Metuchen Jazz! Jazz Banjoist Cynthia & Her Joyride Quartet - May 9 at 7PM

About this event:

Celebrate Mother's Day with Metuchen Jazz!

Location:

The Parlor at Hailey’s

15 Station Place

Metuchen, New Jersey 08840

732 515 9767

Details:

“A 2023 Steve Martin Banjo Prize winner and an American Banjo Hall of Famer, Cynthia Sayer is a pioneering artist who pays tribute to American’s musical heritage through her virtuoso playing, engaging vocals, and informative, entertaining anecdotes. She tours extensively with her bands and as a guest artist across four continents.” Her Quartet includes clarinetist/saxophonist Ricky Alexander, bassist Andrew Hall and drummer Larry Eagle. Presented by Hailey’s Harp & Pub with music organized by Friends of Metuchen Arts/Metuchen Jazz. Thursday, May 9, 7 PM to 9 PM 2 sets of music $25/ticket and $20 food/drink minimum, Full dining menu, 15 Station Place, Metuchen, NJ. Doors open at 6 PM. Limited Seating. Advance Registration on Eventbrite a “Must.”

“Praised for her drive and virtuosity” by The New York Times, instrumentalist/vocalist/bandleader Cynthia Sayer is renowned for bringing the swinging sounds of jazz banjo, the original fretted instrument of jazz to concert and festival audiences worldwide. She was a headliner at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Dresden International Jazz Festival (Germany), the Bloom Festival (China) and numerous others. She has 9 albums as a leader and is also an avid educator. She has been a guest clinician at The Berklee College of Music, The New School and others, given multiple educational programs at Lincoln Center, in public schools, and more. She’s on the faculty of the NY Hot Jazz Camp. Her play-along program, You're IN The Band is popular with players of all instruments learning and practicing traditional/hot jazz and swing and her latest book The Swinging Solos Of Elmer Snowden, was published in 2022.

Sayer has appeared as a guest and performer on CBS, FOX & ABC network television, on NPR's “Piano Jazz,” and on PBS: “Give Me the Banjo” and elsewhere. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, DownBeat, Fretboard Journal, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and countless other local, trade, and foreign media outlets.

Cynthia has performed with various orchestras, including The New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, has played at The White House, and is proud to be the subject of a Trivial Pursuit question. Her project, “The Unexpected Journey of Jazz Banjo,” enjoyed a successful debut at Lincoln Center. “The Banjo Experience,” currently in development, will be at Lincoln Center in 2024.

Sayer rose to international prominence as a founding member of Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band, and has played with leading jazz, popular, and roots music artists including Bucky Pizzarelli, Dick Hyman, Andy Statman, Les Paul, Marvin Hamlisch, Wynton Marsalis, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Vince Giordano, Scott Robinson, and many others.

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