Jhoely Garay

Jhoely Garay is a New York-based jazz guitarist and composer from Mexico whose music expresses her passion for straight-ahead and contemporary jazz, and music and rhythms from Latin America. Jhoely is an active performer and educator in the jazz scene in New York. She performs as a band leader and side-woman in national and international venues such as Carnegie Hall, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, The MET Museum, The Clemente Cultural Center, Stanford University, National Center for Performing Arts in Mexico, and Rufino Tamayo Museum, among others. She is a Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation Ambassador, a New Music USA and ASCAP Fran Morgenstern awardee and a Stanford Jazz Mentor Fellow.

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