EMILY ASHER: Mona's, Radegast, Bickford and more!!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Mona's, Radegast, Bickford and more!!

I love the gentle bite of autumnal evenings and the fresh morning breezes as the leaves begin to change colors. This year the change in season also brings some exciting new events in my musical life! A flurry of activity in late September and early October with my quartet, EAQ (perhaps a more creative name will be come soon) and my larger New Orleans/early swing band, Garden Party.

I'm very excited about both of these groups and am looking forward to recording with them later this fall. Stay tuned for a Kickstarter project funding announcement soon for a new album!

Tuesday, September 27 8-10pm (before Mona's Hot Four)

Emily Asher Quartet at Mona's in the East Village

224 Ave B between E13th and 14th St

Emily Asher- Trombone and vocals

Pete Anderson- Reeds

Nick Russo- Guitar and Banjo

Kelly Friesen-Bass

Mona's Tuesday night 'hang' with Dennis Lichtman's band Mona's Hot Four has become a fantastic weekly event, here is Will Friedwald's Wall Street Journal Review. I'm pleased to be playing right before Dennis and the guys and look forward to introducing more people to this fun scene!

Wednesday, September 28 9pm-12am

Emily Asher's Garden Party at Radegast Hall in Williamsburg.

113 N 3rd St (at Berry)

Emily Asher - Trombone

Bria Skonberg - Trumpet

Dan Levinson - Clarinet

Nick Russo - Guitar and Banjo

Kelly Friesen - Bass

Kevin Dorn - Drums

I've played here many times with several bands and I'm excited to have this be Garden Party's New York debut public performance at this great location. Come and enjoy delicious food from the kitchen or grill and sample their impressive beer selection!! This is also a great place to come and dance.

Monday, October 3 8:00pm

Garden Party at Bickford Theatre

at the Morris Museum as part of their Jazz Showcase series.

Call 973-971-3706 for tickets

The Bickford Theatre

6 Normandy Heights Rd

Morristown, NJ

Info: click here

Contact: Bruce Gast (908) 755-5037 tekhouse@aol.com

This is a real honor to have been invited to play in this beautiful theater. If you are in or close to Morristown, NJ I hope to see you there it is going to be a big, fun, musical blast!!

Emily Asher - Trombone

Bria Skonberg - Trumpet

Dan Levinson - Clarinet

Nick Russo - Guitar and Banjo

Gordon Webster - Piano

Kelly Friesen - Bass

Kevin Dorn - Drums

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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.