Gypsy Romantique'
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DONNA DUFRESNE – songwriter, vocalist, rhythm guitar

Donna Dufresne has been performing on stage as a singer since she made her debut at the age of three at the local Grange Hall. She has studied voice, acting and music and performed throughout her life. Donna holds a bachelor’s degree in American History from Lesley University and a master’s degree in Gifted and Talented Education from the University of Connecticut. She began using music and storytelling to enhance science and social studies curriculum when she was a teacher and director of an environmental education program. There she wrote and recorded a collection of catchy children’s songs with topics ranging from ecology lessons to global warming. While working on her undergraduate degree in history, she developed several historical characters which she performs as one-woman shows, including Connecticut State Heroine, Prudence Crandall. Recently, she wrote and produced a children’s musical at Chaplin Elementary School, where she teaches gifted & talented in a school-wide enrichment program. The play, Speaker for the Earth, features songs that address global warming and the affects on animal habitats. The music was arranged, recorded and produced by her pianist, Tim Peck.
As a singer/songwriter, Donna has made a steady progression through music history, starting out with traditional folk songs and Celtic music and moving toward writing her own political satire and environmental songs. After recording Envirojazz, a collection of original songs for teaching environmental science, Donna began to journey through her own musical roots. Growing up in the ‘50’s & 60’s, her family listened to what they called “cowboy music” such as “Sons of the Pioneers”, and old style country including Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams. She also loved big band music and the show tunes from Broadway musicals and movies. This eclectic taste emerged in 2004 with the recording Cowboy Romance, produced and engineered by Mark Thayer (Signature Sounds). That album, which featured original western swing, led Donna into writing the genre-bending songs performed by GYPSY ROMANTIQUE’. Combining a love for the gypsy jazz/hot club music introduced by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli in the 1930’s, with American Western Swing, peppered with Latin rhythms such as Tango and Bosa Nova, Donna has created a noveau repertoire of romantic songs in her new album Tango with the Moon, produced again by Mark Thayer of Signature Sounds. Her band GYPSY ROMANTIQUE’ features musicians who played on the album, who have studied and performed gypsy jazz, western swing, Latin, and the American Songbook in a multitude of bands. Having found her true niche’ in writing music that supports her sentiments and her voice, Donna Dufresne has finally landed on a creative tarmac that includes other romantics who have a fascination with gypsies, cowboys, jazz sirens and film noir. Get ready to take flight with Donna Dufresne as she livens up the stage with vintage costumes and a little theater while the musicians in GYPSY ROMANTIQUE’ provide the serious and complex arrangements that support the music. “A Little Django, A Little Tango, A Little Swing, A Lot of Fun”, indeed.