BRATTLEBORO — Renowned jazz and blues vocalist Samirah Evans will perform a benefit concert for the Brooks Memorial Library on Friday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m., in the Library.
The program is titled “How the Heck Did I Get to Vermont? A Musical Memoir of Samirah Evans' Life from Childhood to the Present,” according to a news release.
Hurricane Katrina brought Evans to her husband's hometown of Brattleboro from the Crescent City, where she was a regular performer in New Orleans' fabled nightspots and a headliner at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Her performance repertoire runs the gamut from raunchy blues to jazz smooth as silk, ladled with a whole lot of New Orleans spice.
“But New Orleans hasn't been my only influence,” Evans says, “and the whole story will be told during my musical memoir concert".
For the Friends benefit concert, Evans will be accompanied by pianist Eugene Uman of the Vermont Jazz Center, bassist Wayne Roberts, and members of the NOLABratts choir.