Enjoy a musical 'French Twist' at St. Charles library April 8

Take a musical journey across the pond to Paris with Chicago's acclaimed vocalist Petra van Nuis and Grammy-nominated Don Stille at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 8, in the historic Carnegie Community Room at the St. Charles Public Library, 1 S. Sixth Ave.

This duo will delight you with tunes about France, music by French composers and songs from French movies.

Petra van Nuis is a jazz vocalist who has been described in Downbeat Magazine as having a "light, gorgeous, and fairly delicate voice … a gift for melody and plenty of rhythmic confidence."

A Cincinnati native, she came to Chicago in 2004 and regularly plays such prominent venues as the Jazz Showcase, the Green Mill, the Chicago Cultural Center, Fitzgerald's, and Andy's Jazz Club. Festival appearances include the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Chautauqua Jazz Party, the Cedar Basin Jazz Festival, and headliner of the Michelob Women in Jazz Festival.

Chicago-based full-time performing jazz pianist and accordionist "Don Stille proves himself a sophisticated improviser armed with a formidable piano technique and a vivid harmonic vocabulary," says Howard Reich, music critic for the Chicago Tribune. Stille has performed throughout the country with a long list of nationally and internationally acclaimed jazz artists. He has opened for Herbie Hancock and Stephane Grappelli and performed with entertainers and pop artists of stage, screen, studio and TV fame.

Since 1981, the library has featured a wide variety of musical performances. The public is welcome and the concert is free to attend. For information, visit www.scpld.org or call (630) 584-0076.