Badi Assad Trio Special Event

Performance Dates

July 13, 2023 4:30 PM

Location

Highmark Theatre & Forbes Avenue Plaza

350 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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Performance Times
Thursday 4:30pm

Ticket Price
$25 (includes your first drink!) 

Brazilian Jazz

Based in São Paulo, Brazil, virtuoso guitar player, singer, vocal juggler and songwriter, Badi Assad has emerged as one of the most versatile artists of her generation. With more than 14 albums released worldwide and more then 40 visited countries, her 2006 CD Wonderland was selected among the 100 Best from the prestigious BBC London and was also included among the 30 Best on Amazon.com. The US magazine, Guitar Player, selected her from a pool of artists (that included the likes of Ben Harper and Ani DiFranco), as one of the guitar players that would revolutionize the world.
Embraced by record companies such as Verve (Universal) and eDGe Music (Deutsche Grammophon), she has played an array of international concerts over the past two decades, including innovative collaborations with Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo-Ma and David Broza, among others. She has performed in some of the most prestigious International Festivals, including North Sea Jazz (NE), Jarazum Jazz (KOR) and in theaters such as L’Opera de Paris (FR), Palais de Beaux-Arts (BE) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (US)...

Some of her songs have reached the Top 10 in Europe. Her hit song, Waves was featured in the soundtrack of It Runs in the Family, featuring Michael and Kirk Douglas. In 2004, with the release of Three Guitars, she toured the world with guitar legends, Larry Coryell and John Abercrombie. In 2005 she joined her brothers, parents, and nephews for the live recording of A Brazilian Songbook and DVD A Moment of Pure Love, for the Belgian label GHA. In 2007 Sofia, her first daughter was born and Badi took a time out. Still, under the effects of motherhood, she was responsible for the soundtrack for the children's play Convocadores de Estrelas, by the group Seres de Luz, lent her voice to Barulhinho Ruim, a theme song by the character Bel, created especially for the re-debut of Vila Sésamo, on TV Cultura ( BR) and alongside Naná Vasconcelos she composed the score for the documentary Children of the Amazon, by Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol. More: https://en.badiassad.com/

About MCG Jazz 

MCG Jazz is a social enterprise of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, a subsidiary of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, a non-profit arts and learning center in Pittsburgh, PA.  

Through our guiding principles:  environment shapes behavior, people are assets and creativity fuels enterprise, and our mission to preserve, present and promote jazz, we aim to strengthen the Pittsburgh jazz community and contribute to the overall cultural and artistic diversity of the region.  

The MCG Jazz concert series – one of the longest running subscription-based jazz performance series in the county –has been a safe place for artists to share their art and discuss relevant issues of the time. Our recording label produces distinctive albums from a wide variety of artists, our educational programs serve elementary, middle and high school aged students in urban and rural communities, and our archives of audio/video recordings, photographs, interviews and individual artist collections exists as a model for learning for future generations to help grow the audience for jazz and enhance the artform and its creators.  

For more information, please contact MCG Jazz at 412-322-0800 or visit our web site at www.mcgjazz.org.