NEW YORK /MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — While some industrious individuals are busy looking for their second act, 90-year-old Sybil Evans, longtime resident of Manhattan’s Murray Hill section is still going strong, forging ahead into her third with the Sybil Evans Trio. The dynamic, Brooklyn-born and raised nonagenarian singer was inspired by her 90th birthday to return to her love of bringing her pop-jazz stylings before a live audience.
Sybil’s next engagement will be on Saturday, May 18, 2024 at the annual Park Avenue Day celebration featuring a street festival. Admission is free and the Sybil Evans Trio (with Grant Richards on piano and John Sims on bass) is slated to perform from 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Park Avenue at East 36th Street. The outdoor festival runs along Park Avenue from 34th to 40th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
On April 24, the nonagenarian chanteuse performed in the piano lounge of Murray Hill’s NH Collection Hotel to an invited audience of friends and locals, including members of the Murray Hill Neighborhood Association, which she has belonged to for over a decade. The evening included such classics as The Thrill is Gone, Almost Like Being in Love, and Without a Song with entertaining stories of her life and musical career peppered in between.
“It felt so great to be back, so natural, as if I never took a break,” explained Ms. Evans. “It was an amazing, exhilarating evening performing some of my favorite songs. I can’t wait for our next performance,” she added.
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ABOUT SYBIL EVANS TRIO:
The Sybil Evans Trio forges an enduring musical collaboration in which they breath fresh and imaginative new life into timeless pop and jazz classics. The trio features Ms. Evans on vocals, Grant Richards (piano), and John Sims (bass), as well as alternating guest musicians. Ms. Evans began singing in the late 1960s and continued to do so through the years while juggling careers in education, corporate training as the Conflict Coach
, and while making media appearances as author of a well-regarded book on conflict resolution, published by Harper Collins in 2000 and sold nationally and internationally. The pandemic halted Evans’s singing engagements and open mics. Inspired by her 90th birthday in March 2024, she returns to pop-jazz music with the Sybil Evans Trio. Learn more at: https://SybilEvansTrio.com/.
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