Elise Pratt

Vocalist Elise Pratt, who moved to Hendersonville from St. Simons Island, GA, picks her repertoire from what she calls the American songbook. Her singing reflects early influences from her father, a jazz sax player, and of favorite singers Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae and Anita O’Day, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme. Her musical experience has included musical theater, dinner theater, a-cappella Renaissance singing groups, dancing, jazz duos and trios in clubs and restaurants. Originally from California, then Oklahoma, Elise studied French and became a Pan Am flight attendant based in New York. Next she worked as a graphic artist at the French Embassy, and then got a job designing album covers for Reader Digest’s recorded music division. This led to becoming co-owner the Greenwich Village jazz spot Syncopation for four years in the 1970s. Locally, Elise appears regularly at The Green Room on Main Street in downtown Hendersonville and at The Horse Shoe Café in Horse Shoe. She also creates musical events at Cummings Cove Golf and Country Club and at The Cummings Memorial United Methodist Church. You may have heard her with Mike Holstein, Jonathan Pearlman, Bill Gerhardt, Michael Jefry Stevens, Pavel Wlosok, Geary Moore, Marc Yaxley, Aaron Coffin, Patrick Boland, Justin Watt or Byron Hedgepeth more recently. Website: http://elisepratt.weebly.com Website: http://eliseprattmikeholstein.blogspot.com

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