{"id":47437,"date":"2025-11-29T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47437\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:45:09","slug":"scranton-jazz-festival-continues-tradition-of-holiday-concert-and-toy-drive-in-the-electric-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/47437\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton Jazz Festival continues tradition of holiday concert and toy drive in the Electric City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Jazz Festival Christmas Spectacular will be held on Sunday, Dec. 7, in the Bellarmine Theatre 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.m.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Maestro Marko Marcinko, the Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band will bring holiday classics to life with Broadway vocalists Thos Shipley, Gabrielle Ruiz, and The Randy Andys as special guests.<\/p>\n<p>The program will include selections from \u201cThe Swingin\u2019 Jazz Nutcracker Suite,\u201d an adaptation of the traditional music from The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky arranged by jazz greats Shorty Rogers, Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.<\/p>\n<p>The band will also perform songs from the iconic \u201cNat King Cole Christmas Album\u201d and \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d by Vince Guaraldi, now celebrating its 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>In this season of giving, concert goers are encouraged to bring new, unwrapped toys to benefit We Respect &amp; Care (WRC), formerly the Women\u2019s Resource Center. Toys will be distributed locally to children in underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $35 for general admission and are available now at <a href=\"https:\/\/scrantonjazzfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scrantonjazzfestival.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. For event updates, follow Scranton Jazz Festival on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Scranton Jazz Festival Christmas Spectacular will be held on Sunday, Dec. 7, in the Bellarmine Theatre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-47437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47437","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=47437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}