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Edie DaPonte
Equally at home in an intimate lounge setting or an outdoor festival stage, Edie Daponte has established a reputation in the music scene of Vancouver Island and Western Canada as a dynamic and engaging performer
About Me
Equally at home in an intimate lounge setting or an outdoor festival stage, Edie
Daponte has established a reputation in the music scene of Vancouver Island and
Western Canada as a dynamic and engaging performer. Edie brings passion,
playfulness and an evident love of performance to her live shows. Vancouver
island Music Awards awarded Edie with Jazz Recording of the Year in 2017 for
her original song Island Rain and nominated her as Vocalist of the Year in
2016. Edie's original song 'Ride the Wind' has been nominated in the Traditional
category for the 2017 International Portuguese Music Awards (IPMA) . Emotive
and passionate, Edie's voice lends itself perfectly to a wide range of jazz
standards, seamlessly moving from jazz to Bossa Nova and back again, switching
between English, Portuguese, Spanish and French numbers with ease.
A regular performer in her home town of Sidney as the house singer for the
Beacon Landing, Edie has performed at festivals including the Victoria Jazz
Festival and the Vancouver Latin Festival. You'll often find her accompanied by
talented musicians, Joey Smith on guitar and Karel Roessingh on piano. Together
they create a wonderful atmosphere, engaging audiences large and small,
drawing the audiences in and rewarding them with classic numbers they love to
hear.
My Jazz Story
I love jazz because it moves us and unites us.