Westbeth Community Room: MARYA ZIMMET Friday Dec 7 at 8pm

FROM JONI TO JOBIM – CABARET AND JAZZ LIVE CONCERT

emotionally charged and passionate.

I am thrilled to be sharing the stage with two acclaimed musicians, Jon
Weber on piano and Tom Hubbard on bass. We’ll be presenting an eclectic repertoire including cool arrangements of jazz, folk, and pop standards, maybe a show tune or two, and some lesser known gems that defy categorization. FROM JONI MITCHELL TO SONDHEIM TO BOB DOROUGH TO PAULMCCARTNEY TO VERNON DUKE TO JOBIM…something for almost everybody.

Emotionally charged and delivered by the songstress with a passionate
flair. – Edie Stokes Time Square Chronicles

Her emotional connection was superb. Zimmet’s clear, warm voice can cover a wide range and various styles. She has a truly lovely, very tight vibrato and a beautiful clarity to her upper notes. It’s obvious jazz has been a big influence musically, as exmplifed by her arrangements, musicians and scatting, but she’s no stranger to folk and light rock. – Harold Standiton, Cabaret Scenes.

MARYA ZIMMET BIO
Marya (rhymes with “aria”) grew up in Greenwich Village in a Bohemian,
hippie artist family. As a child she acted in television, theater and film,
but gave it all up to be, as she told her disappointed parents, “a regular
kid.” She studied finger-style guitar, and got very good at it. At age 14, Marya moved to a San Francisco commune with her mother, and had her 000-18 Martin guitar stolen …

After an unconventional adolescence spent mostly up and down the California coast, Marya returned to her NYC roots and studied jazz singing at City College. As a so-called adult, Marya has lived a hum-drum life as a school psychologist/kitchen-designer while strugglingmand occasionally succeeding in resisting the lure of couch potato-hood. During brief awakenings from her coma-like state, she has sung with jazz trios and with a five-woman traditional folk music group.

A few years ago she discovered the New York City cabaret scene, and created and performed a cabaret show at Don’t Tell Mama and the Metropolitan Room, earning a nomination for Best Female Debut from the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs.

More recently, Marya became inspired to learn banjo and purchased a Deering Goodtime, which has gone a little way towards healing the trauma of the stolen Martin

She continues to seek – and sometimes find the courage to express her myriad selves through a range of genres, and is happy to share her explorations with her Westbeth family and the larger community here on her home turf.

Follow on Facebook. Marya Zimmet: www.maryazimmet.com