Singer-violinist delights with her ‘personal folk music’
By BILL WHITE
SPECIAL TO THE P-I
The final weekend of the Earshot Jazz Festival began with an intimate solo concert from violinist/singer Iva Bittová, a legend of the Eastern European avant-garde. She performed unamplified in the acoustically reverberant chapel at the Good Shepherd Center.
The standing room only audience was thick with many of Seattle’s most adventurous musicians. For them, the concert was in many ways an unexpected master class in the use of concision and subtlety in a music that is often given to excess and overstatement.
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