•Karen Mack•

Karen Mack is a multi-award winning singer/songwriter based in NYC, with creative roots planted in jazz, folk, pop, and swing. Over the last twenty years, she's established herself as a popular favorite of audiences and critics alike in many of New York City's top clubs and performance spaces. Her varied musical influences are apparent in her style, which meshes a warm jazz/folk sensibility with an affinity for richly textured vocal harmony, wordplay and improvisation, creating a truly unique listening experience, whether you're looking for moving ballads, soulful blues, or fierce in-the-pocket swing. LGNY says “in addition to her sense of humor, she has the kind of voice one longs to hear…her flawless placement, appealing style and dead-on performance are electrifying!” and The Village Voice echoed “Mack can knock anything with a beat out of the ballpark.” 

Her new solo album with producer/arranger Peter Eldridge from the internationally acclaimed vocal group New York Voices, is slated to drop early 2024, and features Matt Aronoff (bass), Peter Eldridge (piano), Jesse Lewis (guitar), Jared Schonig (drums), Ben Wittman (percussion), and guest appearances by Darmon Meader, Nadje Noordhuis, and Elliot Roth. 

Karen made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2019, and her Jazz at Lincoln Center debut in 2022 with the award-winning vocal quartet Those Girls. She was part of the 25th Anniversary Gala for the NY Pops,  Handel’s “Messiah Rocks - A Joyful Noise” at NJPAC, and featured in the UK premier of “Build Me A Bridge - The Music of Miller and Hammonds” at the Bridewell Theater in London’s West End. Club appearances include New York's Town Hall, Symphony Space, Birdland, Feinsteins/54 Below, B.B. King's, Nashville Jazz Cave, Parker's in Austin, The Bottom Line, Caroline’s, Sony Hall, Pangea, The Bitter End, Tula's Jazz in Seattle, London's Battersea Barge, and numerous college keggers. Currently, she can been seen in tandem with New York Times hailed jazz pianist/vocalist Elliot Roth monthly in their jazz/swing residency at Pangea (NYC), now in its third year. 

As a songwriter, she was acknowledged for her debut recording "Take That" (Miss Prim Records) in a cover story by Show Business Weekly on promising writers on the rise, in prestigious, well-established company that included Julie Gold (From A Distance), Amanda McBroom (The Rose), and John Bucchino (Grateful). She is a 2024 Bistro Award winner for Variety in Cabaret Performance, an eleven-time MAC Award winner for vocal performance and songwriting, as well as for her current vocal harmony work in NYC pop vocal group Those Girls(thosegirlssing.com), and for 12+ years prior with talented singer/songwriter Michael Holland as half of the pro vocal duo that brought the acclaimed & ridiculous retropop series “Gashole!” to the world.

Always drawn to rich and complex vocal harmony, Karen was a performing member and co-managing partner of DOO-WA-ZOO, a five-part contemporary a cappella group with a pop/rock repertoire of original compositions and creative covers back before Pentatonix ruled the aca-earth. Featured on the nationally broadcast VH1 special "Takin' It to the Streets", the vocal band headlined at major venues on the east coast such as The Bottom Line, The Bitter End, The Ironhorse, New England Conservatory, Princeton University, Penn State University, and the 92nd St. Y, NYC. All members of the group were contributing writers and arrangers. Their independently produced EP "Onomatopoeia" is considered among the best in contemporary a cappella by TAXI Independent A&R (LA), as well as the Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA), and continues to enjoy national and international airplay. 

And if you don't care so much about music, but are into quality baked goods, be sure to friend her on FB before October when her daily baking and posting for National Cookie Month begins (yes, that's a real thing... yes, she bakes a different cookie every single day & posts sometimes great/sometimes wobbly pix on social media... seriously.)