Grab your lounge chairs or blankets and head to Keith King Park tomorrow night, June 28 at 7 p.m. to welcome back the Elizabeth Shepherd Band and Mellie Jane.
Kicking Horse Culture’s Summer Kicks program presents vocalist-pianist Elizabeth Shepherd creatively blurs the lines between jazz, R&B, pop, and hip-hop.
Since her fabulous debut CD in 2006 Shepherd has acquired six Juno nominations and seven acclaimed recordings. The talented artist has continued to creatively blur the boundaries between jazz, R&B, pop, and hip-hop. She is also the only jazz vocalist to have been long-listed – twice! – for the Polaris Prize, Canada’s most important music award.
Shepherd is currently touring in support of Three Things, her COVID-era CD, and her quintet features the versatile and endlessly inventive guitarist Michael Occhipinti, himself a nine-time Juno nominee.
Their album Weight of Hope created during the pandemic under the artist name ES:MO is a delightful collection of original tunes and gorgeous and inventive covers of some well known favourites.
Unique, compelling, and exceptionally talented, Shepherd continues to create jazz for a new generation. Don’t miss what USA Today describes as the “soulful coolness” of this riveting performer.
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