APRIL 20, 2023: I am so thrilled to be releasing my latest collection of music, “Woman in the Mirror.” It has been a long time coming, and it feels so good to be finally putting it out there in the world. I’ve been doing some really nice shows in Boston, New Orleans and Portugal, and I’m looking forward to some dates in Spain, Portugal and Canada this summer. I’m also directing the Berklee Vocal Summit and teaching at the Colorado Roots Music Camp and the SongRoots camp on Gamdier Island, BC. I have already started work on my next project which will feature the Berklee Big Band playing my original music arranged by a an incredible set of woman arrangeers!
2020 & 2021: Covid - Blah.
JUNE 29, 2018: Brian and I are about to embark on some really cool tours. Doing some nice shows in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, as well as a beautiful camp call Song Roots. After that we'll be doing some things in Ann Arbor, Lansing, Boston, Northampton and points in between. Towards the end of August, you can hear me with Brian's amazing band, the Organic Trio, in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
JANUARY 27, 2018: Bill Fernandez, Brian Seeger and I, along with the insanely talented Paul Wickliffe at the controls, just finished mixing my next album. Now to get it mastered! I have a couple of labels that are going to give it a listen, and expect a release towards the end of the year.
AUGUST 31, 2016: I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I have been hired as a full-time Associate Professor of Music in the Voice Department of the world-famous Berklee College of Music. It will be so exciting to join this amazing team of teachers at this state-of-the-art campus. I will miss my colleagues at Loyola University, but I plan to maintain a strong presence in New Orleans.
MARCH 15, 2014: Whew! It's been a crazy few months, but I'm happy to finally be officially releasing the new CD, "Historia." Check out the STORE page to find out how to order the new CD, as well as T-SHIRTS!!! I've got reviews, articles, etc to post here, and I will get to it soon.
We have two special events in Louisiana for the occasion, and more to come in the upcoming months. This weekend I'm honored to have pianist Randy Porter from Portland, OR, and Dan Loomis from New York in town especially to play with me! Here are the two events:
Saturday, March 15, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge, 8470 Goodwood Blvd, 7:30pm. With Randy Porter, Dan Loomis,and guitarist Brian Seeger.
Sunday, March 16, New Orleans, Louisiana, at the premiere jazz club Snug Harbor,626 Frenchmen St, shows at 8p and 10p. With Randy Porter, Dan Loomis, Brian Seeger, and on drums, Johnny Vidacovich. There will be some other special guests, too.
Happy New Year!!!! Today is January 9, 2014, and my NEW CD ALMOST READY!!!! The new album, entitled "Historia," is being manufactured as we speak! For you PledgeMusic folks, I've already labeled the envelopes to send out the disks. You should get them in about three more weeks.
WEBSITE CREDIT - One of the PledgeMusic incentives that pledgers could get is credit on my website. Many, many people pledged for things like voice lessons, videos of our reality TV show "House Rules," credit on the CD cover art, etc, but these people pledged production credit, so here it is! Thanks so much to
Peter Owens
Anne Cowan
Sue Griffin
Bob Fernandez
Laura Fernandez
Mark Landesman
Richard & Susan Lane
Elizabeth McCollum
Paul Wickliffe
Tom & Emily Teasdale
David Ross
Michael Samardzija
Nich Anderson
John Mullins
Nola Jones
Molli & Bruce McMills
Anne Scott
Tony & Pat Obst
Pat Boland
Michael Montgomery
Olivier Bou
Sylvia & Hal Perkins
And a very special thank you to Executive Producers Ed Park and Carol Osborne Carierre.
SEPTEMBER 2013 - I MET MY TARGET FOR PLEDGEMUSIC! Thanks to many, many people, my new CD project got fully funded and is still raising money, 25% of which goes to the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I'm in the process of getting it finished: final mixes, mastering, cover art, licencing, duplication, etc. It should come out soon, and I will definitely let you know when it does. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
JULY 11, 2013 - TODAY IS THE DAY!! I finally launched my PledgeMusic campaign asking people like you to be a part of making this new record. If you pledge, you get behind-the-scenes updates as the work prgresses. I'll try to include some video diaries of how decisions are made, and maybe even ask you for your input in the CD title, cover art, etc. WATCH THIS VIDEO.
JULY 2013 - Had two photo shoots with photographer Zack Smith, who does beautiful work. The hard work has begun on my new CD. I have some very big news which I will announce soon about a guest artist who will sing with me on the record. So excited. The end of July features lots of shows on my annual tour in Mexico with my friends Alberto Medina, Pablo Prieto, and Luri Molina.
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JUNE 2013 " HEART TO HEART WITH CINDY SCOTT "
Intimate Music Series Features Exciting Line-up of Guests
NEW ORLEANS, LA –Jazz singer Cindy Scott invites a varied group of acclaimed artists to join her in an intimate music series every Sunday evening through the month of June. The series kicks off on Sunday, June 1 at 7:00 p.m. with a live preview of her latest studio recording project, which begins recording the all new material the very next morning!
Scott will host the weekly music series every Sunday in June from 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. at Café Istanbul. The shows will feature other musicians with whom Cindy shares a real connection, like her former teacher Leah Chase, guitarist and long-time collaborator Brian Seeger, and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Don Vappie. In addition to popular New Orleans performers, Cindy has invited several acclaimed out-of-town artists to join her on the series, most notably pianist Randy Porter (Freddy Hubbard, Benny Golson, Gino Vannelli, Dianne Schuur) and Venezuelan Latin Jazz vocalist Maria Marquez. The full schedule with individual concert descriptions follows.
“I am always looking for more ways to connect and collaborate with artists I love musically AND personally. I want this series to reveal to the audience how musicians who are friends relate to each other,” says Scott. Wedged between the two sets of music will be an interview segment which could potentially allow questions from audience members. “I’m not sure exactly what will happen each week, except that the music will be amazing, and the connections will be honest and intimate. That’s why I named it “Heart 2 Heart.”
The relatively new venue, Café Istanbul, is one of several businesses inside of the New Orleans Healing Center located at 2372 St. Claude Avenue at the corner of St Roch Avenue. Café Istanbul was designed from its inception with performance art in mind. It has a state-of-the art sound system, beautiful acoustics, and there isn’t a bad seat in the house. There is ample free parking behind the center.
SERIES LINEUP
JUNE 2: “INNER WORKINGS” - Live Preview of New CD, with Randy Porter (Portland, OR) on piano, Dan Loomis (Brooklyn, NY) on bass, and Jamison Ross (New Orleans, LA) on drums. Come sample the new material that will be on Cindy’s next CD due to be released in Fall 2013. You will hear lots of originals and standards reinterpreted. Although Cindy has played plenty with each of these players, this will be the very first time this quartet has ever worked all together. Dangerous? You betcha! Who doesn’t like a little danger?
www.randyporter.com www.jamisonrossmusic.com www.danloomismusic.com
JUNE 9: “JUST FRIENDS” - Cindy Scott with Leah Chase & Michael Pellera. Scott and Chase, who are dear friends, will share the stage, performing separately and together. Pianist Michael Pellera, long time collaborator with Leah and director of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Jazz Program, will join them. The goal is for the audience to have as much fun as the two women do together!
JUNE 16: “THE SCOTT - SEEGER DUO,” plus “NOW! HERE! THIS!” - The first set will showcase years of collaboration between guitarist Brian Seeger and Scott. Over the past six year these two have laughed and cried together, made an award-winning record together, toured together, and written music together, and it shows when they play together. The second set will be an exciting new project called Now! Here! This! that adds the loopy cellist/vocalist Helen Gillet to the mix. It’s zany, accessible and magical!
www.brianseeger.com www.helengillet.com
JUNE 23: “CANCIONES DE LA LUNA LLENA” – Songs of the Full Moon with Maria Marquez (San Francisco) & Jose-Miguel Yamal (Houston). Venezuelan jazz singer and syndicated world music DJ Maria Marquez met Cindy at a jazz workshop in 2004. The two hit it off and have remained friends. After a four year hiatus, Marquez called Cindy and said, “I NEED to come back to New Orleans. Can we put something together?” The two decided to invite Latin jazz pianist Jose-Miguel Marquez in from Houston to the party, so it’s sure to be, well, you know, muy caliente!
www.mariamarquez.com www.josemiguelyamal.com
JUNE 30: “CREOLE CRUSH” – with Don Vappie and special surprise guest – can you guess who it is? Cindy and Don have worked together many times in various configurations, and the combination is always interesting and supportive. Since Don is such a good singer in additional to his multi-instrumental musical genius, the two like to find material to do together. This show also features a special surprise guest who, due to recording contract restriction, can’t be named at this time. Twenty questions…is it a man or a woman? Tall or short? You get the idea.
www.vappielle.com