Hot As A Pepper has big news and is ready to groove!
It’s been 18 months since Shannon left us and during that time we have spoken with and virtually auditioned dozens of vocalists. Many were quite amazing and would have certainly worked with Hot As A Pepper, but the timing was not right.
It’s hard to bring someone on and promise them shows, when the shows were being cancelled left and right due to the pandemic – in total, we lost 54 shows.
However, at the Upstate Live Music SC meetup that took place this year at The Spinning Jenny in Greer again, John just happened to strike up a conversation with Annie Perez who was the lead vocalist of her group, Strange Bird and it seemed that she was looking and interested for a new position.
After lots of discussion, Annie did a “virtual audition” where she videoed herself singing along to audio backing tracks of HAAP, and she nailed it. We wanted to hear more, and got her in to meet with the band, and she was even better in person!
At the Warehouse at Vaughn’s Halloween Costume event, we asked Annie to come join us on stage and sing the last set, which she did and she nailed! That was a terrific show! First, we had Shannon on state and then Annie – who could ask for more?
Long story short, we have brought Annie on to be our front-person and she will help take us back up where we belong!!!!
We are busily updating our song list and preparing for the first full show. Dec 11th is a private event with the Habanero Horns, and then we’re going to be filming for a promo video.
Please make plans to come out and catch the new lineup on Sunday Dec 12th at The Spinning Jenny from 6:00pm to 8:30pm!
It’s going to be HOT HOT HOT!!!!! https://thespinningjennygreer.com/
We would like to give a HUGE THANKS to Wilson Ligon for getting us through the last 18 months by transitioning from just keys/guitar/vocals to lead vocalist! We could not have done it without you Wilson – you did a marvelous job!
Also, another exciting thing – Gavin, who also joined us last year has suddenly become very popular in his OTHER career of film score/orchestration/production and Lance Sweatt has stepped in to keep the beat! You’re going to love Lance!
Best wishes to Gavin in his pursuit of music perfection! We’re going to love watching you succeed!
Thanks to everyone who has supported Hot As A Pepper during these odd times!
If you have a festival, event, wedding, party, bar, or venue that needs FUN, UPBEAT music you can dance to, please give us a call, we’re ready to rock starting in December 2021! CONTACT US or call 864-979-1224