LA Young's Phyllis Hyman Tribute Brunch

If you love the music of Phyllis Hyman, you'll love this show. L.A. Young is a contralto — the same rare, low, dark-toned voice Hyman sang with. Not an impersonation: she sings the songbook in the range it was written for, backed by her working band, Soul Society™ — every arrangement live, nothing on tape.
City Winery brought her tribute back three years running, and her show sold out three nights at the Anacostia Playhouse. Now she's taking it beyond the capital, city by city. Four times in the past five years she has shared the Jazz Legacy Foundation Gala stage with the nation's top jazz and soul performers, and she is a three-category 2018 Maryland Music Awards nominee — Best Jazz Artist, Best Funk Artist, and the Music Icon Award.
For one night, the music is alive again — theatrical, reverent, built for a listening room. Radio host Tony "Doc" Hardy of WPKN 89.5 FM wrote that she "made you believe, for just one night, that the Queen was alive and among us."
An Independent tribute production. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Estate of Phyllis Hyman.