Wed

4/4/2012

8:00pm

Jazz

JaLala Trio

• $20 Assigned Rows 3-5
• $15 General Admission
• $10 Student

• Janis Siegel, vocals
• Laurel Massé, vocals
• Lauren Kinhan, vocals
• Yaron Gershovsky, piano
• Steve LaSpina, bass
• Matt Kane, drums

Event Details

Janis Siegel and Laurel Massé, founding members of  vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, have long shared a love of the great girl groups of American pop music like the Boswell Sisters and the Ronettes.  In 2000, they banded together briefly with fellow Transfer singer, Cheryl Bentyne, to form Moxie, selling out a weekend engagement at New York's famous Birdland and quickly developing a devoted following. But the Transfer's touring dates and Massé's solo career made scheduling difficult. When Bentyne and her family moved to Los Angeles, the three decided to part company. However, the dream of a close-harmony female trio stayed very much alive, and in 2006 Laurel and Janis welcomed New York Voices' Lauren Kinhan into the group. The three singers began to meet often to sing through arrangements of classic American standards and original material. In 2008, Dare Records asked Siegel to produce a CD of Johnny Mercer tunes. She took the assignment, and That Old Mercer Magic became a showcase and tour-de-force for the new vocal supergroup, JaLaLa. 

JaLaLa (for Janis, Laurel, and Lauren) is three extraordinary singers who each have formidable group and solo singing talents and credits. The trio has performed for sold-out audiences throughout the northeast. In 2012, JaLaLa will be performing select dates in the U.S. and abroad, putting their own spin on music of  Queen and Dolly Parton, Brubeck and Bach, along with classics by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and their own original compositions, sharing that new JaLaLa magic!