Jazz returns to the Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus on Saturday when Grammy Award-winning singer Pauline Wilson joins Junior Choy and the VAC jazz ensemble for an evening of “sultry jazz.”
Jazz returns to the Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus on Saturday when Grammy Award-winning singer Pauline Wilson joins Junior Choy and the VAC jazz ensemble for an evening of “sultry jazz.”
The two performances will feature Wilson on vocals, Junior “Volcano” Choy on keyboard and trumpet, Brian McCree on acoustic bass and drummer Bruce David. There will be a matinee concert at 4:30 p.m. and an evening performance at 7:30. Tickets for the matinee are $15 for VAC members and $18 for nonmembers; the 7:30 performance costs $18 for members and $20 for nonmembers.
Wilson is an American jazz/pop singer best known as lead vocalist with the jazz/fusion group Seawind in the 1970s and early ’80s. Born and raised in Hilo, she won a Grammy in 1979 for her duet “Friends” with George Benson, part of the album “In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record.” Wilson also voiced The Fairy on the track “My Fairy In The Crystal Reeds (And Other Frogs)” from Michel Colombier’s album “Old Fool Back On Earth.”
For tickets to Wilson’s jazz performances and any VAC Spring Series concerts, call 967-8222, visit VAC’s Niaulani Campus or VAC Art Gallery in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.