{"id":6617,"date":"2015-05-03T12:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T19:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2015-05-03T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T19:52:21","slug":"weekend-extra-whitfield-and-greensill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/05\/weekend-extra-whitfield-and-greensill\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Whitfield And Greensill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;sMGM8cG08ryrXOYHzEgAZ4vXksuVIp6M&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Like any good independent self-promoting professional, Mike Greensill sends occasional email messages about what he and his wife, Wesla Whitfield, are up to. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pianist. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a singer. They live in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WeslaW-MikeGreensill-HR1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/WeslaW-MikeGreensill-HR1.jpg\" alt=\"WeslaW-MikeGreensill-HR\" width=\"214\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6619\" \/><\/a>California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Napa Valley, near San Francisco. Now and then they fly to New York City to work at Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pub and Carnegie Hall, among other places. Mr. Greensill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most recent communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 contained a link to a song of the kind in which they specialize&#151;&#151;established, familiar, classic&#151;&#151;songs that if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re writing about them and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t include the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Great American Songbook,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d you get a call from ASCAP. <\/p>\n<p>When they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re at home in Napa, the Greensills often appear at a club called Silo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, conveniently placed just down the road from their house. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where she sang the Gerswins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our Love Is Here To Stay,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d complete with verse and one of the world&#8217;s longest sustained, in-tune, closing notes.   <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-ElH0ziuNc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>You may have noticed that Ms. Whitfield sings seated in a wheelchair, and wondered why. She tells the story in this segment from a 1994 broadcast of  <em>CBS Sunday Morning<\/em> with Charles Osgood. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxKvOhCAmHM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>More about Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greenstill at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weslawhitfield.com\"target=\"_blank\">her website<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegreensill.com\">his<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;sMGM8cG08ryrXOYHzEgAZ4vXksuVIp6M&#8221;] Like any good independent self-promoting professional, Mike Greensill sends occasional email messages about what he and his wife, Wesla Whitfield, are up to. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pianist. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a singer. They live in California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Napa Valley, near San Francisco. 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