EMILY ASHER: Seattle Tour and Early-Bird Shorewood Tickets

Friday, April 22, 2016

Seattle Tour and Early-Bird Shorewood Tickets

Garden Party is returning to the Pacific Northwest for a Seattle tour at the beginning of May!
Our first date, May 4, is a special concert at Shorewood Performing Arts Center (at my high school alma mater!) Early-bird $15 ticket sales end April 25, order them below before the price goes up to $18 April 25.

Jay Lepley and I will be judges at the 33rd Annual Bellevue High Jazz Festival on May 6 & 7 then Garden Party will perform at the Saturday night concert while the students eagerly await their scores.

May 8 we'll celebrate Mother's Day at the Century Ballroom to play for lindy hop dancing mothers, daughters, sons... free beginning dance lesson at 9pm.

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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.