World Music @ The Gallery Cafe : Jews, Vikings, Polaks August 5, 2011

Melange Arts World Music Series

JEWS, VIKINGS, POLAKS

This promises to be a night of passion, story-telling and heavy grooves. Alice's compositions are a vibrant mix of songs and pieces drawing on influences as diverse as Savinna Yannatou, Joni Mitchell, Erykah Badu, Bartok, Alison Krauss and Django Bates. The musical result is soulful jazz-folk with a twist, brought to life by some of London's most exciting musicians.

Alice Zawadzki - voice and violin

Shirley Smart - cello

Alex Roth - guitar

Tom Millar - piano

James Opstad - bass

Scott Chapman - drums

Alice Zawadzki is a jazz vocalist, violinist and composer, currently studying for an MA in Jazz Singing and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2004, she began violin studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she won the Hilda Collens Prize. Alice has performed around the world with highlights including Ronnie Scott’s, the Taipei International Jazz Festival and the London Jazz Festival. She recently recorded as featured vocal soloist at Abbey Road for the forthcoming Disney film African Cats, as well as playing the romantic lead in Tortoise in Love, a feature film written and directed by the Guardian's Guy Browning, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2011. As well as running her own band Jews Vikings and Polaks, Alice is a member of the Moss Project, with whom she has toured Europe and completed a UK Jazz Services tour, and Sefiroth, a 10-piece ensemble, featuring some of Europe's most prominent Sephardic musicians. Her mentors include Pete Churchill and Norma Winstone and she holds teaching posts with Salford University and Aim Higher (RNCM). Alice was part of the Scottish Arts Council’s 2008 Emerging Artists Residency and is a recipient of the Musicians Benevolent Fund Postgraduate Performance Award.

THE GALLERY CAFE
This beautiful little vegetarian restaurant is faast becoming one of London's premier live music venues

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