Christine Tassan et les Imposteures

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm UTC-08:00

Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre | Victoria

Beacon Ridge Productions
Publisher/HostBeacon Ridge Productions
Christine Tassan et les Imposteures
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Christine Tassan et Les Imposteures will seduce you with their amazing gypsy jazz and swing music, from the first note to the very last one
About this Event

For more than 20 years, Christine Tassan, an outstanding guitarist, has been steering her ensemble, Les Imposteures, with boundless enthusiasm and confidence. Blessed with an absolutely contagious dynamism, she is one of the rare female jazz and gypsy jazz guitar soloists; she stands out for her sensitive playing, her quiet strength, and her irresistible audacity. As a singer, composer, writer, director, and producer, she has contributed to numerous musical projects in Quebec and internationally, both as a leader and as a guest musician (most notably with The Lost Fingers, Paul Kunigis, Le trio Martin Bellemare and Canto Tango).

Trained in classical guitar, she quickly became interested in many styles, studying folk, pop, jazz and developing an early and obvious talent as a singer-songwriter. Her interest in gypsy jazz, jazz and improvisation was definitely triggered by her discovery of Django Reinhardt’s music in 1998, a style she learned by joining the classes of masters such as Angelo Debarre, Emmanuel Kassimo or Yorgui Loeffler.

In 2003, she founded her gypsy jazz and swing band, Christine Tassan et les Imposteures. The band was an immediate success and became an unmissable part of the gypsy jazz scene. Unique in its kind, this all-woman band (for many years) has performed in over 600 festivals and venues in Quebec, Canada, Europe, the United States and China. Each time enthusiastically received by the public and the media, the band was applauded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, at the prestigious Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine (France) and at the famous DjangoFest NorthWest (USA). The quartet has 7 albums to its credit, including “Entre Félix et Django” which was awarded the Opus Prize for “Jazz Album of the Year” in 2017 as well as a nomination for “Show of the Year” in 2018. “Django Belles”, their most recent release in 2018, incorporated two new female musicians on horns for an original ode to Quebec winter.

Always looking for new horizons, Christine studied composition and jazz arrangement at Berklee College of Music in 2014. In 2020, in parallel to the saga of Les Imposteures, she conceived Voyage intérieur, a new quintet project. This inner journey gathers ten instrumental compositions, fruits of an introspective and musical research at the same time. Aficionados will discover a new facet of the guitarist, in her exploration of electric and bebop sounds. This album is nominated in 2021-2022 for “Jazz Album of the Year” at the Juno Awards, ADISQ, Prix Opus and GAMIQ !

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The Upstairs Lounge is a licensed restaurant and bar, doors open at 6 pm for dinner service, the concert starts at approx. 7:30 pm - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A LISTENING VENUE


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Upstairs Lounge, Oak Bay Recreation Centre, 1975 Bee Street, Victoria, Canada

Tickets

CAD 40.54

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