Ariel Bart Trio (Israel/Japan/Russia) - Bray Jazz Festival
At a glance
About this event
Berlin-based Ariel Bart is a musical prodigy, one of a small band of jazz chromatic harmonica players whose ranks include Tools Thieleman, Karen Mantler and Stevie Wonder.
Aged just 23, Bart draws her influences from contemporary European jazz, as well as the music of North Africa’s Maghreb and the Middle East.
While her group’s configuration is of a traditional jazz piano trio, its frontline of harmonica and cello make for the creation of melodies both beautiful and haunting.
A graduate of the New York University of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Ariel Bart is already making her mark. Her debut album release in 2021 received collaborated with such major names on New York’s jazz scene as veteran bassist William Parker, drummer Andrew Cyrille and trombonist Steve Swell, and has as a soloist with the Jerusalem Orchestra East and West.
Her songs are tender, melancholic, and touching, like soundtracks to imagined films, arrangements that are suffused with longing.
Ariel is accompanied by Japanese cellist Mayu Shviro and by Berlin-based Russian pianist Arsenii Rykov.
“A beautiful harmonica player, who could be classified, as Toots would have said, between a smile and a tear”
Jazz’halo
Location
Bray Town Hall, Main St, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Venue details
Bray Town Hall was originally built in 1884 and was substantially refurbished in 1992 to provide a restaurant and Council Chamber for Bray UDC. The building is considered one of the finest buildings in Bray.
