Kat Edmonson
With Special Guest, Milton
Saturday, March 7 at 8pm
Billie Holiday comparisons are coming thick and fast for retro-soul chanteuse Kat Edmonson. The Boston Globe called her 2012 album, Way Down Low, “one of the greatest vocal albums I’ve ever heard.” Her 2014 follow-up, The Big Picture, confirms it was no fluke: she is one of today’s most exciting and original singers, a throwback who is completely of the moment, a dazzling talent with a voice that’s impossible to forget.
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Cassandra Wilson
Thursday, March 26 at 8pm
Cassandra Wilson, perhaps the greatest living jazz singer, comes to The Playhouse to offer a special tribute concert to Billie Holiday on the centennial of Lady Day’s birth. Wilson has the goods to honor Holiday: TIME magazine recognized her as “America’s best singer” and “the true heir of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.”
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
With Special Guest, Funky Dawgz Brass Band
Sunday, April 1 at 7:30pm
The “quintessential New Orleans institution” (The New York Times) brings the sounds of the French Quarter to Ridgefield! The Preservation Hall was founded in 1961 to promote traditional New Orleans jazz in all its authenticity, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band continues to present their unique New Orleans jazz sounds to the world
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