Latin-Infused Jazz Duo ARIELLA Announce Simultaneous 4-City Virtual Tour

With a fervor for blues, jazz and vintage soul, enigmatic duo, ARIELLA, passionately transcend boundaries, transporting listeners to the heart of what makes music timeless. It's a fluid daydream, seeping.

With elegant vocals by the charismatic Ariella McManus, a singer with emotional depth and a songwriter rich with breadth, she eloquently combines stunning melodies with infectious grooves to create a catchy, immersive sound. Teamed with guitar maestro, Nicolaas Kraster, a talented wunderkind from Fredonia, NY that's been compared to Ottmar Liebert, Paco de Lucía and Pat Metheny, the pair effortlessly craft an engaging path to the spiritual promised land.

Flush with poetic imagery and musical intimacy, ARIELLA's recent releases, ("Joy" & "Terrified"), are a great example of their sonic vision, one with increasing definition of the human condition. As she matter-of-factly emotes on "Joy," "I don't need you to make me complete. If I don't make life better, it's time for me to leave," Ariella captures pain and hope with each passing note. With apt comparisons to the transcendent fragility of Etta James, Patsy Cline and Amy Winehouse, tenured jazz critic, Jonathan Widran, dubbed their repertoire, "Raw and soulful...beautifully combining a sense of defiant assertiveness and wounded vulnerability" while Skope Magazine lauds McManus, "By going for her own unique style, she is without peer. References to her performance recall the best of Adele and Alicia Keys. Everything about her delivery reflects a sense of true care and compassion."

With growing acclaim making waves, the group caught the ear of Internationally renown bassist/educator Victor Wooten (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones), who recognized their intangible chemistry, "ARIELLA is one of my all-time favorite bands. I love their music and their live performances. There's no way to not enjoy them."

It's a palpable reciprocity. On their exhilarating 2019 EP, Live at the Hideaway Café, recorded during a St. Pete heatwave, the blistering set finds the pair excavating the essence of the classics, while delivering a cascading storm of substance and sustenance, bringing to mind a late night soiree with Antônio Carlos Jobim and Astrud Gilberto trading stories with the Buena Vista Social Club.

As the twosome continue to refine their sound, they enlisted award-winning engineer, Fabrice Dupont ("Fabulous Fab"), known for his work with Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Andre 3000, Shakira, Les Nubians, Bebel Gilberto, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, to add his deft touch to the new material. Meeting at the annual NAMM confab in Anaheim, Dupont effused, "ARIELLA has the very rare ability to deliver pure emotion every time she sings. She's a classic voice for our modern times."

Both as a duo, and with their larger Latin-infused ensemble, Ari and the Alibis, Nic and Ariella play to packed rooms in Tampa, Sarasota, and throughout Central Florida, while also touring in Canada, the UK and across the U.S., including a recent debut at NYC's infamous Blue Note night club.

To celebrate the October 2nd release of 'Terrified," ARIELLA will broadcast a special pre-recorded show in conjunction with marquee venues throughout the Eastern U.S. including Rockwood Music Hall in NYC, Point Entertainment in Philly, The Ninth Ward at Babeville Theater in Buffalo and Jammin' Java in VA (DC area).

The shows will be simulcast via Veeps, a new ticketing platform developed by Joel and Benji Madden, brethren of pop punk band Good Charlotte. With nearly all in-person events on hiatus because of the pandemic, the 41-year-old twins created Veeps to help artists and bands safely put on performances that are affiliated with brand name clubs and theaters while also providing income opportunities via VIP offerings. In addition to the 4-shows-in-one-night run with ARIELLA, other artists co-hosting upcoming events include Brandi Carlile, Liam Payne, Rickie Lee Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Laura Jean Anderson, Pete Yorn, and Orianthi. Tickets for ARIELLA's October 1st livestream are on sale now.

Two additional livestreams are on the horizon, iVoted on Election Night (11/3) with Play Too Much @ SubCulture scheduled for December 8. For a thoroughfare to all things ARIELLA, please visit ARIELLA MUSIC.

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