Rachelle Garniez LIVE at Ki Smith Gallery

Celebrating the upcoming release of her new album, "Born In Time", a collection of retro jazz flavored confections, multi-instrumentalist Rachelle Garniez brings her genre-fluid stream of consciousness sensibility to the stage. Accompanied by Dave "The Legend" Hofstra on bass, and a special guest or two, Rachelle will be performing her own and other people's songs, interspersed with improvisations, true tales, and musical musings. Rachelle Garniez is a songwriter, singer, composer, producer, and multi- instrumentalist. Born and raised on New York City’s 1970s culturally diverse Upper West Side by an American classical pianist and a European WW2 Resistance spy and professor of French existentialist literature, Rachelle was exposed to rich and multi-layered influences, from utopian collective free-schooling and Austrian Expressionism to roller disco and congueros in Central Park. In 1982, at age 17, she spent a year making her way around Europe. She picked up a guitar, playing folk songs on the…