• ZAZ (Album Release) with The Hot Sardines - 7/31
• 5:00pm Seating / 8:00pm Show

Although some artists seem to have appeared out of the blue, a closer look at their career shows they have actually been through all the stages needed to win recognition from their peers and the public, one by one. Chart topping Zaz is no exception. A singer with a powerful, hypersensitive, rather husky voice, she achieved pop-pro status after years of enjoyable experiences in a huge variety of places and situations.

Truly a musical Renaissance woman, she assimilates a wide range of influences with unfailing flair, moving from jazz to blues, and French song to African, Andalusian, Brazilian and Latin genres, all with a joyful, poetic enthusiasm.

The first single from Zaz, “Je Veux”, was eagerly devoured by an increasing fan base and was #1 on the French SNEP charts for nine weeks.
 
Zaz thrives on spontaneity, simplicity and good humor. Wherever she sang, her performances were powerful and unrepressed. If she was short of funds at the end of the month, she would charm passers-by on a Montmartre street corner, singing with her musicians: a guitarist and double bass player who shared her total passion for song.

An artist with a unique voice (which she never overstates), Zaz’s single leitmotiv is song. She will sing anywhere, as long as she can express herself freely, in words that echo daily life with its sorrows and joys.

The multi-platinum status of Zaz cemented the French sensation as one of Europe’s finest new artists.  Discover Zaz’s music and join the poetic quest of a young woman whose life is built on song.

ABOUT THE HOT SARDINES

The Hot Sardines sound – wartime Paris via New Orleans, or the other way around – is steeped in hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Fats Waller used to make: Straight-up, foot-stomping jazz. (Literally – the band includes a tap dancer whose feet count as two members of the rhythm section). They manage to invoke the sounds of a near-century ago and stay resolutely in step with the current age.
Summer 2011 has the Hot Sardines headlining Lincoln Center's Bastille Day festivities at Midsummer Night Swing -- the band gets their French influence two ways, via the early jazz sound of New Orleans and the jazz manouche and French chanson their Paris-born vocalist listened to growing up.
Individually, the Sardines have worked with a genre-hopping roster that includes Rufus Wainwright, Sufjan Stevens, Lauren Ambrose, Sondre Lerche, Vetiver, the New York and Jerusalem Philharmonics, Slavic Soul Party and the Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra.