By Neal Seagal

Miss Maybell and the Jazz Age Artistes
Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 2pm

INDOOR CONCERT & LIVE STREAM

Haddonfield United Methodist Church
29 Warwick Road
Haddonfield, NJ 08033

“Miss Maybell (Lauren Sansaricq) has a vocal style that is similar to that of the classic blues singers of the era, ranging from Ethel Waters to Bessie Smith without copying any one vocalist. She puts plenty of bluesy feeling into the songs (which include both vintage blues and vaudeville-type songs), she swings, and she also plays washboard. Pianist Charlie Judkins is a ragtime and stride pianist and is very much a complete band by himself in addition to begin a tasteful accompanist.” (LA Jazz Scene)   

And Miss Maybell and Charlie are joined by accompanists Dan Levinson, Brian Nalepka and Andy Stein, recreating the ensemble that was such a success at Birdland in NYC last November.  Today they make their Tri-State Jazz debut!

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 By Cosimo-Filippini

Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi
Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 2pm

INDOOR CONCERT

Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford, PA 19086

Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi return to Tri-State. Stephanie is a long-time favorite; the duo first performed for Tri-State in November 2019. They bring their fresh arrangements of songs from the Swing Era and the Great American Song Book in a four-hands piano duo. Stephanie and Paolo are featured headliners at U.S. and international festivals and venues too numerous to list – so don’t miss this great concert!  (Note that this concert will NOT be live-streamed; you’ll have to attend in person to enjoy it.)

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 By Annie and the Fur Trappers

Annie and the Fur Trappers
Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 2pm

INDOOR CONCERT

Haddonfield United Methodist Church
29 Warwick Road
Haddonfield, NJ 08033

Annie and the Fur Trappers is dedicated to performing and preserving the music of the 1920s and 30s today.  The band plays traditional jazz, delta blues, ragtime, and swing music.  Annie and the Fur Trappers have performed at a variety of music festivals including the Big Muddy Blues Festival, The Whitaker Jazz festival The Apple Butter Festival, Cherokee Street Jazz Fest, HONK!TX, Musikfest, The Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl, and The Rosebud Cafe Music Festival, to name a few.  And today they make their Tri-State Jazz debut!

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 By Jim McGann

Hot Marmalade
Sunday, February 5, 2023 at 2pm

INDOOR CONCERT and LIVE STREAM

Haddonfield United Methodist Church
29 Warwick Road
Haddonfield, NJ 08033

Bob Rawlins has assembled a sextet, Hot Marmalade, for the February concert in Haddonfield.  It’s a great line-up, with Bob Rawlins, Danny Tobias, Pat Mercuri, Nancy Rawlins, Bruce Campbell, andJim Lawlor. This lineup is a first for Tri-State and the members are all known for terrific talent – playing together in other bands like the Midiri Sextet and the annual Tri-State All-Stars concert.  (The photo, with half the marmalade jar, is from an All-Stars Jam in 2019.)  With the skill and musical knowledge on stage, we can expect an outstanding afternoon; the repertoire could span from earliest jazz, through the pop tunes of the era (Gershwin, Berlin, Arlen) right up to Swing!

And a special treat is in store.  Thanks to Haddonfield United Methodist Church (and particularly Matt Smith, Organist and Choirmaster) we may have the unique opportunity to hear a couple Thomas 'Fats' Waller songs, performed as pipe-organ soloes, played by band-member Nancy Rawlins (Rowan University music faculty)!  This has a huge local historical connection - it echoes, in part, Waller's 1927 recording sessions for Victor Talking Machine, at the Espey pipe organ in the Trinity Church studio.  Trinity Church was in downtown Camden not far from the company's main offices.  Headquarters (of what became RCA - known even today as the 'Nipper' building) still stands, though Trinity Church is no more.

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