Thursday Night Live: Convergence Quartet Featuring Wanda Houston
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Houston, originally from Chicago, grew up singing gospel music in church. |
BENNINGTON, Vt. — The Better Bennington Corporation's fourth Thursday Night Live event features the Convergence Quartet Featuring Wanda Houston on Thursday, June 30 from 5:30pm to 7:00pm at Merchants Park's Thomson Family Stage.
The address is 119 North Street. Bring lawn chairs. The rain location is Mission City Church. This event is free and open to the public.
Local vendors and buskers will set up ahead of the main event. Vendors will provide baked goods, face painting, braiding, and more. Gift baskets, curated by the Promotions Committee using merchandise from downtown businesses, are raffled off at the end of the performance. Raffle tickets are $1 for 1 or $5 for 6.
Also, after finding hundreds of old yearbooks, SVSU will be giving them away during the festivities.
Wanda Houston (vocals), Eugene Uman (piano), David Picchi (bass), and John Fisher (drums) come to Bennington from the Berkshires and western Vermont. They have played together for years including the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro where Uman is the director.