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Join us Thursday, March 2 at 7 PM as we welcome Lenora Zenzalai Helm to Jazz at CAM.
“Lenora Zenzalai Helm is a singer with all the right stuff: a musician in the broadest and most complete definition of the word, with an expansive vision that subsumes the category. The breadth of her expression is staggering… her technical prowess is phenomenal… superb creative arranging skills… thoughtful composer.” — Pianist/Composer, Stanley Cowell —
Throughout her 40+-year span of musical achievements as a jazz vocal musician specializing in classic and traditional standard jazz, Lenora (Zenzalai) Helm Hammonds has toured, recorded, and performed with her various groups, on international jazz stages, venues and festivals, as well as featured guest artist with renowned jazz icons.
Her career as a vocal musician has encompassed time as a lyricist, guest artist, background singer, composer, and educator at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Lenora Z. Helm Hammonds is a Chicago IL native, Former U.S. Jazz Ambassador two-time Fulbright Senior Music Specialist, and a tenured, Associate Professor in the Department of Music and Jazz Studies Program at North Carolina Central University (NCCU).
Jazz at CAM showcases the best of local and regional jazz.
This series, focusing on this uniquely American art form, takes place the first Thursday evening of each month through April 2023.
CAM Members: $35; Not Yet Members: $55 | 
