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Cécile McLorin Salvant

Featuring pianist Sullivan Fortner

Headshot of Cecile McLorin Salvant. She has blue, yellow, and green finger waves and black lipstick.
Oct 03, 2024
Available Times
  • Thu, Oct 03, 7:00 PM
  • Thu, Oct 03, 9:00 PM
Performance Space

Member presale begins June 18—join today!

Tickets on sale to the public July 2

$20 members and adults 55 and over
$30 general public
$10 students

ACCESSIBILITY 
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Grammy Award–winning singer and composer Cécile McLorin Salvant makes her Wexner Center debut as the first act in this year’s jazz series.

Cécile McLorin Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. Salvant has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. Salvant is also an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. An award-winning artist, Salvant won the Thelonius Monk competition in 2010, received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, and received a MacArthur fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award in 2020. Check out the video below and Salvant’s genre-blurring 2023 album Mélusine (Nonesuch), which topped several year-end lists, for a taste of the vocal power you’ll experience firsthand at this performance. (Each program approx. 60 mins.)

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Cécile McLorin Salvant, photo: Karolis Kaminskas

"It was truly one of the most inspiring performances I have seen."
Patrick Tabeek, EarRelevant

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PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Doris Duke Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY 
Ohio Department of Development

Greater Columbus Arts Council

The Wexner Family 
Institute of Museum and Library Services

Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts 
CampusParc 
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 
The Columbus Foundation 
Axium Packaging 
Nationwide Foundation 
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY 
Mike and Paige Crane 
Nancy Kramer 
Ohio State Energy Partners 
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection 
Larry and Donna James 
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang 
Bruce and Joy Soll 
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman 
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle 
Jones Day 
Alex and Renée Shumate

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Cécile McLorin Salvant

Oct 03, 2024
Tuesday's Hours 10AM–6PM
  • Thu, Oct 03, 7:00 PM
  • Thu, Oct 03, 9:00 PM
Performance Space

Member presale begins June 18—join today!

Tickets on sale to the public July 2

$20 members and adults 55 and over
$30 general public
$10 students

ACCESSIBILITY 
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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