The United States Embassy in Azerbaijanis pleased to sponsor the first visit of the American jazz singer Gabrielle Stravelli to Azerbaijan November 14-18, 2015. While in Azerbaijan, Gabrielle Stravelli and her group will perform various public concerts and conduct master classes for local musicians.
All Gabrielle Stravelli performances in Azerbaijan are free and open to the public. The U.S. Embassy invites anyone interested in live American jazz music to attend any of the following events:
November 14 18:30-19:40 Concert at Park Bulvar Mall
November 16 14:30-15:40 Concert at Khazar University
November 17 18:00-19:00 Free Tour of the National Arts Museum
19:00-20:30 Concert at the National Arts Museum
November 18 19:00-20:00 American Jazz History Presentation at YARAT
20:00-21:30 Concert at YARAT
Award-winning vocalist Gabrielle Stravelli has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal following through her original songs and her unique take on material from the new American songbook as well as classic standards by artists as varied as Duke Ellington, Dolly Parton and Johnny Mercer. A trained actor, Gabrielle has a soulful sensitivity for the story in the lyric and was called “a powerhouse of individual expression” by David Finkle of The Village Voice. Gabrielle recently performed a sold out run of solo shows at New York’s Metropolitan Room which won unanimous raves from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post among other publications. Last fall she toured the United States with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performing Marsalis’s Abyssinian: A Gospel Celebration.
Gabrielle Stravelli and her group will perform in Azerbaijan for the first time under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State’s American Music Abroad Program, which brings prominent American musicians to countries throughout the world to foster cross-cultural understanding and collaboration. -0-
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