EMILY ASHER: Garden Party Pacific Tour 2015

Monday, April 27, 2015

Garden Party Pacific Tour 2015

Join us on our fun, eclectic and busy schedule of performances in the Pacific NW this week!

Lincoln City, OR

Tuesday, April 28 7pm Concert Lincoln City Cultural Center $13

Portland, OR

Thursday, April 30 9pm Swing Dance Portland Lindy Society @ The Secret Society $10

Camas, WA

Friday, May 1 7:30pm House Concert $20 includes drinks and snacks (semi-private event)

Seattle, WA

Sunday, May 3 9:30pm Swing Dance @ The Century Ballroom $15
Monday, May 4 6:30 cocktails 7:30 Concert Garden Party Book Club $15

Bellevue, WA

Tuesday, May 5 7pm Bellevue High School concert with BHS and Chinook MS Jazz Bands

Emily Asher, Trombone and Vocals

Mike Davis, Trumpet and Vocals

Jacob Zimmerman, Reeds

Jake Svendsen, Piano

Jay Lepley, Drums

Rob Adkins, Bass

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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.