Thursday, June 27, 7:30 PM (7 door): Singer Songwriter and Jazz Vocalist Halie Loren, and Brazillian Master Guitarist Diego Figueiredo

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Halie Loren
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Halie Loren is an international, award-winning jazz/pop singer/songwriter. She brings a fresh and original perspective to time-honored musical paths, channeling her innate understanding of connectedness across musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe. Her multi-genre and multi-lingual musical blend across her ten albums to-date has earned several national and international awards in multiple genres as well as significant critical and chart success along the way, with her albums consistently charting at #1 on the Billboard/Japan Jazz Charts, iTunes (Canada and Japan) and Amazon Music.

An award-winning songwriter since her early teens, Loren began garnering international acclaim as a recording artist when her debut jazz CD “They Oughta Write a Song,” was named the Best Vocal Jazz Album of the year at the 2009 JPF Music Awards (the largest independent music awards in the world). She was subsequently signed in Asia by major label JVC/Victor Entertainment and in North America/Europe with celebrated Canadian-based jazz label Justin Time Records. Loren's accolades in more recent years include an Independent Music Award for her original song “Thirsty” in 2011, a Best Vocal Jazz Album 2012 award in Japan’s Jazz Critique Magazine for her album “Heart First,” (which also reached #1 on Canada’s iTunes Jazz chart), and a total of five Billboard #1 albums on Japan’s jazz charts since 2013. Both her 2013 album “Simply Love” and 2015 release “Butterfly Blue” entered Billboard Japan and iTunes Canada as #1 jazz album. Her 2018 release, ‘From the Wild Sky”, a recording of her original songs produced by U.K. tour-de-force Troy Miller (Amy Winehouse, Jaime Cullum, Gregory Porter), garnered her an Emmy for her 2nd single’s video “Noah” in 2019 for Best Music Video as presented by The National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Southeast Chapter. In September, 2022, she released a live CD recorded at The Cotton Club in Tokyo,

Along with recording and songwriting successes, Loren’s live performances have brought her around the world several times, with performances on 4 continents thus far, including tours across the U.S., Canada, France, the U.K., Japan, Italy, Egypt, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Egypt, and Haiti. Her concerts range from intimate to expansive, from a classic jazz trio format to lush orchestral collaborations (which have thus far included the Jazz Orchestra of Sicily, the Glacier Symphony of Montana, the Monroe Symphony in Louisiana, the prestigious International Britt Fest Orchestra and the Eugene Symphony, Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra and Newport Symphony Orchestra in Oregon. Loren is continuing to perform across the US and other countries, visiting new cities and countries during her tours, and is recording her newest album in Montreal, BC, was released in Feb, 2024. https://www.halieloren.com
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Diego Figueiredo
Brazilian guitarist Diego Figueiredo (pronounced “fig-a-ray-doe”) released his fifth album on Arbors Records, “My World” in June 2023. This brilliant new album from this masterfully creative guitarist, features three legendary Brazilian musicians, bassist Nilson Matta, drummer Duduka Da Fonseca, and pianist Helio Alves, along with two guest appearances from Ken Peplowski on clarinet and tenor sax, and trumpeter Nicholas Payton. Legendary jazz critic Scott Yanow, writes in the liner notes “Diego has the rara ability of making everything sound beautiful.”

Diego Figueiredo lives in, with, and for the music. Some people are simply meant to be musicians. Diego is one. He was born in 1980 in Franca, São Paulo State, and began playing music at four years old. By the age of twelve he had already attracted a local following, and when he was fifteen, he was drawing huge crowds around Brazil. Now, in 2022, he has conquered the world. Diego has recorded over two dozen albums, both solo and in collaboration with others, and constantly tours all over the globe. He can no longer be downplayed as a “rising star” among the world’s great (jazz) guitarists – he is now inarguably among the established elite. His skills on his instrument are matched only by his ability to move freely between styles, and his sublime technique is paired with an exquisite ability to vary his playing so that it radiates with unwavering excitement. His expressive voice on the acoustic guitar draws inspiration from his home country’s rich musical heritage, but he also has a deep knowledge and sense of jazz’s quirkiness as well as the classic guitar tradition. Diego Figueiredo can play whatever he desires.
Diego has released 30 CDs between his releases in Brazil, the European label Stunt Records, and now five albums on Arbors Records. He has played in more than 60 countries. He is the winner of several important competitions including The Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition, and Brazil’s VISA Prize.

Diego has recorded and performed with Brazil’s biggest stars including Gilberto Gil, João Bosco, Roberto Menescal, Toquinho, Fafá de Belém, Angela Maria, Toninho Horta, and several years touring the world accompanying Brazil’s beloved composer and vocalist, Belchior.
For the last ten years, Diego has spent large swarths of time in North America, performing solo and in duos and trios with the likes of Larry Coryell, Ken Peplowski, John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton, Chuchito Valdes, Stanley Jordan and Cyrille Aimée. https://www.diegofigueiredo.com