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Candace Evans
Popular and versatile Kansas City area pianist/vocalist Candace
Evans released her long-awaited second CD, "So Nice" in
September 2003. The album showcases Evans' strengths as a
musician and singer on a wide variety of tunes including swing,
blues, Latin jazz and soulful ballads. Many of Kansas City's
best and brightest musicians join her for various solo, duo,
trio, quartet and quintet settings. "So Nice" can be purchased
at local music stores and wherever Evans performs.
Candace Evans studied classical piano and voice since the age of
8 receiving top honors in both areas while attending and
graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School. She received a
classical piano scholarship to Kansas University and graduated
from Avila College. She spent summers accompanying Kansas City
area theater in the park. While attending college, she studied
voice at the well-known Back-Stage Workshop with Lillian Armijo,
a veteran of stage and theater who holds the record for the most
appearances at Kansas City's renowned Starlight Theater. Evans
has recently studied jazz with Carol Comer, widely known educator
and lecturer who collaborated on several arrangements on "So
Nice." She also teaches music privately when she is not
performing.
Evans has been performing professionally for over 10 years at
such top venues as The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the Raphael Hotel,
Union Station, Jardines Restaurant and Jazz Club, the Club at
Plaza III, the Downtown Kansas City Rotary Club, the Atchison
Kansas Summer Concert Series, the prestigious Country Club Plaza
Art Fair, the Ruel Joyce Jazz Series at Johnson County Community
College, City of Overland Park Mayor's Holiday Tree Lighting
Ceremony, the Plaza Live Series, the Overland Park Clocktower
and Music in the Park Series, Wichita Concert in the Gardens
Series, the prestigious Corporate Woods Jazz Festival, the
Spirituality and All That Jazz Series at Unity Temple on the
Plaza, the Hidden Glen Arts Festival, Powell Gardens' Boom and
Bloom Festival, the Parkville Jazz Festival, The Elms Wine &
Jazz festival in Excelsior Springs Missouri, Porto Cima Yacht
Club in Lake Ozark Missouri, the City of Leawood Summer Series,
the Kansas City Chiefs 101 Banquet, the Best of Kansas City
awards, and other fine hotels, clubs, special events, and
festivals. Candace also spent a portion of 2005 performing in
the Los Angeles, California region. She also performs regularly
for various fund-raising and charitable events including
performances for The Leukemia Society, The Arthritis Foundation,
The Symphony League, The Friends of Alvin Ailey, Reach Out
America, and The Dream Factory. She demonstrates versatility and
training by drawing upon a wide repertoire of contemporary,
classical, Latin, Broadway, swing and jazz music. Evans has also
made guest appearances on media programming including Kansas
City's WDAF Fox 4 Early Show, the KMBC-TV 9 talk show
Afterwards, and the KCTV-5 Weekend News Show on television;
Kansas City's KKFI and KFKF radio stations, KANU in Lawrence,
and KCMW radio station broadcasting from Central Missouri State
University. She has also been interviewed for various regional
newspapers and magazines including the Kansas City Star, The
Sunday Star Magazine, The Johnson County Sun, Kansas City
Magazine, The Olathe Daily News, The Pitch Weekly, and the
nationally recognized Jazz Ambassador Magazine. Evans has also
recently signed a contract with Pony Canyon Records, one of Hong
Kong's largest records producers to distribute her CD in the
Hong Kong region.
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