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Composer And Vocalist Gabriela Martina Set To Perform At Club Bonafide, Nyc at Club Bonafide

Courtesy of Lydia Liebman | Posted on January 22, 2018

Where

Club Bonafide
212 East 52nd St.
New York, NY
Map
(646) 918-6189

When

Sat, February 3, 2018
7:30 pm

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Club Bonafide is proud to present accomplished composer and vocalist Gabriela Martina on Saturday, February 3 at 7:30pm. Alongside her talented sextet, the Swiss native will showcase compositions from her latest album No White Shoes and preview compositions from her forthcoming new project, tentatively titled Hommage to Grämlis.

Released in 2016 and with a four-star review from DownBeat, Martina’s No White Shoes represented a major step in the singer’s sojourn as a 21st-century musician exploring an array of influences, styles and issues, a journey that’s intoxicating and utterly unpredictable. Martina has had the opportunity to perform and collaborate with heavyweights like Meshell Ndegeocello, Jack DeJohnette, and Angelique Kidjo. She recorded with veteran drummer J.R. Robinson and was a semifinalist in the Shure Voice Competition at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival, performing with guitarist Lee Ritenour’s band. Martina released a critically hailed EP in 2010, Curiosity, which included her original song “Ain’t Nobody,” a finalist in the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2012. She sings in four languages (German, English, French, and Spanish) and is currently performing with various groups up and down the East Coast. Martina owns her own booking agency called Red Velvet Sounds and is co-founder and curator of the In Momentum concert series. She looks forward to releasing her next project in 2018, tentatively titled Hommage to Grämlis, which will feature Swiss traditional Jodel Music with pop and jazz. ...

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