Jazz Singer Celia Slattery

With a “storied career of mixing music and monologue into exuberantly theatrical form” (Metronome Magazine), Celia Slattery has entertained audiences from Boston to Bangkok with her original songs, one-woman shows and fresh takes on jazz and pop standards. For her Eastport Arts Center performance, she will be joined by acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Mike Levine and bassist and respected Bucksport music educator Mark Neslusan.

Expanded Bio:

In her early career, inspired by the folk tradition and singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, she toured as a solo acoustic act at coffeehouses and clubs. Later, jazz studies at New England Conservatory with Dominique Eade and Ran Blake introduced her to the Great American Songbook and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. She began to collaborate with some of the finest Boston area musicians with performances at clubs, arts centers and special events. She also had a six-month gig singing nightly at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, often named world’s no. 1 hotel.

Slattery has released three CDs, and Metronome Magazine called her 2014 release, Our Life Together, “a wonderfully crafted album full of soul-stirring performances both musically and vocally.” She has over 30 years of experience as a music educator; earned a Level III certificate in Somatic Voicework™ (the LoVetri Method), a state-of-the-art vocal technique for contemporary music, and has taught voice technique and performance skills to hundreds of students. She is currently Associate Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music, and is on the faculty of Summerkeys 2026 in Lubec.