The Further Ado Foundation presents:
Jazz Night at Rapunzel's featuring
• Stephanie Nakasian and Dwight Spencer •
and The Quintessential Quartet
on Saturday, October 25th, 2025
~*~ Seating open at 7:30PM, and the show starts at 8PM ~*~
All ages are welcome and this is a free community event, open for all to join us! Collected donations go entirely towards funding our jazz program to pay our guest musicians.
Thank you for helping us to keep Jazz happening in Central Virginia!
Stephanie Nakasian is an exciting, well-seasoned vocalist and master of innovative jazz improvisation, completely authentic with a fresh and vibrant sound all her own. Bringing high energy to every performance, Stephanie enthralls listeners with her pure tones and a flawless delivery, engaging them on a personal level with a love for the music that is playful, electric and spontaneous in story and song. She is also a music instructor at William and Mary College as well as the University of Virginia.
find more of Stephanie’s music on her website, here
Dwight Spencer is a performing artist and music professor living in Lynchburg, Virginia. His incomparable jazz guitar stylings have been recorded with numerous groups including Dennis Edwards and the Temptations, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, and The Platters.
The duo will be performing a special tribute to Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass, dubbed “A Love Affair Between Voice & Guitar”
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Our house band, The Quintessential Quartet plays every month, for free, and hosts the evening. Featuring Anne Krieger on vocals, Carolyn Stone on bass and vocals, Harry Powell on lead guitar, and Bob Taylor on rhythm guitar - The QQ plays favorites from the Great American Songbook and you probably know every one of them.
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Cash donations are collected during the show to go towards continuing this jazz program. You may also make a dedicated jazz donation at the bar with a card, or a support us with a general donation anytime you visit our space or want to but can’t make it in person by sending some love our way from our non-profit’s information page. Thank you so much!
