Big Band Bash Playbill 2021

JAZZ ARTS GROUP PRESENTS JAZZ ARTS GROUP PRESENTS with Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra Friday, Aug 6 at 8 PM The Lincoln Theatre Soul man Quan Howell and singer-pianist Dave Powers celebrate generations of great artists and music from Elvis and Marvin Gaye to the with Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra sounds of Philadelphia and the Motor City. CBUSArts Ticket Center | 39 East State Street | (614) 469-0939 Friday, July 30, 2021 at 8 PM Tickets at CBUSArts.com The Lincoln Theatre | 769 East Long Street It’s Featuring Helen Welch With special appearance by CHRISTMASCHRISTMAS Hank Marr High School Jazz Competition Winners IN JULY! The Columbus Jazz Orchestra returns to jazz up the holidays with Mason Bryant & Simon Metzger its most popular concert of the season featuring Oscar-winning Nashville-based singer-songwriter Vanessa Campagna. Buy-One-Get-One FREE* CBUSArts.com for HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS JAZZARTSGROUP.ORG BUY SPECIALLY DISCOUNTED LOGE AND MEZZANINE SEATS BEFORE THEY GO ON SALE TO THE PUBLIC! Use discount code: XMASJULY Offer good through August 6 only for the following performances: Thur, Dec 2 at 7:30 p.m. Fri, Dec 3 at 8:00 p.m. Sun, Dec 5 at 3:00 p.m. CBUSArts Ticket Center 39 East State Street Phone: 614.469.0939 *Offer cannot be combined with any other discount and is not applicable to previously purchases tickets. Limited to 8 tickets per household. No refunds, exchanges, or rain checks. Available only while supplies last on a first come first serve basis and only with the appropriate discount code on tickets purchased by August 6, 2021. Friday night performance being recorded for live stream exclusively on www.JAG.tv. JAZZARTSGROUP.ORG HELEN WELCH FRIDAY, JULY 30,2021 AT 8PM Helen Welch is an internationally BIG BAND BASH acclaimed vocalist, entertainer, producer Featuring HELEN WELCH and band-leader. Her unique talent for arranging songs to make them her own, THE COLUMBUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA coupled with her ability to intimately To Be Selected From: Artistic Director Byron Stripling engage her audience, has quickly earned BUGLE CALL RAG SAXOPHONES TRUMPETS her a large and devoted following around Comp. Jack Pettis/Billy Meyers/ Byron Rooker Matt Anklan the globe. Elmer Schoebel Chad Eby Erik Gimbel JA DA A native of England, Helen began her Michael Cox Jim Powell Comp. Bob Carleton career on television’s Romper Room. Since her early success, she has headlined Pete Mills Lee Savory with world-class organizations such as the BBC Big Band, Glenn Miller Europe, SING, SING, SING Shawn Wallace RHYTHM Opus One and others at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues including: The Comp. Louis Prima TROMBONES Bobby Floyd, Piano Ritz, The Savoy, Blenheim Palace, The Grosvenor House Great Room, Claridges SHELL GAME Linda Landis Chris Berg, Bass and many theatres in London’s West End. Additionally, she held starring roles in a Comp. Frank Wess Ryan Hamilton Bob Breithaupt, Drums variety of popular musicals including: Hello Dolly, Barnum, Carousel, 42nd Street, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE Ben Crowder Calamity Jane, and Oliver Twist. Comp. Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer HANK MARR WINNERS Pat Lewis Simon Metzger, Drums After a very successful run in the U.K., Helen relocated to the United States to JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE Comp. William James “Count” Basie Mason Bryant, Guitar guest star in the Broadway musical Smokey Joe’s Cafe. Her immediate success landed her as a fronting vocalist for The Cleveland Orchestra, The Breckenridge FEELING GOOD Comp. Anthony Newlwy/Leslie Bricusse Summer Orchestra, The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, The Grant Park Symphony Musicians of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra Orchestra (Chicago), The Florida Symphony and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. THIS COULD BE THE START OF are represented by the Central Ohio Since that time, Helen has been producing her own shows for Cleveland’s SOMETHING BIG Federation of Musicians Local 103 of the Playhouse Square, The Akron Civic Theatre, The Chautauqua Institution and many Comp. Steve Allen American Federation of Musicians. other theatres and performing arts centers around the country. ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET In 2006 Helen produced her big band CD One Dream using the nationally Comp. Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh renowned Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. Rosemary Riddle, daughter of famed THE NEARNESS OF YOU arranger Nelson Riddle, gave Helen the original Nelson Riddle arrangement Comp. Hoegy Carmichael/Ned Washington of “Zing Went the Strings of my Heart” for her to perform and record on this I’M GONNA LIVE TILL I DIE CD. Apart from Judy Garland, Helen is the only other vocalist to have used and Comp. Al Hoffman/Walter Kent/Mann Curtis performed this arrangement on a recording and she still uses it today in her big band performances. I’LL BE SEEING YOU Comp. Irving Kahal/Sammy Fain Helen has had world-class symphony pops arrangements for 3 of her productions ALL THAT JAZZ/RAZZLE DAZZLE and has performed with many different symphony orchestras throughout the U.S. Comp. John Kander/Fred Ebb and in England. Helen was invited twice to perform with the Blossom Festival Orchestra, which is part of the Cleveland Orchestra. For these particular concerts the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation gave Helen permission to go to the Library of Be sure to follow us on Congress in Washington to go through Ella’s collection of music which she then Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. used for these special symphony orchestra concerts at Blossom. Visit our website at: In 2016, her musical release, “Spellbound” was an entry for the Traditional Pop JAZZARTSGROUP.ORG Category of the Grammy Awards..

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