Lucia Comnes Music

LIVE at Café du Nord, San Francisco. A popular Turkish Roman song - “If you are drunk, have a soda, If you faint, have a lemon.” Band members include: Sean Stillinger (bass), Aharon Wheels Bolsta (percussion), Will Bates(drums).

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Lucia Comnes is a singer and violinist who interprets songs from many traditions. With a rich background in performance and ethnomusicology, she sings in more than 30 different languages and leads a band that reflects this cultural versatility. An emotive and stunning performer, she takes her audience on a journey around the world as well as into the depths of the human soul. An aspiring composer, Lucia’s first original song, “Water,” debuts on her new album, “On the way.”

A San Francisco native, Lucia was trained since childhood in classical violin, a wide range of vocal techniques, musical theater and dance. She discovered traditional Irish music during a summer tour in 2001, and this led to the study of many other forms of traditional music, including Eastern European, Turkish, Rom (Gypsy), Latin and Jazz. In 2002, at age 18, Lucia joined Kitka, an internationally acclaimed women's a cappella vocal ensemble specializing in Balkan/Eastern European folk music, based in Oakland, California, as their first apprentice and youngest member. In 2006 she completed her BA in Ethnomusicology (Long Island University, New York) after research in Ireland, Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. More...

Photos by Ernesto Bonetti.