Christmas Concert: Compaq Big Band Holiday Concert
Brought to you by: Fugitive Productions
Event Details
The exciting 19-piece Compaq Big Band returns for their third holiday show. Their first two Sanctuary Christmas season events were amazing evenings, filled with seasonal favorites like you’ve never heard them before — exciting, inspirational, and just plain fun!
The styles you’ll hear on December 6th will again run the gamut from traditional swing to very UNtraditional jazz rock, ballad, samba and jazz waltz tunes — all high-energy arrangements from legendary big band arrangers and bandleaders such as Gordon Goodwin, Count Basie, Tom Kubis, Sammy Nestico, Dave Metzger, John Clayton, and others. The band will have as its vocalist Aviana Gedler, a rising Boston sensation out front channelin’ Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Linda Eder, Mariah Carey, and more.
Aviana is a jazz singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, with an unwavering passion for music and performance artistry. She placed second in the 2024 Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition, and has showcased her talent in many performances across the Midwest, including the Iowa City Jazz Festival and the “Jazz in July” concert series in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2022, she received the 2021 and 2022 Downbeat Magazine awards for “Best Vocal Jazz Soloist” in the community college division. Aviana currently studies at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Dominique Eade and Ran Blake, where she enjoys collaborating with other musicians and performing in the New England area.