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Blues Brunch With Lady Bianca at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards
Courtesy of Gerry Sanders | Posted on May 11, 2016
Where
Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
4401 Slusser Road
Windsor, CA
Map
When
Sun, June 5, 2016
11:00 am
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Musicians
About
Lady Bianca is all soul. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1953 and spent much of her childhood in Macon, Georgia, soaking up the same nutrients that gave rise to Big Joe Turner, Melba Liston, and Otis Redding. After singing gospel music and playing piano in churches, Lady Bianca (then Bianca Thornton) moved to the Bay Area at age 17 to attend the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Finally going solo in 1995, she released a slew of albums, three of which were nominated for Grammy awards. Lady Bianca possesses a voice that can swoop from slow blues to barrelhouse rock 'n' roll, a crystalline keyboard style, and a sense of the theatrical that make audiences fall in love with her...