Saudade and Soul: Arcieri Sisters

A concert uniting the sisters Stefania and Paola Arcieri, a London jazz singer and a soul, funk and R&B performer, at Bull's Head in Chiswick. The bill draws on several strands of Black American and Brazilian-rooted music.

Stefania and Paola Arcieri grew up in Bari, in southern Italy, where they sang together before their musical paths separated. Stefania settled in London and has become a regular on the capital's jazz circuit, performing at Ronnie Scott's and the Vortex. She has released two albums of her own compositions, which draw on jazz and Brazilian music, and she is noted for scat singing and free improvisation.

Paola moved across the Atlantic on a scholarship to Berklee and then spent years between New York and Los Angeles, working as a singer, producer and DJ. She has performed alongside musicians from the bands of Thundercat and Anderson.Paak. Her music sits in soul, funk and R&B, with elements of electronica.

This concert brings the two sisters'approaches onto one stage, with their voices passing ideas back and forth and improvising in dialogue. The programme covers R&B, soul, funk, gospel and reggae. The evening is held at Bull's Head, a concert venue on Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick.