This concert was not only a great pairing with the husband and wife duo, Sunny Wilkinson (vocal jazz) and Ron Newman (jazz piano) but also with the beautiful life size paintings done by Lansing based artist Alina Poroshina.
The music was mesmerizing. Sunny held the audiences with her ever changing palate of vocal sounds and story telling characters. Ron dazzled with his crazy jazz chops that surprised the audience as well as Sunny, who smiled joyfully at him throughout the concert.
Alina, a native of Russia, showed paintings that depicted urban Grand Rapids scenes with close-ups of people in the forefront, many of them playing instruments, all of them a poetic statement to life in the city.
