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Valérie Lacombe (she/her) is a jazz drummer based in Montreal. Her warm sound, swing feel and musicality are quickly earning her a reputation as one of the most important emerging voices in straight-ahead jazz on the Montreal scene.
She has toured throughout Canada with Quinn Bachand’s Brishen and the Sam Kirmayer Quartet. Valerie has performed at SXSW, the Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal International Jazz Festivals, Festi Jazz Mont-Tremblant, Festival de Musique Émergente (FME), Festif! de Baie-Saint-Paul and Festival International Nuits d'Afrique de Montreal, as well as some of Canada’s most reputable jazz venues such as Upstairs (Montreal), Dièse Onze (Montreal), Hermann’s (Victoria), Frankie’s (Vancouver) and Yardbird Suite (Edmonton).
Along with guitarist Sam Kirmayer and pianist/drummer Andre White, she co-founded the Saint-Henri Jazz Society, a new non-profit organization dedicated to keeping jazz alive in Saint-Henri.