Cécile McLorin Salvant
With the Brandee Younger Trio
Strathmore & Washington Performing Arts Present
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Book of Ayres
With the Brandee Younger Trio
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Music Center at Strathmore
Three-time Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist known for her rich contralto voice, passion for storytelling, and genre-blending style, connecting jazz to baroque, folkloric music, vaudeville, and the blues. Described by the late Jessye Norman as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality,” Salvant is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs.
Her 2023 album, Melusine, sung in French, along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyol, received two Grammy nominations. Savant’s newest album, Oh Snap, is set to release in September 2025.
Opener: The Brandee Younger Trio
Brandee Younger is revolutionizing the role of the harp in modern music. The first Black woman to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, her original composition, Hortense, was featured in the Netflix Concert-Documentary, Beyoncé: Homecoming. Her latest album, Brand New Life, is about forging new paths, and is filled with a sense of purpose and respect for legacy, creating a larger platform for the harp to reach newer and wider audiences than ever before.
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