[Dixielandjazz] MollyGram - Molly To Be Featured at the annual Provincetown Jazz Festival

[Robert Ringwald]

Who knew the queen of 1980s teen movies could sing?  
Provincetown audiences will find that out in August when actress Molly Ringwald - best known for movies that include "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Pretty in Pink" - will be one of the guest stars for the 13th annual Provincetown Jazz Festival. 




The show will take place Aug. 10 at the Crown & Anchor in Provincetown, with Ringwald on vocals, backed by Takumi Kakimoto on piano, Ron Ormsby on bass and Bart Weisman on drums. 

Ringwald, according to festival founder/executive producer Weisman, started performing with her father's jazz band at the age of 3. She now specializes in the Great American Songbook and released her debut CD, "Except Sometimes," in 2013. 

"I knew that Molly Ringwald had recently started to perform jazz in California and New York and contacted her agent," Weisman says by email. The people working with Ringwald "knew of the Provincetown Jazz Festival and the many great musicians who have appeared in the past (including Billy Stritch last year) … and were very excited about having Molly perform at the festival and make her Cape Cod debut!" 

Pianist Kakimoto was born in Himeji, Japan, and started playing piano at the age of 5. He is a junior majoring in piano performance and jazz composition at the Berklee College of Music, according to Weisman, and he has been studying with Tim Ray, best known as longtime pianist for Lyle Lovett. 

The festival will move Aug. 14 to Cotuit Center for the Arts with different performers. There, the headliner will be Ken Peplowski, a jazz clarinetist who has recorded about 50 CDs as a soloist, and close to 400 as a sideman with artists that include Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Woody Allen, Benny Goodman and Madonna. 

Peplowski was last on the Cape in 1986, Weisman says, when he led the Benny Goodman Band at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis after Goodman died that June. 

Also performing in Cotuit will be vocalist Atla DeChamplain and pianist Matt DeChamplain, who were brought together by a love of jazz and in 2015 released their debut album, "Pause." Matt teaches at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut and Atla is the jazz voice instructor at Western Connecticut State University. Their show will also be accompanied by Ormsby and Weisman. 




Tickets: $30 per concert, with a portion of the proceeds donated to charitable causes, including the Cape Conservatory Jazz in the School program. There will be a free bus, courtesy of Plymouth & Brockton bus line, leaving from Hyannis and stopping in Harwich, for the Aug. 10 concert in Provincetown.  Festival information: provincetownjazzfestival.org.


Bob Ringwald piano, Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet, Quintet 
Fulton Street Jazz Band (Dixieland/Swing)
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