Alyssa Allgood Quartet

On Saturday, May 7th at 7:00 p.m., live jazz returns to Music at Bethel's concert series with a performance by the Alyssa Allgood Quartet. The in-person concert is to be presented in Bethel’s acoustically pleasing sanctuary and will showcase jazz vocalist Alyssa Allgood. With inspired improvisation chops, soprano Allgood breathes new life into the great American Songbook in the style of Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter (known as Betty Bebop).

Allgood is also a gifted composer of fresh original jazz pieces.

Chicago Tribune’s former music critic Howard Reich described Allgood as “A fast-rising Chicago singer, who combines an unpretentious stage manner with a sophisticated jazz sensibility.”

The New York City Jazz Record wrote… “She is undeniably skillful at what she does. The expressive Chicagoan wears different hats, from scat singer to interpreter of familiar lyrics, to lyricist—and she shines in all of those areas….”

Allgood has appeared at such distinguished venues as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Club in Shanghai, Birdland Jazz Club in New York City, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Green Mill, the Jazz Showcase, Winter’s Jazz Club, the Jazz Estate and Noce Jazz Club. She was named first place winner of the Inaugural Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Voice Competition, Best Jazz Entertainer in the Chicago Music Awards, a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Jazz Improvisation Fellow, and a Semifinalist in the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition, where she performed for a jury presided by the legendary Al Jarreau.

This don’t miss musical event promises to be one of those concerts you might reference in years to come as, “I saw her when...”

Bethel United Church of Christ is located at 315 East St. Charles Road in Elmhurst. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the door or on Eventbrite. Students are free. Parking is free and the church is accessible. For more information call (630) 279-4040.