About This Show
The Belvedere at Crooners — Doors open at 6:15 PM for Dinner and Drink service. Prairie Fire Choir and acclaimed vocalist PaviElle French reunite for Rekindled after first sharing a stage at the Cedar Cultural Center in 2019. Award-winning vocalist and composer PaviElle French takes on jazz, soul, and R&B songs from some of the artists we all love including Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder, and Donny Hathaway, to name a few, backed by some of the most talented musicians in the Twin Cities! Prairie Fire Choir brings its genre-bending style and lush harmonies to the stage, reimagining everything from Queen and Prince to The Cranberries in a cappella arrangements of rock, pop, and original songs. PaviElle : Vocals Prairie Fire Choir : Vocals PaviElle French , is an Emmy Award-winning vocalist, musician, and educator, hailing from Rondo, a historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. Known for her interdisciplinary artistry as a vocalist, composer, dancer and stage performer, she is also an Artist Educator, a MacDowell Fellow (2024-25), Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2021-23), McKnight Artist Fellow (2020-21), a Mark Award-winner (2023) and received a Sage Award for Dance and Choreography (2016). Prairie Fire Choir (PFC) is a Twin Cities-based, treble-voiced, acapella group of around seventy members who perform unique arrangements of songs by Florence and the Machine, Fleetwood Mac, Chappell Roan, Radiohead, Metallica, Rhianna and more. “This rock ’n’ roll-flavored vocal group balances cool, casual fun with rich emotional depth.” –Chris Riemenschneider, StarTribune prairiefirechoir.org paviellefrench.com