Artemis

Kandace Springs + Artemis

World renowned Nashville-based singer, songwriter and pianist Kandace Springs will bring her soul-drenched vocals to the Barbican to perform material from her latest Blue Note album, The Women Who Raised Me. Her most personal work yet, the album is her loving tribute to the great female singers who inspired her to become one of the premier jazz/soul vocalists of our time. As Prince once said, 'Kandace Springs has a voice that could melt snow’. 

Joining Kandace Springs is Artemis. The brainchild of pianist and composer Renee Rosnes, Artemis is a powerful ensemble of modern masters made up of Ingrid Jensen (trumpeter), Nicole Glover (tenor saxophonist), Alexa Tarantino (alto saxophonist/flutist), Noriko Ueda (bassist) and Allison Miller (drummer).

This sextet of visionary female bandleaders and composers are distinctive, not only for bringing six singular artists, each renowned for their own remarkable solo careers; but for its multi-generational and multinational line-up producing original to mind-bending arrangements of eclectic material. Artemis will deliver their second album in Spring 2023. 
"A killer line-up of players who hail from all over the world...they all converge on this extremely cosmopolitan, sleek, rhythm-forward, modern sound" (NPR) 

“Together they revealed a shared intensity and suggested something alluring and new. The group’s debut release, 'Artemis' delivers on that promise... The real headline here is this ensemble’s cohesion, its ability to move gracefully through various styles and moods and to sound, by turns, authoritative and playful, locked-in or loose-limbed. In the tradition of drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Artemis crafts an identifiable band sound rooted in sturdy yet flexible rhythms... Artemis means to upend expectations, gently and yet with force. Its music comes off like a nuanced argument for a fresh point of view.”

~ Wall Street Journal

Kandace Springs will also perform new, unreleased material.

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Kandace Springs + Artemis

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