Jazz Calendar

Gabriela and Phil Kassel enjoy singing together at Club Café when she is visiting from Montreal, but they last did a whole show nearly 20 years ago when she was in high school. They decided that’s too long, geography be damned! Between songs, they’ll tell stories about how their musical paths crossed at different phases of life and give a glimpse of their frank familial rapport, singing old and new favorite tunes, including those of Amy Winehouse; Joy of Cooking; Laura Nyro, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Leonard Cohen, and others. Their friend and long-time collaborator, Michael Larson, is the show’s Musical Director and he’ll join them on piano.

Phil and Gabriela have busy day jobs as a local public interest lawyer and somatic therapist and facilitator. By all accounts, their voices work well together. Here are excerpts from a review of a show they did in 2007: “Bringing down the house was left to the dynamic father-daughter act of Gabriela and Phil Kassel. The duo’s sweet harmonies play off the songs, with Dad” nailing a “dark sardonic vocal pitch” and lightening to “a soaring tenor to accompany his daughter,” who has “a dreamy, fluid voice which allows the music to spill out like water bouncing and skipping across stones – and the lyrics to fall effortlessly across the notes. You can hear and appreciate every single word, partly because she makes it look so natural, as if you hadn’t heard the lyric before.” (Beverly Creasey of Theatremirror.com)