20-Year-Old Jazz 'Wunderkind' to Play at Tupelo

We have TWO new shows to announce this week!

August 10 TUPELO NIGHT OF COMEDY: This special comedy night features Kenny Rogerson and Mike Prior. Always a raucous night of laughs, our Comedy nights are a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Still only $18. Such a bargain for two full hours of comedy!

December 8 GRACE KELLY: When it comes to saxophonist/vocalist/composer/lyricist/arranger/educator Grace Kelly, people seem to be divided into two groups: those who marvel at her proficiency, creativity and ever-accelerating growth, and those who have yet to encounter the 20-year-old wunderkind. The ranks of the former category are growing by the day. Trumpeter and Jazz at Lincoln Center Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis was so impressed with Kelly's three-night stand as guest of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra that he invited her to join the ensemble at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater in Washington, D.C. as part of the President Obama Inauguration Celebration. Keith Lockhart invited Grace to be a special guest with the Boston Pops Orchestra when she was14 years old. Harry Connick, Jr. heard Kelly in a master class on a December afternoon and brought her on stage to sit in with his band that night. Since then, Kelly has been voted "Best Jazz Act" in Boston four consecutive years in the FNX/Phoenix Best Music Poll, and this past year voted "Best National Jazz Act", received the ASCAP Foundation's Young Jazz Composers Award in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011 and won "Jazz Artist of the Year" at the Boston Music Awards in both 2008 and 2010. The 2009, 2010, and 2011 Downbeat Critics Poll added to her list naming her one of the "Alto Saxophone Rising Stars", the youngest ever to be named so. Grace named Glamour Magazine's "Top 10 College Women of 2011" 

OUR NEW HAMPSHIRE SCHEDULE

2013

Jul 12 Albert Cummings (Blues/Rock)

Jul 13 The Fools (Rock)

Jul 14 Vienna Teng (Folk/Pop)

Jul 18 The Brew (Rock)

Jul 19 Chris Smither (Folk/Blues)

Jul 20 American Unplugged (Folk/Americana)

Jul 21 Jeffrey Gaines & Jann Klose (Rock)

Jul 25 The Duhks (Canadian Folk)

Jul 26 Jake Shimabukuro (at The Stockbridge Theater)

Jul 26 Ari Hest - Customer Appreciation Show (Pop)

Jul 27 Big Country (Rock)

Aug 2 Blue Coupe (Rock)

Aug 3 Popa Chubby (Blues/Rock)

Aug 6 The FIXX (Rock)

Aug 8 New Riders of the Purple Sage (Jam Band)

Aug 9 David Bromberg (Folk)

Aug 10 Tupelo Night of Comedy (Kenny Rogerson & Mike Prior)

Aug 15 Nick Lowe (Rock)

Aug 16 Nick Lowe (Rock)

Aug 20 Shawn Mullins (Pop)

Aug 22 Leon Redbone (Jazz, Blues)

Aug 24 J. Geils Jazz Quartet (Jazz)

Aug 29 Jamie Lynn Hart & Mieka Pauley (Pop)

Sep 1 Holly Williams (Folk/Americana)

Sep 6 Jonathan Edwards (Folk)

Sep 7 Aaron Carter (at The Stockbridge Theater)

Sep 13 Tribute to Little Walter (Mark Hummel, Billy Boy Arnold, Sugar Ray Norcia, Anson Funderburgh & Little Charlie Baty)

Sep 12 David Wilcox (Folk)

Sep 14 The Stompers (Rock)

Sep 20 Boston Blues Review (Brian Templeton, Matthew Stubbs, Cheryl Arena & Travis Colby)

Sep 21 The BoDeans (Rock)

Sep 22 The BoDeans (Rock)

Sep 27 Lucy Kaplansky (Folk)

Sep 29 Seth Glier & Antje Duvekot (Folk)

Oct 4 Chad Perrone (Pop)

Oct 5 The Ruth Moody Band (Folk)

Oct 9 Leo Moran & Anthony Thistlethwaite (Rock/Acoustic)

Oct 10 Colin Hay (at the Stockbridge Theater)

Oct 11 Steve Kimock (Rock)

Oct 12 Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood (Rock)

Oct 13 John Mayall (Blues/Rock)

Oct 18 Melanie (Folk)

Oct 19 Candye Kane (Blues)

Oct 24 Adrian Legg (Acoustic Guitar)

Oct 25 Paul Thorn Band (Blues/Rock)

Oct 26 Jon Butcher (Rock)

Oct 31 The Tubes (Rock)

Nov 1 Lori McKenna (Folk)

Nov 3 Dada (Rock)

Nov 8 Liz Longley - Brian Dunne opens (Folk)

Nov 10 Andy McKee (Acoustic Guitar)

Nov 15 The Smithereens (Rock)

Nov 16 The Smithereens (Rock)

Nov 21 Acoustic Alchemy (Acoustic)

Nov 22 Sonny Landreth (Rock/Blues)

Nov 23 Howie Day (Pop)

Dec 6 Ellis Paul (Folk)

Dec 7 Ronnie Earl (Blues/Rock)

Dec 8 Grace Kelly (Jazz)

Submitted by Tupelo Music Hall, 2 Young Road.