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TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS

CÉCILE McLORIN SALVANT

February 11, 2023 | 7:30p.m. | Bass Concert Hall

The singular Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for her 3 latest albums, The Window, Dreams and Daggers, and For One To Love. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. In 2020, Salvant created Yolk, a virtual cross-disciplinary performance space. It features her own hand-drawn animation, compositions, and music, in collaboration with dancers, visual artists, musicians, and actors from around the world.

2022's Ghost Song was named one of the top jazz albums of the year by The New York Times.

PERSONNEL:
Cécile McLorin Salvant – Voice 
Sullivan Fortner – Piano 
Marvin Sewell – Guitars 
Alexa Tarantino – Flutes 
Yasushi Nakamura – Bass 
Keita Ogawa - Percussion 

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Event Details

• Date: Saturday, February 11, 2023
• Time: 7:30P.M.
• Venue: Bass Concert Hall
• Website: https://texasperformingarts.org/season/cecile-mclorin-salvant-2023-bass-concert-hall-austin-texas

Ticket Information

• Cost: $20.00-$65.00

Presenter Details

• Name: Texas Performing Arts

Texas Performing Arts is the performing arts presenting program of The University of Texas at Austin and operates campus venues including Bass Concert Hall and McCullough Theatre.  It is the home of the Lexus Broadway in Austin series. In calendar year 2019 Bass Concert Hall had the highest number of tickets sold of any theater in Austin, was #2 in the State of Texas and #22 in the world, according to industry publication Pollstar. Following a national search, Tony Award-winning producer Bob Bursey was appointed Executive Director in January, 2020.

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