Shepley Metcalf Brings GOING PLACES to the Metropolitan Room Tonight

Vocalist Shepley Metcalf, lauded by The Boston Globe as an "excellent cabaret/jazz singer,"returns to New York's Metropolitan Room tonight, June 3rd at 7 pm with a new show GOING PLACES, a spirited tour from New Orleans to London via songs by composers ranging from Joni Mitchell to Cole Porter to Stephen Sondheim to Mary Chapin Carpenter. Musical director Ron Roy will be at the piano. The Metropolitan Room is in Manhattan at 34 West 22nd Street. Call 212.206.0440 for reservations or visit metropolitanroom.com.

For GOING PLACES, Metcalf and Roy sifted through hundreds of city songs and traveling tunes, selecting their favorites to take the audience around the U.S. (Route 66, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans, The Rhode Island Song) and overseas (A Foggy Day, Under Paris Skies). Their show, which explores travel in all its guises, debuted at Boston's top jazz club, Scullers, last fall, and is booked at various New England venues this spring and summer.

Shepley Metcalf has collaborated with Ron Roy since 2008. They met at The Tuscany Project, a 10-day intensive vocal workshop held in Italy where Roy is a faculty member. With the 2010 release of Metcalf's debut CD, "Something Irresistible: Songs of Fran Landesman + Simon Wallace," Roy and Metcalf became the first U.S. musicians to perform and record a new songbook by Landesman, best known for "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." The recording earned a four-star/excellent review from Jazzwise Magazine, the UK's foremost jazz monthly. Their New York performance of the Landesman show at the Metropolitan Room earned a coveted New York Times review. Her second album, "The Songs of Laura Nyro: Live at the Metropolitan Room," was released in 2013. Last fall, she and Roy released a collection of little-known gems from the 1930s to '50s titled "Don't Bother to Knock."

Artist website: www.shepleymetcalf.com.