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Jazz at the RAC featuring Tom Grant with Shelly Rudolph

The Rainier Arts Center presents JAZZ at the RAC 2018 Tom Grant, master instrumentalist, talented singer and natural entertainer nimbly walks the line between jazz tradition and modern pop. This soft-spoken Oregon natives inspired songwriting produces propulsive R&B grooves, infectious melodic hooks, and stylish ballads with equal ease. He plays jazz piano with the harmonic sophistication and deep sense of swing that only comes from more than four decades on the bandstand. As one of the Pacic Northwests most renowned musical artists, Tom Grants career achievements reect his unique ability to embrace the full spectrum of contemporary music.

Shelly Rudolph is a maker of soul music in the broadest, genre-inclusive definition, a fine and sultry singer and songwriter with a sense of adventure and a desire for discovering and conveying emotional truth. As a robust and captivating vocalist (Jazz Times), she has dazzled audience around the globe, including New York, Los Angeles, Japan, Korea, the West Indies, and Portland, which she now calls home. Shellys most recent album, Water in My Hand, has garnered praise from regional and national publications: Water in My Hands is a stunning album, intoxicating and stimulating, a mature work from an old soul artist"(Montecito Journal).