Patricia O'Callaghan Sings Leonard Cohen at Jazz Bistro

Patricia O’Callaghan is something of a wandering minstrel. Her fifteen-year career has taken her across genres, continents, and a range of disciplines and passions. Her recording career spans five solo albums and many interesting visits along the way as a guest on other artists’ CDs. A speaker of French, Spanish, and German, her early recordings focused on European cabaret, and she is considered a specialist, most significantly, in the music of Kurt Weill.
O’Callaghan divides her time between recording CDs, touring her own shows, and collaborating on other interesting projects. Highlights include singing with Bryn Terfel at Roy Thompson Hall, touring the multi media opera Constantinople (Christos Hatzis) internationally, and recording and touring with jazz clarinettist Don Byron, in support of his Bluenote release, A Fine Line. Recent appearances include playing Polly Peachum in Threepenny Opera with Soulpepper Theatre Company and Anna 1 in Weill/ Brecht’s Seven Deadly Sins with Alberta Ballet/Edmonton Opera....

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Patricia O’Callaghan is something of a wandering minstrel. Her fifteen-year career has taken her across genres, continents, and a range of disciplines and passions. Her recording career spans five solo albums and many interesting visits along the way as a guest on other artists’ CDs. A speaker of French, Spanish, and German, her early recordings focused on European cabaret, and she is considered a specialist, most significantly, in the music of Kurt Weill.
O’Callaghan divides her time between recording CDs, touring her own shows, and collaborating on other interesting projects. Highlights include singing with Bryn Terfel at Roy Thompson Hall, touring the multi media opera Constantinople (Christos Hatzis) internationally, and recording and touring with jazz clarinettist Don Byron, in support of his Bluenote release, A Fine Line. Recent appearances include playing Polly Peachum in Threepenny Opera with Soulpepper Theatre Company and Anna 1 in Weill/ Brecht’s Seven Deadly Sins with Alberta Ballet/Edmonton Opera.
She has also appeared in television shows, such as her own Bravo! Special, Live at the Rehearsal Hall, the Rhombus/CBC special Youkali Hotel, and the acclaimed Ken Finkleman Drama, Foolish Heart.
Her two most recent CDs were released in late 2011. One is a collaboration with The Gryphon Trio called Broken Hearts and Madmen and the other is a solo CD called Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen.
Patricia is currently in her fifth year as a resident artist at The Young Centre for Performing Arts in The Distillery District in Toronto, Ontario.

“This Toronto soprano can sing a 100-year-old German tune so lustily that you almost don’t need a translation to know that someone’s about to get his throat cut or get laid or both.” The National Post

“O’Callaghan sings her diverse material as if it was always meant to go side-by-side and by the end of the evening, it’s easy to believe her.” Chart Attack Magazine

“A truly exceptional blend of natural expressiveness and masterful coloration, her tender versions of Cohen’s “Take this Waltz” and “Hallelujah” are revelatory.” 
 Billboard Magazine

“She’s one of the best singers ever to come out of Canada.” Vivoscene, 2012

Patricia O’Callaghan – voice
Andrew Downing – double bass
David Restivo – piano
Christine Bougie – guitars
Maryem Tollar – voice / qanun

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