The Eric Byrd Trio is comprised of musicians whose vision is to glorify the age of traditional jazz while providing an energetic and modern approach to standards and original compositions at the same time.
The trio performs regularly at jazz venues in and around Washington, DC. Live performances have included appearances at Blues Alley, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Twins and Bohemian Caverns. The Eric Byrd Trio has played at numerous festivals throughout the United States headlining the East Coast Jazz Festival, the ARTScape Festival in Baltimore and The Westminster Flower and Jazz Festival. They also appeared weekly at the Café Milano in Georgetown, playing to guests that included Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie.
Their international touring began when they were named 2001 Kennedy Center/US State Department Jazz Ambassadors. Selected to represent the USA, they toured Latin America for six weeks in the fall of 2001. Since that time, they have given concerts at the Montreux Switzerland Jazz Festival, headlined the FestiJazz Festival in La Paz, Bolivia, served as clinicians and performers at a week long jazz conference in Lima, Peru and made their first appearance at a world music festival in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The country of Estonia and a return to Bolivia were highlights of the summer and fall of 2003 and 2004. A jazz festival and clinic in Oklahoma and a week long tour of Bolivia were highlights of 2006, and 2007 saw Byrd play Paris, France for the first time with vocalist Lea Gimore,
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