Alexis Morrast at SOPAC NJs Favorite Small Performing Arts Center

SOPAC: South Orange Performing Arts Center IS New Jersey’s Favorite Small Performing Arts Center Four Years Running

According to the SOPAC website: "This year, more than 18,000 arts lovers cast their ballots for their favorite local groups and downtowns. SOPAC garnered over 3,000 votes and was amongst those honored at ArtPride New Jersey’s headquarters at Lyceum Hall Center for the Arts in Burlington, N.J.

For more than a decade, the People’s Choice Awards has blown us away, and this year is no exception,” said Allison Tratner, Interim Executive Director of the State Arts Council, during today’s awards ceremony. “The outstanding nominees get better every year, and their passionate patrons and fans come out and vote by the thousands, making it known that the arts in New Jersey are not to be missed.”

SOPAC covers the gambit when it comes to the Arts and Entertainment field. The quality of the SOPAC environment is top notch, the musicians all want to perform here and this ensures folks from all over the region want to experience this performing arts center. And if you want to see for yourself, a young dynamic vocalist will grace the main stage of SOPAC on Mar 15th, 2019 at 8 PM.

This two-time winner of Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem has performed with top-flight musicians on stages around the world. "Alexis Jessica Morrast youngest of six, singer/song writer; a 17 year old phenom, native of Newark, now residing in Plainfield, New Jersey began singing at the age of three. Since that time she's performed on several stages; the U.S. OPENS, NJPAC with Christian McBride and Dizzy's Coca-Cola Club with jazz legend Barry Harris. Her resounding tone has been heard on the Millennium Stage of The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, abroad in Cape Town South Africa, Austria and worked with greats like Greg Phillinganes, Steve Jordan, Ray Chew, Lisa Fischer, Michael Feinstein and Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole; stockily the list only names a few leaving her humbled and striving for her best!!!

Miss Alexis has been featured and interviewed in several articles from The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Forbes Magazine and front page of both local, international newspapers. She is not only a two time Amateur Night Winner at The Apollo but she also Won "Showtime At The Apollo;" which aired on Fox TV, hosted by Steve Harvey! Not to be complacent she continued studying and working hard; becoming the recipient of the 2017 HOT HOUSE Magazine "The Best UP and Coming Young Artist Award." The Coltrane Jazz Festival put it this way: "The voice, the song, the stage presence are all astonishing!

Talented Plainfield teen helps Jersey Jazz Society celebrate 45th anniversary

According to the New Jersey Jazz Society "Alexis Morrast, a 16-year-old jazz and gospel singer from Plainfield, belies her age to such an extent that some within the Jersey jazz scene have compared her to a young Ella Fitzgerald."

Click here and take a listen. You can learn more when you come on out March 15 to the South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange NJ. You are guaranteed to have a great time.

Secure your tickets now. https://www.sopacnow.org/event...

Hope to see you there its an awesome vocalist at an awesome venue.

Gregory Burrus with vocalist Alexis Morrast

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