CONNIE EVINGSON is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
She has appeared in clubs and concert halls across
the U.S., in Europe and Japan, and has been a guest
soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Toronto
Symphony conducted by Doc Severinsen, and the
Vocalessence Music Series with Bobby McFerrin. She
is the creator of the original stage production,
Fever, A Tribute to Peggy Lee, which she has
performed at theatres across the country and
excerpted at New York's Town Hall. She has been
featured on the Smithsonian's "Jazz
Singers" radio series, and on numerous
compilation discs including Jazziz Magazine's
Vocals on Fire CD and Sharper Image's
New Sirens of Song along
with Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Stacy Kent and
others. Connie has released eight CDs on Minnehaha
Music: I Have Dreamed; Fever - A
Tribute to Peggy Lee; Some Cats Know;
Let it Be Jazz - Connie Evingson Sings the
Beatles; The Secret of Christmas;
Gypsy In My Soul; Stockholm Sweetnin' and Little Did I Dream.
All titles charted in the Top 50 Jazz Releases in the
U.S. and Canada.
Evingson has been a member of the vocal jazz ensemble Moore By Four since
1986, with whom she has toured the U.S., Europe and Japan, appeared on Garrison
Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, and opened for Harry Connick, Jr., Joe
Williams, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Dizzy Gillespie. She was among the top 15 contestants in the 1998
Thelonius Monk Vocal Competition and is the winner of the 2000-2001 and
2005-2006 McKnight Artist Fellowship Award for Performing Musicians
administered by MacPhail Center for Music.
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