Published January 18, 2017
MONROE, La. — The ULM School of Visual and Performing Arts will host a performance
by jazz singer Rondi Charleston on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m. in Brown Theater.
This performance is sponsored by the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council. No ticket is
required for this performance, though seating will be on a first-come, first-served
basis. The doors to Brown will open at 6 p.m. for the performance.
Motéma Music recording artist, Rondi Charleston, is an award-winning jazz singer,
lyricist, and composer whose work has appeared in film, TV and on stage throughout
the U.S. and Europe. Her most recent album, Signs of Life, climbed the Jazz Week charts
for ten consecutive weeks and has critics raving. Jazz Times proclaims, “She is a
songwriter whose poetic, narrative, and compositional skills are comparable to such
modern masters as Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon.”
Touring in support of Signs of Life, Charleston and her all-star band have given sold
out performances from coast to coast – from Yoshi’s in San Francisco, to Mayne Stage
in Chicago, to Joe’s Pub in New York. She has collaborated with some of the foremost
jazz luminaries of our time including Fred Hersch, Lynne Arriale and Dave Stryker.
Charleston was chosen for the Women in Jazz Festival at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and
has played Birdland and BlueNote with her quartet in New York City. In addition, she
is a Juilliard graduate as well as an Emmy and Peabody award winning journalist at
ABC News Primetime Live.
For more information on this performance, contact the VAPA Box Office at 318-342-1414.
For more information on Rondi Charleston, visit her website at http://www.rondicharleston.com/.
