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About

As a performer

Vocalist Lee Engele fronts local big bands, and her active solo career has put her in the company of both local and national artists, with east coast shows that include the Metropolitan Room in New York. She has a number of self-produced CDs to her credit, which have received savory reviews praising her “warm and sensuous voice” by both local and national reviewers including LA Jazz Scene Magazine, and Twin Cities legend Leigh Kammen, former Jazz Image™ host on MPR. She has also been featured internationally on a number of jazz and pop compilation CDs. Lee has also appeared at numerous festivals including the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, and other concerts have included shows at Bloomington and Hopkins Centers for the Arts, Old Log Theater, and the Landmark Center.

Past Performances

  

Festivals, Showcases & Conferences 

  • Landmark Center Annual Gala, (DJ Show), November 2021,2022
  • Duluth Art Institute Annual Gala, (DJ show), October 2021, 2022
  • Twin Cities Jazz Festival, performer, 2000 - 2019, 2022
  • NEMAA Fall Fine Art Show Opening, 2013, 2014 
  • Art A Whirl Opening night – California Building, 2013
  • Midtown Global Jazz festival, Performer, 2012
  • Midtown Global Jazz festival, Director, 2011
  • Twin Cities Jazz Society’s 30th Anniversary – Dakota Jazz Club, 2009
  • The Cabaret Conference at Yale, 2008
  • Grand Marais Jazz Festival, 2008
  • Weisman Art Museum, New Deal Exhibit Opening, 2008
  • Jazz Vocalist Showcase, Winter JazzFest – 2008
  • Jazz Vocalist Showcase, Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Jazz Vocalists of Minnesota Showcases: 2006 – 2010; Artists Quarter, Dakota Jazz Club, Dakota County Steakhouse
  • Jazz on the Prairie Jazz Festival (with Just Friends Big Band) – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 (as a part of the Hot Summer Jazz Festival)   


Concerts

  • Music in the Café, Landmark Center, August  2021
  • Landmark Center "Jingle in the Halls", (Virtual), December 2020
  • Landmark Center Annual Gala, (Virtual), November 2020
  • Heart of the City, Party on the Plaza, Nicollet Commons, 2019
  • Music in the Café, Landmark Center 2018
  • Landmark Center Annual Gala, November 2017
  • “The World in WWI” Concert/Lecture Series, Roseville Library, February 2015
  • “Boozy Ballads and Temperance Tunes”, Maplewood Library Concert  series, November 2014
  • Jazz at St. Barney’s Jazz Concert Series – January 2014 
  • “The Stage Door Canteen: Sounds of WW II”, Maplewood Library Concert series, 2013
  • Bloomington Center for the Arts, with Butch Thompson’s St. Paul Trio – September 2013
  • “Jazz In June”, MN History Center, with Butch Thompson’s St. Paul Trio – August 2013
  • “A Hot Christmas”, Bloomington Center for the Arts, Producer, vocals – December 2012 
  • “Adieu Summer”, Como Lakeside Pavilion, featured vocalist, 2012 
  • “9 Nights of Music”, Minnesota History Center, vocalist with the Moonlight Serenaders Big Band, 2012 
  • Hopkins Center for the Arts, Concert with national clarinetist Evan Christopher. Producer, vocals, May 2012
  • “Swing Set”, Songs of the swing era, Bloomington Center for the Arts, Producer, vocals - 2011
  • Metropolitan Room - New York, 2012
  • “Chanteuse Diaries”, Burnsville Performing Arts Center Black Box Theater, co-star with Maud Hixson, 2010
  • “Jazz American Style”, Old Log Theater, 2010; Producer, vocals
  • “Jazz American Style”, Hopkins Center for the Arts, 2010; Producer, vocals
  • “A Tribute to Birdland: Celebrating 60 Years”, Twin Cities Jazz Society “Jazz From J to Z Concert”, wrote & produced this show, Bloomington Center for the Arts, 2010 
  • Woman’s Club of Minneapolis, 2009
  • Battle of the Big Bands, KBEM Radio- Jazz 88, 10thAnniversary of Big Band Scene, Appeared with the bend in the river big band, 2009
  • Burnsville Performing Arts Center, Pre/Post Concert Entertainment for Melissa Manchester Concert, 2009
  • Northrop Auditorium Summer Concert Series, 2008
  • “I Get A Kick Out of Cole”, Twin Cities Jazz Society “Jazz From J to Z Concert”, developed & produced this show, 2008
  • “Cole Underground”, Artists Quarter, 2008

  

Music in the Parks

Centennial Lakes, Chaska, Como Park Pavilion, Crystal, Downtown Lakeville “Wednesday’s on Main”, Eagan Rotary Park, Excelsior, George Green Park, Minnesota State Fair, Minnetonka Music in the Parks, Normandale Lake – Bloomington, Music Tuesday’s – Stillwater, Roseville Central Park, Southwest Station, Staring Lake, Augsburg Park Richfield, Wolfe Lake, and many many more.

CDs

  

Discography  

  • All I Ever Wanted, CD single, 2016
  • Jazz Bar II, Compilation, EQ Music, 2016
  •  Movies Classic Jazz, Compilation, EQ Music, 2012; Volume 2 – 2014
  •  A Little Pop, A Little Jazz, Compilation, EQ Music, 2013
  • The Best of Pop Jazz - Compilation , EQ Music, 2013
  • Jazz Bar – Compilation, EQ Music, 2012
  • A Hot Christmas, EP, 2011
  • Greatest Audiophile Voices Vol. 4, Compilation, EQ Music 2011
  • Female Jazz II (The Greatest Vocal Collection), Compilation, EQ Music 2011
  • Absolute Jazz Voice, EQ Music, 2011
  • Burt Bacharach In Jazz, EQ Music, 2011
  • In The Key of “L” - EP, 2010 
  • Perhaps - EP, 2009 

Bands

  •  Lee Engele, solo Jazz Vocalist, Present
  • Moonlight Serenaders Big Band, January 2010 - present
  • Somewhat Dixie Land Band, 2006 – 2009, vocalist
  • The Just Friends Big Band, 2000 – 2006, vocalist
  • Miscellaneous appearances  - (Featured vocalist): Buddy Koopman Big Band (2006), Bend in the River Big Band (2009), Minnesota Jazz Orchestra (2009, 2010), Tim Patrick Big Band (2016-2021), Vic Volare Band 2019, North Star Big Band 2021

Stage

 Theatre  

  • Jesus Christ Superstar Concert Experience, Theatre 55 Production, July 2022
  • Hair! The Concert Experience, Caponi Art Park, Theater, Theatre 55, July 2021
  • The Medium Was Rare, Theatre 55 live-stream radio production, October 2020 
  • Hair! – Mixed Blood Theater, Theatre 55 Production January 2019
  • Dudley Riggs’ ETC. – Nice Faces of 1943, The Moon Shines Tonight, Nocturnal Admissions
  • Chimera Theatre – Twelfth Night, The Royal Hunt of The Sun
  • Children’s Theatre Company School, 2 years 


Radio & Television

  • Summer Music in the Parks, Wolf Lake, Park TV, SLP 2016
  • Swing Set, Bloomington Access, Channel 14, 2012
  • Tribute to Birdland Show – Bloomington Access, Channel 14, Aired January 2010
  • Arts in the Parks Live Concert Series, Bloomington Access, Aired Summer 2009
  • KARE 11 Saturday, 2009
  • Baby Blue Arts - cable access/internet television special, 2008
  • Big Band Scene, Live - 2 concerts with the Just Friends Big Band, 2003, 2004, aired on 88.5 FM-KBEM
  • CD Radio Play: Penthouse Radio – NY, Modern Jazz Radio – NJ, KBEM FM – MN, WTJU – VA, WTJU – VA, RUM 97.5 – Portugal, KFAI, & more! 2009-11
     

Venues

Public Clubs and Private Events:

American Swedish Institute, Artist’s Quarter, Barbette, Bayview Event Center, Calhoun Beach Club, Birdland, CAMP, Campus Club, Cinema Ballroom, Club Saratoga, Cov, Crave, Crowne Plazas, Dakota County Music Café, Dakota Jazz Club (5 appearances), Disney World, Domino Lounge – Chicago, Gale Mansion, Golden Valley Country Club, Hell’s Kitchen, Holiday Inn, Hotel Sofitel, HONEY, International Market Square, Jaxx Café, Jensen’s Supper Club, Loring Kitchen, Mattie’s on Main, Millennium Hotel, Mason Jar, Metropolitan Room - New York Minneapolis Club, Minnesota State Fair, Minnesota Zephyr, Mudd Room, NEMAA Gallery events, Parma, Peachtree Plaza – Atlanta,  Rossi’s, Red Stag, Saint Paul College Club, Saint Paul Hotel, Sawatdee, Tapestry Folkdance Center, The 925, Third Bird, Time Out New York Lounge-NY, Tryg’s, Veteran’s Hospital, Wabasha Street Caves, Windows on MN, Woman’s Club of Minneapolis 

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