Crooner plans to turn back the clock in Kirkland

  • 2023-02-25
All the cool styling of the Rat Pack in 1960s Las Vegas will come to Kirkland soon, thanks to a smooth vocalist.

Matt Dusk is a jazz vocalist from Toronto who has wanted to perform his entire life. He spent eleven years studying at St. Michael’s Choir School and performed classical music and opera, but changed direction after he heard Sarah Vaughn, Bob Fenton, and Tony Bennett. He went on to win the Canadian National Exhibition Rising Star Competition in 1998.

Despite this, he went on to study economics but changed his major to music, and subsequently studied jazz with John Gittens and Bob Fenton, and took master classes from the great Oscar Peterson. Several of his studio albums have achieved Gold or Platinum status.

Currently, Dusk is paying homage to one of the greatest vocalists of all time, Frank Sinatra. Sammy Nestico and Pat Williams, Grammy winners, have created new arrangements of some of Sinatra’s biggest hits, including “One for My Baby,” and “Come Fly with Me.”

Dusk’s show exhibits the same high production values as a Broadway production, but he does more than sing the songs Sinatra made famous. Instead, he takes audiences through Frank’s entire career, describing the heartbreak and hilarity, successes and failures, and the Rat Pack days of this legendary entertainer.

Matt Dusk will be at the Kirkland Performance Center on Thursday, March 16 at 7.00 pm. When concerts like this are planned, organizers can use poster printing to create effective advertising for them.