Discography + Performances
KENDRA SHANK
PERFORMANCES (Selected List) CLUBS : The Blue Note (New York, NY) Jazz Alley (Seattle, WA) Birdland , (New York, NY) New Orleans Creole Restaurant (Seattle, WA) Iridium (New York, NY) Seattle Art Museum - Earshot Jazz (Seattle, WA) The Jazz Standard (New York, NY) Jazz de Opus (Portland, OR) Sweet Rhythm (New York, NY) Typhoon (Portland, OR) 55 Bar (New York, NY) Cotton Club (Vancouver, Canada) Regatta Bar (Boston, MA) New Morning (Paris, France - sponsored by Scullers (Boston, MA) l’Académie du Jazz ) Blues Alley (Washington, DC) Duc des Lombards (Paris, France) Churchill Grounds (Atlanta, GA) Petit Journal Montparnasse (Paris, France) University of North Carolina (Asheville, NC) Latitudes St.-Germain (Paris, France) The Green Mill (Chicago, IL) Euro-Disney: New York Hotel (Marne-la-Vallée, The Dakota (Minneapolis, MN) France) The Club at Plaza III (Kansas City, MO) Le Bilboquet (Paris, France) Dazzle (Denver, CO) The Carnival (Tokyo, Japan) Jazz Bakery (Los Angeles, CA) Body and Soul (Tokyo, Japan) Westin Hotel (Los Angeles, CA) Pitt Inn (Shinjuku) (Tokyo, Japan) Westin Long Beach Hotel (Long Beach, CA) Manza Beach Resort Hotel (Okinawa, Japan) Horton Grand Hotel (San Diego, CA) Jazz at the Nassau (Cape Town, South Africa) Juke Joint Café (San Diego, CA) Sheraton Hotel (Cape Town, South Africa) Kimball’s East (Emeryville, CA) Green Dolphin (Cape Town, South Africa). The Jazz and Blues Company (Carmel, CA)
FESTIVALS : JVC Jazz Festival (New York, NY) Jazz in Marciac Festival (Marciac, France) CapitolArts Jazz Festival (Providence, RI) Jazz à Vienne Festival (Vienne, France) Jazz in June - University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE) Jazz is Toulon Festival (Toulon, France) Bumbershoot Festival of the Arts (Seattle, WA) Les Rendez-vous de l’Erdre Festival (Nantes, Jazz Port Townsend Festival (Port Townsend, WA) France - funded in part by a grant from Arts Calgary Jazz Festival (Calgary, Canada) International ). Edmonton Jazz Festival (Edmonton, Canada)
CLINICS / LECTURES University of North Carolina, Asheville Jazz in Marciac Festival, France Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music, NY The New School, New York City
RADIO APPEARANCES (Selected List) Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland , National Public Radio JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater , National Public Radio (recorded live at Iridium, NYC) JazzSet with Branford Marsalis , National Public Radio (recorded live at Walker’s , NYC) Soundcheck , WNYC-fm, (New York, live studio concert) Around New York , WNYC-fm (New York, live studio concert) Transcontinentales , Radio France/France Culture (Paris, France – live concert at Maison de la Radio )
AWARDS (Selected List) Best Female Vocalist runner-up, 2006 Down Beat Readers Poll Top 10 CDs of 2000, The Boston Globe ( Reflections CD) Top 10 CDs of 2000, Newsday ( Reflections CD) Top 10 CDs of 1999, Jazziz (Wish CD) Talent Deserving Wider Recognition runner-up, 1999 Down Beat International Critics Poll 5 stars (highest) rating, The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Guide , 1999 ( Wish CD) Grant recipient: The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions , Arts International, 2000
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