All honor to Al Wood’s Ukulele Hunt for posting a link to this video of Victoria Vox on the Jay Leno Show.  I missed Victoria’s blog posting announcing that she would be on, and of course I never watch the Jay Leno Show, so I wouldn’t have known about it but for Al. 

There’s a higher quality video on Facebook.

 Here, Victoria explains the mouth trumpet:

And here’s “Peeping Tomette,” a.k.a. “Chameleon,” which features one of Victoria’s best mouth trumpet solos:

“Chameleon” is the title track of Victoria’s terrific second album, which you can buy at her website.

When I hear this song, I make these same hand movements.  The first time I did,  Mrs Acilius laughed.  All the other times she’s smiled politely and looked the other way.  Anyway, there are three possibilities as to why these children do the same thing I do: (1) It’s a meaningless coincidence; (2) Mrs Acilius secretly contacted them and taught them to imitate me; (3) I have the mind of a small child and we all think alike.  I favor possibility (1). 

“Tucson,” written by Victoria Vox; ukulele and vocals, Victoria Vox; cello, melaniejane.

Her video for C’est noye. 

That’s the new title of her website, and listening to her new album (posted there for free!) you’ll find it hard not to love her back. http://www.victoriavox.com/

Her myspace page is good too- http://www.myspace.com/VICTORIAVOX

And she’s got some terrific performances up on youtube- here’s one example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAN96aOIs8Q