Maureen’s Jazz Cellar, located in Nyack NY, is presenting its first Bluegrass festival in Warwick on Saturday. August 13.
Maureen’s Jazz Cellar is named after the late, great jazz vocalist Maureen Budway. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1963, Maureen was a natural who knew at an early age that singing would be her life’s work and joy. Though she is best known for Jazz, she also mastered many other voice genres including Classical Opera- in which she earned her Masters Degree from Carnegie Mellon School of Music in 1987. Through that training, she discovered her linguistic brilliance singing in multiple languages such as Portuguese, Arabic, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Though there are only two CD’s of her work, Jazz the Budway, (1990) and Sweet Candor (2014), Maureen’s stellar live performances can also be enjoyed on YouTube. Stay tuned For the release of the “Three Budways” which features Maureen as lead vocalist on original music Composed by David and Kathy Budway. Maureen performed with many of today’s renowned jazz artists such as Hubert Laws, Jeff Tain Watts, The New York Voices and David Budway, her beloved brother and life-long musical partner.
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