Join us at the Sunday January 24, 2027 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring the incredible musical stylings of The Jo Ann Daugherty Trio & Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Art Makers Outpost!
Doors open: 5:45
BYOB
Tickets $30 online each (anyone who is no longer sitting on a lap needs a ticket)
(*Tickets are $35 if purchased at the door)
Open Seating / Some standing room - first come first serve
Complimentary beer by Sketchbook & appetizers by La Principal at every concert as long as supplies last!
SPONSORED BY: Evanston Family Chiropractic, Sketchbook, La Principal, Art Makers Outpost, Pink Poster Club, Squeezebox & Our Evanston
2 sets & 1 intermission to visit the upstairs studios & mingle
Opener: Petra Van Nuis & Dennis Luxion
Chicago based duo, vocalist Petra van Nuis and pianist Dennis Luxion have been noted for their “seamless camaraderie” (Chicago Jazz Magazine) with a style that is “hauntingly atmospheric and filled with creative substance” (All About Jazz) taking listeners to “a place where the agony, comfort, and hope of life meet” (Japan's Jazz Critique Magazine). “A veteran Chicago pianist of impeccable taste and considerable harmonic imagination” (Chicago Tribune), Dennis is best known for being Chet Baker's pianist in the 1980s in Europe where they toured extensively and made six recordings together. Praised for possessing “a light, gorgeous, and fairly delicate voice…a gift for melody and plenty of rhythmic confidence” (Downbeat Magazine), Petra is known around Chicago for her celebrated Recession Seven band and her intimate duo with husband, guitarist Andy Brown.
In 2018, Petra and Dennis documented their synergistic collaboration with the recording "Because We're Night People," a collection of evening related songs. In addition to the US release, it was re-released in Japan and was chosen by All Nippon Airways (Japan's largest airline) as in-flight entertainment. Nationally, the album was given 4 stars and included in the Best Of 2019 issue of DownBeat Magazine, the nation's leading jazz periodical. Famed jazz writer Doug Ramsey praised the recording as “a highlight among vocal albums...distinctive...delicious...just the right blend of sadness and wit...a long stay on most listeners’ shelves.”
In 2024, the duo's latest recording "From Me To You" was born of their four year residency at Chicago’s eclectic Le Piano jazz club where they played the "Afterglow" late night set every Saturday. The album features a wide variety of repertoire including two tunes by beloved Chicago master musicians who have recently passed on, Marc Pompe and Bob Dogan. "From Me To You" was included in esteemed jazz critic Scott Yanow’s Best of 2024 list!
Headliner : Jo Ann Daugherty
PIANIST JO ANN DAUGHERTY loves making all kinds of music and has traveled the country and globe, playing at the Chicago Jazz Festival, Satchmo Fest New Orleans, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba, and more. Some of her favorite recent appearances include: leading her own band on the Pritzker stage at the 2026 Chicago Jazz Festival, conducting the ICEBOY! comedy musical @ the Goodman for select performances, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert with SIX, a role as featured onstage pianist with the Washington National Opera in the New Orleans tinged Songbird at the Kennedy Center, the AfroBop Alliance Big Band’s Pan American Nutcracker tour, and regularly sold-out shows at Winter’s Jazz Club in Chicago. She has conducted touring companies of the Broadway hits SIX, Motown: the Musical, and Jersey Boys, and her 2017 jazz album Bring Joy was listed by Downbeat magazine as one of the year’s best. www.JoAnnDaugherty.com
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