Grammy Award Winner to Perform in Princeton This Summer

Princeton, NJ -- Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant will perform as part of this summer’s Princeton Music Festival, festival organziers said on Monday.

She will perform in the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center on June 19, 7 p.m. Salvant’s album For One to Love was named Best Jazz Vocal Album at the Feb. 15 Grammy award ceremony.

After performing recently in Jazz at Lincoln Center, she will tour Europe in March, and on to the Spoleto Festival before coming to Princeton.

Salvant, also cited in The New York Times’ critics “All the Best Shows They’ve Seen in 2015,” is often compared to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday as a jazz diva, and she is a composer and visual artist as well.

Five of the songs on her award-winning album are her originals and the album cover was her creation.

Tickets for the Princeton Festival, including Cécile McLorin Salvant’s concert on June 19, go on sale on March 15. For more information and after that date, a link to ticket sales (handled by McCarter Theatre), visit www.princetonfestival.org.

To purchase tickets by phone, call McCarter Theatre at 609-258-2787.

The image of Cécile McLorin Salvant was provided