Singer/pianist/composer Carolyn Graye has performed in West Coast clubs, concerts and theatres since 1976. She has been featured at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Bumbershoot, A Contemporary Theatre (ACT,) the West Seattle Jazz Festival, Earshot's Art of Jazz Series, and Tula's. She lived in Prague (1997-1998) and performed at festivals and clubs throughout the Czech Republic in addition to touring the Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia) on a USIA performance and teaching grant. She has also performed in La Paz, Bolivia at the invitation of the U. S. Embassy. Her self-titled debut CD was released 1996 and spotlights Jessica Williams, Julian Priester, and Jay Thomas in a collection of swinging standards and original compositions that the Prague Post called "witty and curiously conversational." [read more]
