Jazz Sessions Series: Happy Birthday Jobim! Love, Betsy and The Bears

Introducing The Jazz Sessions Series

Spend an evening with some of the area’s best local jazz musicians in The Sunroom, our intimate second-floor event space. Each Jazz Sessions show features a different local group in a relaxed, up-close setting where you can feel every note. Enjoy drinks from the bar and light bites while you take in the view, then settle in for a night of great music with friends.

Betsy and The Bears brings Bossa Nova to Hendricks Live to celebrate world renowned composer and musician, Antônio Carlos Jobim for a hundredth birthday celebration! Composer of “Girl from Ipanema”, Jobim was one of the premiere pioneers of bringing Bossa Nova to the US, collaborating with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Elle Fitzgerald. Led by award-winning vocalist, Betsy Baer and Doctor of Music guitarist, B.G. McPike,  Betsy and The Bears will feature four-time National Mandolin champion, Solly Burton. Brazilian guitarist Dr. Marco Itapuan rounds out the sound with original charts written by Jobim, himself.

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