Louisa Amend / Eric Gunnison Quartet - Honoring Carmen McRae

LOCATION: Nocturne - 1330 27th St

CATEGORIES: Music | First Fridays

PAST DATE AND TIME:

• Friday, Nov 3, 2023  6pm - 10pm

Nocturne is honored to present a Friday night series that honors the American jazz singer, Carmen McRae. Regarded the rare musical equal to her friends Ella and Billie, Carmen had a prolific career in the jazz idiom that spanned from 1940's into the late 1980's. Her live performances, filled with emotional richness and a heavy swinging style are simply legendary.

This series will offer a special musical insight, as Eric Gunnison was the pianist on Carmen McRae's highly regarded (and Grammy nominated) Carmen Sings MonkFrom 1986 to 1991 Gunnison also toured as the pianist and arranger for McRae. Eric will be joined by Denver singer Louisa Amend who will explore many of Carmen's classics, as well as a few treasures pulled from one of Carmen's last known existing physical books of music that Eric has managed to preserve much of.

Louisa Amend is a vocalist and educator based out of Denver, Colorado. She graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 2016 with a Bachelors of Music Education and was a member of a number of the premier ensembles and opera productions produced by the university. After teaching in public schools for a few years Louisa transitioned into working as a freelance musician and founding her own voice studio.