Victoria & Zeta Five, Austin, Texas

The Rock 105.9fm, Sunday Blues Show, Nashville, TN (2006)
"Down By The River"

NETTE RADIO, Dallas, TX (2006)
"Say What?" and "It's A Lazy Morning Rain" and "VooDoo Child (Slight Return)

Smack FM, Wyoming, MI (2006)
Airplay

THE ON THE HORIZON NETWORK SHOW, North Carolina
Airplay & Internet Radio Play & Interview
"Bayou's Blues Jam (Wild Turkeys)" and "Say What?" - www.theothnetwork.com

iSOUND.COM RADIO, Dallas, TX (2006) (Unsolicited)
"He Makes Me Feel So Good" included on an unsolicited regular rotation from a playlist of 20 on iSOUNDS.com Blues Radio station.

DR. LOVE RADIO, Atlanta, GA (2006) Internet Radio Play
"He Makes Me Feel So Good" featured for 30 days during March 2006.

INDIE 104.7fm LA & iRADIOLA.com - (2006)
Airplay & Internet Radio Play
"It's A Lazy Morning Rain" received airplay on indie104.7fm in LA, California, beginning February 16, 2006, as well as on Internet Radio at www.iRadioLA.com.

iSOUND.COM RADIO. Dallas, TX (2005, 2006)
"Wild Turkeys" included on an unsolicited regular rotation from a playlist of 20 for 30 days on iSOUNDS.com Blues Radio station, and for 20 days on the Top Songs rotation through December 2005 and January 2006.

International Internet Radio Streaming & Radio Airplay

"DESDE LA TORRE", LT 38 GUALEGUAY Gualeguay, Entre Rios, Republica Argentina (2006)

How are you? I write to you again, because the last week I received your package with your CD which is excellent!!!! a very good job of Blues and electrical violin, really very good. Next saturday I'll play a track and in the next weekend I will play several tracks in my program . . . Thanks for the music, again.

"ROCK & BLUES & "MINISTERIO" Shows 97.5 FM Rock, CORDOBA
(2nd largest city in Republica, Argentina, population 1.5 million) (2006)
VooDoo Child (Slight Return) Airplay www.975rock.com.ar

I have received your pkg and I'm very impressioned for your material. In my opinion is very interesant and original. Today, sunday, in our program will be present the track 10 and in the next edition, others 3 new tracks.

The radio program, "ROCK & BLUES", is emitted every Sunday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. from FM 97.5 ROCK. The program is more than 11 years old and it is practically one of the few what, in your genre, are emitted inside the city and the country. The other program called "MINISTERIO" is also emitted on FM 97.5 ROK on Thursdays from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. This program is dedicated, with more extensive criterion, to difusse blues,rock-fusion jazz,etc. Carlos Luis Rubin is the PRODUCER and CONDUCTOR of both radio programs.

GOOD TIME BLUES SHOW (2006)
Buenes Aires, Argentina

2 hours of the best blues and jazz music! Live broadcast every Friday night 22:00 pm on FM Arinfo www.arinfo.com.ar/vivo.htm !!!

"I´ve received your great cd a few days ago! I really love your music and I´ll play in our show soon! I will send the playlist too."

PULSIONS 70 Radio Aria - 2006
"It's A Lazy Morning Rain" & "Bendin' Like A Willow Tree"

My name is RUER Michel and I work in a radio (Radio Aria) in France. I realize an emission on the blues (Pulsions 70) during one hour on Tuesdays and one hour on Sundays. My emission is diffused in the east of France, in Belgium, in Luxembourg and in the south of Germany.

THE ON THE HORIZON NETWORK SHOW - 2006
Airplay & Internet Radio Play & Interview "Bayou's Blues Jam (Wild Turkeys)" - www.theothnetwork.com

Xposed
Victoria and Zeta Five: Have you ever heard an electric violin sound like an electric guitar? Better yet, a child whining? These are some of the amazing things Victoria makes her "fiddle " sound like on the band 's CD "To Be Announced". Victoria and the band do a great job of delivering some down home blues influenced/jazz inspired material. The band is composed of some brilliant musicians, but dare I say the things Victoria does with her violin are simply magnificent ... the music is phenomenally good, especially the 10:49 long Voodoo Child. I would love to hear an all-instrumental CD from V and ZF. (Click HERE to view UNSIGNED, Issue 24, July 2006 V publication!)

J.I.M.I. (Jimi Hendrix Information Management Institute)
VOODOO CHILD, Fall 2006, Issue 71

Victoria Hammill is a modern pioneer in electrice blues violin. Texas-bred, now Nashville-based, most people of that region of the country would call what she played a fiddle. It is anything but. She's custom modified and modernized the instrument with electronics, allowing her to do with the violin what Jimi Hendrix did with his guitar ... While still one of those talented musicians in the huge pool of Nashville hopefuls, Hammill will find success with her instrument.

VICTORIA AND ZETA FIVE
TO BE ANNOUNCED
DIGIMIND RECORDS VZ121805

SAY WHAT--BENDIN' LIKE A WILLOW TREE--DOWN BY THE RIVER--LET ME GO--CROSSCUT SAW/DON'T YOU LIE TO ME--CLOSE TO YOU--WILD TURKEYS--HE MAKES ME FEEL SO GOOD--TO BE ANNOUNCED--VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN)--IT'S A LAZY MORNING RAIN

Native Texan Victoria Hammill is a master of the electric violin, and has melded her vast talents, along with those of backing band the Zeta Five, into a cool blues-rock-jazz fusion that has a lot in common with the sounds that Jean-Luc Ponty and Papa John Creach brought to the Frank Zappa and Jefferson Airplane bands back in the Seventies. "To Be Announced" is an excellent set of eleven cuts of Victoria's clever fusions of these genres', five of which are band originals.

Victoria brings a lot of energy to the table in her style of playing, and that energy level translates well onto this disc. She drew a lot of inspiration from Hendrix and fellow Texan SRV, and pays tribute to them via "Close To You," "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," and "Say What." On the latter, everyone gets a chance to strut a little, and, of particular note is the lead guitar work of Markus Rodriguez and the B-3 work from one of our favorite keyboard men, Larry Van Loon. They all complement Victoria's playing perfectly. Her funkier side is represnted by "Let Me Go," which features some seriously-cool sax work from Waldo Weathers. And, the jazzy title cut woulda been right at home on any Herbie Hancock album from "back in the day."

We had two favorites, too. "Wild Turkeys" is an amped-up insrumental featuring Victoria's violin going toe-to-toe with Bayou Williford's harp. And, good friend James Nixon does a neat duet with Victoria, as he takes lead vocal on "Crosscut Saw," and she takes the lead on "Don't You Lie To Me," again driven by Bayou's hot harp licks.

"To Be Announced" is a very impressive and eclectic set from one of MCBS' most versatile members. Check out Victoria Hammill and Zeta Five today and get ready for some red-hot blues!!

Until next time...Sheryl and Don Crow.

A Hammond B3 groove and Victoria's trademark electric violin jump-start this compilation of covers and originals that visits Blues, Rock, Jazz, Fusion, and Jam band territory. Perfection and originality are the standards on this initial effort by Victoria & Zeta Five. What's Victoria's secret? She credits the "Electric Zeta Music 5-String Jazz Fusion Series Violin" powered by "Marshall, Mesa Boogie, and Real McCoy."

While the Hammond B3, Blues harp, and sax each take a turn in the spotlight, it's Victoria's Hendrix-influenced altered electric violin that makes this CD a must-buy. From chops and wah-wahs to warbles, wails, and choo-choos, Victoria experiments with "wave-form propagation." Her days as a Classical violinist and Swing fiddler behind her, this Texas native and former seismologist now calls herself a Blues violinist. Husband, co-producer, and guitarist Edward T. Hammil introduced Victoria to the Blues world, and she's clearly found her place in it.

The husband/wife team creates a new standard for love songs on the co-written track "He Makes Me Feel So Good"; Hammill's liquid vocals are clear as a mountain waterfall and cover a similar range. Classic covers like "Down by the River" and "Voodoo Chile" are freshly interpreted here. Guest vocalist Nick Nixon adds an authentic Blues tone to "Crosscut Saw," yet the tune sounds out of place on this album: Victoria rocks much stronger on Blues-Rock/Jazz fusion cuts. But if you're looking for Emo, this isn't the record for you. The sound is clean, maybe even too clean, though, amazingly, most of it was recorded live in the studio. Victoria wears a happy face on the cover, and her high enthusiasm radiates positive energy throughout To Be Announced. Let's hope there's a lot more to come.

If you're into hot rockin' electric violin blues and jazz and fusion, let's go! Victoria Hammill is a fiddler extraordinaire when it comes to her genre of music. Released on the independent Digimind Records label, the album features eleven eclectic cuts that keep your body groovin' to the sound. The girl's vocals aren't too bad either and are backed by some pretty cool musicians.