6.09: Concert Acustic a Can Monroig Inca:: Leslie Helpert

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Fecha: sábado 6 de septiembre.
Lugar: Can Monroig

Con tan solo 11 años, Leslie Helpert se inicia en el piano, la guitarra y el canto. Estudia jazz americano de vanguardia en el Berklee college of music de Boston y en Naporra University of Colorado. Ha actuado en más de 200 lugares y ha compuesto cientos de canciones. Acaba de grabar su sexto disco en los estudios Whatabout de Barcelona. A menudo homenajea en sus conciertos a cantantes del jazz americano como Billie Holiday y es profesora de canto y composición.
Vive entre Europa y Estados Unidos, pasa largas temporadas en Barcelona donde ha actuado en el Palau de la Música junto a Ismael Dueñas.
El próximo sábado 6 de septiembre ofrecerá en Can Monroig un concierto en solitario acompañada únicamente por su guitarra donde podremos apreciar el talento y la personalidad de esta cantante americana.

"I don't got a written will, so here it is. All i got is my volition. So if i go let me tell you where i keep it. Let me give you the password, so you can try it on. The word is divine i heard it in the morning and i kept it on my lips though these nights of song"
Leslie Helpert


Helpert entered the world singing, began on piano and found the guitar by age 11, on which she fixated. She began performing and recording in her teens; studied americana and avant garde jazz at the Berklee college of music in Boston as a guitar principal and later indigenous music at Naropa University in Colorado (2000).
Helpert has performed in over 200 venues and written hundreds of compositions.
In 2008 she was the country of Bemuda's musician-in-resident. In 2003 she was recipient of Denmark's Art Council's Resident Grant.

She recently finished her 6th record, released on Barcelona, Spain's label Whatabout Music. Helpert performs the work of Billie Holiday and oher heirloom vocalists of american jazz worldwide. She teaches a progressive and technical modality of voice/composition to conservatories and in her home studio. She lives between Europe and The U.S.
Helpert is an avid "inkest" and sells her artwork though select galleries and by individual commissions.
Leslie has been commissioned to write the music for Midsummer Night's Dream by English Theater Group of Barcelona and will also be accompanying the performances for april 4, 5 and 6 with celliss Erica Wise at the Lluïsos Teatre in Barcelona. Helpert is recipient for Danish Art Council Grant, 2013: audio visual composition project.
Sumer 2013: Live footage from Palau de la Música concert with Ismael Dueñas.

Fecha: sábado 6 de septiembre.
Lugar: Can Monroig
C/Can Valella nº 22, Inca
Organiza Asociación cultural Can Monroig
Tel consultas 871912496 / 609167768.


Aportación al concierto: 10 € (el mismo día en puerta)

Can Monroig. Casa- estudio de arquitectura e interiorismo restaurada por Marie-Noëlle Ginard y Robert López Hinton. Ofrece regularmente a través de la Asociació cultural Can Monroig, danza, teatro, música y otras actividades culturales. 

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