Kendrah Butler at Lutheran Church Of Holy Communion

Kendrah E. Butler has lived and breathed music ever since she could remember. She studied at the Settlement Music School in Germantown, PA for 11 years with classical world renowned pianist Charles Pettaway. She also studied jazz piano with Don Wilson, Kenny Gates, and for five years with the late great jazz pianist Eddie Green. Kendrah's intense study of the piano would lead her to tour with a group titled the “Best Yet Jazz Quintet” throughout the tri-state area, play on TV's CN8 award show dedicated to Grover Washington Jr., cut a demo CD with Gamble and Huff records, participate in radio interviews, perform at the Kimmel Center for Performance Arts countless times, and perform a Senior Concert for the Settlement Music School. She is also a classically trained violinist and has written full classically and jazz inspired orchestrations as well as a variety of jazz and R&B pieces. ...

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Kendrah E. Butler has lived and breathed music ever since she could remember. She studied at the Settlement Music School in Germantown, PA for 11 years with classical world renowned pianist Charles Pettaway. She also studied jazz piano with Don Wilson, Kenny Gates, and for five years with the late great jazz pianist Eddie Green. Kendrah's intense study of the piano would lead her to tour with a group titled the “Best Yet Jazz Quintet” throughout the tri-state area, play on TV's CN8 award show dedicated to Grover Washington Jr., cut a demo CD with Gamble and Huff records, participate in radio interviews, perform at the Kimmel Center for Performance Arts countless times, and perform a Senior Concert for the Settlement Music School. She is also a classically trained violinist and has written full classically and jazz inspired orchestrations as well as a variety of jazz and R&B pieces.
Kendrah loves to compose music of various genres and enjoys the lyric writing, composition and music production process. Butler is also a notable musical director having directed multiple Jazz and R&B groups including but not limited to: “nVizion” an all female jazz group, Kendrah Butler and Friends, the “Satin Dolls” at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Arts, and is currently a musical director for the Diva Nation series funded through the Philadelphia Jazz Project. The Kendrah Butler Trio and ladies from Diva Nation were featured acts on Philly Cam, a television show that premiers on Comcast and OnDemand.
Kendrah has also pursued multiple entrepreneurial efforts that include launching a “Women in Jazz” Philadelphia tour in the month of March and co-sponsoring the “Women in Jazz Finale Concert” with vocalist Rhenda Fearrington that was a huge success. The concert had about 300 in attendance. In addition, Kendrah helped to launch and co-sponsors “Jazz at the Kairos Room” a new jazz series in the East Falls section of Philadelphia which has opened new opportunities to jazz artists in the Philadelphia and surround areas.

Jazz Bridge, an award-winning nonprofit dedicated to assisting Greater Philadelphia Metro area jazz and blues musicians and vocalists in times of crisis, sponsors these neighborhood concerts throughout the region to keep the sound of Philadelphia alive.

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