Elizabeth Watts * Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works [New CD] 6/3/22 Recorded live at Tsubo in

Recorded live at Tsubo in Berkeley

The Ballad Of Wallis Island

Introduced to Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad by Beto Barreto of Baiana System

Boitatá

Winner of Blues Music Awards for Album Of The Year and Traditional Blues Album Of The Year

Elizabeth Watts * Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works [New CD] 6/3/22 Recorded live at Tsubo inMel (Melanie Helne) Bonis was born in Paris in 1858, and showed a prodigious talent for music from an early age, attending the Paris Conservatoire from the age of sixteen, studying alongside Debussy and Pierne under Cesar Franck. Her passionate relationship with the singer Amedee Louis Hettich was frowned upon by her parents, who pressured her to marry edouard Domange, a twice widowed industrialist with five children. Bonis threw herself into her role