A Mezzo Soprano, Cari Burdett lives through music, as anyone who has spent five minutes with her immediately understands. Her life’s path winds though a garden of music studies and teaching, performance and experimentation. As the 2016 VIMA (Vancouver Island Music Awards) ‘Vocalist of the Year' Cari Burdett, mezzo-soprano voice stirs the heart as she takes listeners around the world. Vocally, Cari delivers a vibrant fusion of folk, jazz, opera and art song in English, French, Italian, Swedish, German, and Russian. Her first studio album, “Magnolia”, was nominated as Best Word Music Album in the 2015 West Canadian Music Awards.