MTC Kids Jam Concert - Allegra Levy - FREE

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11 a.m. Saturday, January 30, 2027 | Polsky Theatre

Free; reservations recommended
The MTC Kids Jam concert series is specially designed with families in mind! Join us in the MTC lobby at 10 a.m. for art activities, followed by an hour-long concert with an acclaimed children’s musician.

Jazz singer-songwriter Allegra Levy was recently named one of the top 10 rising stars among jazz vocalists in the 2021 Downbeat Critics’ Poll. Most jazz vocalists sing standards. Levy writes her own.

From the plaintive title track of her boldly autobiographical debut album, “Lonely City,” to her critically acclaimed 2017 follow-up release, “Cities Between Us,” Levy has penned a lyrical collection of harmonically adventurous yet familiar originals steeped in the Great American Songbook. A native of Connecticut, now based in New York, Levy has been dubbed a "double-barreled talent" and “unquestionably one to watch” by JazzTimes magazine.

Her third album on the SteepleChase label, 2018’s “Looking at the Moon,” was named an Editor’s Pick in both Downbeat Magazine and JazzTimes. In 2020, she released a fourth album on SteepleChase, “Lose My Number: Allegra Levy Sings John McNeil,” to rave reviews. It features her own lyrics set to the tunes of renowned jazz trumpeter John McNeil. The New Yorker Magazine called it “a showcase for Levy’s… agile vocalizing and her gift for sculpting words, and for McNeil’s far too neglected abilities as a melodic architect.”