Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 2 PM – 4:30 PM
933 Rose Avenue
Oakland, CA
Rose Avenue Acoustic Delights presents a living room
concert by "accordion diva" and trilingual singer/songwriter Jet
Black Pearl.
Reservations are required. To reserve your place, go to the website (link below) and click the green Reserve button at
the bottom of the page.
Jetty Swart grew up in Amsterdam, but her musical career
began in Prague, where she fell in love with the melancholic sound of an old
secondhand accordion. She and the accordion moved to the south of France, where
she sang and played on the streets for years before moving indoors. She has
since appeared on more than a thousand stages all over Europe and on the west
coast of the US, where she now lives.
Jetty’s move to America brought her a new identity, Jet
Black Pearl (a loose translation of her original name), and a repertoire of
English-language songs supplementing those in French and Dutch. No matter what
the language, Jetty’s effortless blend of dry wit, quirky characters, and
cabaret-style music (on flute, toy piano, and music box as well as accordion)
remains uniquely her own.
When she first appeared here seven years ago, she caused
a stir by being the first Rose Avenue performer to ask to use a microphone. But
the beauty and creativity of her looping vocals, built layer by layer in front
the audience, earned her a permanent exemption from our no-electricity policy.
Cost: $25 in advance, $30 at the door (All of the money
we collect goes to the musician)
