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Lucy Kalantari

Swinging Sounds and Spooky Tunes with Lucy Kalantari

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Members Room | Open to the Public | For All Ages | Registration Required

Get ready for an elegantly silly time with the bilingual, swingin' sounds of GRAMMY® Award winning artist Lucy Kalantari! Just in time for October, she'll bring some Halloween in her swing. Family members from 0 to 122 will find themselves lighter and smiling through and through! Halloween costumes welcome!

Lucy Kalantari is a 2x GRAMMY® Award winning artist, composer and producer passionate about creating children’s media that brings joy, inspires community and highlights the power of resilience. She's the frontwoman and bandleader for Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats, making bilingual, jazz age-inspired music for families. Her album All the Sounds, won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Children’s Album, bringing joy and pride to the Dominican Republic, where she grew up. In 2020, Kalantari produced, recorded and arranged the GRAMMY® Award winning album All the Ladies, by Joanie Leeds, an impactful collection of songs to empower young girls and shape future minds of the world. In her latest EP, What Kind of World?, the title track was named Biggest Songs of 2021 by SiriusXM Kids Place Live.

Born to Latin American parents (Dominican & Puerto Rican), she writes swingin’ tunes both in English and in Spanish. Kalantari’s songs have been featured on Universal Kids and can often be found topping the charts on SiriusXM Kids Place Live and on rotation on NBCUniversal's Snug's House, as well as other family programs around the country.

As a full-time music creator and a mother to a 9 year-old musician, she still makes time to mentor, teaching high school and college students to follow the sounds in their hearts and pursue their passion. She’s a soundBoard mentor for We Are Moving the Needle, a nonprofit organization supporting all women recording industry professionals, audio engineers and producers.


The Library is pleased to participate as a venue for the Recording Academy New York Chapter Day of Service on October 27.

To register, contact the Children's Library at children@nysoclib.org. Masks are required for ages 2 and older.