Hi guys, I would like to invite you to join Elisa Toffoli's shows in Canada.

I run her official website at www.elisatoffoli.com

Elisa is Italian. Though she sings mainly in English. She is a songstress.

This is her first tour in Canada and in the US. Her US debut album Dancing was released in your country two months ago.

I don't know if you know her. Maybe someone knows her ballads titled "Dancing" and "Rock your soul", played on "So you think you can dance" in the last two seasons.

Anyway, Elisa is much more than these songs and if you live in these cities, don't miss these gigs. You can listen to her music on her MySpace page at www.myspace.com/elisaus

She is playing in

Toronto on 29th October at Mod Club

Montreal on 30th October at Le Savoy

Vancouver on 23rd November at the Biltmore Cabaret

I hope you help us support this 'shy' singer trying to communicate through her music. And doing it leaving from Italy is not simple at all.

Thank you, guys.

If there's someone who knows her and wants to meet her, we've been arranging meet-n-greets for the shows in Montreal and in Vancouver. If you want to join them, simply write at

Take care,
Paolo

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Italian-born songstress Elisa, a multi-platinum, award-winning star in her native country, will launch her first tour of the United States and Canada on October 29, 2008. The tour is in support of her North American debut album 'Dancing', which was released July 15 on Sugar/Universal.

In 2007 the track "Dancing" appeared on the popular reality show "So You Think You Can Dance". Since that episode, the track has been downloaded on iTunes over 80,000 times. This has provided the perfect stepping stone to launch into the U.S. market.

Elisa has shared the stage with the likes of Tina Turner, Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, appearing on at Bocelli's world famous concert in Tuscany, which premiered as a special for the December 2007 PBS Pledge Drive and continues to air repeatedly, nationwide. This concert, featuring the Bocelli/ELISA duet, "La Voce Del Silenzio," as well as ELISA's performance of her own single, "Dancing," was released as a CD/DVD combo - Andrea Bocelli, Vivere: Live in Tuscany- in January 2008. To date, though, her only North American engagements have been singing the Italian national anthem at the closing ceremony of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and two sold-out shows at NYC's Joe's Pub in April 2008.

The tour is made of seventeen gigs in some of the coolest venues of the US and Canada.

We have asked Elisa to talk about this long awaited tour outside of Italy.

"The tour mainly focuses on the songs included in the 'Dancing' album. I will be accompanied by a 4 person band and I'll be taking a different approach compared with my usual concert performance, as these shows will be tailored to fit in with the intimacy of the club environment. I am going to play different instruments during most of the songs, including acoustic and electric guitars, piano and loop machines. I have never played that much during a concert of mine!" Elisa said.

The setlist will be enriched by some tributes to singers that inspired and influenced Elisa's career. Thus you are going to hear four cover songs originally written by 'Tears For Fears' ("Mad World"), Janis Joplin ("Mercedes Benz"), Kate Bush ("Wuthering Heights") and 'Leonard Cohen' ("Hallelujah"). In addition, the tour will feature other songs from Elisa's repertory, even songs sung in Italian. The main idea turns around the club atmosphere to show the real essence of the songs.

Wed. Oct. 29 Toronto, ON The Mod Club
Thurs. Oct. 30 Montreal QC Le Savoy
Sun. Nov. 1 Allston, MA Great Scott
Tues. Nov. 4 Vienna, VA (D.C.) The Barns at Wolf Trap
Wed. Nov. 5 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Fri. Nov. 7 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda's
Sat. Nov. 8 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe
Tues. Nov. 11 Chicago, IL Martyrs'
Wed. Nov. 12 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway Nightclub
Fri. Nov. 14 Denver, CO Soiled Dove
Sat. Nov. 15 Salt Lake City, UT Bar Deluxe
Mon. Nov 17 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
Wed. Nov. 19 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
Thurs. Nov. 20 San Francisco, CA Café Du Nord
Sat. Nov. 22 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
Sun. Nov 23 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Club
Mon. Nov. 24 Seattle, WA The Triple Door