Ninth Annual Wiester Benefit Concert

Columbus Jazz vocalist Rachel Sepulveda will take The Woodward Opera House stage Saturday, April 27, with Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra for the ninth annual scholarship benefit concert. Admission to the 7:30 p.m. concert is free to the public on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Reserved seating is available in advance to scholarship fund patrons and corporate sponsors.
 
Vaughn Wiester brings his 21-piece ensemble to his hometown for what has become one of the most anticipated annual concert dates of the year in Mount Vernon. Making her second Mount Vernon appearance as featured vocalist with the Famous Jazz Orchestra will be Rachel Sepulveda, whose jazz talents extend beyond singing to arranging and conducting. The Knox County Foundation is collaborating with the Community Concerts Association of Knox County and Knox Partnership for Arts and Culture to present this evening of free big band music to the Knox County community, and to raise donors for the Foundation’s music scholarship named in honor of Mount Vernon native and renowned bandmaster Vaughn Wiester.
 
The Vaughn Wiester Music Scholarship will be awarded for the ninth time this spring to an aspiring instrumentalist or vocalist who is a graduating high school senior residing in Knox County. Funds for the scholarship are being raised through the solicitation of individual patrons and corporate sponsors, and through voluntary contributions in any amount that will be invited from audience members.
 
Due to ongoing renovations at the Knox County Memorial Theater, this annual event is being staged at The Woodward where seating capacity is less than half that of the Memorial Theater. Those wishing to secure reserved seating may contact the Knox County Foundation at 740-392-3270 during regular business hours.
 
For more information about the Knox County Foundation or the Vaughn Wiester Music Scholarship, please visit www.mvkcfoundation.org.