BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sunvalley Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sunvalley Events X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Boise BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:190804@sunvalley DTSTAMP:20260501T182851Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20260308T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20260308T213000 SUMMARY:Argyros Presents An Evening With Madeleine Peyroux DESCRIPTION:busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little spar row’\, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its La tin quarter her first performing stage. Years later\, Peyroux would cite ic onic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classi c La Vie En Rose\, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melanch oly.\\n\\nBorn in Athens\, Georgia in 1974\, Madeleine “grew up in a hous e filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realized musi c’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.\\ n\\nYoung Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her pa rents’ divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”\, she recalls\, I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately .”\\n\\nThe curious teenager started skipping school to frequent the city ’s Latin Quarter where street musicians dwelled\, keen to learn about the ir music and way of life. At 16\, the fearless teen joined the Lost Wanderi ng Blues and Jazz Band with whom she toured the streets of Europe\, discove ring Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday while “voraciously picking up all th e songs and all the guitar playing” she could.\\n\\nThe two-year touring adventure set Madeleine on a creative path for life and proved to be a gate way to greater things. In 1991 the band travelled to New York where Madelei ne’s unique talents were spotted by Atlantic Records’ Yves Beauvais. Th e young singer declined the music executive’s initial record deal offer b ut relented several years later and in 1996 her breakthrough album Dreamlan d was released.\\n\\nDreamland sold a striking 200\,000 copies and Madelein e’s dusky voice was likened to that of Jazz greats Billie Holiday and Ell a Fitzgerald. Featuring top musicians Marc Ribot\, Vernon Reid\, Cyrus Ches tnut\, Charlie Giordano\, Greg Cohen\, Kenny Wollesen\, Regina Carter\, Leo n Parker and James Carter\, the album included Madeleine’s renditions of Holiday’s Gettin' Some Fun Out of Life\, Bessie Smith’s Lovesick Blues and Fats Waller’s I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter.\\n\ \nDreamland cemented Madeleine Peyroux as a ‘classic’ musical talent th at was here to stay\, and the soulful singer found herself touring the worl d\, singing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and opening for Cesaria Evora.\\n\\nExtensive touring took its toll on Madeleine’s voice and Jazz ’s new star failed to complete recording sessions for her second Atlantic record. Unable to “make money without singing”\, Madeleine made severa l futile attempts at odd jobs\, and soon “went into hibernation”.\\n\\n The new millennium signaled new hope with a return to the Big Apple and a S ony Records deal but the collaboration was short lived. Madeleine was dropp ed from the label in a move she remembers as casting a “big blow” to he r ego.\\n\\nThe defiant artist rolled up her sleeves\, continued playing on the street\, booked herself in New York clubs through local promoters who remembered her Dreamland heyday and began collaborating with William Galiso n.\\n\\nMadeleine’s never-say-die spirit bore fruit. In 2003 she signed t o Rounder Records and embarked on a game-changing\, lifelong collaboration with multi-Grammy winning producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell\, Walter Beck er\, Herbie Hancock).\\n\\nThe prolific partnership has now spanned many ye ars and created universally acclaimed albums\, hailed by many as timeless c lassics.\\n\\nCareless Love (2004) was a rich collection of cover versions with tunes from Bob Dylan to James P Johnson\, and included Peyroux’s mil estone rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love. For the sole original on the album\, producer Klein and Jesse Harris co-wrote Madel eine’s signature tune and many fans’ favorite\, Don’t Wait Too Long. With sales of half a million copies the album shifted Peyroux from the excl usive Jazz realm into the mainstream arena.\\n\\nMadeleine went on to colla borate with Klein on her 2006 album Half the Perfect World\, and Bare Bones in 2009\, her first try at an album of entirely new compositions.\\n\\nIn 2011 Madeleine interrupted her Klein collaboration streak with Standing On the Rooftop\, produced by Craig Street. Aside from renditions of Lennon/McC artney’s Martha My Dear\, and Dylan’s\, I Threw It All Away it was most ly new material including The Kind You Can’t Afford written with The Ston es’ own Bill Wyman.\\n\\nIn 2013\, Madeleine released The Blue Room\, her and Larry Klein’s sensuous tribute to Ray Charles’s iconic album Moder n Sounds in Country and Western Music. The Blue Room included tracks from t he 1962 timeless original as well as Ray Charles’s distinctive style appl ied to contemporary songs\, all masterfully accompanied by Vince Mendoza’ s mesmerizing string arrangements. Helik Hadar’s tonally nuanced perfecti on earned a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album\, Non-Classical.\\n \\nShe self-produced her next album\, Secular Hymns\, in 2016\, recorded li ve at a church in Oxfordshire\, England. A collaboration with her touring t rio\, guitarist Jon Herington (Steely Dan) and bassist Barak Mori (Avishai Cohen) the album features an eclectic mix of Jazz\, soul\, dub and blues\, with covers of Sister Rosetta Tharpe\, Townes Van Zandt and Willie Dixon.\\ n\\nIn 2019\, Madeleine released Anthem\, her next collaboration with Klein . Reflecting on the contemporary political conversation\, Anthem featured a ll new songs (excepting the title track by Leonard Cohen)\, co-written with Larry Klein\, guitarist and lyricist David Baerwald\, organist Patrick War ren and drummer Brian MacLeod.\\n\\nThirty years after her formative buskin g days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accompl ished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospher ic version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrac k of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades include th e coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honor.\\n\\nMadeleine’s th irst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creat ive challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.\\n\\nWith endearing passion and great curiosity\, the unstoppable genre-defying virtu oso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.\\ n\\nMadeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the i ndustry and loyal fans alike\, it is the immense talent and utter dedicatio n to her craft that shines through.\\n\\n“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein\, “she has the capac ity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar\, great things ha ppen.” LOCATION:120 S Main St\, Ketchum\, ID\, 83340\, United States URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/argyros-presents-an-evening-with-made leine-peyroux/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR