Butcher Sings Baker

Shannon Butcher & Rebecca Hennessy perform the Chet Baker Songbook

Shannon Butcher - vocals
Rebecca Hennessy - trumpet
Mark Kieswetter - piano
Ross MacIntyre - bass
Maxwell Roach - drums

Hugh's Room
2261 Dundas Street West

Doors & Dinner - 6PM
Concert - 8:30PM

Tickets - 416.531.6604 or hughsroom.com
$22.50/advance $25/door

Shannon Butcher (Vocals) with Rebecca Hennessy (Trumpet) perform the Chet Baker Songbook; saluting one of the Jazz world’s most popular male vocalists and horn players.

In their first collaboration together, these two celebrated ladies of the Toronto jazz scene will perform a broad range of material spanning the breadth of Chet Baker’s career, with a focus on his vocal repertoire. Selections will include works from his later period such as Elvis Costello’s “Almost Blue” along with the classic standards “I Fall In Love Too Easily”, “My Funny Valentine”, “It Could Happen To You”, “Let’s Get Lost” and more!

Accompanied by an outstanding Piano, Bass and Drum trio (Mark Kieswetter, Ross MacIntyre and Maxwell Roach), this duo who are known for exploring the “new” come together to explore the inspiration of a jazz icon