Grace Kelly Quintet
by January 29, 2013 4:45 pm 88 views
Location: Starr Theater at Walton Arts Center
Date and Time: Saturday, February 16, at 7pm and 9pm.
When it comes to singer/saxophonist/ composer/ lyricist/ arranger Grace Kelly, people seem to be divided into two groups: those who marvel at her proficiency, creativity and ever-accelerating growth, and those who have yet to encounter the 20-year-old wunderkind. The ranks of the former category are growing by the day. Trumpeter and Jazz at Lincoln Center Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis was so impressed with Kelly’s three-night stand as guest of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra that he invited her to join the ensemble at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C. for Barack Obama’s Inauguration Celebration. Since then, Kelly has been voted "Best Jazz Act” in Boston four consecutive years in the FNX/Phoenix Best Music Poll, and then voted Best National Jazz Act in 2012. She has received the ASCAP Foundation’s Young Jazz Composers Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 and won "Jazz Artist of the Year” at the Boston Music Awards in both 2008 and 2010. The 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Downbeat Critics Poll added to her the list naming her one of the "Alto Saxophone Rising Stars”, the youngest artist ever to be named to the music poll.
This performance is part of the Starrlight Jazz Club series. Performances begin at 7pm and 9pm.
Price: TBA, 3 weeks prior to the performance.
Box Office Contact Number: (479) 443-5600
Additional Information: http://www.waltonartscenter.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=7900