The sound of Bluesette (named after Toots Thielemans' famous song) can be summed up as French café music, spanning Bossa Nova, jazz standards, and chansons françaises. With poetic songs and abundant nature imagery, our repertoire ranges from slightly melancholic to playfully rhythmic.
Justin Blackburn studied music composition at the University of Kansas with James Barnes, Charles Hoag, Kip Haaheim, and Forrest Pierce and has composed music for symphony orchestra, jazz band, wind ensemble, interactive art installation, theater, and film. His music has been featured at several Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in The United States (SEAMUS) conferences, the SoundSCAPE festival in Pavia, Italy, and Vox Novus Composer’s Voice in New York. In Spring 2018, he composed original music and sound design for the Principia theater department’s production of Treasure Island. He currently teaches applied lessons in guitar, bass, songwriting, and electronic music at Principia College, Elsah Illinois.
Adèle Martin is a native French speaker from Belgium, classically trained in music and voice from an early age. Having grown up speaking French, English, Dutch and German she has a love of languages and loves communicating the soul of other cultures through them. While studying French and German at the University of Cambridge, England, she sang with the Trinity Singers at Trinity College and Kings Singers at Kings College, Cambridge. She also sang with a jazz trio which played at events in Cambridge and with an acapella trio in Germany. Her passion for singing was ignited early on, listening to her mother, an accomplished singer, sing for aristocrats in France and Belgium.
Justin Blackburn studied music composition at the University of Kansas with James Barnes, Charles Hoag, Kip Haaheim, and Forrest Pierce and has composed music for symphony orchestra, jazz band, wind ensemble, interactive art installation, theater, and film. His music has been featured at several Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in The United States (SEAMUS) conferences, the SoundSCAPE festival in Pavia, Italy, and Vox Novus Composer’s Voice in New York. In Spring 2018, he composed original music and sound design for the Principia theater department’s production of Treasure Island. He currently teaches applied lessons in guitar, bass, songwriting, and electronic music at Principia College, Elsah Illinois.
Adèle Martin is a native French speaker from Belgium, classically trained in music and voice from an early age. Having grown up speaking French, English, Dutch and German she has a love of languages and loves communicating the soul of other cultures through them. While studying French and German at the University of Cambridge, England, she sang with the Trinity Singers at Trinity College and Kings Singers at Kings College, Cambridge. She also sang with a jazz trio which played at events in Cambridge and with an acapella trio in Germany. Her passion for singing was ignited early on, listening to her mother, an accomplished singer, sing for aristocrats in France and Belgium.