Bronx Passport: A Holiday Trip Around the World
Sunday, December 11, 2022
2 – 3 pm
FREE
Join us for a jovial afternoon of holiday classics, international grooves, & musical potpourri featuring Bronx native Jennifer Jade Ledesna.
Performers:
Jennifer Jade Ledesna, vocalist
Gary Fisher, piano
Vocalist and Bronx native JENNIFER JADE LEDESNA is an alumna of the New School Jazz Conservatory and LaGuardia School of the Arts. A Montreux Jazz Voice Competition finalist, Equity actress and “Betty Carter Jazz Ahead” composer, Ms. Jade often performs at Aux Trois Mailletz in Paris, Jazz Na Avenida in Salvador da Bahia, and Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem.
Ms. Jade has also appeared at Carnegie Hall in Bobby McFerrin’s “Instant Opera!”, in the world premiere tour of “Chapel/Chapter” with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., and in such international venues as Switzerland’s Chorus Jazz Club, Norway’s Silda Jazz Fest with her group Rajafro, and as well at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Bobby Sanabria’s Multiverse Orchestra!
A Grammy Board member, Ms. Jade has performed with David Amram, Elew, Dave Valentin, Roy Hargrove, Junior Mance, Benny Powell, Janis Siegel and Wynton Marsalis.
She recently starred as Tempest in the feature film SINCE I LEFT YOU and as Tinima in the opera-musical HATUEY: MEMORY OF FIRE!, and just returned from her summer tours of Europe and Brazil.
