Sarah Ayers
Friday, Aug. 1
7:30-8:30 p.m.
Americaplatz
Monday, Aug. 4
8 p.m.
Lyrikplatz
About
Sarah Ayers
The Sarah Ayers Band began cooking up their unique blend of blues, funk, and rock on a cold Tuesday night in January '02 as the hosts of a brand new blues jam in Macungie, PA as Sarah's Rhythm Recipe. Little did they know that less than a month later their little blues jam would be the hottest jam in the Valley. Since that time, the group has branched out to become one of the valley's best blues bands. Their spicy recipe for funky, kick-ass, butt-shaking blues has rocketed them right through the usual rites of passage for a new blues band, performing at the Lehigh Valley Blues and Jazz Festival, competing in the regional and national International Blues Challenge, and performing in the Best of the Lehigh Valley Festival.
Sarah has been awarded Best Female Vocalist at the Lehigh Valley Music Awards every year since 2003. In each year she has also taken home 25 additional awards in other categories, including: best original band, best blues vocalist, best all around performer, best original song Body Says Yes, and best Overall CD in 2007 for 3 AM Epiphany.
Sarah Ayers has known she wanted to sing professionally ever since she drew applause from her high chair at age two by serenading the dining room at New York's Plaza Hotel. She earned her bachelor's degree in opera performance and studio teaching from Susquehanna University. In her senior year she had the honor of being one of the youngest to ever win an award at the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Sarah has sung opera with a wide range of companies from the Reading Orchestra to the Anchorage Opera Company. It was in Anchorage, Alaska that Sarah got her first taste of the blues, singing Janis Joplin, Etta James, and Koko Taylor covers with the 76th Street Blues Band and Paul Byrd and the Escalators.
Sarah got her start in the local blues scene when she filled in for six months for lead singer Beverly Conklin of BC & The Blues Crew, one of the Lehigh Valley's most respected and talented blues bands. Today she leads The Sarah Ayers Band, Sarah's Acoustic Brew and is one-third of the blues/roots trio The Girls.
