August Lee Stevens

Hailing from the East Bay town of Hercules, August Lee Stevens is a masterful young singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose work encompasses elements of soul, jazz, and modern folk. Possessed of a velvet-smooth voice and an innate gift for lyrical expression, Stevens is an artist whose profile is destined to rise. She makes her first appearance since her February 2025 performance as part of the Noise Pop festival.  

Stevens has performed widely around the Bay Area and beyond, sharing the stage with Tiny Desk winner Philharmonik, Motown legend Smokey Robinson, and Bay Area artist Mara Hruby, as well as performing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the Kennedy Center, and supporting Rhiannon Giddens as part of emerging artist collective Oakland Rising.  

After the release of a string of singles, her newest EP, 2024’s Better Places, is an uplifting and deeply personal collection of songs that look to the light at the end of heartbreak and loss, recorded in collaboration with Women’s Audio Mission in San Francisco. 

Stevens is known to SFJAZZ audiences for her performance at vocalist Martin Luther McCoy’s tribute to Gil Scott-Heron with Brian Jackson, Kev Choice, and Howard Wiley in Miner Auditorium in October 2024 and a concert co-presented by the Museum for the African Diaspora in November of that year.  

These concerts are co-presented with KALW