THEATRE, ARTS & EVENTS
Nnenna Freelon, Keynote Speaker
Monday, January 16, 2012
RCC Hunters Woods
Six-time GRAMMY Award-nominee Nnenna Freelon is hailed as the “international voice of Jazz.” She has shared the stage or recordings with Jessye Norman, Herbie Hancock, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Take 6, Al Jarreau, the Count Basie Orchestra and more; she has a
career that has spanned phenomenal performances at Carnegie Hall to The Hollywood Bowl, the Monterey Jazz Festival to the Newport Jazz Festival, and from Montreaux to London. Nnenna Freelon has been heard and seen in feature film in What Women Want, on In Performance At The White House to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Variety’s The Children’s Charity, on the #1 TV hit Mad Men, and on the Jerry Lewis’ Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. She has been on stage alongside The Roots
performing in the hit musical Ask Your Mama, and for numerous charities and at Special Events such as at the Society of Singers’ “Ella Awards” honoring the legendary Julie Andrews. Freelon’s seventh Concord Records release, Homefree, released in April 2010, is a mix of tunes that Freelon identifies as “feeling at home in your own skin,” Homefree bubbles with the energy and creativeness that are hallmarks of Freelon’s recordings.
Her educational efforts in master classes, clinics, workshops and teaching students around the world from technique to life-skills have made her a sought-after spokesperson and lecturer, as well as motivational speaker.
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