EMILY ASHER: 19 Days, 14 public performances, Two Bands, One Coast

Saturday, October 4, 2014

19 Days, 14 public performances, Two Bands, One Coast

Emily Asher’s Garden Party and

Endangered Species West Coast Tour

10/22 9pm WEDNESDAY NIGHT HOP Mountain View, CA (Dance)

10/23 9:20pm 9:20 SPECIAL San Francisco, CA (Dance)

10/24 6pm AMNESIA San Francisco, CA (Concert)

10/26 9pm DUENDE! Oakland, CA (Concert) $10

10/28 10pm OBERON’S Ashland, OR (Concert)

10/29 9pm BOSSANOVA BALLROOM Portland, OR (Dance)

10/31 6pm SECRET SOCIETY Portland, OR (Concert)

11/1 Private House Party Camas, WA

11/2 9pm CENTURY BALLROOM Seattle, WA (Dance)

11/4 9pm THE ROYAL ROOM Seattle, WA (Endangered Species Concert)

11/5 7:30pm TRIPLE DOOR Seattle, WA (Concert)

11/6 8:30pm SECRET SOCIETY Portland, OR (Endangered Species Concert)
11/7 7pm OBERON’S Ashland, OR (Endangered Species Concert) JUST ADDED!!

11/8 7:30pm RED POPPY ART HOUSE San Francisco, CA (Endangered Species)

11/9 9pm DUENDE! Oakland, CA (Endangered Species)

DANCE with Emily Asher's Garden Party

LISTEN to Emily Asher's Garden Party play new music
from the upcoming release of Meet Me in the Morning

ENJOY the whimsical and rich sounds of
Endangered Species

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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.