The Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse will host jazz vocalist Paula Johns as part of a fundraiser.
The following is a press release from the Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse. Accomplished jazz vocalist Paula Johns, “La Chanteuse de Jazz,” will present an intimate evening of jazz standards from the Great American Songbook on Friday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the historic 1770 Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse, located at 6119 Germantown Avenue. Snack sales and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the historic site. Ms. Johns is an accomplished cabaret singer and jazz vocalist who hails from our own great city, Philadelphia. She is often compared to Ella Fitzgerald and some of the great contemporaries of that era, but Paula brings her own distinctive panache to each song she sings. She enjoys a great lyric that tugs at your …
The museum's jazz programs were so well-received that they will continue through May and June.
After great success with its Friday night jazz series in April, the Woodmere Art Museum has extended this program into May and June. The series, entitled Experience Jazz at Woodmere, was launched last month as part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, but the four-concert series was so well-received that the Art Museum will continue to host concerts every Friday in May and June. “Since we had the added support of the festival marketing machine, as an experiment, we started the jazz nights to see if it’s something people are interested in,” said Woodmere Director William Valerio. “So we organized the jazz night in four nights in April focusing on Paris. It took off like wild fire: 150 the first night, 250 the second, and …
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