Samirah Evans: How the heck did I get to VT? A musical memoir to benefit Brooks Memorial Library. Please join us on Friday, Nov 4, 2016 at 7 pm to hear a spectacular voice and celebrate a Vermont – and world – treasure.
Samirah’s live performance repertoire runs the gamut from raunchy blues to jazz smooth as silk. She has often been compared to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, and Etta James. Like many jazz and blues artists, Samirah dedicates time to perpetuating indigenous American music. She was a long time participant in the Blues Schoolhouse program sponsored by the International House of Blues Foundation. She also served as a volunteer show host on the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage radio station, WWOZ, for over ten years.
She has toured Europe, Asia, and both North and South America as a headliner, and shared stages with a multitude of legendary artists from B.B. King and James Brown, to New Orleans own Queen of Soul, Irma Thomas.
In New Orleans, a city known worldwide for its music, Samirah was one of its most popular jazz & blues vocalists. She first performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1990, and became a regular fixture as either a leader or featured vocalist for fourteen consecutive years. She has toured Europe, Asia, and both North and South America as a headliner, and shared stages with a multitude of legendary artists from B.B. King and James Brown, to New Orleans own Queen of Soul, Irma Thomas.
While living in New Orleans, Samirah appeared regularly at Snug Harbor, the House of Blues, Sweet Lorraine’s, and the Bombay Club among other prestigious Crescent City venues and has been joined in concert by notable New Orleans musicians including trumpeter Terence Blanchard, saxophonist Charles Neville (Neville Brothers), and drummer Shannon Powell (Harry Connick, Jr. Band and Diana Krall). Hurricane Katrina caused Samirah and her husband to seek out new living arrangements outside of New Orleans, so they moved to his native town of Brattleboro, Vermont in the fall of 2006.
The voice is smoky-sweet, the phrasing is sophisticated -David Cuthbert, Times-Picayune
See (and hear!) more at http://samirahevans.com/
Don’t miss this musical memoir to benefit the library’s programs and services! Sliding scale, choose your donation: $12, $15, or $25. Tickets on sale now at the library. Sponsored by Friends of Brooks Memorial Library. Sorry – no online ticket sales available.
Location: Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
Contact: Starr LaTronica starr@brookslibraryvt.org
