Get ready to move out of your seats when Jazz, R&B, and Gospel Vocalist Sherry Wilson Butler brings the LBIF The Sounds of Motown. She will take you on a journey with Philadelphia’s finest jazz musicians led by bandleader Arron Graves. You’ll know the tunes but with a fresh twist with improvisational solos for the diehard jazzers, arranged by Aaron Graves.

About the Performers:
Sherry Wilson Butler is one of the jazz, and R&B networks “most exciting vocal talents.” Deeply rooted in the “Philly Sound,” she has performed with a long list of musical greats. Stand up, sit down, clap your hands, and experience this passionate, & spirit-filled woman interpreting upbeat contemporary jazz, R&B, pop, and gospel. Butler haunts audiences with influences of Betty Carter, Diane Reeves, Phyllis Hyman, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughn.

Aaron Graves attended Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia. While there he received a National Endowment of the Arts grant and studied with Jazz masters Kenny Barron, Barry Harris and Stanley Cowell. Graves has performed and/or recorded with Stanley Turrentine, Oscar Brown, Jr., Dakota Staton, Houston Person, Marlena Shaw, Cassandra Wilson, Antonio Hart, Greg Osby, Grady Tate, Kenny Burrell, Frank Foster, Grover Washington, Jr., Vanessa Rubin, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Maceo Parker, the Boys Choir of Harlem, Donald Byrd and the Blackbyrds,  and many others. Graves’ television credits include the award-winning documentary
Eyes on the Prize (with Sweet Honey and the Rock) and The Lou Rawls Show. Aaron eloquently states that music is “the universal language we desire to communicate as part of the human family.”