Jazz Tuesdays with Mary Rademacher, Cary Kocher, Paul Keller, Jeff Shoup (9/19/17)

Описание: Jazz Tuesdays is a weekly event featuring great jazz musicians from all over the state of Michigan. Each week brings in a different guest artist and a new experience.

Based in Grand Rapids, MI, Mary Rademacher has performed in numerous local and regional theatres and travels nationwide as a vocalist. She is a member of Chicago Cabaret Professionals, West Michigan Jazz Society, Michigan Arts & Humanities Touring Roster and West Michigan Cabaret Association and Local 56 Federation of Musicians.

Mary was a member of “Shades of Blue”, a national award winning jazz vocal group invited to IAJE in Dallas, TX and Vancouver, BC, directed by renowned Musical Director/Arranger, Duane Davis. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, where she was also a Big 10 Cheerleader. (Go Green!) After graduating and studying dance in NYC with Phil Black and in Chicago at Giordano’s, Mary toured throughout the States and the Orient and South Pacific with the USO/DOD, singing and dancing with a show band. Her travels brought her back to Michigan, where she was a headliner at the 5-star Amway Grand Plaza Hotel for ten years.

Awarded West Michigan Jazz Society’s Jazz Musician of the Year in 2006, Mary was invited by Mike Vax (Stan Kenton alum) and The Great American Jazz Band to sing in Sun Valley, ID and Sacramento, CA, performing at two of the most prestigious jazz festivals in the country. She has been featured with The Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra, Paul Keller Orchestra, Don Shelton, Richie Cole, Jamie Hadad, Dave Bennett’s Benny Goodman show, Broadway & Beyond, the tribute Big Bands of Stan Kenton and Benny Goodman, opened for Bob Newhart and Shirley Jones and performed for Presidents George Bush, Sr, and Ronald Reagan.

Joining Mary on the bandstand we have Ann Arbor musicians Cary Kocher, vibraphone, and Paul Keller, bass, along with Jazz Tuesdays host Jeff Shoup on drums.

Jazz Tuesdays is generously sponsored by Gregg Hill Publishing, the East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, and INDe Drum Lab.