EMILY ASHER: A Bite of Hoagy!

Monday, June 17, 2013

A Bite of Hoagy!

July is an exciting month for Garden Party with the premier of our new Hoagy Carmichael show. We kick off at Joe's Pub on July 6 and then we take it to the Jazz Showcase at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, NJ and then we fly West for our July 16 debut at Seattle's beautiful Triple Door venue. July 18 we celebrate Hoagy once again at Portland's Secret Society.

Garden Party NYC is:

Emily Asher, Trombone and Vocals

Mike Davis, Trumpet and Vocals

Tom Abbott, Reeds

Nick Russo, Guitar and Banjo

Rob Adkins, Bass

Dalton Ridenhour, Piano

Jay Lepley, Drums

West Coast Garden Party is:

Emily Asher, Trombone and Vocals

Mike Davis, Trumpet and Vocals

Tom Abbott, Reeds

Nick Russo, Guitar and Banjo

Sean Cronin, Bass and Vocals

Dan Kramlich, Piano

Jay Lepley, Drums

Please check out our calendar for other tour dates, swing dances and concerts!

1 comment:

Jocelyn said...: Love the photo, and crazy about the Hoagy performance opps! Can't wait to see you at the Triple Door in Seattle!!!; June 20, 2013 at 11:35 AM

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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.