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The versatile and award-winning vocalist Jennifer Sheehan recently headlined a series of sold-out, critically-acclaimed shows at the Metropolitan Room in New York. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2010, performing as a special guest of Michael Feinstein. Also that year, she won the first-ever Noel Coward Foundation Competition Award, which was awarded to her at Jazz at Lincoln Center in October.
A recipient of The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s Julie Wilson Award for her interpretation of The Great American Songbook, she has performed for the last several years at Jazz at Lincoln Center, as part of the Foundation’s annual New York Cabaret Convention. She also has appeared in their concerts at The Palmer House in Chicago, The John Drew Theater in The Hamptons and at The National Arts Club in New York. And she has sung as the guest of Andrea Marcovicci in Chicago, St. Louis and New York.
Her latest cabaret show, “You Made Me Love You – Celebrating 100 Years of the Great American Songbook,” has been presented most recently at the Metropolitan Room, but also at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park (as the season finale “Command Performance” and as the subsequent season opener), the Union Club, the Cosmopolitan Club, the Colony Hotel’s Royal Room (Palm Beach, Florida), the Brownville Concert Series (Brownville & Omaha, Nebraska), the Copland House at Merestead (New York), and at private events. An album featuring songs from her show has recently been released.
Jennifer has performed as one of six vocalists in Radio City Music Hall’s “Christmas Spectacular” in New York and on the National Tour. And she appeared at The York Theatre in New York, playing “The Girl from Ipanema” in “In Love With Jobim,” alongside Broadway veterans Ron Bohmer (Ragtime), Tim Jerome (Tarzan), and Nick Spangler (The Fantasticks). Other past performing highlights include singing with Andrea Marcovicci and Klea Blackhurst in a tribute to Leo Robin at the New York 92nd Street Y Lyrics and Lyricists series, performing in Gershwin’s “Of Thee I Sing” at the Bard Summerscape Festival in New York, and performing as a featured guest artist for four seasons with Boston Musical Theater!
Jennifer is a graduate of the Juilliard School.