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Flying High

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
with special guests Jane Monheit and Camille Thurman

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Billie Holiday, Anita O’Day, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. 

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Early in their careers, they were “canaries” -- women singing with the great Big Bands of Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, and others. 

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 But these women were birds of a feather in more ways than one. They didn’t let bandleaders define them and they all went on to soloist careers. 

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 Join us as we celebrate the music made famous by jazz canaries once they spread their wings.!

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Line-up includes Champian Fulton, Carmen Bradford, Jane Monheit, Nicholas Payton, Ekep Nkwelle, Lezlie Harrison, Willie Jones III, Charles Ruggiero, Olivia Chindamo, Vanessa Perea, Gretje Angell, Neal Miner, Mike Gurrola and more!

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