World Wide Wednesdays@Chelmsford presents:

C’est Si Bon
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
6:30 - 8 p.m.
at the MacKay Library
43 Newfield St, North Chelmsford
In case of rain concert will be held at the Senior Center
at 75 Groton Road, North Chelmsford

C’est Si Bon will transport you to French Cafes on the Left Bank.

Angela Rossi, leader of C’est Si Bon, has a unique repertoire that traverses traditional, classical and jazz genres and explores over five centuries of music. A native of Milan, Italy, Ms. Rossi has frequently performed with the renown Tiziano Tononi Jazz Trio as well as her own Angela Rossi Quartet, appearing in Jazz Festivals and clubs in Rome, Florence, Paris, Iseo, Locarno, and Lugano. She has been featured in a weekly radio program in Milan called “Sisters in Jazz” with her ensemble and has frequently been a soloist with Francesca Oliveri’s Gospel Choir in Milan, as well as with the Instabile Orchestra in Rome led by composer/conductor Giancarlo Schiaffini.

In 2001 Angela Rossi played the role of La Jeune Fille Americaine with the Portofranco Multicolor Orchestra in a historic restaging of Eric Satie and Jean Cocteau’s provocative PARADE, which combined dance, voice, and orchestra, using original costume designs by Pablo Picasso. A musical suite of Parade was recorded and issued in 2001 [Materiali Sonori]. In 2005 she performed the repertoire of Billie Holiday at the Terrazza Della Locaanda in Florence in conjunction with the release of the book “Lady Day, Lady Night – Interpretare Billie Holiday,” by author and renowned jazz music critic and author Giorgio Rimondi, (Musica Jazz and All about Jazz magazines.

In the United States, Ms. Rossi enjoys a diverse performance schedule sharing the stage with artists such as Lisa Thorson, African vocalist Dorothy Matsuoka, the jazz vocal group Syncopation, and collaborating with the Kamal Scott Vocal Theatre, and the JAG Drum and Dance Ensemble led by Joe Galeota. She currently performs as a duo with Russian pianist Maxim Lubarsky in the Boston area and in New York in with pianist Ellen Cantarow and violinist Charles Burnham, a member of the distinguished New York String Trio. In 2004, she performed at the Savannah Music Festival.

Angela Rossi began singing at age 9. Fluent in Italian, French, English and German she received classical vocal training in Milan at the Civica Scuola di Musica Conservatory and received a diploma in Jazz studies from the Centro Della Musica in 2000. In the United States she studied jazz with artists Sheila Jordan, Kevin Mahogany, Lisa Thorson, Greg Hopkins, Paul Jeffrey, and Cheryl Bentyne (of The Manhattan Transfer) and world music with Jamey Haddad and Alain Mallet. She graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music in 2005, where she was twice awarded the Berklee Achievement Based scholarship. In 2003 Ms. Rossi was a finalist in the prestigious VeriSign American Tradition Competition. Ms. Rossi is also the founder of the Boston-based group, Newpoli, an Italian folk group made up of two percussionists, two guitars and three singers whose purpose is to rediscover the forgotten Tammurriata, Tarantella and Pizzica rhythms of her native country.

Visit the website of Angela Rossi, the lead singer for C'est SI Bon at http://www.angelarossi.com/