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Feb 2018, with Ottawa Jazz Orchestra, NAC Fourth Stage

NAC March 2017 with Ottawa Jazz Orchestra

Toronto Science Festival 2013

IYA2009 kickoff concert, Toronto

Opening the Spotlight Festival

Waterloo Spotlight Festival 2009

Photo by Cyril Band

Diane Nalini quartet at 606 Club

Live at the 606 Club, London

Hugh’s Room, Toronto

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We’re doing another live stream this Saturday Ma

We’re doing another live stream this Saturday May 23 at 5pm ET on my YouTube channel. We will also feature the second part of my interview with the wonderful saxophonist Dany Roy and another virtual collaboration with him. Check out this clip from last week’s collab on Gerry Mulligan’s “Line For Lyons.” Hope you’ll join us! Go to tv.dianenalini.com for the live stream and to watch the full clip.... @danyroy1 @adrianchophotography #jazz #supportlivemusic #stayhome #improvisation #voice #scatting #saxophone #doublebass #ukulele #collaboration #montreal #montrealjazz #ottawa

Neal’s Yard in January. I feel lucky to have spe

Neal’s Yard in January. I feel lucky to have spent time in London earlier this year. I just love wandering around Covent Garden area and soaking in the atmosphere. Who knows when we will be able to travel again. Glad I took a few photos. #london #staysafe

For today’s Saturday Jazz live stream at 5 pm ET

For today’s Saturday Jazz live stream at 5 pm ET, Adrian and I will play songs by Charles Trenet, Irving Berlin and an orignal of mine. We are also welcoming sensational saxophonist Dany Roy as our guest this week. I’ve been fortune to have Dany play on two of my albums, “Songs of Sweet Fire” and my latest one, “Future Perfect.” In addition to his prodigious jazz chops, in the pop sphere he has accompanied Céline Dion, Chris de Burgh and George Harrison, among others. Check out our virtual collaboration with Dany on Gerry Mulligan’s “Line For Lyons” by tuning in today! We’ll have a live chat and a singalong too. Hope to see you today at tv.dianenalini.com and please share with friends! 😀
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Nous sommes ravis d’accueillir l’incroyable saxophoniste Dany Roy aujourd’hui pour une entrevue et une collaboration virtuelle sur “Line For Lyons” de Gerry Mulligan. Soyez des nôtres dès 17h sur YouTube: tv.dianenalini.com
@adrianchophotography @danyroy1
#livejazz #jazz #supportlivemusic #ukulele #ukulelejazz #jazzukulele #doublebass #saxophone #tenorsaxophone #tenorsax #IrvingBerlin #CharlesTrenet #scatting #scat #singing #vocalimprovisation

Magnolias in the sky! After a week cooped up it fe

Magnolias in the sky! After a week cooped up it felt so good to go for a walk and look up! 😀 #magnolias #springtime

Daffodils! Spring is here at last, and hopefully w

Daffodils! Spring is here at last, and hopefully we won’t have any more snow... #springflowers #daffodils #spring

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother, Godmother and t

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother, Godmother and the amazing women in my life who have nurtured me through the years. I still miss my Nana so much. She was the kindest, gentlest person I’ve ever known. We were so happy to be able to dedicate yesterday’s Saturday Jazz show to mothers everywhere. It’s up on my YouTube channel if you’d like to watch it with your mum 🥰💐🎶 #mothersday #gratitude

Today’s Saturday Jazz show is a special Mother’s Day edition with guest Sandy Gordon on sax and songs by request for the Gershwins, Hoagy Carmichael, Ellington and Strayhorn and more! Hope you’ll join us on my YouTube channel at 5pm ET. That’s tv.dianenalini.com #mothersday #jazz #saxophone #vocalimprovisation #ukulele #jazzukulele #ukulelejazz #doublebass @adrianchophotography #stayhome #supportlivemusic

So delighted to have @fredpaci back as our guest t

So delighted to have @fredpaci back as our guest today for Saturday Jazz. Hope you’ll join me and @adrianchophotography at 5pm ET for another concert and a live chat. Fred Paci joins us on trumpet this week for the song “You’re driving me crazy”. Perfectly captures my feelings about this pandemic! Tune in free on YouTube at 5pm ET today at tv.dianenalini.com #jazz #jazzsinger #trumpet #jazztrumpet #doublebass #jazzbass #ukulele #jazzukulele #ukulelejazz #stayhome #stayathome #supportlivemusic #canadianjazz

Longing for vast expanses... this was the view fro

Longing for vast expanses... this was the view from the train as we crossed the Prairies during a wonderful cross-Canada trip in 2015. It all seems so exotic now. Even the concept of getting on a train... Via Rail, I miss you, freight train delays and all! #prairies #viarail #canadian #stayhomecanada

Today Bandcamp is waiving their usual fee and givi

Today Bandcamp is waiving their usual fee and giving 100% of album sales to artists. Thank you Bandcamp! If you’d like to have a listen, check out my Bandcamp store at: dianenalini.bandcamp.com 🎶😀 @bandcamp #gratitude #indieartist #jazz #songwriter

Since today is International Jazz Day (just one da

Since today is International Jazz Day (just one day a year, really?) I thought I'd share four of my "Desert Island" jazz musicians whose music I would never want to be without. Clockwise from bottom left: Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald (with Dizzy Gillespie looking on and Ray Brown on bass), Billie Holiday and Norma Winstone.
Hard to pick just one album each for the island, but if I had to: "Far East Suite" (Duke Ellington Orchestra), "Ella in Berlin", "Lady in Autumn: the Best of the Verve Years" (Billie Holiday) and "Somewhere Called Home" (Norma Winstone). Thank you to all the amazing musicians, past and present, whose music serves as a ray of light in the darkness, the flame that keeps our hope and passions burning.
#internationaljazzday #ellafitzgerald #billieholiday #dukeellington #dizzygillespie #raybrown #normawinstone #gratitude

I’m so excited to be teaching and performing thi

I’m so excited to be teaching and performing this Saturday May 2 as part of Craig & Sarah’s free online Not-So-Mini Uke Fest #2! Check out the stellar lineup they’ve put together!! It’s an honour to be amongst them. I’ll be on live at 12:30 pm Pacific Time (that’s 3:30 pm Eastern Time) to teach a lesson on “fun with vocal improvisation.” Just realized I am on right after ukulele god and fellow Canuck, James Hill! 🎶😍 I’ll be on again at 3:10 pm PT (6:10 pm Eastern Time) for a pre-taped performance with my husband, @adrianchophotography. They will be live all day on their YouTube channel. Swipe left for the full schedule… And don’t forget to get your festival packet at craigandsarah.com/minifest

@craigcheesus @sarahmaiselmusic #ukulele #minifest #jazzukulele #ukulelejazz #vocalimprovisation

Another Saturday Jazz collaboration. This is a cli

Another Saturday Jazz collaboration. This is a clip from our April 18 virtual collaboration with the wonderful @davidgrenaud on “Le Tournesol” a song I wrote for the album “Kiss Me Like That”. I feel so lucky we can make music together even though we are all at home isolated right now. Hope you will tune in this Saturday May 2nd at 5pm ET on my YouTube channel tv.dianenalini.com for more Saturday Jazz. #jazz #vocals #jazzsinger #saxophone #doublebass #improvisation #supportlivemusic #stayathome #stayhome @adrianchophotography

Laughed so hard with the wonderful @sarahmaiselmus

Laughed so hard with the wonderful @sarahmaiselmusic and @craigcheesus on Saturday during my soundcheck / technical rehearsal for their May 2nd ukulele extravaganza. I’m so thrilled to be taking part in Sarah and Craig’s Not-So-Mini Online Ukulele Festival #2 taking place live on YouTube this coming Saturday May 2nd. I’ll be teaching a short lesson live and also performing a song with Adrian. The event is free and will be tons of fun. Check out the lineup of amazing artists they have lined up for this ukapalooza! 😀🎶🎼 The program and festival packet is available at craigandsarah.com/minifest Hope you will check it out! Things kick off at 10 AM Pacific Time. #ukulele #freeworkshops #supportlivemusic #stayhome #stayathome

Going live at 5pm ET today at tv.dianenalini.com!

Going live at 5pm ET today at tv.dianenalini.com! Find out the story behind this photo! Hope you will tune in today. 😀

So excited to welcome the terrific @fredpaci this

So excited to welcome the terrific @fredpaci this Saturday to join us for a song + interview for our Saturday Jazz livestream show at 5 pm ET. We are featuring a different guest each week through the magic of online collaboration! Hope you will tune in at tv.dianenalini.com (link in bio) #jazz #livejazz #trumpet #ukulele #doublebass #vocals #jazzsinger #ukulelejazz #stayathome #stayhome #ottawa #livestream @adrianchophotography

I'm excited to be doing another live stream show,

I'm excited to be doing another live stream show, coming at you live from our living room with Adrian Cho tomorrow, Saturday April 18th from 5pm to 5:30pm Eastern Time on my YouTube channel at: tv.dianenalini.com - hit "set a reminder" in the "next livestream" section and YouTube will send you a helpful reminder when we're going live.
We'll also interview and feature David Renaud on one song on saxophone, through the magic of the internet! We hope you'll join us for some fun music, laughter, and a live chat.

#stayathome #stayhome #livejazz #jazz #vocaljazz #ukulele #jazzukulele #ukulelejazz #voice #vocalimprovisation #bossanova #doublebass #saxophone #livestream #supportlivemusic @adrianchophotography
@davidgrenaud

Merci @peanstanley d’avoir diffusé “We’ll M

Merci @peanstanley d’avoir diffusé “We’ll Meet Again” hier en ouverture de Quand le jazz est là, sur @icimusique! Thank you very much Stanley for opening yesterday’s show with “We’ll Meet Again”, which Adrian and I recorded in our home just over a week ago. We love the song’s message of hope and reunion - the perfect anthem for these times of isolation. If you’d like to download the song, head over to my Bandcamp at: dianenalini.bandcamp.com - all profits form the song will be given to the @ottawafoodbank to help out Ottawans in hardship because of the COVID crisis. #jazz #vocal #doublebass #supportlivemusic @adrianchophotography

Thank you SO much to everyone who tuned in yesterd

Thank you SO much to everyone who tuned in yesterday for our first ever live stream concert from our living room! Your generosity helped us to raise $4,631 in one hour for the wonderful @ottawafoodbank The best part? Thanks to bulk buying and great partners, they are able to turn each dollar received into $5 worth of food. So that means over $23,000 worth of food will be getting to the many people in dire need right now as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. 🙏❤️🎶🤗 Thank you @cbcottawa and @radiocanada for helping us spread the word about it. Thanks to the many friends from far and wide who tuned in, and special shout-out to the friends who helped us troubleshoot (Gabi, Rafael, Cathy, Suzannne, Pablo, and my parents!) #gratitude #musicforhope #jazz #stayhome #stayathome #ottawa @adrianchophotography @vallejo_pablo

Huge thank you to the teams at Ottawa Morning with

Huge thank you to the teams at Ottawa Morning with @robynbresnahan, All In A Day with Alan Neal, and un gros merci à l’équipe de les Malins avec @jhademontpetit. Thank you all for spinning some of my music to help spread the word about our livestream concert today at 5pm ET. Merci beaucoup pour votre soutien des artistes canadiens. Je tiens aussi à remercier mes collaborateurs musicaux (sur l’extrait de Future Perfect ici) et mes bons amis: @mike.rud, @danyroy1, #camilbelisle #alecwalkington et à la régie de son, #padraigbuttnerschnirer. Really missing all of you. Music is a social endeavour as much as a creative one. Can’t wait to see you all again when this pandemic has been beaten. But I feel very blessed to be able to make music at home with my husband @adrianchophotography and we look forward to sharing some classic jazz, bossa nova, and chanson standards with you today from our living room 🎶🤗❤️ @cbcottawa @radiocanada #stayhome #supportlivemusic @ottawafoodbank #jazz

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