Cécile McLorin Salvant first burst onto the music scene back in 2010, when she won first place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition at just 21 years old. Her early albums — including WomanChild, For One to Love and Dreams and Daggers — established Salvant as a true icon in the world of jazz. But this genre-defying vocalist is not so easy to pin down. A MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, Salvant is widely known for blurring the lines between jazz, blues, vaudeville, folk and global traditions. A gifted storyteller, she approaches each song as an intimate piece of theater, often “reviving forgotten songs and reimagining them with wit, humor, drama and emotional depth,” as her bio puts it. You can catch this singular artist this weekend, as Tennessee Performing Arts Center opens its much-anticipated new Discovery Series. And be sure to keep an eye out for other upcoming Discovery Series performances — including Urban Bush Women: This Is Risk (Oct. 17) and Churchill & Roosevelt: The Christmas That Saved the World (Nov. 12-15).
7:30 p.m. at TPAC’s Polk Theater
505 Deaderick St.
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