PaviElle French

PaviElle is an Emmy Award-winning, interdisciplinary artist, hailing from Rondo – a historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (21-22), as well as a McKnight Artist Fellow (2020), and has received a Sage Award for Dance and Choreography.

PaviElle is a Global Artists Initiative–Artist In Residence at MacPhail Center For The Arts, and an American Composers Forum Grant recipient for her classical composition A Requiem for Zula (2018), written in celebration of her Mother’s life. PaviElle’s symphony was recently featured at the New World Symphony in April 2021 under the direction of Conductor Edwin Outwater and Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas.

She has been seen performing locally and nationally, and has graced such stages as First Avenue, The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to name a few. She is known for her powerhouse vocals and performing with an equally powerful 6-piece band.

Past Shows


May
22
nd
2022
The Fitzgerald Theater
May
22
nd
2022
The Fitzgerald Theater

More Shows

May
2
nd
Amsterdam Bar & Hall

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Mar
15
th
Amsterdam Bar & Hall

Maude Latour

with MARIS
May
24
th
Fine Line

The Kiffness

May
3
rd
Turf Club

Fox Stevenson

with Yue