About the Artist

Eva Cassidy was a shooting star of a singer – at age 23, she started a brilliant career as a jazz and traditional music singer. By the time she was 33 she was dead… but her legend grew. Last year, great Chicago singer Abigail Riccards mounted a show at Winter’s Jazz Club of music reflecting Eva Cassidy’s brief shining career, but with Abby’s own brilliant take on it. Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribute gushed over that show, praising the “clarity and directness” of Riccards’ singing and saying that her show “placed her among Chicago’s most accomplished female jazz singers.”