January 12, 2020 6:00 p.m.
Hear The Word of God Through Music and Art
A Jazz Vespers Service
Music: Cheryl Barnes
Visual Artist: Carl Shubs
Cheryl Barnes (Vocalist) Cheryl Barnes is a classically trained jazz singer in possession of remarkable depth, range and technique. Her first professional experience as a singer came while in school at Union College (in New Jersey), when she joined the rock band Eve's Garden. With that band, she played a number of dates as the opening act for groups such as the Classics IV, the Vagrants (Leslie West), and Ten Wheel Drive. Cheryl performed in Leonard Bernstein's Mass and on Broadway in The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, Godspell, and Jesus Christ Superstar. She sang the song "Love and Passion" (music by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics by Paul Schrader) for the soundtrack of the 1980 film American Gigolo. She portrayed Dina, the handmaiden, in Doug Henning's The Magic Show.
Liz Kinnon (Piano) Liz Kinnon, a native of Los Angeles, has performed all over the world with numerous artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Andy Williams, Barbara Morrison, Sherwood Sledge, Kenia, Octavio Bailly, and Jackie Ryan. Ms. Kinnon graduated from the Composing and Arranging Program (CAP) at the Dick Grove School of Music. She later received a Bachelor Degree in Applied Studies with a minor in Communications from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She was selected as one of five Los Angeles artists in 2010 for the prestigious Teaching Artist Training Program (TAAP) conducted by the Music Center Education Foundation.
Jeff Takiguchi (Bass) Jeff Takiguchi, bass, completed his Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies at USC in 2004, and currently teaches at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA. At COC, he has taught Music Appreciation, Fundamentals of Music, Electric Bass Studies I & II, Society and Rock and Roll, Development of Jazz, and Applied Music (electric and acoustic bass). He also has been an accompanist and arranger for the Lab Band.
Paul Kreibich (Drums) Jazz drummer Paul Kreibich has been a mainstay on the jazz scene for many years, both in his native city of Los Angeles and internationally. From Carnegie Hall to Japan, he has toured with Carmen McRae, the Ray Charles Band and Gene Harris Quartet - just to name a few. Many of his contemporaries hail his ability as a "melodic drummer." Jazz reviewers have praised his brushwork and artful timekeeping, and drum legend Stan Levey says of him, "this man is a truly outstanding drummer, one of the best I've heard." Kreibich is an endorsing artist for Remo drums, Istanbul cymbals and Vic Firth sticks, and has recordings on the Concord label. He teaches drum set in the jazz area at California State University, Fullerton.
This month's featured Artist: Carl Shubs (Photography) Carl Shubs is a self-taught contemporary fine art photographer. His first exhibit was in 2011, as part of a group show at the Museum of Neon and Kinetic Art, in Los Angeles. That recognition encouraged him to deepen his commitment to photography and to begin showing his work.
In 2014 he was accepted into membership in the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA). His work is held in private collections and he has exhibited nationally and internationally, including he National Art Center of Tokyo. He has been in many juried exhibitions (including over 20 yearly between 2016 - 2019). His acclaimed jurors have included Elizabeth Avedon, Andi Campognone, Debra Klomp Ching, Brian Paul Clamp, Shana Nys Dambrot, Peter Frank, Herair & Lori Garboushian, David Garnick, Greg Gorman, Mark Steven Greenfield, W.M. Hunt, Jim Morphesis, Susan Spiritus, Aline Smithson, Nick Turpin, and Richard Vogel.
He has won awards and honors, had his work published in such prestigious publications as Lenscratch, F-Stop Magazine, and the Photographer's Forum hardcover book Best of Photography 2015, and has been in a digital display at the Louvre. He is proud to have curated a combination solo exhibit and group show that included seventeen amazing artists who work in a variety of media. He has also been invited to be curator for L.A. Photo Curator's online exhibition "Street Shooting."
He says:
"I am a contemporary fine art photographer and also a psychoanalytic psychologist, based in Los Angeles. My work captures the moments that surround us and that we often overlook in the mundane of everyday living.
I want the viewer to reach beyond the obvious, feel an emotion, or think about something in a new way. I prefer to shoot whatever catches my eye as I go out into the world, and I call these "found images." I'm drawn to singular scenes like a boy in a lingerie shop, a tree with sneakers hanging from it in the middle of nowhere at moonrise, or something about shapes, patterns, or colors. My photos are typically presented without compositing or major Photoshop editing.
I love when someone thinks that an image is set up rather than captured or is made by some kind of photographic manipulation when actually it is what the camera saw. I'm delighted when people don't know what they are looking at in a photo, but love it anyway."
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Vesper Quotes for the Year 2020
"Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world." Ahmed Alaadeen
Psalm 95:1
Oh come, Let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
Remembering some of the Jazz and Music Greats who left us recently:
Hugh Masekela, Leon (Ndugu) Chandler, Hamiet Bluiett, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Randy Weston, Bob Dorough, Henry Butler, Cecil Taylor, Bill Watrous, Bill Hughes, Roy Hargrove, Hal Blaine
Northridge United Methodist Church
9650 Reseda Blvd
Northridge, CA, 91324
818 886-1555 www.northridgeumc.org
Cheryl Barnes (Vocalist) Cheryl Barnes is a classically trained jazz singer in possession of remarkable depth, range and technique. Her first professional experience as a singer came while in school at Union College (in New Jersey), when she joined the rock band Eve's Garden. With that band, she played a number of dates as the opening act for groups such as the Classics IV, the Vagrants (Leslie West), and Ten Wheel Drive. Cheryl performed in Leonard Bernstein's Mass and on Broadway in The Last Sweet Days of Isaac, Godspell, and Jesus Christ Superstar. She sang the song "Love and Passion" (music by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics by Paul Schrader) for the soundtrack of the 1980 film American Gigolo. She portrayed Dina, the handmaiden, in Doug Henning's The Magic Show. 
Liz Kinnon (Piano) Liz Kinnon, a native of Los Angeles, has performed all over the world with numerous artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Andy Williams, Barbara Morrison, Sherwood Sledge, Kenia, Octavio Bailly, and Jackie Ryan. Ms. Kinnon graduated from the Composing and Arranging Program (CAP) at the Dick Grove School of Music. She later received a Bachelor Degree in Applied Studies with a minor in Communications from California State University, Dominguez Hills. She was selected as one of five Los Angeles artists in 2010 for the prestigious Teaching Artist Training Program (TAAP) conducted by the Music Center Education Foundation. 
Jeff Takiguchi (Bass) Jeff Takiguchi, bass, completed his Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies at USC in 2004, and currently teaches at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA. At COC, he has taught Music Appreciation, Fundamentals of Music, Electric Bass Studies I & II, Society and Rock and Roll, Development of Jazz, and Applied Music (electric and acoustic bass). He also has been an accompanist and arranger for the Lab Band. 
Paul Kreibich (Drums) Jazz drummer Paul Kreibich has been a mainstay on the jazz scene for many years, both in his native city of Los Angeles and internationally. From Carnegie Hall to Japan, he has toured with Carmen McRae, the Ray Charles Band and Gene Harris Quartet - just to name a few. Many of his contemporaries hail his ability as a "melodic drummer." Jazz reviewers have praised his brushwork and artful timekeeping, and drum legend Stan Levey says of him, "this man is a truly outstanding drummer, one of the best I've heard." Kreibich is an endorsing artist for Remo drums, Istanbul cymbals and Vic Firth sticks, and has recordings on the Concord label. He teaches drum set in the jazz area at California State University, Fullerton. 
