SHOWTIMES: 7:30PM AND 9:30PM. Polish-born, New York–based vocalist and composer Margo Staniszewska, known professionally as Margo S, unites classical rigor with the freedom of jazz improvisation. Her debut album Ashes & Diamonds — released April 4, 2025 on Truth Revolution Recording Collective — brings together Polish poetry, lived narrative, and the sound of New York’s contemporary jazz scene became a regular performer at Chelsea Table + Stage, Triad Theater, Williamsburg Music Center, DADA Jazz Club, and Brush Culture Jazz Club in Teaneck, where she has sold out multiple shows.

For this album she won Best Jazz Album at the World Entertainment Award in Hollywood on January 31 2026, during Grammy Week.

In 2022, Staniszewska received an artist grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, which directly funded Ashes & Diamonds. Recorded at The Bunker Studio, the album features David Kikoski (piano), Stacy Dillard (saxophone), Ricky Rodriguez (bass), David Hawkins (drums), Leandro Pellegrino (guitar), Spike Wilner (piano on two standards), and Stefano Battaglia (bass). The music draws from Polish Romantic poetry and personal narrative; she sets texts by Cyprian Norwid and Adam Asnyk, weaving the rhythmic form of the Polonaise into a contemporary jazz language.

 She premiered Ashes & Diamonds at Triad Theater and Chelsea Table + Stage, followed by performances at Jazz on Main (Mount Kisco), the Greenpoint Jazz Festival, Gregory’s Jazz Club in Rome, and the ‘Jazz nad Nilem’ Festival in Poland. She is currently writing her second album for Truth Revolution.

Her voice also appears on Residente’s Grammy-winning album Las Letras Ya No Importan (Best Música Urbana Album, 2025), for which she composed and recorded the choral parts to “Pólvora de Ayer.”She obtained a Grammy Diploma for this collaboration.

Margo will perform at The Velvet Note on April 11th at 7.30 pm and 9.30 pm. She will sing songs from her Best Album’s winner “Ashes and Diamonds” and her new compositions. With her smooth, colorful voice she will take you across the world: from Europe through America, and her New York sound to the world of jazz, poetry and rhythm.