CURTIS   STIGERS

Saturday, February 22, 2003

World Wine and Music Tour - El Paseo Gardens

Benefit for La Quinta Arts Foundation

5:30 PM Lawn Opens

6:00 PM Concert Starts

"His rugged yet nuanced, bluesy delivery is so naturally suited to material by masters

of wry, downhome sophistication..."
-Mojo August 2002 

Stigers is a compelling new jazz singer, influenced, doubtless, by peoplelike Dave Frishberg,

Mark Murphy and Tom Waits, Dr. John even, but still with a take all his own...more please.
-Jazzwise UK

"...Stigers croons, growls and scats in a fashion that manages to be both as authoritative

as a veteran and as fresh as an ingenue. The pervading impression is that of a bebop Ray Charles."
- MOJO Magazine

"...Stigers might emerge as his generation's answer to Tony Bennett."
- Minneapolis Star Tribune

"He can swing as hard and sensitively as anyone...
...Stigers is not playing at jazz; he is the real thing."
- London Times

"Hip singer - fine voice, no nonsense...a jazz singer in the best sense."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"...a vocalist equipped with rich tones and some fine instincts."
- Jazz Times

"Stigers has a natural feel for quality songs, a relaxed, conversational manner of singing,

and an appealing, slightly gravelly voice that brings both Tony Bennett and Jon Hendricks to mind..."
- Yorkshire Post (UK)