Gaume Jazz d'Hiver avec Stefan Bracaval & Pierre Anckaert + Treehouse Days

Come and discover two incredible live jazz concerts inspired by nature on the occasion of the Gaume Jazz d'Hiver this Saturday, March 15, 2025 at 8 p.m. at the Rossignol cultural center (Tintigny): Treehouse Days + Stefan Bracaval & Pierre Anckaert "Ephémère" (Les Lundis d'Hortense)

• Treehouse Days

Why not take the time to observe, listen and feel? Singer Emily Allison and double bassist Boris Schmidt have joined forces to deliver delicate jazz where beauty is highlighted. Music that takes the time to ask the right questions about our lives and its environment.

Imagine. You are walking in a forest. You want to breathe some pure air, lightly scented with pine essence and dried bark. You listen carefully. If a sweet melody tickles your eardrum, if a song as light as a breeze and bass strings like a dull rustle make you shudder, you are at the heart of Treehouse Days. Emily Allison and Boris Schmidt met there and developed, from walks to strolls, a peaceful jazz, influenced by a poetic and evocative folk pop. The tender, soft and melodious voice wraps itself like heather around the serene rhythms of the double bass. Happiness, sometimes borrowed from a slight melancholy, can only invade you and invite you to rediscover the beauty of things and souls. More than a concert: a moment too rare, intimate and timeless. Regenerating.

Emily Allison – vocals, keyboards, effects
Boris Schmidt – double bass, vocals

For fans of: Joni Mitchell, Gabriel Kahane, Becca Stevens, Esperanza Spalding

• Stefan Bracaval & Pierre Anckaert “Éphémère”

After having crisscrossed Europe for years in all directions, the flautist and the pianist return to present, in a different way, their music that is always so melodic, poetic and lyrical. The complicity between the two artists allows them to let them be even freer in fleeting improvisations and interpretations often inspired by nature.

Ah, the charm of classical or contemporary music that lets itself be won over by jazz and improvisation. Irresistible, these moments when the mind flies away and wanders at the whim of the indomitable flute that twirls on sequences of liberated chords. Can we leave a bird in captivity when it can go and enchant an entire park? The duo's music gives pride of place to digressions and improvisations full of lyricism and poetry. References to the Fauvists and Impressionists or to poets from the beginning of the last century are not for nothing in this often bucolic, sometimes darker, and always very evocative jazz. The duo evolves through small tasks or broader and more spontaneous gestures, which give rise to beautiful dialogues full of dreams. And everything is sublimated by a falsely chamber jazz. Refinement and elegance are on the program, delight too. Welcome.

Stefan Bracaval – flutes
Pierre Anckaert – piano

For fans of: Egberto Gismonti, Steve Kujala, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea

These two concerts are offered as part of the Jazz Tour, a co-production between the non-profit organization Gaume Jazz and Les Lundis d’Hortense, with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the Province of Luxembourg, the Municipality of Tintigny, the Rossignol-Tintigny Cultural Center and Jazz in Belgium.