JazzInToronto's Songbird Series: Rita di Ghent Trio

Tickets GA: $15 + HST

Tickets VIP: $20 + HST VIP - Front row seating and meet and greet!

Doors open at 1:00PM

Show starts at 2:00PM

Rita di Ghent - vocals
Sean Bray - guitar
Duncan Hopkins - bass

Rita di Ghent was born in Hamilton, Ontario. When she was a baby, her family moved to Chicago where some of her Mother's siblings had emigrated to. Rita's father drove for a living, becoming Louis Amstrong's chauffeur. He also chauffeured luminaries such as The Beatles, Bill Cosby, and Robert Culp.
Rita's training began at age three with ballet and tap dancing. Her first big stage show was at 8 years, tap dancing to the music of Ramsay Lewis. Her musical parents got her a clarinet and private teacher around the same time. After years playing clarinet, Rita began playing violin. Through her father's musical influence, Rita fell in love with and began singing jazz in high school, drawing on childhood memories of her Mother's ever-constant singing voice.
Rita has become a world-wide artist of note and the inventor of an original jazz genre that she calls Sprawl -- a combination of traditional jazz, contemporary urban music, and painterly stories. Her many accolades include a nomination for the Montreal Jazz Festival's Prix de Jazz for her acclaimed "The Birth of Sprawl".

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