Sunday, December 14, 2025, 2:00 –3:00 pm
Barbara Rosene: A Jolly Holiday with the American Songbook
Wadsworth Public Library, 132 Broad Street, Wadsworth, OH 44281

Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) and the Wadsworth Public Library continue Live at the Library featuring Barbara Rosene and Rock Wehrmann on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at 2 pm at the Wadsworth Public Library, 132 Broad Street, Wadsworth, OH 44281.

Barbara Rosene will sing her favorite holiday jazz standards from the American Songbook, along with pianist Rock Wehrmann. Barbara has played such venues as The Iridium, Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, Birdland, Blues Alley, The Jazz Corner, The Montreal Jazz Festival and Jazz Amarinois, and is included in Scott Yanow’s book, “Great Jazz Singers.”

This program is free. Seating at programs is on a first come first served basis. For more information calli 419-853-6016.

About the Musicians 

Ohio Native, Barbara Rosene has built an unequalled reputation for interpreting the great music of the 1920s through the 40s.  Will Friedwald, of the “Wall Street Journal” has written: “No one evokes more vividly the music of the great singers of the 1920s than Barbara Rosene.” She has performed internationally with The Harry James Orchestra, with the late Les Paul at New York’s Iridium Jazz Club, with Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks, with the Woody Allen Band, as well as directing her own New Yorkers. She has played such venues as The Iridium, Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, Birdland, Blues Alley, The Jazz Corner, The Montreal Jazz Festival and Jazz Amarinois. Barbara has been featured on Judy Carmichael’s NPR program, “Jazz Inspired”, and on NPR’s “Hot Jazz Saturday Night” with Rob Bamberger. She is the recipient of the Backstage Bistro Award, and is included in Scott Yanow’s book, “Great Jazz Singers.”

Rock Wehrmann, pianist/accompanist/composer, is an accomplished musician known throughout NE Ohio for his extraordinary repertoire, who crosses musical genres with ease. He is the first-call keyboardist for Northeast Ohio organizations such as Playhouse Square, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and Cleveland Pops, as well as Broadway touring productions. He taught at Oberlin College, the University of Akron, and at Cleveland State University, and is a Professor Emeritus from Kent State University.