MORE THAN A DECADE PRESENTING THE FINEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
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One sweet post-Valentine's Day treat:
Chloe Feoranzo Quartet Feb. 22
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Courtesy of
Chloe Feoranzo
Chloe Feoranzo and her quartet will delight the Lakeshore Music audience at Tempe Center for the Arts on Feb. 22.
Valentine’s Day will be a week in the rearview mirror – unless you accidentally left a chocolate treat to melt in your pocket – but that doesn’t mean that tenderness caught the last train for the coast.
To support our theory, Lakeshore Music presents the precocious, multi talented – and sweet – Chloe Feoranzo and her quartet to warm your heart at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, in the Tempe Center for the Arts Lakeside Room.
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Chloe Feoranzo Quartet
Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
Tempe Center for the Arts Lakeside Room
700 W. Rio Salado Parkway
Tempe, AZ 85281
$30 and $38 at lakeshoremusic.org
$60 Caffe Boa Dinner & Jazz Package
at 480-350-2822
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Courtesy of
Chloe Feoranzo
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Tickets are $30 and $38, and available at lakeshoremusic.org.
Lakeshore Music also recommends that patrons take advantage of an outstanding dinner-show package with Caffe Boa on Mill Ave. in downtown Tempe for $60. "The best evening out in Tempe" may be reserved by calling 480-350-2822. This package is not available with any other Lakeshore discounts, such as season tickets or mini season tickets.
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The The 27-year-old Chloe combines stunning jazz clarinet solos with alluring vocals to win over the hearts of audiences.
“I first noticed Chloe on one of Scott Bradlee’s ‘Post Modern Jukebox’ videos last year and was blown away by her playing –
and then I heard her sing and I had to bring her to TCA,” said Woody Wilson, founder, president and executive producer of Lakeshore Music. “I was hooked and started trying to find out how to reach her. I wasn't even sure she toured with an ensemble of her own.
“The more I looked into Chloe’s background, the more I was impressed with both her amazing talent and retro style," Wilson, of Tempe, continued. "She is the real deal. Scott Bradlee has done several videos with Chloe and each one shows a different facet of Chloe’s musical personality. She’s an amazingly confident player and has a sweet vocal style reminiscent of a bygone era. I think Chloe would be in her element playing with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington or Nicholas Payton. She’s really that good, and that versatile.”
Experience undoubtedly bred her confidence.
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Chloe, now of New Orleans, grew up playing in youth orchestras and musical pits, as well as in swing and Dixieland bands and as guest artist at festivals across Southern California. She has been performing professionally since she was 15.
By then she’d already filled a trophy case with awards won during her early teens, when she studied with jazz saxophone legend Charles McPherson and attended the annual University of California-San Diego Jazz Camp. In 2007, she became the San Diego Jazz Fest & Swing Extravaganza's first youth guest artist.
"Clearly, Chloe Feoranzo has arrived, not just in New Orleans, but as a fixture in the traditional jazz scene,” wrote reviewer Richard Simon for
The Syncopated Times
. “Her sound is as compelling as her personality: sparkling, yet tastefully understated; exuberant, without ego. Fortunately, a hurricane is not the only thing to hit New Orleans by storm.”
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After relocating to St. Louis for college, she collaborated with several jazz groups and came to join Pokey Lafarge's touring band, and in 2016 completed a three-year world tour with LaFarge.
“If you had told me at age 17 that I would actually fulfill my dreams of traveling the world playing music and seeing amazing places, I would have never believed you,” Chloe said. “It’s hard to realize how dreams can be fulfilled when you’re in the thick of it but I’m just blown away when I take a moment to reflect."
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Since 2016, Chloe has been a member of the all-female Shake 'Em Up Jazz Band. The New Orleans-based group has produced three albums and toured internationally in 2018. She continues to appear with a several other groups and has appeared on more than 40 albums.
For this show, Chloe will be accompanied by Molly Teeves and Nahum Zdybel on guitar and Ted Long on bass in her quartet.
“I am so incredibly fortunate to have met the people I have, to have played with so many absolutely astounding musicians and be welcomed into many music (and non-music) families around the world,” Chloe said.
Join us in welcoming Chloe into the Lakeshore Music family on Feb. 22.
TCA PARKING UPDATE
There’s good news: The new parking garage at Tempe Center for the Arts is to open on Feb. 15 and be in operation for the Chloe Feoranzo concert. After a long year-and-a-half without convenient parking – patrons had to park in a dirt lot at Rio Salado and Hardy and take a shuttle bus to and from the venue – free parking nearby is back. It does, however, require a validation process, which Lakeshore Music will handle at its reception table in the TCA lobby.
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Courtesy of Chloe Feoranzo
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Woody says . . .
“One of things we try to do at Lakeshore Music is showcase exciting new artists who are destined to become household names in the jazz world. We bring them to the Valley and TCA before anyone else, and that’s an enlightening and refreshing change for our patrons. It’s going to be that way with Chloe because she’s just a delight to watch and experience.”
Woody Wilson
Founder, president and executive producer of Lakeshore Music
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What critics are saying about Chloe Feoranzo
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'A joyful rustling among the reeds'
"Becoming an overnight sensation is no small feat
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especially in the unpredictable world of jazz, and particularly in its very birthplace, New Orleans. But here, for your consideration, is Chloe Feoranzo, Exhibit A.
"Learning her craft along a steady trajectory from San Diego to Los Angeles, then to St. Louis and down to the mouth of the Mississippi, the clarinet and saxophone player has already dazzled musicians in her own age group as well as the grizzled veterans."
-- Richard Simon, The Syncopated Times
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Photos courtesy of Chloe Feoranzo
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More about Chloe
Awards
2010 (age 17): Shelly Manne Memorial New Talent Award, by Los Angeles Jazz Society.
2009 (age 16): Traditional Jazz Youth Band Competition Best Clarinetist/High School Division.
2007 (age 14): First place, Senior Division, San Diego Clarinet Society’s Annual Competition.
Television-radio appearances
2014:
The Late Show with David Letterman.
2014:
A Prairie Home Companion.
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The Hot Club of San Francisco:
John, Paul, George and Django
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Saturday | Mar 21, 2020 | 7:30 p.m.
TCA Lakeside Room, $30 and $38.
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To hear The Hot Club of San Francisco live, or on any of their 14 albums, is to be carried back to the 1930s and the small, smoky jazz clubs of Paris or the refined lounge of the Hotel Ritz.
The musicians – including Paul Mehling, Isabelle Fontaine, Evan Price and Sam Rocha – celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli.
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Lakeshore Music
The Hot Club of San Francisco to perform on March 21.
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Their contemporary jazz and swing, often called gypsy jazz, has entranced audiences around the world for more than 20 years.
Featuring the amazing violin of two-time Grammy winner Price, the velvet vocals of Fontaine and a swinging rhythm section, the group never fails to surprise and delight as reflected in their album "John, Paul, George and Django," which is the basis for what promises to be a delightful March concert for Lakeshore Music. Get your tickets now!
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About Lakeshore Music
The goal of Lakeshore Music, Inc., always has been to present the world’s finest jazz musicians in the world's most beautiful performing arts venue, Tempe Center for the Arts.
A Tempe-based 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit
corporation, Lakeshore Music provides innovative workshops, educational seminars and master-class opportunities for promising Valley music students.
Tempe resident Woody Wilson is founder, president and executive producer of Lakeshore Music.
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