AMY HELM
May 12 at 7pm
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Daughter of The Band drummer/vocalist Levon Helm and “Love Has No Pride” co-writer and iconic beauty Libby Titus, Amy Helm was born with music in her blood. Although she took to it slowly, choosing to first focus on earning a degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, her musical heritage has finally caught up with her in 1998 when she joined her father’s band, the Barn Burners. During her time with the Barn Burners, Helm was shaped into a charismatic and talented vocalist under the careful tutelage of her musically seasoned father.
JOHNNY A
April 26 at 7pm at Vieux Carré
$25 Cover Charge
For the better part of three decades, this Massachusetts-based guitarist and bandleader has proven himself capable of generating heat at venues from working-class bars to international amphitheaters, and every sort of venue in between. And when the house lights are turned up, he’s just as adept at captivating serious students of the six-string with a virtuosity that earned him the rare honor of having his name placed on a signature Gibson guitar. While his music is rooted in the blues and rock, Johnny’s instrumental music is very melodically and vocally driven: he paints vivid landscapes, scenes that create an emotional connection without words.
KRISTEN LEE SERGEANT feat. TED NASH
May 18 at 8pm
$18 Cover Charge
Kristen Lee Sergeant‘s emergence on the NYC jazz scene has branded this innovative artist with a distinct musicality, an intuitive sense of vocal phrasing, fresh lyrical interpretations, and arrangements all her own – and the word is spreading nationally. Jay Edwards, WCLK-FM Atlanta’s On-Air Jazz Tones host says “Sergeant takes your breath away as an effervescent spirit whose superb vocals and phrasing inject the lyrics with new life.” The Boston Globe was called her “especially entertaining.”
Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger and educator. Born in Los Angeles into a musical family (his father, Dick Nash, and uncle, the late Ted Nash, were both well-known jazz and studio musicians), Nash has that uncanny ability to mix freedom with substance, blues with intellect, and risk-taking with clarity. He is a co-founder of the New York-based Jazz Composers Collective, a musician-run, non-profit innovative entity dedicated to presenting the original works of composers pushing the boundaries of their self-expression. Nash is also a long-standing member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with Wynton Marsalis.