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February 5, 2000
Jazz Artist Emme Kemp at NC Wesleyan Feb. 19 Rocky Mount, NC—Jazz artist Emme Kemp will be appearing at North Carolina Wesleyan College, Saturday, February 19, at 8 p.m., in the Powers Recital Hall of the Dunn Center. Kemp is a composer, pianist, singer, and lecturer of jazz music. Tickets for this fourth event in the Powers Jazz and Blues Series are $12 general admission. Call the Belk Box Office at 252-985-5197 for tickets. Kemp’s jazz anthology includes classic to modern. She has performed in festivals from Italy’s Umbria to the Lincoln Center. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, and International Women in Jazz. As a young singer, she recorded with ragtime piano man Eubie Blake. She was in the Broadway cast of hit musical "Bubblin’ Brown Sugar." Originally from Chicago, Kemp studied in California with the eminent Liszt interpreter Egon Petri. She served in the regular Army and produced shows for Special Services. Kemp’s new jazz musical "Swingin’ Free" received a directed reading at Tribeca Arts Center. Her commissioned theater piece "Echoes Out of Time" premiered at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. "The Ballad of Box Brown" followed in Philadelphia. She has played Carnegie Hall with the JYU Jazz Ensemble and performed her concept songs for children on TV’s Captain Kangaroo. Her first CD "Emme Kemp for the Record" spotlights her kaleidoscopic musical personality. A researcher of American music, Kemp initiated the 100th anniversary observance of W.C. Handy’s birth at NYC’s Overseas Press Club. The Powers Jazz and Blues Series is supported in part by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency, in partnership with the Powers family, PIP Printing of Rocky Mount, and Best Western, Goldrock. # # # |
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