EMILY ASHER: Garden Party!!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Garden Party!!

Photo by Michael Katsobashvili

Well, we had an unbelievably fun time at the New Jersey Jazz Festival on June 11th!

I felt so proud to play with some of my favorite people and players: Bria Skonberg on trumpet, Dan Levinson on Clarinet, Jared Engle on banjo and John Philip on Sousaphone (aka Wycliffe Gordon)

Here are some photos from the day:

Jazzfest at College of St. Elizabeth Convent Station NJ

Photo By Tony Mottola (from www.njjs.com)


Photos by John Herr

Garden Party will be playing at
Radegast Beer Hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on September 28th
Click here for Radegast's Website
We will be recording a new album that week and then will be performing a concert at
The Bickford Theatre in Morristown NJ on October 3

Click Here For Bickford Theatre Jazz Showcase Website

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BIOGRAPHY

Emily Asher is a Brooklyn-based trombonist and singer of "buoyant charm” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times) in strong demand as a bandleader and sidewoman in New York City and internationally. As a leader, Asher has produced four CDs and led US and Israel tours with Emily Asher’s Garden Party and earned a prestigious Banff Residency with her Endangered Species Trio. She recorded and performed with Wycliffe Gordon on his “Hello Pops!” tribute to Louis Armstrong, and was a member of Nicholas Payton’s Television Studio Orchestra. “Ms. Asher plays with both grit and grace” (Will Friedwald, The Wall Street Journal) and has shared the stage with a wide variety of artists including Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, Mø, Talib Kweli, Chaka Khan, Terri Lyne Carrington, and many others. Emily’s debut album, Dreams May Take You, featuring Wycliffe Gordon, was officially released April 15, 2012. June 6, 2013 marked the release of Emily Asher’s Garden Party’s six song EP: Carnival of Joy! a celebration of Hoagy Carmichael which the Wall Street Journal called a “superior album.” Endangered Species Trio, A "concentrated chamber group with the intriguing instrumentation of accordion, bass saxophone and trombone" (Seattle Times) released their six-song EP Home on the Range in November, 2014. Her most recent release from 2015 is titled for Asher's original composition, "Meet Me in the Morning."

Originally from Seattle, Emily earned three Bachelors degrees from the University of Washington. Upon graduating in 2004 she was hired as the Director of Bands at Ballou Junior High School in Puyallup, Washington where she taught for three years. In May of 2009 she completed her masters in music performance from CUNY Queens College.