JAZZ singer Emilie Conway is platforming her debut album, ‘The Secret of a Rose’ with an evening of music in Dolan’s on Wednesday March 21. Her concert celebrates spring as a season of hope, change and new love with jazz standards such as ‘You Must Believe in Spring’, ‘Joy Spring’, ‘Aguas de Marco’, ‘It Might As Well Be Spring’, ‘But Beautiful’, ‘So In Love’ and more. Attend to Dolan’s Upstairs venue on Wednesday 21, 9pm to hear Emilie’s interpretaton of these classics, supported on stage by her quartet of six years.
A Dublin girl, she has won scholarships to schools such as Berklee in Boston and The Vermont Jazz Centre. She refers to a diverse range of influences, Kurt Elling, Edit Piaf, classical composers and Billy Holiday among them.
Speaking of her album tour, Emilie Conway notes, “The repertoire developed out of my personal response to the climate of negativity in our country over the past few years. Life has taught me that there is always hope and there is beauty, that this is a beautiful life we have here – where there are dark shadows, there is also light. For me, these songs are about affirmation and acceptance”.
Attend to the lyric: “Beneath the deepest snows/ the secret of a rose / Is merely that it knows/ you must believe in Spring!”
Previously, her tribute to Billie Holiday, ‘Emilie Sings Billie’, won an Arts Council award. She has repeated this thematic homage with gigs dedicated to Elis Regina and to Abbey Lincoln and The Emilie Conway Quartet performs regularly at Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin.
