Dahlia Dior: Edith Piaf and Friends @ Camelot Lounge - Completed
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Sunday, 2 November 2014 from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time) + Add to calendar02/11/2014 18:3002/11/2014 22:30Australia/SydneyDahlia Dior: Edith Piaf and Friends @ Camelot LoungeDahlia Dior: Edith Piaf and Friends @ Camelot Lounge
Sunday, 2 November 2014 from 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)
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Camelot Lounge
0295503777
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Event web page: https://www.stickytickets.com.au/18795Camelot Lounge
19 Marrickville Road
Marrickville NSW 2204
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Dahlia Dior has re-invented herself yet again by injecting theatrical flair into her Cabaret performance, utilising her story telling and acting experience, coupled with her vocal and language skills. The result is a one woman show by a narrator/actor/singer who will transport her audience back in time to a Bohemian Paris of long ago, with its steamy garrets, starving artists, and French chanson.
Dahlia's styles vary from Jazz, blues, chansons poemes (poetic songs), chansons réalistes (realistic songs), and torch songs (love ballads), to the pulsating French Java and tango of the music halls.
Edith Piaf and Friends is a tribute to the legendary musical icons of French cabaret, with a selection of Edith Piaf’s evocative and much loved songs, including La Foule, Mon Dieu, Le Gitan et La Fille, and Je Ne Regrette Rien; George Moustaki’s popular Milord; Charles Aznavour’s romantic La Bohéme; Charles Trenét’s evergreen La Mer; Django Reinhardt’s evocative blues ballad Nuages; Juliétte Greco’s description of naughty Paris, Paris Cannaille; and Jacques Brel's piece de resistance, Ne Me Quite Pas.
Dahlia, born in Jerusalem, commenced singing at a very early age, and quickly established herself as one of the most popular performing artists in Israel, climaxing with her starring role in the highly successful and much loved Israeli musical - Kazablan (Israeli version of West Side Story), which ran for 2 years. She is a singer of enormous vitality and energy, and her styles include jazz, blues, torch, gypsy, World Music, and sometime she burst into wild cabaret. Dahlia can authentically sing and interpret songs from all over the world, and is indeed one of the most versatile vocalists, singing in over 20 languages. She began her international career in London’s prominent West End clubs such as the Astor Club and George Raft's Colony Club on Berkley Square, and also Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Manila and Bangkok. In Australia Dahlia has performed on the same bill with legends such as Ray Charles, Matt Monro, Blood Sweat and Tears, Tiny Tim, Lulo Reinhardt, and the famous Metropolitan Opera tenor, Jan Peerce.
What the critics say: The Gallic tradition of torch songs, cabaret songs, Gypsy songs, opera and jazz is as rich as bechamel sauce, and Dahlia Dior gave us the full gamut... She sang tunes made famous by Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, and Michel Legrand... Dior's special gift is to animate not just her face and the lyrics, but the stage and the whole room. With eyes like rising suns she charmed with demureness one moment, beguiled with raunchiness the next... this was Dior's night: as effervescent as champagne". John Shand - The Sydney Morning Herald
“There’s nothing quite as inspiring as French song when it’s done right. Dahlia Dior does it just right and doesn’t restrict herself to Piaf, but ranges over the best work by the likes of Aznavour, Montand, Chevalier, and more when she presents “Chansons d’Amour”, a tribute to 100 years of French Cabaret… The Drum Media
I’ve waited way too long to see Dahlia Dior, and as I discover, Dahlia’s versatility across, jazz, cabaret, chanson, torch songs and much more, knows virtually no bounds. Famous and not-so-famous songs are worn together with biographical excerpts: it’s as if that little bird has confided a few secrets. Dior’s fragrant recreation of the mood and disposition of France’s ‘national popular singer’ is spellbinding ….and one is transported back to her heroic beginnings. Dahlia is a consummate performer; an astonishing singer, with a commanding theatrical presence. This show alone is one which should be seen in Paris and all over the world. Wherever La Mome Piaf is known and loved. It brings her back to life. ‘Padam, padam, padam!’ go the heartstrings. Showbiz critic Brad Syke
The show Edith Piaf and Friends, was a sell-out at Double Bay’s Blue Beat…The chanteuse Dahlia Dior, her voice beautifully accented, rich, smooth, and well rounded, reverberating like a true French Chanson… Dahlia told the tale of the starving artist and his lover/model/muse in 'La Bohème' and then wonderfully singing Edith’s ‘La Vie en Rose’. Love and Paris go together in a city that is the embodiment of our romantic fantasies, along with Edith Piaf and the songs of her era. Dahlia, echoing the longing love can evoke, and the desperation of holding on to a lover, begins Jacques Brel’s ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ beautifully in French, evoking the sentiments of Brel, who seemed to perform the words with tears running down his face… The spectre of the singer’s voice, the cabaret, the carnival, the gypsy camp, all unfold… When performing the iconic song of the quintessential Edith Piaf 'Non Je Ne Regrette Rien' Dahlia’s voice roars and soars to heaven, the audience joining at times, then spontaneously applauding and exploding with this much loved song delivered with full length and breadth without limits, like the delightful range of the singer’s voice. The show ends with the song 'Hymn a L’amour’ (Hymn to Love), summing up the sentiments of the event.... Fayrose Lutta Eastside Radio
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