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Paulette Amory - Lianne Van De Ven -Barbara Caillagh - Felicia Brathwaite
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 Pianist
and flutist Paulette Amory
has spent her life living and playing between the black and white keys.
She is a music educator with classical obedience training. This causes her
to spontaneously erupt into piano, flute and vocal improvisations. Paulette
is a lifelong professional, whose repertoire would impress even the most
seasoned cabaret players. She is also a sought-after teacher, inspiring
her students to delve into their creativity, challenging them with right-brain
surprises. All of this experience and intuition Paulette offers to Zendiva,
layering images and melody throughout the music.
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 Percussionist
Lianne Van De Ven began on piano, then practiced
rhythms on old drums piled on discarded tires in the attic. She played trumpet
in a carnival band for a few years. Her piano-style seeks to combine both
fluid romantic melodies and strong rhythmic accents, preferably in an odd
meter. Music with a deep groove really gets her going. She moved from the
Netherlands to the US in 1994. She plays with hands, mallets and sticks
on her percussion set of low tom, djembe, bongo's, temple blocks, cymbals,
bells and other percussive instruments. Lately she is bringing out a regular
drumkit, and received drum lessons from jazz drummer Jon Wade. |
 Guitarist
and songwriter Barbara Caillagh
taught herself to play and write music at age 11, then continued her studies
on a park bench in a small upstate New York town. She co-ran a musical coffeehouse
called the "Pig and Whistle" during the Woodstock era. As a special
education teacher, children have taught her, many of them challenged with
autism, about the language of music. Her original children's songs like
"Happy Gorilla" and "Turtle Walk" are well loved for
their happy rhythms and sweet message. Barbara, with 35 years of performing
experience writes unique, percussive song-poems, all with healing contents,
that have found outlet in the unique collaboration of Zendiva. |
 Bassist
Felicia Brathwaite has been
a student of music most of her life. After the High School of Music and
Art and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, she met three
divas in Williamsburg with whom she found the muse. Felicia excels in rhythmic
and conceptual re-arrangement, transforming folk to hip-hop in a blink.
She is hysterically funny. Her strongest influences of jazz and funk permeate
the music through the sub-floor. Felicia is truly the original Zen Diva. |
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Photography by Trevor Davis |
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Williamsburg, VAHOSTED BY IX WEBHOSTING
UPDATED: May 25, 2004
