Brazilian pianist Heloísa Fernandes first played in the Kerrytown Concert House in 2014. She's returning to Ann Arbor for the second time on Friday, February 21, but this will be the third time she's played for the venue.

Like many clubs during the pandemic, Kerrytown Concert House hosted concerts on its YouTube page featuring artists performing at home. On July 11, 2021, Fernandes performed a solo 50-minute set from her living room in São Luiz do Paraitinga, a city in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The local connection that brought together Ann Arbor and São Paulo was Musica Extraordinaria, an artists' representative org run by Tree Town's Michael Grofsorean.

The video below gives you a taste of what you'll hear when Fernandes physically returns to Kerrytown for a solo concert that will serve as something of a warm-up to record her next album. Fernandes spent most of this American tour in a quartet, exploring the jazz-classical-Brazilian hybrid she's explored her whole career. But after playing in Ann Arbor, Fernandes will go to Chicago for one more concert and to record her latest solo album, Dream of the Waters, which will be a mix of older originals and a new series of works inspired by a 2023 stay she had in the Amazon forest. 

Check out her 2021 virtual Kerrytown Concert House show below: 

Heloísa Fernandes performs solo at Kerrytown Concert House, 415 North 4th Avenue, Ann Arbor, on Friday, February 21 at 7:30 pm. Visit kerrytownconcerthouse.com for tickets and more information.