The April 28th Sunday Pro-Showcase features the amazing, soulful vocalist Joyce Grant backed by Herman Eberitzsch on keys, Joe Lococo on guitar and Elvis Johnson on Drums.
Joyce Grant singer/songwriter, determined at an early age that she was going to be a singer and spent her elementary and high school days performing in choir and musical theater. She is the great-great-niece of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin. City Swing started a new chapter in 2007 with jazz singer Joyce Grant. Grant has been singing jazz in Bay Area venues for over 20 years. A mezzo-soprano with a voice like dark honey, Grant has a performance resume which includes a wide range of venues including the Empire Plush Room and Zingari Ristaurante in San Francisco, the Ledson Hotel in Sonoma, Sam’s Chowder House & Cetrella in Half Moon Bay, the Liberty Hotel in Pittsburg as-well-as the Pittsburg Yacht Club, Slates in Walnut Creek, Joe’s of Lafayette, and the Woodminster Amphitheater. She is one of the featured artist for the “Delta Jazz Society” and a member of the Vallejo Jazz Society.
Born in Texarkana, the town where Scott Joplin was raised, Grant moved to Oakland as a child where she started singing with the North Oakland Baptist Church Youth Choir. Since that time she has earned the respect of singers and musicians alike performing professionally in San Francisco, the East Bay, Walnut Creek, Napa Valley and beyond. Her unique shows consist of a blend of jazz, blues, country western, Rhythm and Blues, and funk. Her vocal interpretations range from sensitive to powerful to cheeky over a broad spectrum of charts.
ABOUT SUNDAY PRO SHOWCASE EVENTS
Throckmorton Theatre’s Sunday Pro Showcase series is spearheaded by the talented and beloved Kimrea, a prolifically active songwriter and performing musician. Kimrea and her band play regularly around the Bay Area, including every Monday at the historic No Name Bar in Sausalito, CA. Our Pro Showcase series invites some of the Bay Area’s unsung working musicians to showcase their talent. These musicians form the backbone of the local music scene. Performers are established Bay Area session players, sidemen and undiscovered talent.
Kimrea’s Sunday Pro Showcase are free to the public. These complimentary events are made possible by the generous donations of our patrons.
