Cécile McLorin Salvant, Featuring pianist Sullivan Fortner
Grammy Award–winning singer and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant makes her Wexner Center debut as the first act in this year’s jazz series.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. Salvant is also an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. An award-winning artist, Salvant won the Thelonius Monk competition in 2010, received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, and received a MacArthur fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award in 2020. Check out the video below and Salvant’s genre-blurring 2023 album Mélusine (Nonesuch), which topped several year-end lists, for a taste of the vocal power you’ll experience firsthand at this performance. (Each program approx. 60 mins.)
“It was truly one of the most inspiring performances I have seen.”
