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Jennifer Sheehan is a vocal artist, born January 2, 1985 at St. Louis, Missouri. She was educated at The Juilliard School receiving a BM in 2007.
Jennifer has performed for audiences from coast to coast and in the UK, including Carnegie Hall, as the guest of Michael Feinstein, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 54 Below and Town Hall in New York, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, among other renowned venues. Her critically acclaimed shows have entertained audiences at Café Carlyle, Feinstein’s (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/arts/music/jennifer-sheehan-at-the-metropolitan-room-review.html?_r=0) (http://bistroawards.com/jennifer-sheehan/), Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (http://www.caramoor.org/cabaret-music-room-jennifer-sheehan/), the Savannah Music Festival (http://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/smf-review-jane-monheit-jennifer-sheehan/Content?oid=2198578), Ely Cathedral (U.K.), the Historic Asolo Theatre in Sarasota (http://www.tampabaynewswire.com/2014/12/20/artist-series-concerts-of-sarasota-presents-a-new-concert-series-in-north-port-31335), The Royal Room in Palm Beach, the Juilliard in Aiken Festival (http://juilliardinaiken.com/bios_vocals.php), The Gardenia in L.A., the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Electric Earth Concerts in New Hampshire (http://www.ledgertranscript.com/news/townbytown/peterborough/12967001-95/songs-of-stars-and-space) (http://www.sentinelsource.com/entertainment/entertainment_news/jennifer-sheehan/article_abce5d22-7f79-5e1e-9105-ed9153c6e8dd.html), the Brownville Concert Series in Nebraska, and many other concert venues and private clubs around the country.
In October of 2014, in Rose Hall at Jazz in Lincoln Center, Jennifer was honored to receive the Donald F. Smith Award, named for the highly esteemed late founder of the Mabel Mercer Foundation and the New York Cabaret Convention (http://www.mabelmercer.org/images/NYCC25_Brochure.pdf.). The first-ever recipient of the Johnny Mercer Foundation’s “Margaret Whiting Award” (http://www.johnnymercerfoundation.org/news/jennifer-sheehan-at-the-2013-savannah-music-festival/) and the first-ever winner of the “Noël Coward Foundation Competition Award,” (http://www.noelcoward.org/awards.html) Jennifer also received the Dorothy Loudon Foundation’s “Dorothy Loudon Award” (http://dorothyloudonfoundation.org/found.html) Previously, she received the “Julie Wilson Award” for outstanding interpretation of the Great American Songbook, and she was the first-place winner in the National Glenn Miller Vocal Competition.
Jennifer also performs in the theater, most recently appearing in “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” as one of six vocalists, and regionally, starring as Betty Haynes in “White Christmas.”
A Cabaret Scenes magazine review of her debut album states, “It is rare that one singer has as much going for her as Jennifer displays on this disc.” (http://archive.cabaretscenes.org/cd_revs/2011/jan11/sheehan_jennifer_1-11.html)