CNY Jazz will bring the 2024 Black History Month Cabaret to Syracuse on February 25, featuring Endea Owens.
The celebration will include performances from emerging jazz artist Endea Owens who will perform with The Cookout, her six-piece band.
As a philanthropist and Juilliard graduate, Endea Owens founded the Community Cookout, a non-profit that provides meals and music to underserved neighborhoods in New York City. She has composed for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Cincinnati Orchestra. Apart from her performing every weeknight as a member of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Band, she is also a “Jazz is Now!” fellow of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as a presenter, curator, and performer. The singer has a true passion for and teaching, her work has appeared on Jon Batiste’s GRAMMY-winning album We Are and the Oscar-nominated film Judas and the Black Messiah, and H.E.R’s widely acclaimed Super Bowl LV performance.
This event/celebration will also include an honoring of the Pioneer Public Service Award to the New York State Senate President and Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. The concert performances will be held at 4 p.m. at the Finger Lakes Ballroom of the Marriot in Downtown Syracuse.
Established in 1988, the CNY Jazz Central provides different scholastic and public jazz programs throughout Upstate New York. Their annual performances are more than 150 in total and their growing list of programs and concerts includes the Jazz Cabaret Series, the Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival, the Jazz in the City Public Health Concert Series, the Jazz Vespers Series, the SummerJazz Workshop, the Jazz at the Fair, the Black History Month Cabaret, and more year-round activities in the Jazz Central theater, art-in-education concerts in schools across the region, and more.
The concert will be held at the Finger Lakes Ballroom in Marriott Syracuse Downtown on February 25. Tickets are available here.
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