Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 8 PM – 10 PM
The Back Room
1984 Bonita Ave,
Berkeley, California
Come bask in the whimsical worlds of two completely
original & extremely talented songwriters!
From Portland, Oregon comes Jet Black Pearl, an accordion
maestro with the playfulness and dexterity of a pack of hummingbirds, whose
gorgeous strange multi-lingual songs could spring from no other bird or beast.
Hailing from Oakland is the lovely trio known as La Dee
Da, a piano-based, vocal-centric extravaganza of bewildering, genre-hopping
beauty. Watch La Dee Da's epic music video (filmed and recorded live, featuring
historic BART footage). Take a glimpse of Jet Black Pearl live in concert. And
buy your tickets for this magical show in advance. You won't want to miss
either of these rarest of rare birds!
Piano-based trio La Dee Da creates "a soundtrack to
your dreams contrasting epic rock with flights of fancy,” (Fresno Bee). Silky
vocals and imaginative musicality are the signature of songwriter Rosie Steffy,
whose insightful lyrics and odd meters create moods reminiscent of Erik Satie,
Leonard Bernstein and Cocorosie. Add the creative drumming of Daniel Fleischer
and solid bass lines and vocal harmonies of Aaron Handler and what do you get?
A fully crystallized, Uniquely-Oakland sound combining jazz, prog and pop.
La Dee Da is currently celebrating their third release
Under Weather, an album that moves away from their acoustic, orchestral roots
into a sister universe with more reverb and pop sensibility.
The untamed and inimitable Jet Black Pearl from the port
of Amsterdam spent many years in the south of France before settling in
Portland in 2014. She has performed on more than a thousand stages all over the
world. Intelligently zany, her songs sound like a mad hatter's European gypsy
tea party with a hip hop attitude. Before your own eyes, she creates grooves
and loops of flute, plastic bottles, vocal percussion and harmonies while
squeezing her accordion. Jetty Swart was born in the Netherlands, but started
her musical career in France, where two of her records got distributed
nationally, she won several songwriting awards and her songs were played on the
radio.
After 16 years of touring with her band 'Yeti' throughout
Europe, she moved to the USA. She changed her name to Jet Black Pearl, started
thinking, writing and singing in English, but kept her Dutch accent and some of
her French songs in her repertoire. She still tours in the UK and France at
least twice a year.
Cost: $15
