An Intimate Concert with

Karen Jacobsen

The GPS Girl® 

SOLD OUT!!

Paradiso Cafe
3 - 5pm 
Sunday 19th September

Tickets: $60 and $55 for members

Following her dream of becoming a musical performer, Karen moved to New York City from Mackay with one suitcase and succeeded in becoming an award-winning Singer and Songwriter in the Big Smoke. In her first years in New York City, Karen auditioned to record a text-to-speech voice system, having no idea it would take her voice to every corner of the globe.

Musical career highlights include: sharing the stage with Norah Jones, Neil Sedaka, Jon English and Christopher Cross, national anthem performances at major sporting events - Madison Square Garden, Fenway Park, Dodger Stadium, for 80,000 at Giants Stadium for a New York Jets game, Queensland's Suncorp Stadium for an Australia vs South Africa TriNations International Rugby Game for 52,000 - and licensing her songs to US network television.

Mackay-born, and usually New York-based, international voice-over artist, singer-songwriter, and motivational speaker, Karen Jacobsen will perform an intimate concert as the finale for the Whitsunday Arts Festival. Perhaps she has given you directions, her voice is in over a billion devices as the original Aussie voice of “Siri”, but her natural habitat is live on stage.

Karen will perform her piano driven and timeless melodic songs along with excerpts from her show “Mackay to Manhattan a Musical Memoir”. Her powerful vocals and impactful storytelling will leave you entertained and inspired. 

Media highlights include: NBC Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Early Show, Sunrise, NY Daily News, The Guardian, Glamour magazine and being named one of People Magazine's Most Intriguing People.

“A super musical performance: Karen Jacobsen, in a spectacular gown, is beautiful, funny, a lovely light-fingered pianist and a terrific singer with a fine clear voice who writes melodically original personal songs giving glimpses of her life and relationships. She totally engages her audience with her charm, her voice and her wit and she can hold a note like Jerry Colonna, It’s a treat to be entertained by this talented, lovely woman. Catch her if you can. It’s one of the best performances of the decade.”  - Richmond Shepard