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EJS I I TOMMY BANKS WAY - Yardbird Suite

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wil[ woiltt]t Alilr s0ltGDianne Donovan, who is set to rctease hersecond C.D. in the spdng of 2000, has sungon stages thmughout North Amedca to cdticatacctai'n. 0ianne is an accomptish€d .iazz singerwho has a stmng voice and an uncanny senseof phEsing. Her performance of "Body andSouf at P.J. Perys htt conced was sensationalforits phrasins and simpticity.Rhonda WjthneLL does it aLL. "Big Band"jazz with Tommy 8anks, music theatre withthe ALbeda open Touring Company, and seventiesfunk with Th€ Craft, exemptjfo the tat"ent and velsatitity that keeps Rhondat theforcfront of Edmonton! musicommunity. is wett known for her tastefutDrawing ftom Etta FjtzgeraLd, Sheita Jordan jazl vocatizing and hds tou?d witf qreat V $anne oonovan,and Shnby Hom, Rhonda has been a knockoutpefomer sjnce her earLiest days at Etondheim and lt1ary Witson.wlth Trlo kd by Rob Thompsonjazz ptalers ptayeG tike like John Stetch, stekh, 6eoqe George I Rhonda Wlrhnetl Wilhnetl, Anfla BeaumoniGlant llcEwan Cottege.Speciat guest Anna Eeaumont is anaccomplished singer-sonqwriter whose latestCha es Austin has been the inspintion ofmany a student jn his 26 years of teachjng atGEnt llacEwan CoLtege. Ar a teacher of l€yboards,jaz theory, eartrainjng and mor€, jts nowonder his pliying is const ntLy deveLoping intosomething bigger and b€tter each year.Chadie hoLds both a BI4US fnm UBCftr peiformanceand t4llus educatjon degr€e fiomUniversity if Vjctona, as wetL as an ARCI dipLoma.He has delrtoped jaz hamoni€ nudy methodsand pnctjcat approaches to chord playing andcompjns, inctuding an orisinat veatment of typ"GHIRITS AU$IIIIQUIRITTical left hand piano voicinq, and hamonicapprcaches to m€tody. He has compos€d andpubtished a 450 piece progressive style/readingmethod jn att kEr of pjano, and is cunendy writingajaz iano teaching method for use at GnntMacEwan College.His vast perbrmancerpenence incLdesCBgs Tom Bank! show the IIV €onced serietwoi( wiih Second Cjty IV, and dates with SamNoto, and Nat Adde{y. Austin wins the h€art ofeach vo€atjst he accompanier hjs musjcat offeFings gacing the vojces of Trudy Desmond, JayClryton and Sh€ila Jordan, as w€tt as a hvorjte atthe Bantr Centers vocatjaz woichop.Ptease jojn us for an evening of standardtand oriqinals fiom one of Canada's best and definjt€tyone of Edmonton's fdvorjt€s.Chartes Aultin " planoJenotd Dlbyk - saxDoug Berner - bassJohn l{eelin - drunsMARCH.APRII 2OOO page 5

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