Thu Jul 24
Marcia Baird Burris
6PM / $20 | $2.33 Fees Get Tickets
Marcia Baird Burris
Brooklyn native Marcia Baird Burris now resides in Washington DC, but has sung all over the world. She is influenced by singers like Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, BeHy Carter, Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, and Abbey Lincoln, drawing rhythmic inspira=on from her NY/Bermudian rearing and Guyanese/Barbadian heritage. Marcia brings to her performances, a special and unique sensibility born from extensive travel in Africa, South America, the Caribbean and Europe. A Howard University Communications graduate, Marcia incorporates her varied experiences, presen=ng in the NYC/Atlanta music and art scene, as former First Lady of an historic Georgia city, as a Delta Sigma Theta Sorority member, as communications director for several national and community-based organiza=ons and as a Smithsonian Museum publicist, in her musical expression.
Marcia’s singing has been described as deeply “expressive”, “earthy” and “articulate.” Her repertoire covers mostly jazz, blues, some Latin music and R&B, and she enjoys highlighting the work of legendary song stylists such as Carmen McRae, whose music she featured at the 2023 Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival (MAJF) and highlighted the Women’s History Month concert sponsored by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium in NY. Marcia also performs original material based on the poetry of her scholar-linguist father as she explores new avenues to uncover her roots. Besides several Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival’s, Marcia has been featured at the Westminster Church Jazz Night, Alice’s Jazz and Cultural Society, the Smithsonian’s summer festival stage, An Die Musik (Baltimore), Jazz at Wesley, Columbia Station and the National Democratic Club and other private clients. She has performed at other DC venues including Blues Alley, Green Island, JoJo’s Jazz Cafe, El Golfo’s, LaPorta’s; and abroad, at the Duc Des Lombards Jazz Club in Paris and the South Hampton Princess in Bermuda.
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