Music of Cole Porter Featured at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

June 7, 2007

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – The music of jazz and popular music composer Cole Porter will be performed at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center on Thursday, June 21 at 12:15 p.m. at Davis Memorial Chapel. Admission is free.

The line up of musicians includes bassist Matt Kendrick, saxophonist Wally West, pianist Fred Pivetta, drummer John Wilson, singer Martha Bassett, trumpeter Ken Wilmot and violinist Jacqui Carrasco.

The program is part of the Arts Alive! performing arts series, presented by Wake Forest Baptist’s committee on Visual and Performing Arts and the Hawthorne Hill Society.

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Media contact: Primary Jim Steele, (336) 716-3487, jsteele@wfubmc.edu, Bonnie Davis, bdavis@wfubmc.edu, or Shannon Koontz, shkoontz@wfubmc.edu; (336) 716-4587

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences, which operates the university’s School of Medicine. The system comprises 1,154 acute care, psychiatric, rehabilitation and long-term care beds and is consistently ranked as one of “America’s Best Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report.


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