Sat May 13
Lena Seikaly with the Chris Grasso Trio
7PM / $25 Get Tickets
Lena Seikaly
Don’t miss the premiere of jazz vocalist Lena Seikaly at the Carlyle Room’s new location in downtown Washington DC. She’s joined by Chris Grasso (piano), Amy Shook (bass) and Quincy Phillips (drums). Lena is a Washington, DC area-native, and named “one of Washington’s preeminent jazz singers" and "brightest voices in jazz” (The Washington Post). She was one of eleven semi-finalists for the prestigious 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Vocals Competition in L.A., is an alum of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program in DC, the Jazz Aspen Snowmass program directed by Christian McBride, and the Strathmore Artist-in- Residence program in Maryland. As both a bandleader and featured artist, Lena has headlined at Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai (China), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Strathmore Music Center, Blues Alley, West Virginia Public Radio’s Mountain Stage, various Smithsonian venues and DC’s famed Westminster Church, as well as the Elkhart Jazz Festival (Elkhart, IN), Mel Bay Jazz Festival (St. Louis, MO), Monty Alexander Jazz Festival (Easton, MD), Chestertown Jazz Festival (Chestertown, MD), DC Jazz Festival (Washington, DC), and Center City Jazz Festival (Philadelphia, PA). She has performed alongside Byron Stripling, Christian McBride, Sean Jones, Cyrus Chestnut, Norman Simmons, Walter Blanding, Michael Feinstein, Duduka da Fonseca, and various big bands across the US. For more information, visit www.lenaseikaly.com.
Video: https://youtu.be/uL0YaCX2w_k
7PM / $25 Get Tickets