Festival Big Band, with Maiya Sykes

Maiya Sykes is back for her third Big Band concert and she’s ready to pull out all the stops. She’s a former back-up singer whose rendition of “Stay with Me” on The Voice in 2014 catapulted her to lead singer fame. Based in Los Angeles, Sykes is a classically trained musician who graduated from Yale and studied with Betty Carter and Nina Simone. Her recent guest vocal on funk band Scary Pockets’ mash-up of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind” and La...