Kat Edmonson Adds New York Concert Dates, 4/30

Kat Edmonson will perform on WNYC's "Soundcheck" on April 30 before performing with The Communion Tour on May 6 at Public Assembly. She also embarks on a residency at Zirzamin for the month of May and will play select dates in Texas along with Joe's Pub on June 23. See the full list of dates below. 

Edmonson's sophomore album Way Down Low is out now on Spinnerette Records where it reached #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers Chart and #1 iTunes singer-songwriter chart. The native Texan makes not only her songwriting debut on the record but also co-produces the album. Edmonson duets with Lyle Lovett on the title track "Long Way Home" which Entertainment Weekly calls "an airy country duet."

The album was recorded at the historic Avatar Studio and Capitol Studios with Grammy-winning producer/engineer Al Schmitt (Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Sam Cooke) and producer/bassist Danton Boller. The sessions also included input from producer Phil Ramone (Paul Simon "Still Crazy After All These Years," Billy Joel "The Stranger"). Edmonson's first album Take to the Sky (2009) was self-released by her previous label Convivium Records. The album debuted at #21 on Billboard's Jazz Charts and reached the Top 10 at jazz radio. 

Growing up in Houston, Edmonson credits her mother for getting her acquainted with music from the Great American Songbook. She began singing at age four, writing songs at age nine and at 19 she decided to try out for the second season of "American Idol" where she made it to the final 48 in Hollywood. She's gone on to perform with fellow Texan Willie Nelson, open for Smoky Robinson, tour with Boz Scaggs, perform at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival and headline the Taichung Jazz Festival in Taiwan. In 2010, she developed a friendship with Lyle Lovett says "I think she's great. She's got such an authentic, almost old-time jazz quality about her." Edmonson recorded two duets with Lovett for his three-song holiday EP Songs for the Season and made her national television debut performing the winter classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with him on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

KAT EDMONSON TOUR DATES
May 6 Public Assembly- Communion Brooklyn, NY
May 7 Zirzamin New York, NY
May 13 The Bugle Boy La Grange, TX
May 14 Zirzamin New York, NY
May 21 Zirzamin New York, NY
June 3 The Kessler Theater Dallas, TX
June 26 Joe's Pub New York, NY
June 28 Scullers Jazz Club Boston, MA

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