Remember Whensdays - Sean Higgins Trio with Dawn Anthony: A Night of Nancy Wilson
April 28, 2021
7:00 PM
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Doors Open: 6:00 PM
Craft cocktails and small plates begin at 6:00 pm.
Middle C Jazz has indoor club seating available on a first-come basis. We also offer preferred seating for our Baby Grand members. For information regarding our Baby Grand Membership click here.
Sean HigginsPianist and composer is an international touring and recording artist acting as a musical ambassador to audiences worldwide. While classically trained; his own group offers a modern take on the jazz trio configuration. Higgins enjoys exploring many musical genres and has played keyboards in many commercial settings such as R&B, pop, and fusion.
Higgins completed a B.M. in Jazz Performance at UNC-Wilmington, and an M.M. at Northern Illinois University, where he received a full scholarship to lead and compose for the NIU Liberace Sextet.
Higgins has opened for Dave Holland, Fourplay, Joe Lovano, Talib Kweli, Ryan Cohen, and Stefon Harris and Blackout.
Some performances include successful 8-week US Jazz Ambassador tours of the Middle East and Russia with Alvin Atkinson & the Sound Merchants and a Japan tour with Akio Sasajima. He has played in many NYC clubs such as The Jazz Standard, Smoke, Dizzy’s-Jazz at Lincoln Center, Lenox Lounge, Shanghai Jazz, St. Nick's Pub, and Minton's Playhouse. Sean was a member of the Winard Harper Sextet for 2 years and has shared the stage with Antonio Hart, Charles McPherson, Stephanie Nakasian, Wycliffe Gordon, Fareed Haque, Bobby Watson, Terell Stafford, John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, Russell Malone, and many others. Jazz Festival performances include 2004 Iowa City, 2004 Lima Peru, 2005 Elmhurst, 2006 Vail, 2007 Tri-C, 2007 Columbus Jazz & Ribs, 2008 Cape May, 2008 Usadba-Moscow, 2008 Chelyabinsk, 2008 Vladivostok, 2009-12 Shanghai-JZ, 2014 Changsha, 2015 Xi’An, 2016 Xiamen.
During his 10 years based in Shanghai, he toured China extensively as well as internationally with Karen Mok, Shunza, and Ronghao Li.
Dawn Anthony
Dawn is a North Carolina-based singer, music educator, author, and playwright. She engages in artistic collaborations to build bridges across cultures, languages, and generations. Born in Philadelphia, but raised in Georgia, she considers herself a northerner with a southern heart. Singing everything from jazz, blues, Motown, and musical theater to gospel – she thrives on making connections with others beyond the words and notes on the page.
Dawn earned her degree in music from Queens University of Charlotte and pursues her love of learning, performing, and teaching through cultural exchange. She has partnered with her alma mater for “Creative Crossroads;”an artist-in-residence concert and lecture series about the Harlem Renaissance; expressed through music, poetry, dance and visual art. Her children’s musical, The Gift Way Up in the Closet, premiered at the Fullwood Theater in Matthews, North Carolina in 2019. It is based on her children’s book of the same name and was honored with co-collaborator, S. Kristi Douglas, to receive Best Short Play for Atlanta’s Black Theater festival in 2020. Anthony currently collaborates with Greg Jarrell in a project entitled A Riff of Love; a program that interweaves music, stories, and the visual art of Helms Jarrell. This evolving program aims to inspire listeners and participants to create an atmosphere of justice and belonging.
Visit Dawn’s website for upcoming events and performances. www.DawnAnthonysings.com
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