Program / Event Details

Positive Music for Positive Minds

Does the music you listen to reflect who you are? In her workshops, acclaimed international jazz vocalist Lori Williams explores the impact of lyrical and non-lyrical components in popular music. Participants gain a deeper understanding of jazz and its many subgenres. Together with Lori, participants express how music impacts moods through song, poetry, or dance and present a culminating performance that includes positive expressions through original lyrical compositions and songs, poetry/prose, art, and choreography.

Program Fees

Single Performances

• Duo: $1,200
• Quartet: $1,700

Back-to-Back Performance

• Duo: $1,600
• Quartet: $2,200

Max Workshop Audience = 30

Fees are for daytime school programs in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Northern Virginia only.

Evening, weekend, workshop, and non-school fees differ – please contact us.

Additional travel fees apply.

About Lori Williams

Acclaimed international jazz vocalist Lori Williams has a most impressive resume as a performing artist, award-winning music educator/choral director, artist-in-residence, songwriter, producer, musical theatre actress, radio voice announcer (Collector’s Choice with Lori Williams, JazzRadioWETF.org), and business owner/founder (PositiveMusicPM.org), with over 30 years of experience.

Biography

Lori Williams’s annual vocal jazz workshops and tours have taken her to festivals in Europe (Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Ukraine), Japan, the British Virgin Islands, and across the US. She has performed in premier venues like Blues Alley, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, City Winery, The Kennedy Center, Keystone Korner, Rams Head Live, Scullers Jazz Club, Yoshi’s, and many more.

As a veteran educator and private vocal coach, Lori has received many honors, including Outstanding Music Teacher, the 2007 Superintendent’s Arts Teacher of the Year, and the 2010 Vincent E. Reed Teacher of the Year. Lori was nominated for a 2014 Helen Hayes Award as an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Musical for her role as Ella Fitzgerald. Lori received letters of recognition for her performances from President Joseph Biden (describing Lori as having “the voice of an angel”), Speaker of the House John Boehner, and Senator C. Anthony Muse. She was also honored as the 2023 Excellence in Arts and Entertainment Award recipient by the Atlanta Chapter of the National Hampton Alumni Association and was the University’s 2023 Grand Marshall. For over three decades, Lori Williams has collaborated with many notable artists as lead, background, studio session, and guest vocalist. Lori currently has six independent albums, two singles, and has released an official music video for her song “Too Late (It’s My Time)”, an empowering anthem and much-needed musical expression of spiritual, emotional, and mental breakthroughs for healing souls. Her top charting, uplifting music is found on all streaming sites and LoriJazz.com.

As Michael J. West (jazz music critic) states, “She’s got a soft-edged, creamy voice that’s a natural vehicle for introspection, but also one that you could happily curl up and get lost in. It’s stunning, supple, subtle, sumptuous, soulful music—let’s call that the five S’s of Lori Williams, shall we?”.