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Blame it on the Bossa Nova?Latrobe City’s Performing Arts Café Concert Series 2004, presented in conjunction with the Gippsland Acoustic Music Club, will launch... By news@gippsland - 18th February 2004 - Back to News Latrobe City’s Performing Arts Café Concert Series 2004, presented in conjunction with the Gippsland Acoustic Music Club, will launch into action with the first concert for the year featuring the four-piece group Café Brazil at the Tyers Hall on Sunday 29 February.
Latrobe City’s Performing Arts Box Office and Program Co-ordinator, Kathleen Roberts said that Café Brazil presents the broadest, most contemporary and true reflection of Brazilian roots music being heard in Australia today.
"The line up for this group is as inspiring and tasteful as the music they choose to perform. Led by Doug de Vries, this technically tidy performer plays the seven string guitar with elegance, sensitivity, and a crystal clarity.
"Having studied with Brazilian masters Egberto Gismonti and Mauricio Carrilho, these combined elements of his music have led him to become Australia’s leading exponent of Brazilian guitar in Australia," Ms Roberts said.
"Doug de Vries’ collaboration with the gifted vocalist and dancer Diana Clark is heaven sent. Diana first met Doug in 1997 during her final year at the Victorian College of the Arts. Although Doug was already performing in another trio, he agreed to be part of the trio Diana was forming.
"In the beginning, Diana sang the songs in English but soon became attracted to the poetry and romance of the Portuguese language. Both she and Doug have since embarked on Portuguese language lessons and spent six months living in Brazil where they absorbed the music and culture. Diana has now learnt more than two hundred songs," Kathleen explained.
"Together, Doug and Diana bring spontaneity and humour to their diverse repertoire whilst cultivating the great traditions of Choro, Bossa Nova, Samba and African influenced styles of Northern Brazil like Forro, Xote and Baiao," Ms Roberts added.
President of the Gippsland Acoustic Music Club, Lyndal Chambers said that an important component of this style of music is percussion.
"Instrumentalists in Brazil rely on an acute sense of rhythm and learn to incorporate this into the naturally percussive Portuguese lyrics. Whilst rhythm is inherent in the music, it is imaginatively accentuated by Café Brazil’s percussionist, Denis Close. Denis studied Spanish and Portuguese at Monash University, which led to two research trips to Brazil. His subsequent discovery of the musical wealth in Brazil resulted in a professional career in percussion. In Café Brazil you can hear him play percussive instruments like Berimbau, Pandeiro and Cavaquinho," Ms Chambers explained.
"The talented Joe Chindamo provides the accordion accompaniment for Café Brazil. Joe has been playing accordion since he was six years old and during his musical career which also included piano, has managed to record ten CDs and provide music for more than sixty films. He has accompanied Shirley Bassey, Olivia Newton John, Vince Jones, Dame Kiri te Kanawa and Don Burrows to name a few.
"Most recently, Joe received the 2002 Australian Entertainment "MO" Award for Instrumental Jazz Performer of the Year and has been re-nominated in 2004. He has also just been awarded an Australia Council fellowship. Joe’s improvisatory skills and sensitive accompaniments not only complement the music of Café Brazil but also contribute a subtle spiciness," Ms Chambers said.
Café Brazil will be performing at the Tyers Hall on Sunday 29 February 2004 at 7.30pm as part of the 2004 Café Concert Series which has been made possible by assistance from Arts Victoria and the Community Support Fund.
Tickets for the Café Brazil concert and/or discounted Season Tickets are on sale now at the Box Office, Performing Arts Centre, on telephone 5176 3559 or Select Music Systems, telephone 5174 2849.
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: news@gippsland.com
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