In celebration of the opening of a new performance space in Midtown Detroit’s Carr Center, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will participate in New Standards Jazz Crawl, a series of performances by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington.

Charenée Wade is a singer, composer, arranger, educator and professor at the Aaron Copland School at Queens College, and was just recently appointed to the Peabody Institute. Known for expert vocal improvisational ability and her seriously swinging groove, Wade evokes a classic jazz sound akin to Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan, two of her musical touchstones. While she has earned many accolades – first runner-up in New York’s Jazzmobile Vocal competition; a participant in Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program and starring role in the off-Broadway show Café Society, her performances are always an authentic tour de force of jazz vocal performance traditions.