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Angele Dubeau

Thursday, Oct 30. 2008  –  Category: Music

We went to see Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà at Yoshi’s Jazz Club last night as part of KDFC’s classical concerts in nightclubs series. T’was a fantastic show… she played a concert she called Myths & Legends, with pieces inspired by or based on legends dating back to 200 B.C. On the setlist were a couple of pieces from her new album, Fairy Tale. Specifically, the second track from the album, Lady Caliph was incredible. I’m hardly a classical music critic by any means, but that piece was filled with some of the most moving sounds I’ve ever heard come out of a violin.

The pianist, double bass player, and third violinist were amazing… their facial expressions showed how much they enjoyed playing… even when they weren’t! There was one piece that was sans piano, so the pianist was basically just sitting in her chair for the whole piece… but she sat there looking around at the other players, and you could just sense how much she was into the music and enjoying it. Really really awesome to see that kind of energy in a 9 piece classical concert.

… their final encore piece was a rousing cover of Paint it Black which was absolutely brilliant.