Jazz Singer Sharon Clark performing at Fifth Annual Musical Improv Festival, Sun., 10/20

NEW YORK, NY, D.C. - Oct. 9, 2013 - PRLog -- The New York Musical Improv Festival (www.nymif.com) is gearing up for its’ fifth time out from October 17th through the 20th, 2013. Producer TJ Mannix of the festival www.nymif.com  says “The Gilda's Club NYC benefit (within the festival) is happening on Sunday, October 20th at 8:30 PM.   In honor of the legacy of Gilda Radner, who was a victim to ovarian cancer, we celebrate women in music and comedy that night.  Past guests have included Tony Award Winner Cady Huffman (“The Producers”), Tony Nominee Orfeh (“Legally Blonde”, “Saturday Night Fever”), Kate Pazakis, Anita Hollander, and Donna Vivino (of “Wicked”)”.

This year one of the stars who will be featured is Miss Sharon Clark, who hails from Washington, DC, and has been singing straight-ahead jazz for the past 20 years. She has recently toured Russia, Israel, and throughout the US, sung in New York at the famed Metropolitan Room, and is coming back to sing in honor of Gilda Radner and other women and their families who have been affected by cancer.

The event is close to Sharon’s heart. Her Aunt Rosa Hanna (who used to be teasingly called “Roseanne Rosanna Danna” after the Gilda Radner character), passed away from cervical cancer many years ago due to not having regular scheduled screenings. “I cannot tell you how important this is to every woman, young and old, that I know”, Sharon says.


For more about Sharon, click here: http://www.chrisgrassomusic.com/sharon_clark/


To hear Sharon, click below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GszSjBOe4ls&list=PLF6...



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