Shortt Stories Records

 Welcome to Angrychick Productions on the web!  A site dedicated to promoting the work of  Rachel Shortt, and hopefuly other independent artists in the future.  Angrychick Productions does not pretend to be anything that it's not,in fact, it's not trying to be anything at all.  We are purely here to promote the art of those who may otherwise be overlooked. We believe that everyone deserves an outlet so their voices may be heard...

The first angrychick video is here!!! Check it out for the first time ever we here at Angrychick Productions have put together a lil' bit of visual entertainment for you. It's a lil' rough around the edges, but we are always evolving...

If you're having trouble viewing the video just click the following link and type Rachel Shortt in the search engine.

http://video.google.com/

Thanx Again for your support!!!

Angrychick Productions & Shortt Stories Records Presents:

Custom merchandise available online at 
http://www.cafepress.com/angrychick

Fun novelties for everyone to enjoy, at the touch of a button!!! Give us your feedback and  let us know what you think.

All proceeds will go to further the art and music Created under and by Shortt Stories Records & Angrychick Productions.

As always, thanx for your support!!!

When she was five years old, her Grandparents gave her a plastic Walt Disney acoustic guitar with nylon strings." My biggest influences at the time were probably Elvis and John Lennon." Time has passed,  Rachel's  knowledge and hunger for music has expanded and matured, and she has grown to love all forms of music. Since then, she has been independently releasing CDs whenever she has had the time and the resources. For the last three years, she has been traveling the U.S. playing  guitar and singing independently, as well as performing with various other artists all over, when and wherever she can... 

Rachel's sound is a little bit funk, a little bit folk... A raw emotional peak into her soul, a woman's heart in harmony. Rachel is a breakthrough artist and entertainer. Every one of her shows holds its own personal connection with the audience.

Rachel has been involved in the production of original music since the age of nine. At fifteen, she independently released the album "Hopeful Thoughts", as well as the CD single "Chased by Zombies" in 1998,with the band "Cerebellum". Unfortunately, shortly after the CD release, Cerebellum broke up for artistic differences. However, that did not stop this determined singer/songwriter from doing what she loves.  

Rachel went on to pursue her music, by working on various collaborations with other artrists, and selling her CD's out of her backpack . At eighteen, after breaking out of a two year writer's block, she proved both maturity and diversity in her work by performing the hauntingly heartbroken song, "You and I ". Rachel crept back into the scene, by winning a slot on the North Coast Idol Finals, held by Union Station Video Cafe and Bounce Night Club, in Cleveland, OH. All of this led to her first completely independent release "The Living Room Sessions", which was written, recorded, produced, and promoted by Rachel Shortt and Angrychick Productions. By August 2003, with a handful of people working along side her, she headed out on her first self-financed US tour (see gig list for tour locations). Exactly one year later, she followed up with second US tour, and a third and more serious tour in the making.

Check out Rachel's fourth CD "In Between Black and White"  released Oct.  2004.

 The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, Ben Folds Five, Sheryl Crow, Cat Power

Natalie Merchant, John Lennon, Erika Badu, Mazzy Star, Ani Difranco, Grateful Dead,

John Marshall, this list could go on for days...

OHIO-

The Mud House, Hard Rock Cafe, Guitar and Sound Clinic, The Pitt Stop Bar & Grill, Union Station Video Cafe and Bounce Night Club, Lakewood Park Pavillion and Main Stage, The Winchester Music Hall, The Gay and Lesbian Center (where she led a creative writing youth workshop), benefits for National AIDS Day, benefits for Cleveland State University held at Bounce Night Club, Rockin' In The Streets for Cleveland Gay Pride, various other bars, coffee houses and street corners...

OUTSIDE OHIO-

New York - C-Note, E. Village, NY / The Orange Bare, Manhattan, NY/
Iowa City, IO. - The Mill, / Mazula, MT. - Liquid Planet
Seattle WA.- Central Washington University / The Mainstage / The Jewelbox Theatre (The Rendezvous) /
Galloway Arms / Trabant Chai Lounge / Trax Bar & Grill / The Lucky Dog / Hotwire Cafe'  / Scarlett Tree Lounge / Cafe' Racer / Julia's / various parks, streets, and bus stations all over the country...