JUDY CARMICHAEL: SWING TIME Comes to Bay Street This Fall

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts have announced Judy Carmichael: Swing Time!, an evening of swinging piano, sultry vocals and sassy humor, on Saturday, October 1 at 8 pm.

Tickets are $35 sides, $45 Center, $55 online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500, open Tuesday through Saturday 11 am to 5 pm.

Grammy-nominated jazz pianist, vocalist, radio host, and author Judy Carmichael will be joined by Pat O'Leary (bassist), Harry Allen (saxophonist), and Greg Ruggiero (guitarist) for an amazing night of music celebrating the Great American Songbook with Gershwin, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and more.

Judy Carmichael is a favorite at Bay Street Theater, returning often, and was the first musician to give a concert in the space when the theater first opened. That event was featured on CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt.

Judy Carmichael appears frequently on radio and TV throughout the world and keeps a busy international touring schedule. She is a favorite with both jazz and cabaret audiences with her soulful, swinging interpretations of the Great American Songbook, and equally impressive, hilarious, improvisational anecdotes.

Judy hosts her own public radio show, Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired on SiriusXm and stations across the country (locally on 88.3FM) talking to celebrated creative people who love jazz.

Judy Carmichael is one of the world's leading interpreters of stride piano and swing. Count Basie nicknamed her "Stride", acknowledging the command with which she plays this technically and physically demanding jazz piano style. Judy's CD "I Love Being Here With You" is her first all-vocal CD, exploring her love of witty lyrics, juicy ballads and Broadway Standards.

Judy Carmichael has played the major concert halls and festivals around the world from Carnegie Hall to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice (the first concert ever presented by the museum) to programs with Leslie Garrett, Joel Grey, Michael Feinstein, Steve Ross and the Smothers Brothers. In addition, Ms. Carmichael has done comic skits and performed her music on radio and TV (Jo Soares in Brazil, Entertainment Tonight in the U.S. and others) and performed private recitals for everyone from Rod Stewart and Robert Redford to President Clinton and Gianni Agnelli.

2016 marks the 17th anniversary of Judy Carmichael's Jazz Inspired, the popular Podcast, SiriusXM and Public Radio Show, which Ms. Carmichael produces and hosts, talking with everyone from Tony Bennett to Seth MacFarlane about their love of jazz and how it inspires them.

Judy Carmichael's Grammy-nominated recording Two Handed Stride teamed her with four giants of jazz, bassist Red Callender, drummer Harold Jones, guitarist FrEddie Green and saxophonist Marshall Royal. She has written two books on stride piano and numerous articles on the subject of jazz. She has served on a variety of music panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, spoken before the presidentially appointed National Council on the Arts advocating for individual fellowship grants, and is one of the few jazz pianists honored as a Steinway Artist

Her recordings and music books are available at www.judycarmichael.com and iTunes.

The concert is sponsored in part by Dan's Papers.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. We serve as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists.

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