Singer, songwriter Cecily featured at Late-Night Jazz Concert

at 10 p.m. Tickets for this special show are available via atlantajazzfest.com.

In Cecily’s songs, you’ll hear the influence of growing up surrounded by her parents’ vast record collection. Her father, a lover of Miles Davis, and her mother, a Smokey Robinson fan, filled their home with soulful sounds that captivated their daughter, and which she has channeled into her own work. This influence gives her work a unique sensuality that informs not only her vocal approach, but also her self-reflecting lyrics, grappling with self-acceptance, vulnerability, and rebirth. Soulbounce says that Cecily creates “music that pulls from the past but looks toward the future.”

Cecily’s 2019 release exploring unconditional love, “Awakening Pt. 1” landed her first SoulTracks Readers’ Choice Awards nomination for Female Vocalist of the Year, a 2020 Indie Soul Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year, and a 2020 Wammie Award for Best Soul Song for her single, “Clumsy,” which BET.com praised for its “gorgeously sultry vocals.” The project was also named “Best New Soul on Bandcamp” by Chaka Grier of the Bandcamp editorial team, who praised her ability to blend “top-notch songwriting and thoughtful self-reflection with a gentle jazzinfluenced sound.”

DC-based vocalist and songwriter Cecily, (pronounced ses-suh-lee), is known for her agile soprano and honest lyrics. Her sound, as soothing as it is rich, is rooted in a deep appreciation for mid-century soul and jazz, 90’s R&B, and re-imagined folk music. Cecily will bring that sound to the Atlanta Jazz Festival on May 27 as part of a special Late- Night Jazz Concert at Park Tavern, adjacent to Piedmont Park, starting

Her debut album “Songs of Love and Freedom” garnered her a 2019 Wammie Award for Best Soul Album and was named Best New Soul on Bandcamp by the Bandcamp editorial team, who described the project as “stirringly timeless and modern.”

“Awakening Pt.II,” Cecily’s eagerly anticipated continuation of the critically acclaimed “Awakening Pt. 1” is set to be released in Spring 2023. The album interweaves Cecily’s life experiences with inspiration from the book “All About Love” by Black feminist writer bell hooks.