NYC-based Ashni & Ambrose Getz, frequent collaborators in their solo careers, blend jazz and pop influences as they tour California together for the first time with their band. Ashni is a New York City-based vocalist, songwriter, and pianist. Exploring our relationship to self, our communities, and our natural world, Ashni weaves jazz, R&B, and pop, with a thread of the North Indian folk music she grew up with. She evokes the incisiveness and soul of Fiona Apple and Hiatus Kaiyote and the genre-crossing, form-expansion of Arooj Aftab, enveloping listeners in a reflective, cathartic dimension, providing “haunting relief” (Kajal Mag), and forging a new sound. With over 3.6 million streams and a growing audience, Ashni has captivated sold out rooms at renowned venues like Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, Public Records, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Sunset Sunside in Paris, The Quarter at the Royal Opera House Mumbai, and more. Her music has been featured on Spotify's Women of Jazz playlist, in Ayodele Casel’s “Where We Dwell” at New York City Center, and the acclaimed, Emmy-nominated web series Brown Girls. She is a member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. Ashni’s EP “Who I Dreamed Of” released in March 2022. Her debut album is set to release in winter 2025. ashnimusic.com Facebook Instagram Youtube Ambrose Getz is a singer and guitarist originally from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Her music combines the exploratory spirit of jazz with the storytelling of folk music, rooted in innovative harmonic choices and evocative lyrics influenced by musicians such as Joni Mitchell and Becca Stevens. Ambrose fluidly traverses indie jazz, American folk, and contemporary pop with an adventurous spirit, using her strong, adaptable voice to carve a unique space in the realm of musical storytelling. Ambrose’s debut album, ""Great House of Embers"" was released in November 2023. It features a talented group of New York-based musicians (Almog Sharvit, Ben Silashi, Micha Gilad, David Leon, Bergamot Quartet, Lisa Hoppe and Tal Yahalom among others). On the album, Ambrose deconstructs and reconstructs various genres including Tin Pan Alley jazz standards, Bossa Nova, and classic rock with her own twist, adding synths and strings to a song inspired by Hoagy Carmichael (“Starlight”), or making odd meters and shifting time signatures feel dark and danceable (“Black Hole”). Ambrose performs in NYC at venues such as The Lincoln Center and The Sultan Room, and has performed internationally in Germany, France and Spain with 2-time Deutscher Jazzpreis Nominee Lisa Hoppe’s Third Reality as well as groups such as Almog Sharvit’s Coralition and The Noah Rott Quartet. A Women in Music Mentee (2023) and a Pirate Studios Official Resident (2024), she has also been an artist in residence at The Banff Centre and The Uncool Residency in Poschiavo, Switzerland.
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