Monday, August 4, 2025
7:30pm
Shawnn Monteiro
Cape Cod Jazz Trio
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
307 Old Main Street
South Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Shawnn Monteiro
In the early 1970s while working at a club in San Jose, CA, vocalist and percussionist Shawnn Monteiro was discovered by Afro/Cuban jazz pioneer Mongo Santamaria. She joined his band for three years then launched her solo career focusing on her jazz roots. She settled down in Rhode Island and began touring nationally. Then her father, renowned bassist Jimmy Woode, introduced her to the European jazz community and she’s never looked back. Since 1993, she has recorded seven albums as a leader or co-leader, toured throughout the U.S. and Europe, and even performed in Siberia! Shawnn is also a dedicated and beloved music educator who shares her artistry, techniques and knowledge with students all over the world. She has been an adjunct professor at Rhode Island College and the University of Hartford and has been teaching ongoing Master Vocal Classes in Rome and Genoa, Italy since 1995. Shawnn is a 2024 Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame inductee. Shawnn will be accompanied by Fred Boyle on piano, Ron Ormsby on bass, and Bart Weisman on drums.
Cape Cod Jazz Trio
Cape Cod Jazz Trio (CCJT) will open the concert with original compositions by Fred Boyle. The CCJT is comprised of three of Cape Cod’s top Jazz Musicians with Fred Boyle on piano from South Yarmouth, Ron Ormsby on bass from Centerville, and Bart Weisman on drums from Orleans. The CCJT has accompanied vocalists Dane Vannatter, Siobhan Magnus, Cassandre McKinley, Tish Adams, Leslie Boyle, Lori Colombo, and Krisanthi Pappas. Since 2009, the CCJT has appeared at concerts, events, and restaurants across Cape Cod, including the Provincetown Jazz Festival, and off Cape Cod in Providence (RI), Nantucket, Plymouth, and Boston.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
6:00pm
Kieran Brown
Matt Baker
Making Their Festival Debuts
Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM)
460 Commercial Street
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Kieran Brown
Rising star New York City based Jazz Vocalist Kieran Brown is thrilled to be on Cape Cod this summer. She is a multi-genre vocalist, composer, and arranger with a strong concentration in Jazz, R&B, and The American Songbook, Kieran has quickly proved to be a true force on the NYC jazz scene, performing alongside highly esteemed musicians such as former members of the John Pizzarelli Quartet Konrad Paszkudski and Mike Karn, Emmet Cohen, Joe Farnsworth, and many others. She regularly appears at top NYC Jazz venues, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club, Birdland Jazz Club, The Django, Mezzrow Jazz Club, and has been a featured vocalist at Madison Square Garden to sing the National Anthem. Her highly anticipated debut album will be released in 2025. Kieran will be accompanied by Michael Rochaon trombone also making his festival debut, Matt Baker on piano, Ron Ormsby on bass, and Bart Weisman on drums.
Matt Baker
Matt Baker will open the concert and is an Australian born Jazz Pianist and leader of a powerful trio in New York City where he has called home since 2010. He performs regularly as a sideman at jazz venues including Birdland, The Blue Note and Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel, tours both within the USA and internationally as a bandleader and sideman and has released 6 albums, his latest a DVD album “Live at Birdland.” Matt Baker’s sideman credits include touring and performing with vocalists Ann Hampton Callaway, Jennifer Holliday, Vanessa Williams, Patti LaBelle, Veronica Swift, Tierney Sutton, Arianna Neikrug, guitar icon Bucky Pizzarelli, tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm and Judy Collins. Matt Baker was an award winner himself in the 2003 Montreux International Solo Jazz Piano competition and a semi-finalist in 2004 and 2005. A student of Taylor Eigsti’s since moving to New York, Matt watched Oscar Peterson perform live an entire week at the Blue Note, from which a friendship between the two formed in the remaining years of Peterson’s life. Baker has also studied with Mulgrew Miller, Benny Green, Jacky Terrasson, and Ella Fitzgerald’s life-long accompanist Paul Smith. Matt will be accompanied by Ron Ormsby on bass and Bart Weisman on drums.