Fri May 24
Vivienne Aerts Live in Concert!
7PM / $20 | $3.40 Fees Get Tickets
Vivienne Aerts
"Music that sounds like Chocolate, Plants Trees, and Empowers Women."
To celebrate her most recent album, "Typuhthâng," vocalist and chocolate entrepreneur Vivienne Aerts has an exciting event lined up. Typuhthâng, [type-of-thing] features 100 next-generation female musicians from over 40 countries and comes with a bar of Original Beans Femmes de Virunga Chocolate. Therefore in this concert, Vivienne will not only perform her original songs but the concert will also include storytelling about her philanthropic work to empower female cocoa farmers in Virunga State Park, as well as a complimentary chocolate tasting.
Vivienne Aerts on vocals, piano and loops, storytelling, listening party, and chocolate tasting.
With Rachel Therrien on trumpet.
Vivienne Aerts
The staggeringly versatile skill-set of NYC-based Dutch Singer, Educator, Psychologist and Artist-preneur Vivienne Aerts busts myths around the ‘Jill of all trades’ paradigm with a nonchalance that leaves even the most skeptical purist taking a bow. A practicing clinical psychologist and choir conductor in Europe before she went on to be a Fulbright scholar and Suma Cum Laude Berklee graduate, her collaborators since have included some of the most iconic names in the world of jazz. Her eclectic ‘experience’ events in collaboration with her husband, renowned pastry chef Ted Steinebach was the root of her multi-disciplinary approach to the making of her new album, ‘Typuhthâng’, which not just features a 100 female musicians from around the globe, but also comes with a bar of bean-to-bar chocolate from Original Beans Chocolate, a company that pro-actively empowers female cacao farmers of Virunga State Park in Congo. Besides this, she is a faculty member at Berklee College of music where she has been instrumental in building a new generation of performers who are not only skilled musicians but also mentally and physically healthy individuals. The Fulbright scholar is known for addressing core issues artists and educators alike have been grappling with unnoticed for generations: mental health, well-being, and the hamster-wheel effect the neglect of the same threatens to have on the arts eco-system. With side-notes of entrepreneurship for the artist, disparities between European and North American attitudes towards education, and chocolate.
Approx Running Time: 75 Minutes
Genre: Jazz, Easy Pop, Storytelling
Please Note: the venue has a 2-beverage minimum per person.
7PM / $20 | $3.40 Fees Get Tickets