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2024 Performance Dates
October 5: Gayelynn McKinney Trio, 10:30p-11:30pm, Ravens club - A2 Jazz Festival, 207 S. Main Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Past Performance Dates
July 25-28: Anthony Stanco Quintet, Two Sets: 7:30pm and 9:30pm, Cliff Bells, 2030 Park Ave, Detroit, MI 48226
July 21: Anthony Stanco Quintet, 5:00pm, Presentation Stage Michigan Jazz Festival, Schoolcraft College, 18600 Haggerty Rd, Livonia, MI 48152
July 20: Michael Dease Quintet, Sets: 6:00-8:00pm and 8:30-10:00pm, Blue Llama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St. Ann Arbor MI, 48104
July 19: Michael Dease Quintet, Sets: 7:30-9:30pm, GRNoir Wine & Jazz, 35 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
July 18: Anthony Stanco Quintet, Sets: 6:30-7:30pm and 9:00-10:00pm, Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe, 97 Kerchevel Grosse Pointe, MI 48104
July 3: Laura-Simone Martin Trio, Set: 7:15-8:15p and 9:05 - 9:55pm, 333 Lounge Jazz Club, 333 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
April 26: Walter Blanding Quintet, Set: 8:30-10:30pm, Urban Beat, 1213 Turner Rd, Lansing, MI 48906
April 14: Sarah Whitaker Senior Recital, 2:00pm, Murray Hall, 333 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824
Devine Wade Senior Recital, 6:00pm, Murray Hall, 333 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824
April 5: Laura-Simone Martin Quartet, Sets: 7:30-9:30pm, GRNoir Wine & Jazz, 35 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
March 22: Queen Amina with Laura-Simone Q&A featuring Dr. Chelsey Green at 6:00pm
March 17: Sequoia Synder “Redwood” Senior Recital, 4:00pm, Murray Hall, 333 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824
March 14- Laura-Simone Martin, The Gemini Trio, Sets: 7:30-9:00pm, GRNoir Wine & Jazz, 35 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
February 27, 2024- Michael Dease Quintet, Set: 7:00-9:00pm, Moriarty's Pub, 802 E Michigan Ave, Lansing, MI 48912
February 21- Caleb Robinson Quintet, 6:00-7:30pm, 542 Auditorium Rd, Fairchild Theater East Lansing, MI
February 10- Pollux Quartet with Sarah Whitaker, Set: 10:45-11:55p, Blue Llama Jazz Club, 314 S. Main St. Ann Arbor MI, 48104
February 9- Sarah Whitaker Trio, Sets: 7:30-9:30pm, GRNoir Wine & Jazz, 35 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
https://www.grnoir.com/Visit/LIVE-JAZZ
October 26-28, 2023 Sets: 6:30-7:30pm and 9:00-10:00pm, Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe, 97 Kerchevel Grosse Pointe, MI 48104
https://dirtydogjazz.cafe/event/sequoia-redwood-snider/
October 8, 2023 7:00-8pm Kerrytown Concert House, 415 N, 4th Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 https://kerrytownconcerthouse.com/event/a2-jazz-fest/
August 9, 2023 7:30pm CONCERT, Lucerne Festival, KKL Lucerne Hall
https://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/program/carnegie-halls-national-youth-orchestra-jazz-nyo-jazz-sean-jones-dee-dee-bridgewater/1925
August 4, 2023 7:00 PM CONCERT, Rheingau Festival, Kurpark, Wiesbaden https://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/programm-karten/programmuebersicht/detail?dateId=2186&eventId=2096&cHash=ab50ec54aaba362e5ffe1db346a2f563
August 1, 2023 10:15 PM CONCERT, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, Londonhttps://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/proms/bbc-proms-2023/prom-23-nyo-jazz-usa-with-dee-dee-bridgewater/
July 30, 2023 8:00 PM CONCERT, Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
https://www.concertgebouw.nl/en/concerts/2614101-nyo-jazz-sean-jones-with-
special-guest-dee-dee-bridgewater
July 28, 2023 NYO JAZZ CONCERT, St. Moritz Festival da Jazz https://www.festivaldajazz.ch/en/nyo-jazz
July 25, 2023 Carnegie Hall with National Youth Jazz Orchestra
June 12, 2023 Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra at Dizzys Club
May 14-20, 2023: National Peer-to-Peer All-Star Quintet Tour featuring Don Bradon
May 9, 2023 Txlip Long Island University, Roc Nation Short Film performance
April 26, 2023 CHiCa Power, JAZZ HOUSE KiDS Performance
April 15, 2023 Princeton Jazz Festival, Princeton University’s Creative Large Ensemble featuring Rufus Reid. Darcy James Argue, Director 8 pm Richarson Auditorium, Alexander Hall
April 1, 2023- Jazz At Lincoln Center Atrium Performance 7-8 pm
Tatum Greenblatt, Director
March 15 2023- Queen Amina Music Club with Laura-Simone presents: Tia Fuller, sax; Alexis Lombre, piano; Laura-Simone Martin, bass; Allison Miller, Drums
About Laura-Simone
Laura-Simone Martin is an 18-year-old bassist who has performed at nationally acclaimed venues like the BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall, Blue Note at Sea, the Kennedy Center, Monterey Jazz Festival, and more. This past summer, she was a part of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra, where she toured Europe with Sean Jones and 2x Grammy winning vocalist, Dee Dee Bridgewater. She has also been in Princeton University's Creative Large Ensemble and Jazz At Lincoln Center's Youth Orchestra. In her junior year of high school, she combined her passions for music and activism by founding the Queen Amina Music Program to help push the “women in jazz” music movement. This program is for 4th-8th grade instrumentalists at the Lawrence Intermediate School and Lawrence Middle School, where she teaches songs, the history of women in jazz, improvisational skills, and how to navigate modal progressions. This past year she received a grant to invite guest artists and hold a day of masterclasses for the Queen Amina students and the Lawrence High School music department, ending with a public concert on March 15, 2023, featuring Oscar winner and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Tia Fuller. Currently she is freshman at Michigan State University studying under renowned bassist, Rodney Whitaker.
