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In various live band setups ranging from duet to sextet, Manu Le Prince tours extensively in France as in other countries such as Brazil (Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Rio), Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Swiss, Belgium, Italy. Emirates (Abu Dhabi), Lebanon (Beyrouth)
In Paris she performs regularly in Paris's top jazz concert venues : the New Morning, the Petit Journal Montparnasse, the Sunside and Sunset, the Duc des Lombards, the Bilboquet, l'Arbuci, as well as the Casino d'Enghien. She regularly sings in the rest of the country in theatres, public cultural centers and several Jazz Festivals.
Alongside her current repertoire of jazzy & Brazilian songs and her own compositions, she also performs occasionally in special tribute concerts dedicated to her favourite song writers Tom Jobim and Cole Porter.
Since 2004 Manu has been travalling regularly to Brasil and performing in Sescs in São Paulo or legendary Bossa Nova clubs like the Vinicius in Rio de Janeiro ,with a great team of professionals brazilian musicians. Le last tour was in july/august 2010, and Manu will be touring again in February/march 2011 and recording in Rio a new album in collaboration with the saxofonist arranger Idriss Boudrioua 's sextet.
Alongside her usual concert repertoire which contains music from her Madrugada album, with both original titles and covers of well works of Ellington, Tom jobim, d'Edu Lobo..., Manu Le Prince also sings a 40/50 jazz repertoire, as recorded on her last album Tribute to Cole Porter released in 2008.
MAIN FESTIVALS
Grado Jazz Festival/ Italia (2011)
Au Sud Du Nord /CC J.Cocteau - Etrechy (2011)
Festival Jazz En Boucle - St Maur (2011)Penedo Winter Jazz Festival/ Brasil 2010
Penedo Winter Jazz Festival /Brasil (2009)Nancy Jazz Pulsations (1999)
Festival de Jazz de Cuchadaçi / Turquie (1999)
Festival TSF / New Morning / Paris (2003)
Festival de Jazz d'Antalya / Turquie (2003)
Festival américain / Sunside/ Paris (2004)
Jazz à Vienne / théâtre Antique (2004)
Jazz à l'Hospitalet /Narbonne (2004)
Jazz in Marciac (2004)
Festival de Xirocourt / Nancy (2004)
Jazz à Abudhabi / Emirats (2005)
Festival de l'Esprit st Germain/ Paris (2005)
Festival de Samois/ Django Reinhardt (2005)
Festival MPB de Paris (2005)
Jazz entre les deux Tours / La Rochelle (2005)
Festival de Belo Horizonte/ BRASIL ( juillet 2006)
Nancy Jazz Pulsations (2006)
Festival Jazzfamili /Guise (2006)
Meer Jazz Festival/ Amsterdam...(2007)
American Jazz Festival /Paris (2007)
Festival Euritmix /Bruxelles (2007)
Jazz in Marciac (2008)
JVC Jazz Fetival/Paris (2008)
Jazz à l'Ouest/Rennes (2008)
Brazilian Tour 2000 in the “Sescs” Theatres around Sao Paulo (Bauru, Birugui....). Short Tour in 2005 : Manu has been invited as special guest by the great brazilian singer - composer - diplomat Antenor Bogea in the large "Funarte" theatre in Brasilia (on March 3 rd) for a live radio broadcast concert. amongst other shows in the surroundings of Sao Paulo (Santos), Manu performed in a big show at the "Vila Mariana SESC" theatre in Sao Paulo with the following sextet lineup : Filo Machado (guitar), Arismar do Espirito Santo (guitar and bass), Fabio Leandro (piano), Luiz Carlos de Paula (percussion) and Murilo Silva (drums). Before these shows, she guested in several radio programs, notably a one live performance on the famous"Radio Jovem Pan" with Arismar Espirito Santo on guitar.
From now on Manu sings regularly in Rio de Janeiro several times a year with her brazilian band : Cais do Oriente (Carioca), Armazem Digital (Leblon), Vinicius (Ipanema)... She also performed at the "Festival de Belo Horizonte de julho" (2006), and as a guest star at the "Festival do Forte de Copacabana -14 de julho "(Rio 2008). After touring in february & july 2008, a new Brazil Tour in february/march 2008 is due to come.
THE BANDS
- In Brazil :
On bass & 7 strings guitar Arismar do Espirito Santo (Hermeto Pascoal), Sergio Barrozo -bass- & Pascoal Meirelles -drums- (both played with Edu lobo, Danilo Caymme Joao Bosco, Tom jobim...), on the piano Kiko Continentino (Leni Andrade, Milton Nascimento), on guitar the great composer Filo Machado, on percussion Luiz Carlos de Paula (who palayed 10 years with Jorge Ben) etc. - In France :
Throughout the years, on piano, Bernard Maury, Daniel Goyone, Danilo Perez (with whom Manu in toured the south of France in 1990), and then Francis Lockood, still part of Manu's trio, and Alain Jean Marie. On the bass since 1996, Carlos Werneck (Gilberto Gil, Nana Caymme, Chico Buarque), on the drums her husband Tatau Caetano (Maria Creusa, Projeto Pixiguinha. 1989/2001) and from now on, Fred Sicart (Claude Nougaro). John Betsch (Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy)... On brass : at times the trombonist Raul de Souza, Cacau de Queiroz on flute and saxophone, fluglehorn player Stephane Belmondo, with the last qurtet Xavier Richardeau (saxophone)... on percussion, Luiz Carlos de Paula or Edmundo Carneiro…
Private shows Manu Le Prince also performes in private shows such as for the legendary band Pink Floyd at the Jardins de la Bagatelle in Paris, or in 2008 for the famous writer Paulo Coelho's birtday son le "Zouave", or the Theatre Rewards "la 22e Nuit des Molières" (2008)....
Jazz quartet -Tribute to Cole Porter
Alain Jean Marie (piano), Gilles Naturel (bass), John Betsch (drums), David Sauzay (Saxo / Flûte)
Brasil Project- samba & brazilian jazz
Francis Lockwood (piano), Carlos Werneck (bass), Fred Sicart (drums), Raul Mascarenhas (Saxo / Flûte), Gaël Le Prince-Caetano (percussion)
Band in Brazil
Idriss Boudrioua (saxophone), Rafael Vernet(piano), Sergio Barrozo (bass), Pascoal Mereilles (drums), Arismar do Espirito Santo (7 strings guitar &multi-instumentist)
