Nashville vocalist Wendy Moten—best known for her 2021 run on NBC’s “The Voice”—appears in a special concert on Monday, May 16 at 7:00 PM at Birdland.
Her show will include the music of songwriter Richard Whiting, inncluding hits “He’s Funny That Way,” “My Ideal,” “Miss Brown” and “Too Marvelous For Words.” Moten will also perform the Janis Ian classic “At Seventeen,” Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years,” and “Over The Rainbow, ”one of her most popular songs from “The Voice.”
Moten is an adaptable singer, respected in the music industry for years, but only widely known as a result of her run on “The Voice” where she turned all four judges’ chairs on her blind audition and ended up in second place overall. Moten is a native of Memphis, who sang R&B on a major label in the 1990s then moved to Nashville to become a harmony singer. She spent 15 years as the key support voice for Julio Iglesias, has toured with Martina McBride, Tim McGraw & Faith Hill and Vince Gill, and has performed as a soloist on the Grand Ole Opry multiple times. Moten has also been a featured artist in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Musician Spotlight series. In 2019 she joined the Grammy-winning Nashville western swing band The Time Jumpers.
There is a $50 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.
