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International jazz singer brings pandemic-delayed tour to Nanaimo

Madeleine Peyroux will play the Port Theatre on Nov. 13
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Madeleine Peyroux will perform on Sunday, Nov. 13, at the Port Theatre in Nanaimo. (Submitted photo)

International jazz singer and songwriter Madeleine Peyroux will perform in Nanaimo this weekend, bringing with her a “dusky and lyrical style.”

Peyroux’s pandemic-delayed Careless Love Forever tour will see the singer appear in Campbell River, Courtenay, Sidney and Nanaimo in early November before she continues across Europe in the new year.

The tour is to celebrate the singer’s 2004 album Careless Love and the songs collected on it.

“Peyroux is the type of timeless and expressive singer who transports listeners with the emotionality of her performance,” noted a press release for the show.

According to the release, the singer emerged in her teens as a street-busking performer in Paris’ Latin Quarter district in the 1980s and drew a favourable comparison to jazz singer Billie Holiday. Born in Athens, Georgia in 1973, Peyroux grew up in Southern California and Brooklyn before moving to Paris when she was 13 years old.

The singer will perform at the Port Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $89, sold at the theatre’s box office, 250-754-8550, or online at www.porttheatre.com.

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