The Friends of Ritter Public Library Present a free concert featuring Cindy Smith and Doug Day

Musical Memories: Celebrating the Great American Songbook

Cindy Smith is a sought-after versatile vocalist, with a broad repertoire, built around jazz, the Great American Songbook, musical theatre, swing, and old school classics. She has developed her vocal styling on stages across the Greater Cleveland area and is a featured vocalist for several local big bands, including Swing Era Big Band, Don Kubec Big Band, Strongsville Jazz Band and a newly formed group called 3 Birds & The Wire – a “tight-harmony” female trio group. Cindy sings music of the greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole, Peggy Lee, Carol King, Bette Midler and many more. Cindy is classically trained from Baldwin-Wallace College and The Music Settlement and was a 17-year member of the Cleveland Opera.

Doug Day is a retired Band and Orchestra Director of Bay Village High School. He has played piano, trombone, and bass professionally for over 50 years, including eight years as the bassist for the Harry Hershey Orchestra. Currently he is the pianist for the Cleveland TOPS Swingband and has performed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Pied Pipers, the Four Aces, the New Chordettes, and Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack.