Date:
Thursday, September 17
Time:
7:00 PM
Advance Ticket:
$34.97
Advance Member Ticket:
$31.50
Door Ticket:
$36.75
Student Ticket:
$18.50
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Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

Sarah Elizabeth Charles – Dawn

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6:00 PM
All Ages
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Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist/composer/producer/teaching artist/mother based in Brooklyn, New York. She has released four critically acclaimed albums with her band SCOPE, and her fifth album Dawn – a reflection on birth, loss, joy, and motherhood – features a brand new ensemble. Charles has performed at venues including The White House, Carnegie Hall, the first annual Culture Summit in Abu Dhabi, The Kennedy Center, the Rose Theatre with Jazz at Lincoln Center and many more. She has also had a commissioned composition performed at The National Gallery in Washington D.C. via The Canales Project “Hear Her Song” initiative.

Charles’ musical output has been described as a “genre of one” (DownBeat Magazine), “soulfully articulate” (The New York Times) and “an unmatched sound” (Jay Z’s Life+Times). One can only look to the future for more unique and boundary pushing work from this versatile artist.

In addition to Charles’ performance and recording work, she is an active teaching artist who designed, developed and co-teaches the “Jazz and Gender: Broadening the Scope” and “New Narratives: Creating Space for Equity in Music” at The New School University in New York City with Dr. Caroline Davis. Moreover, Charles has co-led The Musical Connections project with Carnegie Hall at Sing Sing Correctional Facility for over a decade, designed an early childhood education program in Fond Parisien, Haiti for Rise2Shine and has worked with Decoda and Musicambia to teach music programs in Correctional Facilities in South Carolina, Connecticut and Kansas.

Sarah Elizabeth Charles Website
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