Chelsea Reed & the Fair Weather Band at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center

Name: Chelsea Reed & the Fair Weather Band at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
Start: 2025-05-15T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center

Schedule

Thu, 15 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Uptown Knauer Performing Arts Center | West Chester, PA

The Jazz Cocktail Hour Series feat.
Chelsea Reed & the Fair Weather Band
Doors: 7:00 PM
Show: 7:30PM
ALL AGES
SEATED SHOW, TWO 45 MINUTE SETS
TICKETS AND INFO: https://uptownwestchester.org/

ABOUT THE BAND:
"She’s a true extrovert…even when you watch her sing, she engages you and makes you feel like you’re part of the story."
— Terell Stafford, Jazz trumpet player
Chelsea Reed is a jazz vocalist, arranger, composer, and bandleader living in Philadelphia. In October 2012, she invited a few friends over to play for swing dancers in a South Philly living room. Since that fateful day, she's been singing and playing for audiences all over the world and adding band members along the way as the leader of the Fair Weather Band.
With five albums and over a decade of touring under their belts, Chelsea Reed and the Fair Weather Band continue to bring the soul of a dance to any show--whether at a jazz club, backroom blues bar, or festival stage. They have shared a bandstand with trumpeter Terell Stafford and trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, who is featured on their 2017 release Spreadin’ Rhythm Around. Their 2020 release, Carolina Lullaby showcases original songs steeped in jazz, blues, and folk traditions where Reed’s soaring vocals and swing musicality shine. In 2023, she released The Christmas EP, a collection of swinging holiday standards with her mini big band, the 10 piece orchestra Chelsea Reed and the Fair Weather Nine, and she is set to release a new album in May 2025.
Reed and her bandmates draw upon the intensity of powerhouse vocalists, the ingenuity of 20th century composers, and the soul of the dance floor. They are silly, passionate people who love playing this music. And that’s all there is to it.
ABOUT THE VENUE:
The mission of Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center is to promote cultural, economic and civic life experiences in our community through live theater, music, dance, film and other events in the heart of West Chester’s Historic District.
Established in 2017, featuring world class performing arts in historic downtown West Chester, Uptown! offers Broadway style theatre, opera, jazz, comedy, classical and contemporary music, film and renowned speakers, not to mention our award winning performing arts education classes and workshops for youth and adults.