Family bonds link performers in a double bill concert at Headliners in April.
Award-winning singer Joelle Rabu joins her son, Nico Rhodes, on stage for the first half of a concert, followed by The Big Mess, featuring trumpet player Marty Shepard and his son, singer-beatboxer Voxman Kyle.
Rabu’s intimate concert will feature songs from her international hit show Tonight Piaf, as well as an eclectic assortment of tunes drawn from her jazz, torch, European cabaret and musical theatre influences.
Rabu will be performing with her son, an award-winning pianist who has recently returned from a highly successful tour as music director-pianist of both the Chemainus Theatre and the Vancouver Arts Club productions of A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline.
The Big Mess is musicality, theatrics and comedy. Shepard is well known locally for his trumpet and flugelhorn playing. VoxMan Kyle, Shepard’s 25-year-old son is an unconventional and funky musician. With charismatic blending of beatboxing, scatting and lyrical singing, at times he can sound like an entire rhythm section and a variety of vocalists.
The Big Mess, Rabu and Rhodes have been known to spontaneously join each other on stage for a rousing musical happening.
The April 2 concert at Headliners starts at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets $20 from Headliners. Please call 250-753-2323.
Gabriolans will also get the opportunity to see the concert the following evening, April 3, 7:30 p.m., at the Phoenix Auditorium. Tickets for the Gabriola Island show are available at Artworks.
