Peel Me a Grape – Songs by Dave Frishberg with Connie Evingson & Jon Weber

An Evening of Classic Vocal Jazz

Connie explores the Dave Frishberg Songbook from the witty and swinging (“My Attorney Bernie”, “Peel Me a Grape”) to the senstive and sublime “Listen Here”, “You Are There”). Pianist Jon Weber and bassist Steve Pikal join Connie in playing selections from her CD of Frishberg songs “Little Did I Dream” as well as other Frishberg favorites.

Connie Evingson: Vocals

Jon Weber: Piano

Steve Pikal: Bass

Vocalist Connie Evingson is known for exploring a wide variety of musical styles. She has been a featured guest artist with Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis, the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Doc Severinsen, Vocalessence, the JazzMN Orchestra and other esteemed organizations. She is a longtime member of the popular vocal jazz group Moore By Four, and is a two-time recipient of both the McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians and the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.

Evingson captures the essence of Frishberg’s lyrics, appropriately sassy in “Peel Me a Grape”, delighting in the exotic “Zanzibar” and swinging like mad in “Can’t Take You Nowhere” … – Ken Dryden, All About Jazz

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