Multi-award-winning singer-songwriter Karen Mack celebrates her new solo album Catch & Keep on Monday, August 26 at 7:00 PM at Birdland. Special guests are Darmon Meader and Elliot Roth. The concert’s band features Peter Eldridge on piano and vocals, Pete McCann on guitar, Matt Aronoff on bass and Jared Schonig on drums and percussion.
Catch & Keep is a fun mix of contemporary jazz classics, including works by Dave Frishberg, Bob Dorough, Nellie McKay and Betty Bryant, alongside originals that speak to how we hold onto things and how we let go. The album is produced and arranged by Peter Eldridge from the international vocal group, New York Voices.
Karen Mack in based in New York City, with creative roots planted in jazz, folk and swing. Her style meshes a storyteller’s sensibility with an affinity for textured vocal harmony, wordplay and improvisation. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2019, and her Jazz at Lincoln Center debut in 2022, with the vocal quartet Those Girls. She was part of the 25th Anniversary Gala for the New York Pops, and the UK premier of “Build Me A Bridge: The Music of Miller and Hammonds” at the Bridewell Theatre in London’s West End. Other appearances include The Town Hall, Symphony Space, Birdland, 54 Below, B.B. King’s, Nashville Jazz Cave, Parker Jazz Club in Austin, Sony Hall, Pangea, Chelsea Table + Stage, Tula’s Jazz in Seattle, London’s Battersea Barge and others.
There is a $30 music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 581-3080 or visit www.BirdlandJazz.com.
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
