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Connie Evingson
Biography
Connie Evingson is one of a choice group of jazz performers who have successfully made the Twin Cities their home base. Others include guitar player Joan Griffith; ace piano player Sanford Moore; and saxophone, clarinet and flute player Dave Karr. Although her first professional gig didn't come along until 1980, Evingson had been performing before the public since she was five when she was in her church and school choirs. Growing up in a household where music was played nonstop, she absorbed the offerings of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Joe Williams, and later Peggy Lee and Shirley Horn. After receiving a B.A. from the University of Minnesota where she studied anthropology as well as music, Evingson started to work in 1980 at the Night Train, a small club in St. Paul, MN, that started her on a very active performing career on the stage and in the recording studio. During the 1980s and 1990s, there were tours to Japan, Italy, Portugal, and Finland as a member of the vocal group Moore by Four. In 1999, Evingson joined Doc Severinsen in an Ellington concert as the veteran trumpet player conducted the Minnesota Orchestra. Also in 1999, Evingson gave two concerts to honor her singing idol, Peggy Lee.
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