Gunhild Carling | Events at Fox Tucson Theatre
25
January
2:00 pm

Gunhild Carling

with UA Studio Jazz and special guest Caity Gyorgy

Swedish musical sensation Gunhild Carling is an internationally acclaimed superstar whose show is a can’t-miss event! Whether she’s singing favorite swinging jazz standards, playing one of many 11 instruments (trumpet, trombone, harmonica, oboe, harp, flute, recorder, or jazz bagpipe!) or juggling and tap dancing, Gunhild’s sublime showmanship shines. And just wait for the finale – spoiler alert – she plays three trumpets at once!

Carling competed as a celebrity dancer in Let’s Dance 2014 on TV4 placing third. Was also on Sweden’s Dancing with The Stars. Gunhild performed for Sweden’s Got Talent in 2017 and on America’s Got Talent season 2019.

She performed with her ‘Carling Big Band’ at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in the celebration for King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Ruby Jubilee. Performing such great memorable vintage songs such as “Minnie the Moocher,” “Sweet Georgia Brown,” “All of Me,” “It Had to Be You,” and an endless repertoire of songs, Gunhild masterfully takes you back to another era like a time machine.

Between Touring with her own band, she performs in several configurations from solo to orchestra to symphony and  as a featured singer and multi-instrumentalist in several of Postmodern Jukebox‘s songs, including a 1920s jazz swing version of “Material Girl”, and a 1920s hot jazz cover of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”. Gunhild Carling keeps serenading audiences in the US and all around the world today. She has over 3 million views from social media earning her a silver award from You Tube.

Caity Gyorgy (pronounced George) is a 2 time JUNO award winning Canadian vocalist known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at jazz clubs and festivals across Canada, Mexico, Japan and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, Bryn Roberts and Joe LaBarbera, to name a few.

In addition to being a performer, Caity is an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world, and have won multiple awards including the Grand Prize in the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. She is also a sought after clinician and is currently on faculty as a vocal jazz instructor at the Yukon Summer Music Camp in Whitehorse, Yukon and the Interprovincial Music Camp in McKellar, Ontario.

She is currently signed to Brooklyn label La Reserve Records and has released several albums of original and standard music with them including her two JUNO award winning albums “Now Pronouncing” and “Featuring” and her JUNO nominated album with pianist Mark Limacher titled “You’re Alike, You Two”.

Her upcoming album “Hello! How Are You?” features Caity accompanied by her regular piano trio and was released on August 9th, 2024.