Jazz@StBarney's continues its year-long celebration of jazz singers at 7:00, Saturday, October 15, with world-famous vocalist Connie Evingson. Equally famous pianist Mary Louise Knutson will be accompanying her in this rare duo performance.

Connie has appeared in theaters, concert halls and nightclubs around the world. She has been a featured guest artist with the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by Doc Severinsen, the Toronto Symphony, VocalEssence, Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and the JazzMN Big Band.

She appears regularly at the nationally renowned Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis and is the featured artist on the Jazz at the Jungle concert series at the Jungle Theater, also in Minneapolis.

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Connie has been featured on the Smithsonian's Jazz Singers radio series and NPR's Fresh Air, and is on numerous compilation discs including Jazziz Magazine's Vocals on Fire and New Sirens of Song along with Diana Krall, Stacy Kent, Janis Siegel and others. Her 8 CDs on Minnehaha Music have all charted in the Top 50 in the U.S. and Canada and can be heard on radio stations worldwide.

In 2005, the JazzWeek radio programmers group nominated her for Vocalist of the Year along with artists Tierney Sutton, Madeleine Peyroux, Stacy Kent and Curtis Stigers. Connie is a two-time recipient of the McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians.

"Connie Evingson is one of the most polished and versatile jazz vocalists on today's jazz scene" - Bob Stockton, Modern Jazz Classics

"Her delivery is refreshingly straightforward and sexy. Her performances carry the aroma of red wine and filterless cigarettes, sensual, slightly decadent, and thoroughly wonderful." - C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz

"Minnesota is blessed with an abundance of really good jazz vocalists. In the front rank is the versatile and constantly surprising alto Connie Evingson..." - Will Shapira, The Mississippi Rag

The concert is at St. Barnbas Lutheran Church, 15600 Old Rockford Road in Plymouth. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for Twin Cities Jazz Society members and $5 for students. Tickets are available at the door.

This activity is made possible, in part, by funds provided by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council through a grant from the McKnight Foundation and an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature.

St. Barnabas Center for the Arts is a program of St. Barnabas Lutheran Church supporting the arts through education, nurturing and sharing of creative works.