The Texins Jazz Band has a 37-year history of producing concerts featuring great guest artists. Their next guest is truly an international artist. Cyrille Aimée grew up in a multilingual household full of music where dancing was an everyday activity, soundtracked by the Afro-Caribbean sounds of her mother’s native Dominican Republic. The family home was in Samois-sur-Seine, the location of the Django Reinhardt Festival, and the teenage Cyrille would climb out of her bedroom window at night to mingle with the players, igniting a passion for jazz. Grammy-nominated Aimée has won the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Vocal Competition, the Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition, and was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition. She has performed at virtually every major jazz festival in the world.

Texins Jazz Band is a full 18-piece community big band based in Dallas, Texas. The band is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1986. The majority of band members have STEM based degrees and careers (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). The band is under the musical direction of Bill Centera. Texins Jazz Band is funded in part by the City of Richardson through the City of Richardson Cultural Arts Commission.

The Plano East High School Jazz Band will open the show.