Sat Apr 19
Ella Fitzgerald Tribute • Yvonne, Brenda, Wendy, & Sandy
7PM / $15 - $30 | $3.50 Fees Off Sale
Ella Fitzgerald Tribute
Musical songstresses Yvonne Allu, Brenda Williams, Wendy Reed, & Sandy Lomax join forces to pay tribute to the legendary Ella Fitzgerald for a night filled with swing and bebop. These versatile vocalists mirror how Ella could sing ballads with warmth and tenderness, and then switch to energetic scat singing, improvising melodies like a jazz instrument that has solidified her status as one of the most important and beloved singers of the 20th century for one incredible performance.
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums.
Her voice was flexible, wide-ranging, accurate and ageless. She could sing sultry ballads, sweet jazz and imitate every instrument in an orchestra. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole, to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. (Or rather, some might say all the jazz greats had the pleasure of working with Ella.)
She performed at top venues all over the world, and packed them to the hilt. Her audiences were as diverse as her vocal range. They were rich and poor, made up of all races, all religions and all nationalities. In fact, many of them had just one binding factor in common - they all loved her.
7PM / $15 - $30 | $3.50 Fees SOLD OUT