The Rhapsody Band debuts this summer with shows in Fredericton North and South. The group is fronted by the widely known vocalist and pianist Patrick Flanagan, and backed by guitarist Andrew Somerville, bassist Dave Cunningham, and Jean-Marc Leger on percussion. The band performs songs of love, longing, and lament, taking audiences on musical journeys of pleasure and delight — songs ranging from leisurely ballads to swing jazz, to blues, and to standard classics that exist today only in film and on vinyl.

As frontman, Patrick Flanagan comes from a long history of music in New Brunswick as a vocalist and keyboardist, beginning in Fredericton and Montreal with the well-known and much-loved Naked Lunch in 1960s and 70s, to the Saint John-based Southside Shuffle in the 80’s and beyond, including many personal local appearances over the history of the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival and Christmas@thePlayhouse. In the past decade, he…