For International Jazz Day, French Canadian vocalist Myriam Phiro brings her quintet to The Mainstay in Rock Hall, MD on Saturday April 30 at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $20. For information and reservations call 410-639-9133. Information is also available at the Mainstay’s website https://www.mainstayrockhall.org.
The Myriam Phiro Quintet features Myriam Phiro on vocals, guitarist Vinny Raniolo, Chuck Redd on vibes and drums, Elias Bailey on bass and Gordon Au on trumpet.
Myriam Phiro is a French-Canadian jazz singer, actress, dancer and cabaret chanteuse. Her vocals encompass the style and elegance of the Jazz Age of the 1920s, the energy and pizzazz of the Big Band Era, and the intimacy of the classic French music-hall. Her musical stories are told with wit, flair, and poignancy. She is a bi-lingual performer who has performed on stages and in theaters worldwide.
Phiro studied musical theatre performance at AMDA (the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, College of the Performing Arts in New York) and then studied jazz with Barry Harris and Janis Siegel, and voice and cabaret with Bill Zeffiro. Her influences run from Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Edith Piaf to Jane Monheit, Madeleine Peyroux, Chet Baker, Norah Jones, and Manhattan Transfer Vinny Raniolo is best known to for his accompanying skills and is in great demand as a rhythm guitarist. His dynamic playing has led him to 14 countries on three continents and to The Mainstay in an acclaimed duo with Frank Vignola.
Chuck Redd is known to Mainstay audiences and worldwide for his skills on the vibes and drums. In demand from coast to coast, his playing is fluid and inventive.
Elias Bailey has played professionally since the age of 15 and for the last ten years has been playing bass with The Freddy Cole Quartet at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe.
Trumpet player Gordon Au draws upon a palette ranging from the traditional jazz of Armstrong and Bechet to the modern jazz of NYC. He leads the Grand St. Stompers, a traditional jazz band called “a pillar of New York’s hot jazz scene” by The New York Times, and appears with the Grammy-winning Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks, the Louis Armstrong Eternity Band at Birdland, Wycliffe Gordon, and many more.
In November 2011, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially designated April 30 as International Jazz Day in order to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners of the globe. Along with Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director General, International Jazz Day is chaired by legendary jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, who serves as a UNESCO Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue and Chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
On Saturday, April 30, schools, libraries, hospitals, community centers and arts venues in cities, towns and villages in over 190 countries on all 7 continents will observe International Jazz Day through thousands of performances and programs.
The Mainstay (Home of Musical Magic) is the friendly informal storefront performing arts center on Rock Hall’s old time Main Street.
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