World-renowned Tony nominee, New York Cabaret Award winner, and Women Songwriter Hall of Fame inductee, Ann Hampton Callaway, has primarily built her legacy as a formidable interpreter of great standards and songbooks of legendary singers, from Ella Fitzgerald to most recently, Peggy Lee. Though she’s recorded many of her own songs over the years and had others recorded by the likes of Barbra Streisand and Karrin Allison, her fourth Shanachie album FINDING BEAUTY is her first-ever collection devoted to mining her catalog of original tender-hearted, lyrically insightful personal songs. While focused mostly on Callaway’s dazzling way with emotion-filled ballads, the luminous, intensely revelatory 16-track collection includes several inspirational up-tempo gems. Callaway also proves herself a master collaborator on tunes featuring Kurt Elling, Tierney Sutton, Melissa Manchester, and her sister, actress and recording artist, Liz Callaway.
