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DATE
13 MAR 2010, SAT
TIME
11pm
(60mins, no intermission)
(60mins, no intermission)
VENUE
Concert Hall
PRICE
$40*, $60**, $80
Limited concessions for students, NSF and senior citizens at $25*, $40** respectively
Exclusive savings for Mosaic Friends and other packages available at www.mosaicmusicfestival
Visa Infinite and Visa Signature Card Specials
Use your Visa Infinite or Visa Signature cards to enjoy a complimentary glass of champagne with every ticket purchased for performances at the Concert Hall (except for concession tickets). The champagne is redeemable with your promotion ticket stub at the foyer bars on the day of the performance. Terms & Conditions apply.
Visa Infinite and Visa Signature Card Specials
Use your Visa Infinite or Visa Signature cards to enjoy a complimentary glass of champagne with every ticket purchased for performances at the Concert Hall (except for concession tickets). The champagne is redeemable with your promotion ticket stub at the foyer bars on the day of the performance. Terms & Conditions apply.
SYNOPSIS
“A triumphant performance by a singer-songwriter who is becoming one of the major talents of our time. Her singing had a sotto voce quality that was simply mesmerising.” - The Times
With the softly lingering touch of a torch siren in an old Hollywood film noir classic, she draws listeners into an intimate space… filled with her hushed, smoky voice and elegant guitar, piano and the rest of her band in smouldering boudoir ballads. Before you know it, you’ll be leaning forward in your seat, lapping up every caressing note that falls from the lips of Melody Gardot.
With the softly lingering touch of a torch siren in an old Hollywood film noir classic, she draws listeners into an intimate space… filled with her hushed, smoky voice and elegant guitar, piano and the rest of her band in smouldering boudoir ballads. Before you know it, you’ll be leaning forward in your seat, lapping up every caressing note that falls from the lips of Melody Gardot.
Much has been made of the tale of Philadelphia native Melody Gardot’s start in music for it is like no other. Badly injured at the age of 19 in a car accident that left her immobilized for more than a year, she found her musical vocation while undergoing music therapy. Since then, she has made waves in the music scene, stunning audiences around the world with full-bodied, assured performances of her slow-burn torch ballads.
Her first release, a 2005 six-track EP made from her bedside and cheekily entitled Some Lessons: The Bedroom Sessions, revealed a talent that already had the emotional depth and grace of a more mature singer-songwriter.
Encouraged by Philadelphian radio station WXPN, Gardot cut a demo and, by 2008, her debut full-length album Worrisome Heart had been released to rapturous reception, garnering rave reviews for Gardot’s velvety vocals and deft songwriting with its late-night jazz-blues-folk stylings.
Then in 2009, Gardot released My One And Only Thrill. Helmed by Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein with orchestral arrangements by Vince Mendoza, itsees Gardot delving into bossa nova, blues, jazz and the vintage American songbook and delivering a sensuous, expansive and lushly orchestrated repertoire of songs.
Encouraged by Philadelphian radio station WXPN, Gardot cut a demo and, by 2008, her debut full-length album Worrisome Heart had been released to rapturous reception, garnering rave reviews for Gardot’s velvety vocals and deft songwriting with its late-night jazz-blues-folk stylings.
Then in 2009, Gardot released My One And Only Thrill. Helmed by Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein with orchestral arrangements by Vince Mendoza, itsees Gardot delving into bossa nova, blues, jazz and the vintage American songbook and delivering a sensuous, expansive and lushly orchestrated repertoire of songs.
One is an unusual cover – Over the Rainbow, a tribute to her late grandmother, reinterpreted by Gardot on acoustic guitar with a Latin-tinged ebullience. But the rest are her own songs.
There is the finger-snapping, bluesy Who Will Comfort Me? on which she purrs with enough rrrrrr-relish to make grown men quiver. There’s the poetic If the Stars Were Mine with its dreamy, 50s lounge feel. There’s also the stirring Deep Within the Corners of My Mind, a haunting lullabye awash in moody, swirling strings, a poignant folksy piece in Gone and loll-on-the-grand-piano number Your Heart is as Black as Night.
There is the finger-snapping, bluesy Who Will Comfort Me? on which she purrs with enough rrrrrr-relish to make grown men quiver. There’s the poetic If the Stars Were Mine with its dreamy, 50s lounge feel. There’s also the stirring Deep Within the Corners of My Mind, a haunting lullabye awash in moody, swirling strings, a poignant folksy piece in Gone and loll-on-the-grand-piano number Your Heart is as Black as Night.
This March, sink into the plush depths of night with luscious love ballads laced with cognac and heartache. In the late hour, there is none other more beguiling than sultry songbird Melody Gardot and her accomplished jazz band.
