Singer-songwriter Sybil Gage
 is SCJS headliner on May 18

Singer-songwriter Sybil Gage will perform with her quartet at the May 18 meeting of the Space Coast Jazz Society.

The concert will be at the Cocoa Beach Country Club in Cocoa Beach and will start at 2 PM. Cost is $7 for SCJS members and their guests and $10 for nonmembers. No charge for students. Tickets at the door. Call (321) 453-4191 for more info. Note that the concert is being held on the third Sunday of the month because Mother’s Day is on the second Sunday.

Gage will be backed on May 18 by Tom Sapienza on piano, Ernie Wilson on bass and Dennis Thompson on drums.

Raised in New Orleans, where she worked with many of the city’s musical legends, she sang in Chicago and New York before moving to Florida. The internet CD seller CD Baby recommends her latest CD, Red, for people who like Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday and Lena Horne.

She appears regularly at The Galaxy Grille in Indialantic, the Redhead Cigar & Martini Bar in Cape Canaveral, the Timpano Starlight Lounge in Orlando and many other jazz venues in Central Florida.

Like her normal repertoire, her CD includes jazz and blues standards and a smattering of some of the many songs she has written over the years for her appearances. Internet-savvy fans can hear several Sybil Gage performances by going to www.youtube.com and running a search for Sybil Gage. Copies of the CD will be available at the May 18 concert.

The Cocoa Beach Country Club is at 5000 Tom Warriner Blvd.. in Cocoa Beach. Take A1A to Minutemen Cswy, and proceed west on the causeway for 1.4 miles past the Cocoa Beach High School . The Country Club is on the left.