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December 1 | Jazz Night continues at Monsignor William J. Linder Plaza, 233 West Market St., Newark on Friday, Dec. 1 from 7 to 11 p.m. with a special holiday performance by the Lynette Sheard Experience. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased at NCCJazzDec1.givesmart.com. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit New Community Career & Technical Institute (NCCTI). NCCTI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
The Lynette Sheard Experience is coming to the Monsignor William J. Linder Plaza aka “The Priory” located at 233 West Market Street, Newark, NJ Friday, Dec 1 from 7-11 pm. Tickets are $20 per person and can be purchased at the door or online at https://e.givesmart.com/events/zkn/ There is free parking, light refreshments, and cash bar available.
This promises to be an exceptional show complete with music, art, dance, and a lot of FUN! This experience will feature Lynette Sheard who is a sought-after singer, actor, and producer whose performances have been lauded in numerous publications including The Star-Ledger, which proclaimed that “Her voice reaches deep into one’s soul and finds a soft spot”. She performs Jazz, Blues, R&B, Gospel, Soul, and Pop music. Theater credits include principal roles in Dream Girls, Smokey Joe’s Café, Ragtime, Swing, Aida, For Colored Girls, A Raisin in the Sun, and Avenue Q. In 2017 she was inducted into the “Encyclopedia of Newark Jazz.
Special Guests include Jeffry Foote, Monet Sheard, the Aurway Repertory Ensemble featuring Lawrence Dandridge and the Kaisokah Moko Jumbies stilt dancers.
A tap and musical performance by Jeffry Foote is an actor, singer, and tap dancer, and has been performing for over 20 years. Jeffry has trained in the art of tap with Deborah Mitchell, Karen Calloway Williams, Omar Edwards, and many others. Some of his past credits include “Riffin & Tappin”, “Dance Bojangles Dance”, “42nd Street”, “Shades Of Harlem”, and recently New York City Center Encores “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope” directed and choreographed by Savion Glover. He also occasionally performs as Sammy Davis Jr in The Rat Pack Together Again which performs all over the east coast. Jeffry also teaches tap in the tri-state area and is a member and a principal dancer of the New Jersey Tap Dance Ensemble under the direction of Deborah Mitchell.
Live Painting presentation by -Monet Sheard is a painter, and creative whose artistry is displayed through murals, commissioned pieces, and paintings. Her most recent work can be seen in the new terminal A at Newark Airport. Red Bull Stadium, and numerous store fronts though out NJ.
Stilt Dancing performance by Kaisokah Moko Jumbies: Stilt-Dancer bringing the (moko jumbie), from the Caribbean Island of Trinidad and Tobago.
A musical performance by the AURWAY Repertory Theatre Ensemble featuring Lawrence Dandridge is a network of emerging and professional artists dedicated to the pursuit, creation, and presentation of art, that highlights the experiences of black and brown people. Lawrence Dandridge (Co-Founder/Creative Artistic Director) is a Newark-based multi-faceted artist. A performer first, Lawrence has a long list of professional credits headlined by his role as Smokey Robinson/Damon Harris in the first National Broadway Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations. A proud member of Actor’s Equity Association, he is currently starring in the new off-Broadway Musical, ROCK, AND ROLL MAN at New World Stages in NYC. He has produced and directed concerts, workshops, readings, and full productions of his original musicals and arrangements throughout New Jersey, New York, and California. His debut single “Hard to Tell” is streaming on all listening platforms with an E.P. not too far behind.
The experience will also feature a trio of stellar musicians led by Glenn Merritt. Follow Lynette Sheard on Facebook, Instagram and lynettelive.com.