Joan Cartwright to receive Music Leader Award

Joan Cartwright to receive Music Leader of the Year Award

from ABWA - Nov 9, 2011 in Davie, Florida

Nominated by Heidi Richards Mooney and Susannah Richards, Joan Cartwright, Executive Director of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.  will receive theSpirit of Excellence Music Leader of the Year Award from the American Business Women's Association (ABWA),  on Wednesday, November 9, 2011, at the Signature Grand, in Davie, Florida.

An explosive jazz and blues singer, composer and educator, Joan Cartwright performed with her band Jazz Hotline, over 30 years, in the U.S., and in Europe, since 1990. With her swinging brand of jazz and blues, Cartwright  toured five continents and 16 countries, including the U.S.A., eight European countries, Brazil, Mexico, Ghana, Gambia, South Africa, Japan and China, where she was the first American Jazz singer in the city of Tianjin. She's performed at the Blue Note in New York City, and had long-term gigs in Florida, at O'Hara's, Pier 66 and Christine's, in Fort Lauderdale; Ellington's in Hollywood; Ellington's Jazz Bar on Sanibel Island, Jazid in South Beach, and Erny's in Delray Beach. Abroad, she performed at Harry's New York Bar at the Montreux Palace and Duke's Bar at the Hyatt, in Montreux; Janus Club at the Beau Rivage Palace, in Lausanne, Switzerland; La Cova Del Drac and La Bôite in Barcelona, Spain; CJW Club, in Shanghai, and Brady's Pub, in Tianjin, China.

Diva JC names any ensemble of musicians "Jazz Hotline" because the music swings and it's always HOT! Her most famous Blues songs are "I Don’t Want Nobody's Husband", "OH, Baby!"  and "Treat Me Right And You Don't Have To Marry Me".

Joan's books, AMAZING MUSICWOMEN and SO, YOU WANT TO BE A SINGER?  The Business of Music are lectures that she's given to thousands of children and college students, in U.S., Switzerland, Sicily, China and Japan. Her interactive workshops are dynamic and educational, highlighting the pitfalls and benefits of the music business. She contends that, "Knowing music theory is a step in the right direction for any singer who truly wants to excel in the world of music!"

Joan is a composer and her memoir, IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY contains 40 original songs and lyrics to standards - "A Night in Tunisia " by Dizzy Gillespie, "Blue Bossa" by Kenny Dorham, "Tune Up" by Miles Davis and "Bessie's Blues" by John Coltrane. Her composition, "Sweet Return" was recorded by Freddie Hubbard and the Kool Jazz All-Stars of 1983, on Atlantic Records. In 2011, Joan submitted the Joan Cartwright Song Book to the Guinness Book of Records as the first woman in the world with a jazz and blues song book. Through her company FYI Communications, Inc., she published eight other books on music and poetry on http://www.lulu.com/. On November 21, 2011, the Parkway Middle School Jazz Band and Vocal Ensemble will perform a suite of Joan’s songs at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, funded by her fourth SEAS grant from Broward Schools, since 1997.

In 2007, Cartwright founded WOMEN IN JAZZ SOUTH FLORIDA, INC., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes women musicians, globally, through contacts, articles, interviews, newsletters, events, courses, clinics, workshops, lectures, research, history, archives, websites, film, audio and video recording, concerts, performances and recognition. In 2009, she was an honoree of the Fort Lauderdale Links in the category of Music and, in 2011, Joan received the Quiet Storm Award in the category of Non-Profit from the Women’s Power Caucus. [See awards]

For tickets ($75) contact:

Joan Cartwright, Executive Director

Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.

2801 S. Oakland Forest Drive #103

Oakland Park, FL 33309

954-740-3398

FACEBOOK and TWITTER

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http://www.wijsf.org/ 

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