Park yourself and enjoy
Free, fun and family-friendly music will fill Newport’s Literacy Park during the Newport Public Library Summer Music Series, starting with two musical acts this Saturday, July 16.
Pacific Standard Time, a group composed of musicians Bob Taylor, Bill Hartsell and Richard Dutton will open, followed by comedic songstress and Broadway belter Jamie Haderlie.
Taylor is a jazz performer, educator, clinician and author who recently moved to Newport. He has taught jazz studies at Cal State University Los Angeles, Pasadena City College and Brigham Young University, as well as performing on trumpet in the BYU Faculty Jazz Quintet.
Hartsell has played and studied jazz guitar since picking up the instrument in 3rd grade. He has played regularly with local jazz combos and been involved with the Oregon Coast Jazz Party. He has served as the musical director and primary composer/arranger for Perpetua, is currently the musical director/composer for the Central Coast Jazz Alliance and performs with the Lincoln Pops Big Band.
Dutton is a versatile performer on jazz keyboard and saxophone. He has played keyboards with the Lincoln Pops Big Band and has performed at a number of concert locations in the area, including the Newport Yacht Club. Originally from Yorkshire, England, he is the current IT director for the City of Newport.
Haderlie hails all the way from exotic Taylorsville, Utah. She has been performing in musical theater for more than 30 years and is currently a featured vocalist for Salty Dinner Theater and a comedy improv player with Utah's premiere improv troupe, The Improvables. Known as the "Weird Al of Musical Theater," Haderlie developed her own YouTube channel called 1WomanBroadway, where she parodies musical theater songs and performs every role herself.
Pacific Standard Time plays from noon to 12:30 pm, Jamie Haderlie will perform from 12:45 to 1:30 pm.
The series continues on Wednesday, July 20, with Linda Yapp and the Lemon Drops.
Yapp is a children's singer-songwriter from the Oregon Coast, where she owned and operated a Montessori School and is also known throughout the Pacific Northwest as the Singing Lemon Drop Fairy, her 25-year persona at the Oregon Country Fair. She will be accompanied by the Lemon Drops from the Nye Beach Montessori School.
Linda Yapp and the Lemon Drops will perform from 11 to 11:30 am.
All concerts will take place in Literacy Park behind the Newport Public Library at 35 NW Nye Street. If the weather doesn’t cooperate, the concerts will happen indoors in the Library’s McEntee Meeting Room. For more information, go to newportlibrary.org or call 541-265-2153.