EVENT CANCELLED
A Jazzy 2015 New Year's Eve with Aura & Friends
Wed, 31 Dec, 7:00 PM EST
Palais Royale
1601 Lake Shore Blvd. W. , Toronto, ON M6K 3C1
EVENT CANCELLED
Description
Join in a jazzy New Year's Eve party to usher in 2015 with "Aura and Friends" in style, at Palais Royale!
Artists and Program
Aura Rully (Urziceanu), renowned international vocalist and Duke Ellington’s protégée graces for the first time Palais Royale, famous location that hosted the Duke himself! What a bridge over time!
Aura has performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Quincy Jones, Mel Lewis, Thad Jones and Sarah Vaughn. She’s participated in prestigious festivals and venues such as the Newport Jazz Festival, the Village Vanguard and Carnegie Hall.
Aura and her friends, well known Canadian jazz performers, will delight you with a world music / soft jazz / rock / pop / folk show making this party an event to remember!
Aura's electrifying show will be nicely complemented by the DJ with an exciting program!
For Live Show, Dinner and Dance: Doors open at 7 p.m., we say good night at 3 a.m.
For Live Show and Dance: Doors open at 9 p.m., we say good night at 3 a.m.
Food and Bar
The hors d’oeuvres and the gourmet style dinner will delight you and the flair bartenders will make the cash bar an attraction in itself!
We are happy to accommodate your special vegetarian requests communicated when you purchase the tickets.
Mark the New Year with a complimentary glass of champagne, then dance till 3 a.m.
Location
And Palais Royale! What a location! For 92 years Palais Royale has been home to great musicians such as Count Basie and Duke Ellington, Glen Miller and Bert Niosi, known as "Canada's King of Swing". With a tradition of style, originality and service beyond expectation, Palais Royale is the perfect location for such an enjoyable event.
Driving? Free parking reserved for our guests in the Palais Royale parking lot.
Not driving? Palais Royale partners with Beck Taxi to get you back home worry free.
Palais Royale has also preferred room rates with several hotels in the area.
Dress code
Black tie Welcome / Jacket Required.
More information:
Cell.: 416-606-9402
contact@JazzyEvents.ca
Cash Sales only: In person, before the event - Palais Royale, 1601 Lakeshore Blvd West, Toronto, Ontario, tel. 416-533-3553 x 22. Please call first. Please call first.
Phone Sales: 1-888-222-6608.
World Jazz
New Year's Eve 2015 - A Jazzy Event with Aura
New Year's Eve 2015 - A Jazzy Event with Aura
World Jazz
Aura's incredible voice has been stunning audiences and critics alike for over four decades. As Nat Hentoff said in his book The Grove International Encyclopedia of Jazz, "She is a phenomonel singer!"
As well as building a formidable discography, Aura has performed extensively around the world with jazz giants - she toured the US and Japan with Quincy Jones, covered the US and Europe with Duke Ellington, and toured Scandinavia with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis (which culminated in their recording an album together with the Swedish Radio Orchestra). Her appearances include such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival and Village Vanguard.
She's been declared a national treasure in her native Romania (where she is known by her maiden name Aura Urziceanu) but has been based in Toronto since the early 70s with her husband, Canadian jazz drumming legend, Ron Rully.
She continues to tour internationally as well as give master classes throughout Europe, her voice as well as her passion having grown richer with time. "Aura made as dramatic and sensational a Carnegie Hall debut as even the fevered mind of an old time Hollywood script writer could imagine… Dancing across the notes way up on the threshold of the limits of hearing, ending with a high note flourish that brought the packed house to its feet and cheering!" - John S.Wilson, New York Times
"I have heard Aura sing up to the high B flat, above Cleo Laine's High G" - Henry Pleasants in his book The Great American Popular Singers.
http://www.thebans.com/aura/