Tickets are still available for world-renowned jazz singer and six-time GRAMMY Award nominee Nnenna Freelon on Friday, October 25, 7:30 p.m. at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center. Freelon is joined by Miki Hayama on piano, Alfred Batchelor on upright bass, and Leon Joyce on drums.
Freelon has earned a reputation as a compelling and captivating live performer: Laura Karpman’s undertaking of Langston Hughes’ “Ask Your Mama” at The Apollo Theater and The Hollywood Bowl, and in SRO-shows at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival with the Duke Ellington- inspired “Dreaming the Duke” with Harolyn Blackwell and pop-jazz-crossover pianist Mike Garson.
Tickets are reserved seating and priced at $25 General, $20 Discount and $12 UH Hilo/HawCC students and children up to age 17, and are available by calling the UH Hilo Box Office at 932-7490 (note new Box Office phone number) or by ordering online at artscenter.uhh.hawaii.edu.