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Presented by Civic Music Association - for more information, visit: https://www.caitygyorgy.com/ Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is a 3 time JUNO award winning Canadian jazz singer. She has performed at clubs and festivals across Canada, Mexico, Finland, Japan, and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, The UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Bryn Roberts, and Joe LaBarbera, to name a few. In addition to performing, Caity is an award-winning songwriter and composes music and lyrics in the style of the Great American Songbook.
She is also a sought-after clinician and is on faculty as a vocal jazz instructor at the Yukon Summer Music Camp in Whitehorse, Yukon, and the Interprovincial Music Camp in McKellar, Ontario. She is signed to Brooklyn label La Reserve Records and has released several albums of original and standard music with them including her three JUNO award winning albums "Now Pronouncing" (2021), "Featuring" (2022) and "Hello! How Are You?"
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(2024), her duo albums with pianist and composer Mark Limacher "You’re Alike, You Two” (2023), and “Asking For Trouble” (2025), and her JUNO nominated studio orchestra album titled “Caity Gyorgy with Strings: Arranged and Conducted by Mark Limacher”(2025).
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