Luisa Annibali Quintet - Bray Jazz Festival 2026

About this event

Italian born singer Luisa Annibali presents her latest album Liberi live at this year’s festival.

She describes the work as a reflection of her journey, through love, identity, and the search for connection. “The places I’ve been, the questions I carry, and the freedom I’m still learning to claim. As a woman, as an artist, and as a human being, trying to find my voice in a mind and a world that often tells us who we should be.”

Liberi is dedicated to her dad, and, in his unique way, gives her the opportunity to be Libera – which means ‘Free’ in Italian! “I hope these songs will speak to you, and that in them, you might hear something of your own journey too.”

Libera blends the soul of jazz, Italian lyricism, Latin and Brazilian rhythm.. Some songs move with deep groove, while others unfold in pure vocal improvisation, inspired by the wild, instinctive spirit of free ja“ — just voice, emotion, and breath, raw and spontaneous, born in the moment.

Among them, one piece reaches beyond the personal: an anthem to peace, equality and human dignity. As she says: “It reminds me — and maybe all of us — that even small, conscious acts can spark change. I’m still learning this myself, from a place of awareness and privilege — asking what it truly means to act, to care, to use our own voices, to keep the heart open.”

Libera is about liberation — from fear, from silence, from all those invisible chains that hold us back from being fully ourselves.