Adrienne Nims and Spirit Wind

At an early age Adrienne Nims began absorbing and imbedding the sounds she heard around her like a giant sponge. Her gift for music was recognized, cultivated, and expanded upon from the first piano lesson she received while still in kindergarten through her mastery of the 30-odd woodwind instruments that capture most of her attention today. Born in Colorado, but raised in the Northeast, Sims experienced and performed a wide variety of music as a developing musician, taking a little bit from each musical foray and adding it to her ever-expanding bag of tricks. - San Diego Troubadour

A jazz heavyweight, Adrienne is equally at home with Latin and African syncopations infused with irresistible grooves, driving hip-hop, and elegant, ethereal melodies that melt into your body.

Listening to Adrienne tease more range, melody out of an instrument than you would ever believe possible is vastly more than a treat, but it hardly compares with the experience of watching while you listen. A master of showmanship, she dazzles the eye with color, movement, and an array of flutes, saxophones, and other global instruments as gorgeous to look at as they are magnetic to the ear. An evening with Adrienne goes beyond sensual, beyond entertainment. Seeing her perform live fills you with the miracle of life, lifts you up out of your chair, makes you want to hold on forever to that bliss.

- San Diego Light Connection

Torrey Hills Center announces free Summer Concerts the first Sunday of every month this summer. On June 1, July 6, Aug. 3 and Sept. 7, Torrey Hills Center will have the beautiful jazz and funk sounds of Adrienne Nims and her band Spirit Wind. Come out with your lawn chairs and enjoy a relaxing afternoon outdoors in the Torrey Hills Center.
Adrienne Nims’s passionate energy and dazzling musicianship as a solo artist and with her talented band Spirit Wind create an inspiring and unforgettable entertainment experience. Her dynamic sensual voice on the saxophones, flutes and many more global indigenous instruments express not only a vast array of musical culture and style, but the magic and mystery of life. She has recorded and performed in many parts of the world, has numerous theatrical credits on stage and as a composer. She is a dancer and choreographer as well. She has performed openings for such greats as Spyro Gyra, Joe Cocker, Al DiMeola, Fourplay, Steppenwolf, Najee and Boz Skaggs.
Her band Spirit wind, featuring Nims on soprano, alto, tenor saxes, traditional flutes as well as Native American, Indian and Asian flutes and percussion, playing contemporary jazz and global music at the world famous San Diego Zoo during the summer is a musical feast. Her versatility ranging from classical, jazz, Latin, funky rhythm and blues to Celtic and middle eastern showcase her love and interest in the many kinds of music which link us together. Nims draws musical inspiration from every curve of the globe as well as the immense and infinite music of nature and from the individual and collective talent, spirit, and emotion of the musicians with whom she plays.
You can learn more about Adrienne Nims and Spirit Wind at her web site, www.AdrienneNims.com

- Coast News