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Caity Gyorgy @ Markham Jazzlicious WinterFest

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Caity Gyorgy @ Markham Jazzlicious WinterFest
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Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is 2 time JUNO award winning Canadian vocalist who is known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at popular clubs and jazz festivals across Canada, Mexico, Japan and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, Joe LaBarbera, Allison Au, and Bryn Roberts, to name a few.

In addition to being a performer, Caity is an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world, and have won multiple awards including the Grand Prize in the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song “Secret Safe”. She is also a sought after clinician and is currently on faculty as a vocal jazz instructor at the Yukon Summer Music Camp in Whitehorse, Yukon and the Interprovincial Music Camp in McKellar, Ontario.

She has released several albums of original and standard music. On July 9th, 2021 she released “Now Pronouncing”, an EP of original music arranged for large ensemble on Brooklyn based label La Reserve. This project won the JUNO for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the 2022 JUNO Awards. In 2023 she once again received the JUNO Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year for her debut full length LP “Featuring” which was released on November 4th, 2022. Her next album “You’re Alike, You Two”, a collection of Jerome Kern songs performed with pianist Mark Limacher, was released on July 21st, 2023 on La Reserve Records.

 

All reservations will require an additional minimum purchase of $35 on Food & Beverage per person at the venue with the option to select the $65 Pre-Fixed Featured Jazzlicious Menu curated by the Chef (Tax and Gratuity not included).