Jeanne Jolly

8:00pm (Doors At 7pm)
Jeanne Jolly has taken her golden voice down a road to a sound we haven't heard yet - country. A Master of Vocal Performance in opera from the New England Conservatory in Boston and known to the public as a jazz artist, Jolly has taken a new and different direction entirely with her new EP - to us at least. Her performances as a guest singer with highly regarded trumpeter Chris Botti a few years ago proved that in a virtual sea of singers, she is more than a catch. But that was just jazz.
After living in Los Angeles for a few years, Jolly has chosen to make the music she adores the most. Growing up cultivating her voice she says she "always loved country, bluegrass, Americana, folk, honky tonk, rock, and roots music". Within her initial five country songs - now accessible online but later part of an album - Jolly shares a piece of her conscience and the experience of a broken heart, maybe a heart that was smashed to smithereens, and quite possibly a reawakening into a fulfilling existence. "Desert of my Mind" draws from a truly solemn and forlorn place in her memory, while "Don't Say I'm Sorry" assures us that she won't be licking her wounds for long. But, it's not Hank Williams. It has a rock likeability which certainly leans toward the alternative country genre.
Jeanne will be backed an all-star band of Greg Humphreys, John Teer, Roger Gupton, and David Burke.