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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 like the Plush Room and the Donatello Hotel for 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 the Donatello Hotel (9 years) in San Francisco, the Ledson Hotel in Sonoma, Cetrella in Half Moon Bay, the Liberty
Hotel in Pittsburg, Slates in Walnut Creek, Joe’s of Lafayette, the Woodminster Amphitheater, and the Zingari
Ristorante (5 years) in San Francisco. 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.
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 like the Plush Room and the Donatello Hotel for 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 the Donatello Hotel (9 years) in San Francisco, the Ledson Hotel in Sonoma, Cetrella in Half Moon Bay, the Liberty
Hotel in Pittsburg, Slates in Walnut Creek, Joe’s of Lafayette, the Woodminster Amphitheater, and the Zingari
Ristorante (5 years) in San Francisco. 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 |
| Joyce Grant & Walt Hill at the Pittsburg Yacht Club |
