Mellow Jackets, Shremshock, join Wiester for third annual music scholarship benefit concert
It was a musical homecoming of sorts, Saturday night in the Memorial Theater, for Mount Vernon native Vaughn Wiester who once again brought his Famous Jazz orchestra to town for a concert to raise funds for the Community Foundation music scholarship in his honor.
The homecoming was accentuated by the stage appearance of this year’s edition of the Mount Vernon High School Mellow Jackets, the jazz ensemble that launched Wiester’s music career more than 50 years.
Also featured at the concert, attended by some 500 avid music fans, was 2012 MVHS graduate Jordan Shremshock, who won the $2,500 Wiester Music Scholarship last year, which she is using this year in her studies at the College of Wooster. Shremshock performed an operatic selection from Gluck’s “Orpheo and Euridice,” in which she will be performing a lead role in a Wooster production on April 27. She then switched gears to front the FJO’s arrangement of “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” with a spot-on vocal that demonstrated her versatility as a performer.
The Vaughn Wiester Music Scholarship Fund was enhanced by advance sponsor and patron contributions, and was generously added to by donations from audience members at the traditionally admission-free concert. Others wishing to make a tax-deductible contribution to the fund may mail a check or credit card instructions to the Community Foundation at P.O. Box 1270, Mount Vernon, or by calling 740.399.5201 during business hours.
More photos below…
- Jordan Shremshock performed “Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered” with the Famous Jazz Orchestra, April 13, to the delight of the benefit concert audience.
- Sharing the stage with the MVHS Mellow Jackets was a “dream come true” for Vaughn Wiester, whose music career began as a member of the group in the early 1960s.
- 2012 MVHS grad Jordan Shremshock treated the benefit audience to her music scholarship-winning operatic talents.
