Women's Voices Festivals 2010

Saturday, June 19—Ladies Sing the Blues featuring Hillary Smith, Joan Cere, Sugie Padilla, and Cathryn McGill

Saturday, July 10—Women’s Voices Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughn featuring Patty Stephens, Patti Littlefield, Chava, and Kathy Gutierrez

Women's Voices, a festival which began in 1993, continues as an annual tribute to the outstanding women vocalists in New Mexico: The Albuquerque Museum Amphitheater – 2000 Mountain Road NW, Old Town Albuquerque; 7:00 to 10:00 p.m.; Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All concerts occur rain or shine. Admission: $15 Adults; $13 Seniors (60+) and Students w/ID; $12 New Mexico Jazz Workshop (NMJW) and Albuquerque Museum Members.

Families are welcome and Children Under 12 are Free. A limited number of Gold Circle seats (preferred seating in front of the stage) are available at $30 each. The Cooperage Restaurant offers a fine selection of grilled entrees, salads, desserts, and a full-service bar. A portion of the proceeds from their sales benefits The New Mexico Jazz Workshop Institute of Music.

Women's Voices Festivals 2009

Cathryn McGill

DIVA DANCE PARTY!!
Friday, June 12, 2009

Bring your dancing shoes and get ready to celebrate with some of New Mexico's favorite songstresses. These ladies are not only great singers, they are great friends and you get to be the beneficiary of all of the camaraderie and the amazing musicianship of these ladies.

Hillary Smith, Cathryn McGill, Joanie Griffin, Busy McCarroll, Ivon Ulibarri, Patty Stephens, Susan Clark to name a few will be rocking the house with some of your favorite Latin, Blues and R&B tunes.


Hillary Smith

JUMP, JIVE, AND SWING
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Again, don't leave your dancing shoes at home and you might want to bring your sweetie for some sultry slow dancing under the stars. We have a lineup of familiar and new faces for this tribute to the jump, jive, and swing era of jazz.

Nancy Neilsen and Susan Abod, two Santa Fe songbirds

The Shortcuts - a girl group from Santa Fe led by Barbara Bentree, vocal director for the National Dance Institute of New Mexico

Patty Stephens and Cathryn McGill

Dianna Hughes and others

Stu MacAskie on keyboards will return this year as the Women's Voices Music Director and will be joined on stage by Justin Bransford on bass, Cal Haines on drums, and Dimi DiSanti on guitar.

Buy your tickets early, Women's Voices is a sure sellout every year.