Join your friends for a night of toe-tapping music and dance from the Great American Songbook as The Modernistics come to town. The group, based in Boston, features acclaimed tap dancers and vocalists Ted and Pamela Powers, with the versatile Peter H. Bloom on flute and Mark Leighton on guitar.
“Here’s a show that brings back all the great tunes from America’s great 20th Century songsmiths like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and more,” said Great North Woods Committee for the Arts President Charlie Jordan. Expect an exhilarating evening, with favorites like “Blue Skies,” “Let’s Fall in Love,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” “Sunny Side of the Street,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” and the Ellington hit tune “It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.”
The GNWCA will be bringing this talented quartet to the Tillotson Center in Colebrook for one show only, beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5. The Modernistics have performed extensively in the United States and abroad. Peter H. Bloom, praised for his “hip, jazzy flute work” (allaboutjazz.com), has appeared with jazz and classical ensembles in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and is featured on more than 40 CDs. He is a veteran of the illustrious Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. Mark Leighton is acclaimed as a jazz and classical guitarist, performs across the Northeast, and serves on the faculties of Colby College and St. George’s School. Ted Powers’ career in jazz, blues, and pop includes several years as a solo performer in the south of France and tap-dancing in the U.S. with the legendary Jimmy “Sir Slyde” Mitchell. Pamela Powers has performed and taught in the United States, Germany and England. She studied with Harold Nicholas of the iconic Nicholas Brothers and with renowned Broadway choreographer Charles Hughes.
Tickets are available at Fiddleheads, 110 Main St., Colebrook, or at the door. General admission prices for the night are: adults, $15; students, $12; children under 12, $5. For more information on this and other GNWCA shows, find the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts on Facebook, visit www.gnwca.org or you can call 237-9302 or 246-8998.
The GNWCA will be bringing this talented quartet to the Tillotson Center in Colebrook for one show only, beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5. The Modernistics have performed extensively in the United States and abroad. Peter H. Bloom, praised for his “hip, jazzy flute work” (allaboutjazz.com), has appeared with jazz and classical ensembles in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and is featured on more than 40 CDs. He is a veteran of the illustrious Aardvark Jazz Orchestra. Mark Leighton is acclaimed as a jazz and classical guitarist, performs across the Northeast, and serves on the faculties of Colby College and St. George’s School. Ted Powers’ career in jazz, blues, and pop includes several years as a solo performer in the south of France and tap-dancing in the U.S. with the legendary Jimmy “Sir Slyde” Mitchell. Pamela Powers has performed and taught in the United States, Germany and England. She studied with Harold Nicholas of the iconic Nicholas Brothers and with renowned Broadway choreographer Charles Hughes.
Tickets are available at Fiddleheads, 110 Main St., Colebrook, or at the door. General admission prices for the night are: adults, $15; students, $12; children under 12, $5. For more information on this and other GNWCA shows, find the Great North Woods Committee for the Arts on Facebook, visit www.gnwca.org or you can call 237-9302 or 246-8998.
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