songs were used in the 2018 Bares Bones Theater production of “In Search of Silvia, Or What Goes Awry When Fools Fall in Love,” by Lojo Simon.[26]

Cantor

Feddy is a fluent Hebrew speaker and performs many popular and ceremonial songs. He currently serves the resident Cantor at Temple Isaiah in Newport Beach.[27] He has also appeared at Temple Beth in San Diego, Temple West in La Jolla, Chabad of Laguna Beach, and Beth Hamidrash in the United Kingdom.[28]

In 2016 Feddy teamed up with Rabbi-Cantor Marcia Tilchin, founder of The Jewish Collaborative of Orange County, to host a monthly musical Kabbalat Shabbat service.[29]

Radio Personality

Feddy began his radio career in 2013 with a Sunday morning show entitled "Full English Breakfast" on KXRN 93.5 FM in Laguna Beach. The show featured Feddy and his cousin Martyn Cohen (along with other sometimes co-hosts), bantering about with humorous chat on current events and life in general, in between playing groovy tunes.[30][31] Based upon the wild popularity of "Full English Breakfast," Feddy was invited to host his own daily show on 93.5 FM, something he described as "moonlighting during the day as DJ."[32][33] The show included music, news, sardonic comedy, and regular interviews of an eclectic group of celebrities such as Rick Springfield (actor & Grammy Award-winning musician), Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), Eddie Money (rock musician), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Teri Nunn (Berlin), Jim Kerr (Simple Minds), Lee Rocker (Stray Cats), Mike Green & Ray Weston (Iron Butterfly), Robbie Krieger (The Doors), and many others.[34][35]

Following the huge success of Feddy's daily show, he teamed-up with DJ Tyler Russell to do a live morning show for 93.5 FM weekdays from 7-10 a.m. entitled "Daily Scramble Live" followed by an abbreviated version of his continuing daily show.[36] "Daily Scramble Live" featured an invigorating blend of music, news, games, in-studio guests, and banter. Highlights included Daily Scramble News, the Only in Laguna File, Jason Sings the Police Blotter, Grab Bag of Games, and Let's Punk Newport.[37][38] Soon thereafter he also assumed the role of 93.5 FM Director of Production & Promotion.

In March 2018 KX 93.5 made the following announcement: "Growth and change can be bittersweet. We are saddened to officially announce that Jason Feddy has elected to resign from KX 93.5 to pursue other opportunities. He has been an integral part of KX 93.5's history, and we wish him the best."[39]

Venues/Other Artists

Over the years Feddy has played at various venues throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States and Middle East, including the Royal Albert Hall in London, the London Palladium, Wembley Stadium, Glastonbury Festival, Harrogate Blues Bar, Laguna Beach Festival of the Arts, Laguna Beach Sawdust Art Festival, The Tudor House Theatre in Lake Arrowhead, Jacob's Ladder Festival in Israel, Chilkat Center for the Arts in Alaska, the Blue Water Music Festival in Laguna Beach, and many, many more.[40][41][42][43][44][45] Feddy has also appeared on MTV.[46]

Feddy as a solo artist, or with various bands, has opened for or collaborated with such noted musical artists as Al Stewart, Donovan, The Beach Boys, Neil Young, Kenny Loggins, Joe Cocker, David Gray, Ben Folds Five, Patsy Matheson, The Cranberries, Tears For Fears, Ralph Covert, Christie Moore, Paul Young, John Martyn, Jools Holland, Chris de Burgh, and Lisa Loeb, to name but a few.[47][48]

Laguna Playhouse

Feddy served as co-host for the sold out Laguna Concert Band featuring Lee Rocker at the Laguna Beach Playhouse.[49]

In the summer of 2014 Feddy made his stage acting debut as a radio announcer in the Laguna Beach Playhouse presentation of "Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story."[50]

In December 2017 Feddy appeared at the Playhouse with the performance art group The Skivvies, performing stripped-down versions of eclectic covers, wacky holiday mash-ups and eccentric originals.[51]

Sponsorships/Endorsements

Feddy is sponsored by and officially endorses Rickenbacker guitars and Bose sound reinforcement systems.[52]

Community Service

Feddy is consistently involved in community service and support of charitable organizations. He has played the Blue Water Concert to Help Save Trestles, the InPerson Social Media fundraiser for Earthroots Field School, appeared at the Home Aid OC's Annual Project Playhouse Dinner & Auction to benefit for the homeless, and been featured at the Friendship Shelter Annual Gala, among others.[53][54][55]

Feddy spearheaded bringing the Music in Common program to Orange County (a two-day event which brings together high school age Jews, Christians, and Muslims to learn how to exchange ideas with mutual respect, collaborate, and work together towards a common goal through the process of writing a song).[56][57] In 2018 Feddy became the Southern California Regional Coordinator for Music in Common.[58]

Other

Feddy's chance encounter with British presenter, writer, journalist, and BBC television personality Richard Hammond is memorialized in Hammond's 2013 biography "On the Road: Growing up in Eight Journeys-My Early Years" (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ISBN 978-02978-6943-6): "Jason Feddy was incredible. An affable sort of a guy with a soft, reedy speaking voice bearing a distinct Northern twang, he relaxed and laughed with us. His long wavy hair under a stylish baker-boy cap atop an impossibly loud shirt signaled that her was a guy for whom his music was everything. He was a pro and we were there to learn."

English author, musician and screenwriter Jeremy Dyson (an acquaintance of Feddy's wife) uses the name "Jason Feddy" to represent a fictional character in his short story entitled "A Visit From Val Koran," appearing in the collection of short stories published in 2000 entitled "Never Trust A Rabbit" (Duck Editions, ISBN 0715630970).

Awards

In 2015 Feddy was recognized as a "Local Luminary" by Laguna Beach Magazine, an annual list of creators, champions and change-makers who have made a significant impact—near and far.[59]

In 2016 Feddy received the Laguna "Hero Fest" music hero award for his work with Music in Common.[60]

In 2017 Feddy was named the "Best of Laguna Beach" in a poll conducted by local radio station 93.5 FM.[61]

In 2018 Feddy earned a nomination as "Artist of the Year" by the Laguna Beach Arts Alliance.[62]

Personal life

Feddy attended Leeds' Morris Silman Middle School in the United Kingdom, which provided a rounded Jewish and secular education and Bar-Mitzvah training. Feddy and his family were longstanding members of one of the many local synagogues. Feddy was a member of the school and synagogue choirs and was awarded 1st prize in the school's trophy for music in his last year at the school. Active for all of his childhood years in the Kibbutz oriented youth movement (Habonim/Dror), Feddy was raised to the soundtrack of Jewish music, both ancient and modern. His mother was (and still is) an active member of various amateur choirs and liturgical singing groups. His father's side—not so musical—although he does account for Feddy's sense of humor and big personality![63]

Feddy graduated from Allerton High School, Leeds, United Kingdom, in 1982. Later he attended Manchester College, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1997-1998; and thereafter attended the University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1998-1999.

In 2010 Feddy married his sweetheart, classically trained actress Ava Burton,[64] in Israel on Kibbutz Tuval, under a chuppah overlooking the Galilean hills.[65][66] They make their home in Laguna Beach with their beloved white poodle "Mrs. Pickles."[67]

Albums

  • Shakespeare's Fool (full band version) (2018)
  • The Joy of OK (2013)
  • Shakespeare's Fool (solo acoustic version) (2012)
  • Live in Kevin's Garage (2010)
  • Connected (2008)
  • United Kingdom (2007)
  • So Long Lives This LP (2006)
  • Is This Thing On? (2003)
  • I Thought the Moon was Meant for Me (1996)
  • Jason Feddy EP (1995)
  • Fish on the Moon (1993)

Police Blotter Compilations

  • Police Blotter 2 (2017)
  • Police Blotter (2016)

Album Songs

  • A Brand New Dream (Feddy/Thomson)
  • Afterglow (Feddy/Benstock)
  • After You There Is No One (Feddy)
  • All in This Together (Feddy)
  • All That You Do To Me (Feddy/Scott)
  • Angels (Feddy)
  • Anything You Want (Feddy)
  • Anyway (Feddy)
  • Beautiful Few (Feddy)
  • Bitch (Feddy)
  • Blood Is Blood (Feddy/Carpenter)
  • Breakdown from the Stars (Feddy)
  • Cartoon Life (Feddy)
  • Clearly a Blue Day (Feddy)
  • Connected (Feddy/Carpenter)
  • Drugs on Legs (Feddy)
  • Diatribe (Feddy)
  • Don't Ask Me How I Know (Feddy)
  • Easily (Feddy)
  • Even The Rain (Feddy/Scott)
  • Everything Will Follow (Feddy/Dermo)
  • Faces (Feddy/Thomson/Caine)
  • Fish On The Moon (Feddy)
  • Forty-Seven Days (Feddy)
  • Get to the Sun (Feddy/Thomson)
  • Green Lights (Feddy/Dermo)
  • Gods in the Grain (Feddy/Hawkins)
  • Heroin (Feddy)
  • Home Again (Feddy/Hayes)
  • Human Zoo (Feddy)
  • I Can't Wait (Feddy/Hawkins)
  • I Depend On You (Feddy/Clarke)
  • I Just Remembered (Feddy/Barguiarena/Bunn)
  • I Still Want You Now (Feddy)
  • I Want Holding (Feddy/Thomson)
  • If I Don't Ask (Feddy/Beal)
  • Infinity (Feddy/Dermo)
  • Katy's Car (Feddy/Thomson)
  • Kicking Up The Pavement (Feddy/Scott)
  • Let It Be Summer (Feddy/Thomson)
  • Let Me Off The Leash (Feddy/Hall)
  • No Faith (Feddy)
  • Philistines (Feddy/Barrett)
  • Ragtime To Rags (Covert)
  • She Loves Everyone (Feddy)
  • She's Coming Home (Feddy)
  • She's Not To Blame (Feddy)
  • Skandia's Song (Shafer/Feddy/Carpenter)
  • Speechless (Feddy/Hawkins/Todd)
  • Stars (Feddy)
  • Starstruck & Spellbound (Feddy/Dermo)
  • The Birds Will Sing Your Name (Feddy/Benstock)
  • The Bridge To The Island (Feddy)
  • The Deaf and Dumb Boy (Feddy)
  • The Deed Was Done (Feddy)
  • The Foolish Lover's Heart (Feddy)
  • The Names Go On Forever (Feddy/Swimm/Getz)
  • There's Only One Way This Could End (Feddy)
  • The Road (Feddy)
  • Wade Through the Water (Feddy/Dermo)
  • Watching The Walls (Feddy)
  • What If? (Feddy)
  • You're Gonna Have My Way (Feddy)

Police Blotter Songs

  • Grapes (Feddy)
  • Underwater Bicycle Man (Feddy)
  • Acid Kelp (Feddy)
  • A Lexus (Feddy)
  • The Ballad of Eddie Rubio (Feddy)
  • Frank Lee Russell, 49 (Feddy)
  • Morningside Circle (Feddy)
  • My Purple Helmet (Feddy)
  • Drunk In Public (Feddy)
  • Rock Scallop (Feddy)
  • The Thousand Dollar Phone (Feddy)
  • One Red Door (Feddy)
  • Wheelie Boys (Feddy)
  • A Better Class of Loser (Feddy)
  • When I am Old and Tired (Feddy)
  • Egged (Feddy)
  • What's In A Name (Feddy)
  • Fanny Pack (Feddy)
  • Where's Granny? (Feddy)
  • Florida (Feddy)
  • Audi Blues (Feddy)
  • Four Bananas (Feddy)
  • Manhole (Feddy)
  • Rifling (Feddy)
  • The Library (Feddy)
  • The Severed Head Of St. Vitalis (Feddy)
  • Thank You Neighbor (Feddy)
  • Grand Theft: Keys (Feddy)
  • You Can't Beat Kids (Feddy)
  • Bad Ass Blotterees (Feddy)
  • Guitar Stolen (Feddy)

Shakespeare's Fool Songs (lyrics by Shakespeare/music by Jason Feddy)

  • All That Glisters
  • Blessings On You
  • Fear No More The Heat Of The Sun
  • Hey Ho The Wind & The Rain
  • How Should I Your True Love Know?
  • O Mistress Mine
  • Queen Of Queens
  • Sigh No More, Ladies
  • Sylvia
  • The Gravedigger

Movie And Television Songs

  • Beautiful Few (Mary Kate & Ashley TV series "So Little Time" and compilation soundtrack CD)
  • Easily (title track of the movie "Divorce Invitation" starring Paul Sorvino & Elliott Gould)
  • Home Again (title song from the music-documentary "Home Again" in support of Home Aid, OC)
  • I Still Want You Now Instrumental ("Divorce Invitation")
  • I Just Remembered ("Divorce Invitation")

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