Karrin Allyson
What better way to spend a spring Sunday than enjoying a Jazz Brunch? On May 17 at The Ridgefield Playhouse, brunch will be provided by Bareburger serving a sampling of their spring menu paired with a Prosecco tasting courtesy of No. 109 Cheese & Wine at 1 p.m.
The main event starts at 2 p.m. in the theater with jazz singer Karrin Allyson and her quartet. To complement the food, drink and music, the edgy and fresh work of up-and-coming artist Megan Marden of Danbury, CT will be exhibited in the lobby, courtesy of Watershed Gallery, Ridgefield.
Four-time Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson has spent the last fifteen years carving out an impressive career as a singer, songwriter, pianist, composer and bandleader. Her music is drawn from a variety of genres including bossa nova, blues, bebop, samba, jazz and pop standards plus The Great American Songbook, soft rock, and folk rock. Four of Allyson’s albums — Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane, Footprints, Imagina: Songs of Brasil, and ‘Round Midnight — have received Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Vocal Album. The jazz line-up for this show is Ed Howard on bass, Adam Cruz on drums, Bob Mann on guitar and Karrin Allyson on piano/vocals. This event is part of the No. 109 Cheese & Wine “Art, Wine and Jazz” Series with media sponsor WZBG 97.3fm.
Allyson tours extensively, both in the United States and internationally. She sings in English, French, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish and has recorded vocal performances of several instrumental jazz compositions, using both scat and vocalese techniques.
Artist Megan Marden of Danbury, CT received her M.F.A. in painting at Western Connecticut State University and maintains a studio space in Danbury. In her own words: “In the past year, my focus has been on the creation of diminutive paintings of the small spaces in which I both live and work. Small paintings contain their own admissions about the enormity of painting… Some of these paintings have taken me months to complete… I labor over such decisions with the ultimate goal of conveying aspects of the space that are not contained by the purely visual…I want to discover in painting, a character beyond the visual.”
For tickets ($35 adults; $25 students), visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org or call the box office at 203-438-5795.