Press

Violectric has appeared in print, radio and television. The following is a selection of these appearances.

Television

WOFL TV Fox 35 Orlando – Good Day Orlando
December 6, 2023
Michelle and members appear to promote the 11th Annual Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park and perform a holiday/rock mashup.

Click Orlando – Channel 6 WKMG 
December 4, 2023
Story about the 2023 Holiday Show and the Lake Eola Amphitheater celebrating 100 Years.

WESH TV NBC 2 Orlando
December 4, 2023
Michelle appears to promote the 11th Annual Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park.

WSFL TV South Florida – Inside South Florida
October 20, 2023
Promotion for our Pompano Beach Halloween Concert at the Pompano Beach Cultural Arts Center

WSVN News Channel 7 Miami
October 19, 2023
Michelle appears to promote our Pompano Beach Halloween Concert at the Pompano Beach Cultural Arts Center.

WOFL TV Fox 35 Orlando – Good Day Orlando
December 4, 2021
Michelle appears to promote the 9th Annual Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park and perform a holiday/rock mashup.

WOFL TV Fox 35 Orlando – Good Day Orlando
December 6, 2020
Michelle appears to promote the 2020 Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park and perform a holiday/rock mashup.

WMBB 3 ABC Ft. Walton Beach, FL
November 18, 2020
Violectric appears on WMBB Channel 13 at 10PM promoting the week’s Violectric Music Education Programs in the Walton County Schools, sponsored by Sinfonia Gulf Coast. we are sharing online, free for students of all ages. A new video is posted every Thursday.

WESH 2 NBC Orlando
June 11, 2020
Michelle appears on WESH Channel 2 in the morning promoting the SPARKS Violectric Music Education Videos we are sharing online, free for students of all ages. A new video is posted every Thursday.

Vegas Live with Ninon
March 13, 2020
Michelle appears following her March Vegas performances with Wayne Newton and discusses her upcoming Vegas and Memphis Elvis shows using her arrangements of popular Elvis songs.

WOFL TV Fox 35 Orlando – Good Day Orlando
December 8, 2019
Violectric appears to promote the 2019 Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park, benefiting Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando, and perform a holiday/rock mashup.

WESH 2 NBC Orlando
December 5, 2019
Michelle appears on WESH Channel 2 in the morning promoting the 2019 Violectric Holiday Show benefitting Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando.

Vegas Live with Ninon
June 24, 2019
Michelle appears following her Vegas performances with Wayne Newton and a surprise sit in with Brian Newman, Lady Gaga’s Jazz Quintet leader…and Lady Gaga showed up and performed too!

WOFL TV Fox 35 Orlando – Good Day Extra
December 14, 2018
Violectric appears to promote the 2018 Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park and perform a holiday/rock mashup.

WKMG TV CBS 6 Orlando – News 6 at 9am
December 10, 2018
Violectric lead violinist Michelle Jones appears to promote the 2018 Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Park.

WVVU TV Fox 5 Vegas – MORE
June 18, 2018
Violectric lead violinist Michelle Jones performs on Fox5 Las Vegas to promote her show at the Neon Museum which sold-out and raised over $11,000 to restore the iconic Hard Rock Cafe neon guitar.

WOFL TV Fox 35 – Good Day Orlando
December 7, 2017
Violectric performed on Fox35’s Good Day Orlando promoting the 5th Annual Violectric Holiday Show benefitting the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando.

ToKnight’s the Night – UCF TV
November 13, 2017
Violectric performed on the student produced nighttime variety program as the week’s musical guests. Performed were two of our custom holiday mashups. Video edited to show our performance only. Complete show is available at this link.

International Television Coverage
June 12, 2017
Violectric is honored to be invited to perform at the one-year remembrance of the Pulse tragedy. We performed for the three services held at the Pulse Nightclub. This video is from WFTV Channel 9 but the press-pool video was broadcast worldwide.

WOFL TV Fox35 Orlando – Good Day Orlando
December 13, 2015
Violectric appears to promote the annual Violectric Holiday Show and performed on-air.

WOFL TV Fox35 Orlando – Good Day Orlando
October 11, 2015
Michelle Jones and Robin Cowie (Producer of Blair Witch Project & 2015 Howl-O-Scream) talk about writing the score for Busch Gardens’ Howl-O-Scream 2015 and Violectric performs Scarlett’s Theme live.

WUCF TV PBS Channel 24 Orlando
April 9, 2015
Violectric and Violectric Education Programs is featured on Artisodes. This segment has aired nationwide on PBS and in the UK on BBC TV. It continues to be rebroadcast through 2018.

WESH TV NBC Channel 2 Orlando
January 27, 2015
Rock ‘n Roll meets classical in Orlando-based group, Violectric.

WESH TV NBC Channel 2 Orlando
December 11, 2014
Violectric appeared on the morning news promoting our holiday show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Amphitheater.

WOFL TV Fox35 – Good Day Orlando
November 15, 2014
Violectric appears in this news report performing at the opening of the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando.

WOFL TV Fox35 – Good Day Orlando
November 2014
Violectric appears on Fox 35 Orlando promoting their appearance at the Winter Garden MusicFest 2014.

Emotional Mojo – WE Television Network
November 4, 2014
Violectric appeared on Emotional Mojo on the Women’s Entertainment Cable Network.

The Daily Buzz – Syndicated Morning Show
October 28, 2014
Violectric performed on the daily morning news show syndicated on over 200 stations nationwide.

WOFL TV Fox35 – Good Day Orlando
May 2014
Violectric appeared on Fox35’s morning news during our Violectric Education Program at Bridgewater Middle School in Central Florida.

 

Radio

This Evening O.N.E. Dynasty Network
January 14, 2020
Michelle was interviewed about her career, recent touring, trip to the 2020 Grammys and Violectric’s plans for 2020.

WMFE 90.7 FM NPR Orlando
December 14, 2018
Violectric was interviewed about the 6th Annual Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola and the band performs their holiday/rock mashups.

Sunny 105.9 FM Orlando
December 9, 2018
Michelle was interviewed about the 6th Annual Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola. She also discusses our partnership with Pet Alliance, our band’s chosen charity for this year’s show.

Mix 105.1 Community Connection
November 26, 2017
Violectric was interviewed with Pet Alliance about the 5th Annual Violectric Holiday Show at Lake Eola.

NPR 90.7 WMFE “Intersection”
June 11, 2017
Violectric was interviewed and performed in-studio for this National Public Radio Network show.

XL106.7 Johnny’s House -“Wake Up Johnny”
May 11, 2016
Violectric members participated in this stunt to ‘wake up’ the host Johnny in the middle of the night with Violectric, the UCF band, mascots from the Orlando Magic, UCF Knights and Orlando City Soccer, Rock Hard Revue and the UCF cheerleaders.

WPRK Radio “Local Heroes” show
March 2014
Violectric performed on WPRK Radio’s Local Heroes radio show. This video was the live performance aired during the show.

 

Print

11-hour Winter Garden Music Festival is Saturday
February 21, 2024
The Observer covers our headlining performance at the 2024 Winter Garden Music Festival.

Rockin’ around the Christmas tree with Orlando band Violectric
November 15, 2023
Orlando Weekly feature article on Michelle Jones and Violectric’s yearly Holiday Show in Downtown Orlando at Lake Eola.

Top 40 Charts News
August, 2023
Band leader Michelle Jones mentioned in her collaboration with Artist and Songwriter, Chris Redding, on his upcoming studio album, “Visions of Sounds.”

Orlando Magazine
December, 2020
Band leader Michelle Jones pictured in Orlando Magazine promoting the 2020 Violectric Holiday Show at Orlando’s Lake Eola Amphitheatre.

Orlando Arts Magazine
March, 2020
Michelle is featured in Orlando Arts Magazine.

Las Vegas Review Journal
October 13, 2019
Article discussing the Neon Museum’s Boneyard Ball featuring Tim Burton with performances by Clint Holmes, The Killers and Violectric.

Windermere Observer
September, 2019
Article discussing the inaugural Horizon West Flavor Fest. Violectric musicians are headlining the event in November 2019.

Orlando Downtown Community Paper
August, 2019
Lead Violinist, Michelle Jones, is the featured August Artist of the Month with an article about her life, performances and more.

Fort Myers News-Press
January, 2019
Story about the Fort Myers, FL Twisted Strings Music Festival and Violectric’s upcoming performance.

Orlando Style Magazine
December, 2017
Band leader Michelle Jones is interviewed in the December issue of Orlando Style Magazine.

Orlando Magazine
November, 2017
Band leader Michelle Jones featured in Orlando Magazine.

Digital Artist Analog World
December 12, 2014
Review of 2014 Violectric holiday show from artist that captured our 2013 holiday show.

Orlando Weekly
December 10, 2014
Article promoting our holiday show at Lake Eola in downtown Orlando.

West Orange Times
October 14, 2014
Photos from Winter Garden MusicFest 2014

Central Florida Top 5
April 11, 2014
Article about Violectric and Fretless Rock, our smaller string rock ensemble with DJ.

Kami Media
October 28, 2014
Music news on nationally syndicated morning program, The Kami Media.

 

Online

Downtown Orlando Happenings
June 28, 2019
Article about our summer Violectric Education Programs in partnership with CFCArts and a grant from Orange County.

Las Vegas Review-Journal
March 4, 2019
Violectric performed for the lighting of the Hard Rock Cafe neon guitar at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas. This online feature shows us performing and uses our music as the background audio.

Orlando Sentinel Online
October 15, 2015
Feature on Violectric appeared in the Orlando Sentinel’s online version

OrlandoBands.com
July 22, 2014
Interview with Violectric founder and front person, Michelle Jones

ShowBizGuru Chris Long
February 23, 2014
Review of Violectric’s album release concert.

ShowBizGuru Chris Long
February 7, 2014
Chris reviews Violectric’s first album, “One.” Album reached #6 on the iTunes Rock New Releases chart and can be heard on SiriusXM Satellite Radio.