OLS presents: New York Voices & Portland Jazz Orchestra at Westbrook Performing Arts Center

About This Event

DAY OF SHOW: $25 (+ fees) DAY OF SHOW SENIORS + STUDENTS: $15 (+ fees) The New York Voices – soprano Kim Nazarian; alto Lauren Kinhan; baritone Peter Eldridge; and tenor, saxophonist, and musical director Darmon Meader – “The Four and Only,” as the great Cuban saxophone and clarinet virtuoso Paquito D’Rivera once dubbed them, have been one of the world’s elite jazz singing groups for 38 years. Over the years, the New York Voices albums, repertoire, and concerts have evolved, sometimes in surprising ways. The Voices embrace a diversity of styles, from big band jazz to post-bop, from Brazilian jazz to the singer-songwriter repertoire of Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, to their own tuneful originals. In the beginning, their live shows featured a compact rhythm section, and they had no plans to perform with big bands or symphony orchestras. That changed in the fall of 1994 when the group was invited to sing two songs with the Count Basie Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The Voices have multiple recordings with big bands and have developed a diverse and extensive library of arrangements that feature this sort of collaboration. For decades, they have performed all over the world, including concerts and tours with the WDR and SWR Big Bands in Germany, the Metropole Orchestra in the Netherlands, the USAF Airmen of Note, Norway’s Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, and many other notable orchestras, including the Portland Jazz Orchestra. Now, after nearly four decades of concerts, world tours, 11 landmark albums under their own name, and high-profile collaborations with international jazz masters, this Grammy Award winning group will be performing with the Portland Jazz Orchestra as part of their Grand Finale tour. If you have not had the pleasure of seeing the New York Voices perform with PJO, this show will be your last chance as the Voices will be “hanging up their mics” at the completion of this 2026 tour. “We want to go out on a high note,” said Darmon. “This band has taken us all over the world, from intimate clubs, to concert halls with big bands and symphony orchestras, to international festivals where we’ve performed for thousands. And it’s given us countless opportunities to work with many of the greatest names in jazz.In our final months as a group, we’ll continue to travel the globe on our Grand Finale tour so that our fans will have one more chance to see and hear us live.” The New York Voices and the Portland Jazz Orchestra will play one last show together. Please join them at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center, 471 Stroudwater Street, Westbrook, ME 04092. Free parking is available on site for patrons of the show! New York Voices:

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