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Jazz/Cabaret Singer Wesla Whitfield Performs With Mike Greensill On Piano
Napa, CA – The remarkable jazz/cabaret singer Wesla Whitfield performs with Mike Greensill on piano at the Napa Valley Opera House, Saturday, April 28 at 8 p.m. Trained in classical music and opera, Whitfield has worked for more than three decades to become one of the most gifted performers breathing life into that exquisite body of Broadway tunes, movie songs and Hit Parade numbers known collectively as the Great American Songbook. Tickets are $35and $30.
Though based in the Napa Valley, Whitfield spends much of her time in New York, working such noted rooms as the Algonquin Oak Room, Le Jazz Au Bar and her current aerie The Metropolitan Room. She has also appeared in concert at NY Town Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Early in the year, Whitfield can be found performing at San Francisco’s Plush Room.
With her deft sense of time and uncanny ability to connect with the emotional truth in a lyric, the jazz world has had no qualms about embracing her as one of its own. Working with the Mike Greensill Quartet featuring Gary Foster and the Klingelhorns - a French horn quartet - Whitfield’s seventeenth recording, Livin’ On Love on HighNote records, released in June of 2006 has been hailed as her finest to date.
Whitfield has garnered numerous national television, radio and written media credits including, All Things Considered, Fresh Air with Terri Gross, People Magazine, CBS Sunday Morning, New York Times Sunday Magazine, DownBeat Magazine and the October 2005 issue of Oprah's ‘O’ Magazine.
WHO: Wesla Whitfield with Mike Greensill on Piano
WHAT: Jazz
WHEN: Saturday, April 28, 8 PM
COST: $35/$30
WHERE: Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main Street, Napa, CA 94559
PUBLIC INFO: (707)-226-7372, www.NVOH.ORG
CONTACT: Teri Stevens, teri@nvoh.org, 707-603-2338
WHAT: Jazz
WHEN: Saturday, April 28, 8 PM
COST: $35/$30
WHERE: Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main Street, Napa, CA 94559
PUBLIC INFO: (707)-226-7372, www.NVOH.ORG
CONTACT: Teri Stevens, teri@nvoh.org, 707-603-2338
More than 30 years in the making, The Napa Valley Opera House, a national historic landmark, restored the Margrit Biever Mondavi Theatre in June 2003, a second-floor theatre that was originally constructed in 1879. The NVOH 2007 Fall Season marks the fifth year of programming in the intimate 500-seat theatre, the “Jewel of Napa Valley” located in the heart of downtown Napa. Patrons experience an eclectic array of performing arts including theatre, dance, comedy, jazz, blues, world music, and family programming in a world class setting.
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