{"id":27925,"date":"2025-11-07T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:09:06","slug":"scranton-jazz-festival-christmas-spectacular-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27925\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton Jazz Festival Christmas Spectacular scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scranton Jazz Festival Christmas Spectacular will be presented Sunday, Dec. 7, at Scranton Preparatory School, 1000 Wyoming Ave., Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 5 p.m., with the show starting at 5:30.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Marko Marcinko, the Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band will perform with Broadway vocalists Thos Shipley, Gabrielle Ruiz Pysanchin and the Randy Andys.<\/p>\n<p>New, unwrapped toys will be collected for We Respect &amp; Care, formerly the Women\u2019s Resource Center.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $35 for general admission and are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/scrantonjazzfestival.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrantonjazzfestival.org<\/a>. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. For updates, see the Scranton Jazz Festival\u2019s social media.<\/p>\n<p>The program will include selections from \u201cThe Swingin\u2019 Jazz Nutcracker Suite,\u201d an adaptation of the traditional music from \u201cThe Nutcracker Suite\u201d by Tchaikovsky, arranged by Shorty Rogers, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. The band will also perform songs from the \u201cNat King Cole Christmas Album\u201d and \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d by Vince Guaraldi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scranton Jazz Festival Christmas Spectacular will be presented Sunday, Dec. 7, at Scranton Preparatory School, 1000 Wyoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179,289,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-27925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-things-to-do","15":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}