The Hastings Symphony Orchestra welcomes the Jackie Allen Quartet to Hastings
A special Saturday date-night performance by Nebraska’s chanteuse extraordinaire Jackie Allen and her Quartet, performing jazz standards and new favorites. Rounding out the program are Latin-inspired works by Leonard Bernstein and Arturo Marquéz conducted by Dr. Tyler G. White.
March 9, 7 pm, Doors open at 6:30 pm
Hastings Masonic Center, 411 N Hastings Ave, Hastings, NE 68901
Tickets available online here until noon on Thursday, March 7 at noon. Tickets purchased online can be picked up at the box office starting at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are on sale the day of at the box office starting at 6:30 pm.
Jackie Allen Quartet
Jazz vocalist Jackie Allen’s extraordinary talent has taken her on tours of Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. Nationally, she has toured both coasts and in-between, appearing in Los Angeles (Catalina’s), San Francisco (Yoshi’s), San Diego (Humphrey’s), and New York (The Blue Note, Josef Papp Public Theater). Regionally she was featured with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic in Chicago’s Millennium Park and Auditorium Theater for an Ella Fitzgerald Celebration. She has performed international music festivals in Detroit, Chicago, The Hague, Stuttgart, Edinburgh, Bologna, Beijing, Hong Kong, Thessaloniki, and Sao Paulo. Locally, Jackie was a recipient of the Lincoln Mayor’s Arts Award and was featured on A Prairie Home Companion where she gave Garrison Keillor a “voice lesson.”
“This is four-hundred-dollar-a-bottle jazz – no cheap imitation.” – Rolling Stone
Born in Milwaukee, Jackie grew up surrounded by music. Her father was a Dixieland jazz tuba and all three of her brothers played the trumpet. She attended UW - Madison where she studied vocal performance and jazz. After moving to Chicago, she began her recording career for Blue Note Records and others, recording 13 critically acclaimed CDs, most notably: Santa Baby, The Men In My Life, Love Is Blue, Tangled, Starry Night with orchestra, My Favorite Color (USA Today’s Top 10 List). More recently Jackie released Rose Fingered Dawn (2017), a collection of original songs by her bassist and husband, Hans Sturm. The 2019 concert Live at the Rococo was filmed for PBS and has been shown on over 40 PBS stations nationwide. The concert was released on CD and Blu Ray. Her most recent release, a voice/bass duo album, The Nebraska Project, recorded in Paris (2021) celebrates famous Nebraska musical artists. Jackie has served on the Board of Governors and Jazz Nominating Committee for the Recording Academy, “Grammy Awards” and has recorded with numerous Grammy winning artists and producers. She created the adult primer course, Torch Singer 101 and teaches Vocal Improvisation and Songwriting at Doane University in Crete. Jackie lives in Lincoln with her husband Hans Sturm and son, Wolfgang.
“Allen’s greatest strength is her sheer musicality and the way in which she both frames and interprets her songs.” -Los Angeles Times
