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Buy tickets online through InstantSeats.
To buy via phone, please call 410-385-2638.
Thank you for your interest in attending our concerts.
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Ilona Knopfler Trio (jazz & cabaret)
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From: Sun, 04/22/07
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To: Thu, 04/19/07
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03:00 PM
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04:30 PM
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Location: An die Musik Live
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Contact:
henry@andiemusik.com
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(410) 385-2638
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www.ilonaknopfler.com
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EMBASSY OF FRANCE MUSIC SERIES AT AN DIE MUSIK LIVE!
Tickets: $20 / $18 students & seniors
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French chanteuse Ilona Knopfler's CD "Live the Life" features twelve timeless songs from the pens of such legendary and diverse songwriters as Ivan Lins, Charles Aznavour, Thelonius Monk, Claude Nougaro, Michel Legrand, Abbey Lincoln, and Thomas A. Dorsey. "Live the Life" highlights the purity of Ilona's voice and emphasizes her eclectic stylistic abilities.
Born in France and raised in a musical family (her mother was a singer, her father a pianist and her mother's accompanist), Ilona had traveled the world by the time she was in pre-school. That early exposure to the world's cultures finds its expression on "Live the Life," on which Ilona sings in both English and French (she is equally fluent in both) and which was recorded in Paris as well as New York.
Ilona visits both the dark smoky atmosphere of a jazz bistro and the insouciant ambiance of a stroll on the Left Bank with tunes sung in French, "Dansez sur moi" and "Le Jazz et la Java." She also sings a rhythmic but slightly poignant take on Charles Aznavours "Parce que".
Although she was born in Paris, Ilona's parents' gigs took them and their young daughter all over the world, eventually bringing them to Hong Kong, where a six-year-old Ilona took the stage for the first time. By the time she was 15, she was singing professionally as a back-up singer for a rock band in Hong Kong. At that same time, she discovered the music of Diane Schuur and Al Jarreau. When she turned 18, Knopfler set off for New York City, where she lived for five years, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
She signed with Mack Avenue in 2003, releasing her debut, "Some Kind of Wonderful" that same year. The CD, on which Ilona interpreted pop tunes of the 60's and 70's with a jazz flavor, was lauded as "a courageous journey through the heart of pop music," and "a promising debut," and critics noted that Ilona had "the instincts of a fine jazz vocalist" and was "someone to watch in the years to come."
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