The Stage at Rockwells Presents Cécile McLorin Salvant
Live in Concert on Friday, August 23 at 7:30 and 9:30 PM
Rising Jazz Star
Comes to Westchester for Two Intimate Performances
Pelham, NY –
Critically-acclaimed jazz phenom Cécile
McLorin Salvant will perform two
concerts at Westchester’s The Stage at Rockwells on Friday, August 23
at 7:30 and 9:30 PM. McLorin Salvant
comes to The Stage at Rockwells in
celebration of her much buzzed about Mack Avenue Records debut, WomanChild. The
23-year old virtuoso, known for her astounding vocal range and riveting
performances, won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition in
2010. Describing how McLorin Salvant has, virtually overnight, taken the
music world by storm, the New York Times proclaimed, "If anyone can extend the lineage of
the Big Three - Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald - it is this
23-year-old virtuoso." Tickets are $35 and available now at http://rockwells.laughstub.com/show.cfm?id=257230&cart.
Born
in Miami to a French mother and Haitian father, McLorin Salvant's first language was French. She immersed herself in the classical music
tradition, long before she turned to jazz - starting on piano at age five and
joining the Miami Choral Society at age eight. When it came time for college, McLorin Salvant bypassed all the US
conservatories and jazz schools, heading instead to Aix-en-Provence in France,
where she continued to develop as a singer, but with an emphasis on classical
and baroque vocal music before exploring jazz.
There, McLorin Salvant
entered into a fruitful partnership with reed player and teacher Jean-François
Bonnel, first as a student and soon as a performer. Before returning to the US,
she gave concerts in Paris, recorded with Bonnel's quintet, and immersed
herself in the early jazz and blues vocal tradition.
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By the
time she returned to her home country to take the stage in the Thelonious Monk International
Jazz Competition, she had developed a set of formative
experiences to express a uniquely personal style of jazz singing. She brings her outsized stage presence to the
Stage at Rockwells for two performances on Friday, August 23 at 7:30 and 9:30
PM.
The
Stage at Rockwells is a new music venue presenting singer-songwriter, jazz,
blues, folk and Americana at venerable Westchester restaurant, Rockwells.
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The Stage at Rockwells -- 105
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