Event

Petra van Nuis Jazz Quartet

Sunday, January 7, 2024
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Petty Auditorium

Petra sings at the finest jazz venues around, including the Green Mill, Andy’s Jazz Club, Winter’s Jazz Club, SPACE, Fitzgerald’s Nightclub, and the Jazz Showcase. Hear her for free at the library.

Petra is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist who has been described in Downbeat Magazine as having “a light, gorgeous and fairly delicate voice…a gift for melody and plenty of rhythmic confidence.”  All About Jazz Magazine calls her music “hauntingly atmospheric and filled with creative substance…poetic, moving and subtly provocative.”  Famed jazz critic and author of “Singing Jazz” Bruce Crowther says “van Nuis is not as well known internationally as should be the case although she has a devoted following in Japan. An exceptionally gifted singer, she has a light yet subtly textured sound and is always delightfully melodic….lyrics are clearly very important to her and she delivers them with admirable sincerity.”

Free tickets will be given to those present starting at 2:30 pm.