Cyrille Aimée & the Shelly Berg Trio

Cyrille Aimée & the Shelly Berg Trio in January Gold Coast Jazz Concert in Fort Lauderdale

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 ~ 7:45pm
Cyrille Aimée & the Shelly Berg Trio: Catch a Rising Star

Tradition…Innovation…Creativity is the theme of this season’s jazz concert series presented by the Gold Coast Jazz Society.  The series includes jazz for all tastes featuring a host of talented jazz artists.  All concerts will be presented at the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale.   On Wednesday, January 10, the Gold Coast Jazz Society’s jazz series will featuring the rising jazz star, vocalist Cyrille Aimée with the Shelly Berg Trio.  This concert, titled Catch a Rising Star, takes place at the Amaturo Theater of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale at 7:45pm.  Single tickets are available for $55 per person.  Students and teacher tickets are $10 with valid ID.  To purchase single tickets, call the Broward Center AutoNation Box Office at 954-462-0222, or go online to www.browardcenter.org or www.goldcoastjazz.org  

French jazz singer, Cyrille Aimée is known for her saucy and alluring voice and her contagious joie de vivre stage presence.  She’s a recent winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Jazz Competition, was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition, and a finalist at the Montreux Jazz Festival.   Earlier Aimée was a finalist for the Star Academy, a French version of American Idol.  She has been called “a revelation” by the New York Daily News, and The New York Times called her major label release, It’s a Good Day, “a bravura turn.”  Aimée’s vocals caught the attention of Stephen Sondheim, who cast her in an Encores Special Presentation starring Bernadette Peters at New York City’s City Center in November 2013.


Shelly Berg, Dean of the UM Frost School of Music, has become a south Florida jazz favorite. He’s an internationally recognized jazz pianist, composer, arranger and producer.   Berg has won acclaim world-wide for his music and is also the music director on the jazz cruise circuit.  Rounding out the trio with Berg and Aimée will be Chuck Bergeron on bass and John Yarling on drums.