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<DIV>Who knew the queen of 1980s teen movies could sing? </DIV>
<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>"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!" </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>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.
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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Ringwald piano, Solo, Duo, Trio, Quartet, Quintet <BR>Fulton Street Jazz Band
(Dixieland/Swing)<BR>916/ 806-9551<BR>Amateur (ham) Radio Station
K6YBV<BR><BR>Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting
on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian
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