Julia Keefe Quartet

“A songbird of a jazz vocalist” (The New York Times), Julia Keefe is a Native American singer, educator, and activist based in New York whose latest work is The Mildred Bailey Project, a tribute to the legendary “Queen of Swing.” 

Paralleling Bailey’s life, Keefe is also an Idaho-born singer of Indigenous heritage with a masteful command of the Great American Songbook and grew up in Spokane, Washington. A member of the Nez Perce tribe, Keefe began her musical journey as a youth, and earned a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music. She’s made a splash on the New York scene, working with Jim McNeely, Emmet Cohen, Billy Test, Dan Hearle, Andreas Oberg, Bob Bowman, Clipper Anderson, Jack Mouse, the Lionel Hampton Big Band, among others.