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‘A Tribute to Burt Bacharach’

• In concert: The music of the popular modern composer will be brought to life by the Everett Symphony and vocalist Nadine Shanti, at the Northshore Performing Arts Center, 18125 92nd Ave. NE , Bothell. • Performance: 8 p.m. Saturday, April 4. • Tickets: $32 adults, $29 members, $27 seniors, $15 under 25 years, available by calling 425-408-7988, 800-992-TIXX or online at www.ticketswest.com.

CONTACT THE ENTERPRISE Jocelyn Robinson, News editor jrobinson@heraldnet.com

A trip down Memory Lane

Local vocalist joins Everett Symphony for Burt Bacharach tribute concert at NPAC

For The Enterprise

In a career that spans more than 50 years, Burt Bacharach has demonstrated that changing time signatures, lush harmonies, strings, horns, and timpani have a well-deserved and much-appreciated place in American popular music. The Everett Symphony's pops concert, "A Tribute to Burt Bacharach," at the Northshore Performing Arts Center April 4, will highlight the music of this popular composer.

In the 1960s and 1970s, with lyricist Hal David and brand-spanking-new vocalist Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach had us asking "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?", confessing "I Say a Little Prayer for You" and questioning an inscrutable young man named "Alfie."

Joining the Everett Symphony in this tribute is special guest artist Nadine Shanti. Singer/songwriter Shanti was born and raised in New Orleans and in 1980 she moved to the Pacific Northwest where she now resides. She fine-tuned her performance techniques while completing studies for her Bachelor's Degree in Music Education and her Master's Degree in Musicology.

Shanti is an internationally acclaimed artist who has been featured in cabarets and jazz festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Okinawa, Indonesia and Australia. She is also an accomplished songwriter with two CDs of original songs which are a blend of her jazz, pop, Latin, folk and theatre influences. In March of 2007, Shanti performed the Suite on the Jazz Vespers concert series in Seattle. She has performed on several occasions with the Everett Symphony, featuring her arrangements of classic tunes from American popular music, and she also continues to perform with small ensembles of the Northwest's finest jazz musicians.