Sharon Clark Returns to the Metropolitan Room, 4/1

By: Mar. 22, 2012
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Jazz vocalist ShaRon Clark returns to the Metropolitan Room for one-night-only in "Sunday in New York," her second trip to the city in recent weeks, on Sunday April 1 at 9:30pm.  Following her New York debut in February, the DC-based Clark settles in for the night with a brand new show.

Clark will be backed by her music director Chris Grasso on piano and joined by the New York sidemen Tony Jeffersonon drums and Neal Miner on bass.
 
In "Sunday in New York," Clark breaks out standards by Jobim, Van Heusen, Romberg and Hammerstein, and Eubie Blake among others, as well as songs of a newer vintage performed by the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and Dusty Springfield.
 
A soloist with the Richmond Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony, Clark has headlined the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, the Cape May Jazz Festival and the Savannah Music Festival where she earned the festival's Gold Medal.  For the Smithsonian Institution, she has been featured in concerts honoring Keter Betts and Quincy Jones.  A winner of the Billie Holiday Vocal Competition, Clark appears regularly at the Mandarin Oriental in DC. Her most recent recording, "Do It Again – My Tribute to Shirley Horn," is on its third printing.
 
"Sunday in New York" performs one-night only, Sunday April 1 at 9:30pm, at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues). There is a $15 music charge and a two-drink minimum. For reservations call 212/206-0440or to order online visit www.metropolitanroom.com.


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