Christine Spero Group | Summer Square

Name: Christine Spero Group | Summer Square
Start: 2025-09-20T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 32 2nd St, Troy, NY, United States, New York 12180

Schedule

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

32 2nd St, Troy, NY, United States, New York 12180 | Troy, NY

The Summer Square Concert Series is a free, outdoor event at 6 PM Saturday nights June -September in front of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
Even before Christine Spero began recording with her dynamic quartet, she was earning numerous accolades for her melodic, emotionally powerful and soulful songwriting and was Winner of the USA Songwriting Competition/Jazz category with her song,"He Wasn't Always That Way".

She was also a finalist with "Caribbean Nights," a festive tropical celebration that typifies the joyful exotica that drives her second recording, "My Spanish Dream", a rich Brazilian/Latin/world fusion offering that dances blithely between pop and jazz. Diverse and daring, "My Spanish Dream" highlights Spero's love for lush vocal harmonies. The project was produced by Elliot Spero, who does multiple duties on soprano and tenor saxes as well as percussion. My Spanish Dream, Spero's second recording, has been heard worldwide and is a rich jazz/Latin/world fusion offering that dances blithely between pop and jazz. It is a comprehensive exploration of her style, highlighting her instrumental, vocal, and lyrical talents. Flashes of Bebel Gilberto, Gloria Estefan, Laura Nyro and Eliane Elias appear in her vocals, and her piano and keyboard artistry shines through.Along with Christine, the group, consisting of bassist Scott Petito, drummer Peter O'Brien and saxophonist/percussionist Elliot Spero, displays all of the attributes of experienced accompaniment accomplished only by years of experience in the jazz trade.
Christine and the group have been written about in USA Today, Billboard, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, Keyboard and Recording Magazines, Time Out New York, The Village Voice and ASCAP Playback.