Chant Duplantier

Chant Duplantier returns to Lakeside with bassist Jerry Smith Jr. at 7:30 pm on Friday, October 23 (after having been rained out on June 19).

Duplantier’s smooth voice and jazzy guitar work combine with Jerry Smith Jr.’s funky bass lines on R&B standards from Otis Redding and Stevie Wonder to Hall and Oates and Steve Ray Vaughn.

Here are Chant and Jerry performing “Killing Me Softly” (Franklin’s composition made famous by Roberta Flack) at Lakeside just days after the passing of Aretha Franklin.