Cassandre Mckinley Quartet at The Press Room

Multi-talented jazz-blues-soul-country-pop vocalist, CASSANDRE MCKINLEY, who has collaborated and sung with Peter Eldridge, has been guest artist for the Boston Pops, performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, has been the featured artist with several groups as well as leading her own, will offer a genre-bending mix of music, influenced heavily by jazz, and infused with the essence of soul, country, blues and R&B. Two brunch shows are being offered on Oct. 22 with this band. This one, which starts at 12:30 pm and an earlier one starting at 10:30 am (with doors open at 10 am). For the earlier show see the other listing for this band....

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Multi-talented jazz-blues-soul-country-pop vocalist, CASSANDRE MCKINLEY, who has collaborated and sung with Peter Eldridge, has been guest artist for the Boston Pops, performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival, has been the featured artist with several groups as well as leading her own, will offer a genre-bending mix of music, influenced heavily by jazz, and infused with the essence of soul, country, blues and R&B. Two brunch shows are being offered on Oct. 22 with this band. This one, which starts at 12:30 pm and an earlier one starting at 10:30 am (with doors open at 10 am). For the earlier show see the other listing for this band.

Joining Cassandre will be three other incredible musicians:

TIM RAY, who was pianist/arranger for Tony Bennett from 2016 until Tony’s retirement in 2021, and also played for Terri Lynn Carrington, Gary Burton and a host of others;

JESSE WILLIAMS, bassist with multi-Grammy-nominated, North Mississippi Allstars, who has also performed with Percy Sledge, John Sebastian, and more; and

DAVID MATTACKS, drummer for Paul McCartney, Elton John, and numerous other iconic musicians.

Food will be available for purchase. This is part of the “Jazz All-Stars Series” sponsored by the Seacoast Jazz Society.

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