Friday, October 14 - 8:30 to 11:30 p.m.
$3 entertainment charge for diners, $5 for non-diners
Reservations recommended

• Diane Nalini - vocals
• Mike Rud - guitar
• John Geggie - double bass

Singer/songwriter Diane Nalini is returning to Cafe Paradiso with her fabulous musicians, guitarist Mike Rud and bassist John Geggie.

Diane was born in Montreal, and is of Belgian and Goan descent. She started singing jazz at the age of three and never stopped. "I just love Diane Nalini's voice. This is a sassy, 'ripe plum in the Italian sun' kind of voice," declares CBC Radio's Katie Malloch. "She captures jazz at its most sophisticated and joyous level," writes Elle Magazine Canada.

Her fourth and latest album, Kiss Me Like That, is a captivating blend of standards and original songs celebrating humanity's fascination with the sky and stars. Her third album, Songs of Sweet Fire, put a new spin on the words of William Shakespeare set to Diane's original jazz, funk, folk, and blues music. The album garnered rave reviews from jazz and literature fans alike. The Montreal Gazette's Irwin Block says, "Diane Nalini has the voice, the phrasing, confidence, clarity and control to make a tune her own and turn it into a nuanced thing of beauty." Her debut album, After Dusk, was described by the UK's Time Out magazine as "a gorgeous collection of standards, sung with quiet enunciated power".

Diane composes and sings in four languages. She has given gala performances for President Bill Clinton and Sir Paul McCartney. She was nominated for the Grand Prix de Jazz General Motors at the 2002 Montreal International Jazz Festival, and was one of two finalists for the UK's Young Jazz Vocalist of the Year awards for 2001.

Café Paradiso
199 Bank Street
613-565-0657
www.cafeparadiso.ca