MUSIC

Dosey Doe Coffee House presents Badi Assad.

If Badi Assad were not a musician, she would merely be one of the most beautiful women in the world. However, she is much more than that. She is a unique talent in the guitar world who combines virtuoso guitar playing with singing, humming, vocal percussion (a la Bobby McFerrin), and hand percussion, often juggling all these things at the same time.

The music she performs doesn't fit neatly in one or even several categories. Her solo guitar playing repertoire consists of contemporary classical guitar music by composers such as Roland Dyens, Ralph Towner, her brother Sergio Assad, and other 20th Century Brazilian composers. Her vocal/guitar/percussion repertoire is comprised of popular Brazilian songs but are arranged with the complexity of multi-instrumental orchestrations. She is admirable in each individual aspect of her musicianship, but when she combines all of her formidable talents in a single piece of music, she becomes a one-woman wall of sound.