Gunhild Carling looks like a Swedish Carole Lombard, sings like Billie Holiday, plays the trumpet like Louis Armstrong and dances like an uninhibited 1920s flapper who’s had a little too much hooch. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, adept at playing well over a dozen instruments, as well as a multi-hyphenate: a musician/singer/composer/ dancer/band-leader. Perhaps you’ve seen the
Gunhild Carling looks like a Swedish Carole Lombard Lombard, sings like Billie Holiday, plays the trumpet like Louis Armstrong and dances like an uninhibited 1920s flapper who’s had a little too much hooch. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, adept at playing well over a dozen instruments, as well as a multi-hyphenate: a musician/singer/composer/dancer/bandleader. Perhaps you’ve seen
The Swedish Queen of Swing comes to the SBDAC Gunhild Carling looks like a Swedish Carole Lombard, sings like Billie Holiday, plays the trumpet like Louis Armstrong and dances like an uninhibited 1920s flapper who’s had a little too much hooch. She’s a multi-instrumentalist, adept at playing well over a dozen instruments, as well as
Multi-instrumentalist, singer, dancer, band leader, and composer Gunhild Carling will perform Friday, Feb. 24 in the Grand Atrium of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center as part of the center’s “Jazzy Nights” music series. We talk with Carling about her remarkable musical upbringing, her affinity for American jazz music from the 1920s and 30s, and her approach to performing and composing new music.