Kate McGarry 'Targets' NYC For Three Consecutive Dates In Mid-September

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Palmetto Records) - Jazz songwriter/vocalist Kate McGarry's 'The Target' (Palmetto Records) showcases McGarry's colorful phrasing, strong spiritual connection and boundless musical curiosity. 'The Target' features a collection of expressive original compositions and arrangements, along with personal interpretations from a diverse repertoire of standard and not-so-standard fare. Critics are calling McGarry "the best of a new breed of jazz vocalists" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) with a "sure-footed musicality" (The New York Times). Down Beat Magazine ranked McGarry the No 6 rising female vocalist in the 2007 Critics Poll.

If you'd like to see McGarry in New York City this month, here's where she's playing:

Friday, Sept. 14 @ The Stone
Avenue C and 2nd Street
Kate McGarry Trio w/ Keith Ganz (guitar) and Clarence Penn (drums)
8:00pm
$10 at the door

Saturday, Sept. 15 @ 55 Bar
55 Christopher Street
Kate McGarry Trio w/ Keith Ganz (guitar) and Clarence Penn (drums)
6:00pm
Free

Sunday, Sept. 16 @ The Stuyvesant Cove Park Association
23rd Street and the East River
Duo with Keith Ganz (guitar)
3:00pm
Free

McGarry recently spoke with NPR's "All Things Considered" host Michele Norris about her Irish Catholic upbringing and how her passion for jazz, traditional Irish music and other styles has inspired her as a singer, bandleader and composer.