FRYEBURG — Five-time Grammy Award nominee Karrin Allyson will play at the 3rd Annual Jazz Residency Initiative Capstone Concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center, 18 Bradley St.
She will play alongside the Fryeburg Academy Chorus, Big Bang, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble.
Allyson will take part in a residency at the school from Nov. 7-9.
Her most recent release was “Many A New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein.”
Prior to her current Grammy Award nomination, four consecutive albums — “Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane” (2001), “Footprints” (2006), “Imagina: Songs of Brasil” (2008), and “‘Round Midnight” (2011) — received Grammy nominations for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
Her breakout album “’Round Midnight” received five stars in DownBeat magazine and earned raves national publicatoins. In 2013, she was voted the No. 1 Rising Star Female Vocalist in the DownBeat 61st Annual Critics Poll. In 2014, her independent release “Yuletide Hideaway” garnered coverage from top magazines and newspapers in America. She signed with Motéma Music in 2015.
FMI, tickets: 207-935-9232, www.fryeburgacademy.org/pac.

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