This is my opening cockney costume, many layers...pretty hot.

Back stage at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, opening weekend. I'm here with Tia and Erin two fellow Lamplighters who showed me how to put in pin curls and attach my wig cap ...which is handy because I change wigs 4 times during the show! It's so hard to be a complete beginner sometimes, but I have been having a lot of fun as well.

My very favorite contemporary jazz singer Kurt Elling is being interviewed here & among other things he talks about vocalese, jazz poetry and the art of being a jazz singer. 

Look on the right hand side for the links to this and his website :) 

My favorite recordings by him are:

The Messenger, This Time it's Love, & Live at the Green Mill