Vocalist and Composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles Performs at Jazz Fest

Hamptons Jazz Fest continues its concert series at The Church with vocalist/composer Sarah Elizabeth Charles joined by her quintet. The performance will be Thursday, July 13, and begins with a social hour at 5:30 p.m. followed by the concert at 6:30 p.m.

Having released three critically acclaimed albums with her band, SCOPE, Charles is on the rise. She recently released her band’s fourth album, Blank Canvas, and is embarking upon a plethora of creative endeavors, all while challenging the industries boundaries with her one-of-a-kind music. Charles’s intricate multi-tracked vocals are overlaid with echoes and effects that fill the sonic space emphasizing the songs’ themes of self-love and living with intention.

Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a vocalist/composer based in Brooklyn. She has worked and studied with artists such as Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, George Cables, Geri Allen and Sheila Jordan and has released three critically acclaimed albums with her band, SCOPE between 2012 and today. Charles has performed at many venues throughout her career.

In addition to her performances, Charles is an active educator as well. She works as a lead teaching artist with Carnegie Hall’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility Musical Connections workshop, has a private lessons studio in New York City, is an adjunct professor at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, co-teaching a course she designed called “Jazz and Gender” (with Caroline Davis) and has developed an early childhood music education program with Rise2Shine, a nonprofit organization based in Fond Parisien, Haiti. In 2019, she was one of five recipients of the Yale School of Music’s Distinguished Teaching Artist Award. In 2020, she was selected to be one of five members of the Joe’s Pub Working Group, as a recipient of the New York City Women’s Fund grant in support of her band’s fourth album to be released in 2021 and as a recipient of Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works grant.

Tickets to the Hamptons Jazz Fest performance by Sarah Elizabeth Charles at The Church are $30 ($25 members, $15 ages 18 and under) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.