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Join us in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts for a performance by Katharine Hedlund.
Join jazz vocalist/pianist Katharine Hedlund for a special live album recording performance at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts with Paul Taylor, Jim Spake, and Carl Caspersen. Katherine Hedlund was becoming quite the fixture and turning heads in Memphis before she departed for San Francisco in 2018, and we are thrilled to be hosting her in a rare return appearance.
Tickets: $10
Doors at 7 pm | Performance 7:30 pm
Katharine Hedlund is a jazz/soul pianist and vocalist with a musicality far beyond her years. Katharine grew up in Darien, CT, and began her professional performing career at 13 years old, playing original renditions of jazz standards with her trio in local clubs around the New York metro area. Her performances frequently invite comparison to Diana Krall and Norah Jones – but with quite a bit more sass than either of the former!
Katharine attended Northwestern University in Chicago, IL ,to continue musical studies with the renowned saxophonist of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Victor Goines, and soulful Grammy-winning pianist for vocalist Diane Reeves, Peter Martin. She was awarded the highly competitive piano chair of the school’s premier touring graduate small ensemble as an undergraduate.
She has performed in some of Jazz’s most prestigious venues, including The Green Mill Chicago, The Jazz Showcase Chicago, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola of Jazz at Lincoln Center NYC, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Germantown Performing Arts Center, The Sound Room (Oakland, CA), among others.
Katharine relocated to Memphis after graduation from Northwestern and began performing weekly at the historic Peabody Hotel and the Zebra Lounge in Overton Square, honing her skills in voice and piano in soul, blues, and pop styles. Katharine has since moved to San Francisco, but Memphis will always be her musical home.
