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At age 25, Bria Skonberg has been performing on stage for over 20 years. She has made appearances as a bandleader and guest artist all over North America and Europe, as well as China and Japan. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the CBC Jazz Award of Merit (2006), and the coveted Kobe Jazz Street Friendship Award, presented at the Breda Jazz Festival in 2007. Early in 2008 she was a guest on Riverwalk Jazz with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band, representing the “next generation of jazz”. She is often a featured performer with Canadian Icon Dal Richards and his Orchestra.
Bria currently resides in Vancouver where she graduated with a Degree in Jazz Performance from Capilano College in 2006. She co-leads and manages three jazz bands based in the Pacific Northwest: The Big Bang Jazz Band aka The 51st Eight (www.bigbangjazzband.com) The Mighty Aphrodite Jazz Band (www.mightyjazz.com) and Bria's Hot Five. She is also a member of The Hoppin' Mad Orchestra, the Yukon based quintet New Orleans North, and is featured often with the Solomon Douglas Swingtet.
For the last five years she has been active as an advocate for upcoming musicians, working as a teacher and counselor at the Heebie Jeebies Youth Jazz Camp, Mammoth Lakes Youth Jazz Camp and the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society Youth Jazz Camp in the summer. She has begun programming, narrating and performing educational elementary school shows, and has given clinics at Sacramento State University and the University of Colorado pertaining to improvising and her experiences.
You have surely heard about the tragic death of a brave young woman who was murdered in Iran just for peacefully protesting with her father on the streets of Teheran.
If your gonna be in town Wednesday June 17th come see Disstrick at the Terrace in Pasadena.
Hip-Hop Night!! 06/17/2009 09:30 PM @ The Terrace 443 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, California 91101 US Cost:$15 at the door($10 with ticket) Hip-Hop night!!
Hey Bria. I love your music, jazzy 'n' soulful. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon in the sun. Stop by my page and check out the tracks with you on them. Travellin', Van City, and It's too Late. Cheers. VIS
Thanks for your terrific performance with Jim Fryer, John Clark, Jimmy Mazzy and the rest of the guys at the Sherborn Inn Tuesday night. You have a wonderful future in hot jazz, building on your already considerable skill and talent. I'm old enough and lucky enough to have seen Wild Bill Davison, Yank Lawson, Billy Butterfield and Bobby Hackett perform live. They would have loved the way you play and sing.
Come check out the new hit single by Wayne Lambert - Crazy 4 U. Taken from his debut solo album, Songs Of Love And War, its a passionate song destined to become a classic.
Thanks for your friendship Bria, check out our latest Blog about 2009 Teacher Appreciation Day...hope you will participate in our celebration of learning and leave a comment about a teacher who made a difference in your life.
Hallo People! I believe that music can unite people from the most remote corners of our planet. I would like to offer to create live music via Internet together. You can record your instrument via computer and send this record to me via Internet so I can play together with you. Also, together we can find the other musicians for our music created and played together. We can understand each other with the help of our music and send our messages to the whole world!
how's the chipper one doing? too bad you aren't with us the next couple of nights here in Boise, it'll be a good time. sounds like you're having a good one as well...
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