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...a lady that can sing, was meant to sing, and we should hear her sing, and her name is Joyce Grant
Jean Bartlett - Arts Correspondent
Pacifica Tribune
Jean Bartlett - Arts Correspondent
Pacifica Tribune
| Joyce Grant |
| Cetrella Half Moon Bay |
Joyce Grant (vocalist/songwriter) Joyce Grant, a mezzo soprano
is also the great-great-niece of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
City Swing started a new chapter in 2007 with jazz singer Joyce Grant.
Grant has been singing jazz in Bay Area venues for over 20 years. A
mezzo-soprano with a voice like dark honey, Grant has a performance
resume which includes a wide range of venues including the Empire
Plush Room and Zingari Ristaurante in San Francisco, the Ledson
Hotel in Sonoma, Sam's Chowder House & Cetrella in Half Moon Bay,
the Liberty Hotel in Pittsburg as-well-as the Pittsburg Yacht Club,
Slates in Walnut Creek, Joe’s of Lafayette, and the Woodminster
Amphitheater. She is one of the featured artist for the "Delta Jazz
Society". Born in Texarkana, the town where Scott Joplin was raised,
Grant moved to Oakland as a child where she started singing with the
North Oakland Baptist Church Youth Choir. Since that time she has
earned the respect of singers and musicians alike performing
professionally in San Francisco, the East Bay, Walnut Creek, Napa
Valley and beyond. Her unique shows consist of a blend of jazz, blues,
country western, Rhythm and Blues, and funk. Her vocal
interpretations range from sensitive to powerful to cheeky over a broad
spectrum of charts. Joyce Grant is a member of ASCAP.
is also the great-great-niece of famed ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
City Swing started a new chapter in 2007 with jazz singer Joyce Grant.
Grant has been singing jazz in Bay Area venues for over 20 years. A
mezzo-soprano with a voice like dark honey, Grant has a performance
resume which includes a wide range of venues including the Empire
Plush Room and Zingari Ristaurante in San Francisco, the Ledson
Hotel in Sonoma, Sam's Chowder House & Cetrella in Half Moon Bay,
the Liberty Hotel in Pittsburg as-well-as the Pittsburg Yacht Club,
Slates in Walnut Creek, Joe’s of Lafayette, and the Woodminster
Amphitheater. She is one of the featured artist for the "Delta Jazz
Society". Born in Texarkana, the town where Scott Joplin was raised,
Grant moved to Oakland as a child where she started singing with the
North Oakland Baptist Church Youth Choir. Since that time she has
earned the respect of singers and musicians alike performing
professionally in San Francisco, the East Bay, Walnut Creek, Napa
Valley and beyond. Her unique shows consist of a blend of jazz, blues,
country western, Rhythm and Blues, and funk. Her vocal
interpretations range from sensitive to powerful to cheeky over a broad
spectrum of charts. Joyce Grant is a member of ASCAP.
| ANNA'S JAZZ ISLAND |
| SAM'S CHOWDER HOUSE |
| MOM & ME Zingari Ristaurante |
| Izzy's San Ramon |
| Qin's in Antioch |
| Joyce Grant & Walt Hill Pittsburgh Yacht Club |
