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Presented by Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Ticket Information

Orchestra, Terrace & Dress Circle (A, B, C & F)
Adult $70.25 / Student & Senior $65.25
Upper Circle (D)
Adult $65 / Student & Senior $60
Gallery (E)
Adult $59.75 / Student & Senior $55.75
Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

Artist Info

Songstress Madeleine Peyroux is known to her fans for intimately arranged covers of the early American blues and jazz repertoire. She began as a teenage busker, honing her vocal and guitar skills on the famously quaint, acoustic streets of Europe, where she molded her style on the cornerstones of jazz: Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. Amidst an oddly sparse recording career beginning in 1996, she is most known for her 2005 release ‘Careless Love’ (Rounder Records), produced by Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock) who fused Peyroux's personal and vulnerable take on more modern material, i.e., Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, cult legend Elliott Smith, with that of her beloved torch songs and early blues.

Peyroux took a turn into uncharted territory with her last album, ‘Bare Bones’, a collection of self-penned compositions and co-writes with heavy hitters such as Joe Henry and Steely Dan’s Walter Becker.  She toured until mid 2010, including a triple bill with Diana Krall and Melody Gardot in Australia, and is now keeping behind the scenes in preparation for a return to the studio. Producer Craig Street (Cassandra Wilson, Joe Henry, Chocolate Genius, Norah Jones) is set to hold the reigns this time, and the album will be all new compositions. "I have been building on the relationships I developed in co-writing, and something new has taken hold of me," Peyroux says. "This project is meant to be a wider dreamscape than previous recordings. I'm interested in exploring tougher sounds, even ugly sounds... trying to find something more raw than the voice that I have now, and in the accompaniment that I have become used to."

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