Hillside Echoes presents Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini

Contemporary Brazilian music live at the Hillside Club

Describing the musical partnership of Natalie Cressman and Ian Faquini as a duo is accurate, but their collaboration contains multitudes. She’s a trombonist, vocalist and songwriter from San Francisco. He’s a composer, guitarist, and singer from Brasilia. Together they’ve honed a singularly expansive creative communion encompassing their love of the Brazilian songbook, jazz, Impressionism and sophisticated pop songcraft

Their latest album, Revolução (released September 2025 on GroundUP Music) is a meditation on the rituals, emotions and behaviors our lives habitually revolve around. Love, loss, relationships, and other whimsical qualities of our human nature unfold like pages of a colorful but well worn graphic novel.

These serenely balanced musical vignettes also set the stage for the indigenous imagination Faquini and Cressman cultivate while showcasing their own brand of Brazilian contemporary folk music. Within a world full of distractions, Revolução dives into the power of simplicity and the enduring quality of human-scaled musical narratives that can be remarkably empathic even if you don’t understand Portuguese.

General Admission: $30 ($33.85 on eventbrite)

Students and Seniors: $20 ($23.18 on eventbrite)

Hillside Club Members: $15 ($17.85 on eventbrite with promo code). If you need the code contact Ellen at manager@hillsideclub.org

Children under 12 are admitted for free.