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953 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Y 3E5, Canada
45.40381850000001
-75.715079
Vocalist Rachel Beausoleil joins forces with guitarist Garry Elliott and percussionist Liz Hanson, for this afternoon show. They will present gems from the Brazilian popular music repertoire that took the world by storm sixty years ago and is still an international treasure!
Rachel Beausoleil brings vital energy to her passionate obsession with all facets of voice work, with the mind of a researcher and the heart of an artist. Her newly minted Ph.D. onBrazilian popular singinglets her blend her affinity for languages and Panamerican musics with her love of performance. Rachel’s three CDs are infused with international rhythms and dramatic flair. She is co-founder, co-writer and lead singer of the Brazilian jazz group Sol da Capital, and toured with the University of São Paulo’s Panamérica Canção Project. She maintains a thriving teaching studio and is one of the founders of the Ottawa Singer-Songwriter Camp. www.rachelbeausoleil.ca
Guitarist, Garry Elliott performs regularly with Ottawa's finest jazz musicians in a variety of settings and has been doing so for over thirty five years. He has recorded 2 CDs with Ottawa pianist Stephen Boudreau featuring their own original tunes. He also teaches jazz and classical guitar at Carleton University and privately. Garry is also on the faculty of JazzWorks Jazz camp as a vocal accompanist.
Liz Hanson is classical percussionist and marimba player who has played with orchestras such as the the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and studied with legendary marimbist Keiko Abe in Tokyo. Liz fell in love with Brazilian music and spent two years playing in São Paulo and recorded an album there called Espaço Imaginário. Liz plays marimba and percussion with Rob Frayne’s Drumswamp Project and Roddy Ellias’ opera Sleeping Rough as part of Music and Beyond. As an educator, Liz teaches for Carleton University, NAC, MASC and the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in addition to an women’s community drum group called Diga, Diga, Da.
