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Jazz at Lincoln Center welcomes Grammy Award-winning artist Bobby Rush, a legend of blues tradition and innovation, to The Appel Room for the first time on January 26-27, 2024, at 7pm and 9:30 pm. Grammy-nominated vocalist Shemekia Copeland delivers a 30-minute opening set with her critically acclaimed band before each performance.
At 90, the singer, guitarist, and blues harp master communicates his unique, personal experiences through live performance. From introspective to animated, wistful to celebratory, he takes listeners on a journey of virtuosic finger-picking, searing grooves, and plenty of unscripted humor.
Winning his first Grammy at 83, Bobby Rush has gone on to receive a total of two Grammy Awards (and six nominations), and has been recognized as a Blues Hall of Fame inductee, a 16-time Blues Music Award winner (among 56 nominations), and a burgeoning show tune writer; with a musical currently in development called Slippin’ Through the Cracks, co-written by playwright Stephen Lloyd Helper.
Joining Rush for his Appel Room event is a multi-Grammy-nominated vocalist and effervescent storyteller Shemekia Copeland. An award-winning blues, soul, and Americana singer, Copeland possesses an instantly recognizable and deeply soulful roots music, voice and expression. She is beloved worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty, and humor of her revelatory music, and for delivering each song she performs with unmatched passion.
The performances will take place at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York, NY. For information and tickets, visit jazz.org/theblues
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season focuses on the concept of community, the broader community of jazz, the numerous communities that nurtured its master practitioners across its timeline, the communities of consciousness that influenced these practitioners, the music’s power to bridge divides and coalesce these distinct communities, and the role of jazz. Throughout its 2023-24 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center explores these subjects with concerts featuring forward-thinking composers, virtuosic improvisers, and ingenious conceptualists that populate the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
Implicitly or explicitly, season concerts, education programs, advocacy initiatives, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tours directly evoke themes that illuminate, as Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis put it, the notion that “Our music has the exceptional ability to bring people together.”
The organization’s 36th season runs from Sept. 21, 2023, to June 8, 2024, in Rose Theater, The Appel Room, and Dizzy’s Club – all at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York, NY. In addition to 24 unique live concerts throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall, and more than 350 nights of music at Dizzy’s Club, the organization will offer webcast performances via the Jazz Live app, in-person and virtual education programs, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tour dates worldwide.
For a complete listing of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season concerts,
