WHAT Sets 2016 Summer Concert Series

The Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Summer Concert Series returns with new faces (and some favorites), performing Latin, Cabaret, Classical, Big Band and more. The series runs Tuesday and Wednesday nights, June 28 through July 13. Concerts are 8pm at the air-conditioned, state-of-the-art Julie Harris Stage. It's the perfect way to end a day at the beach! Individual tickets are $20. A subscription to all six concerts is $100.

Tuesday, June 28 at 8pm
Debra Mann performs the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim

Debra Mann, jazz pianist & vocalist from Providence, RI, performs the music of Brazilian composer, Antônio (Tom) Carlos Jobim, considered one of the fathers of bossa nova, as well as one of the most important songwriters of the 20th century. He is perhaps best known as the composer of "Garota de Ipanema" (Girl from Ipanema); His collaboration with American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz created a bossa nova craze in the United States, and subsequently internationally. Debra has been celebrating Jobim's life in song for the last 20 years, and will join us for a special night in sharing some of her favorite songs.

Wednesday, June 29 at 8pm
Cabaret Featuring Krisanthi Pappas & Edwige Yingling

Jazz, cabaret and pop vocalist, Krisanthi Pappas, has been compared to Norah Jones and Diana Krall by JazzTimes Magazine. Also a two time Billboard award winning songwriter, Krisanthi's songs are aired on national television shows as well as in independent films.

Tuesday, July 5 at 8pm
Stage Door Canteen

Back by popular demand! At the heart of Stage Door Canteen stands a massive 12-piece horn section. There is simply something different about the big band sound. Drawing energy not from a synthesizer or turntable, but from the wind and spirit of twelve real musicians, there is no other experience like a great American big band; it will awaken something primitive in your DNA, the restless spirit that drifted up the mighty Mississippi and later took hold in the servicemen who won The War.

Wednesday, July 6 at 8pm
Jazz Vocalist Holli Ross

Ross, reviewed as the "the voice of experience" by the late jazz critic, Stuart Troup, has shared the stage and studios with many jazz luminaries: Gene Bertoncini, Bill Charlap, Jon Faddis, Donald Johnston, Steve Kuhn, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Romero Lumambo, Bill Mays, Jack MacDuff, Darmon Meader, Hendrik Meurkens, Bucky Pizzarelli, Randy Sandke, Rufus Reid, Claudio Roditi, Ted Rosenthal, Akira Tana, Dennis Wilson, and Matt Wilson. She has toured nationally and abroad with SOP in high-profile performances at the JVC Jazz Festival, the 92nd Street Y, Town Hall, and the Kennedy Center.

Tuesday, July 12 at 8pm
Latin Grammy Award Winning Afro Bop Alliance

Latin Grammy Award winning Afro Bop Alliance (ABA) is an Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble based in Washington, DC, who was received Latin Jazz Album of the Year at the 9th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2008 for the recording "Afro Bop Alliance, featuring Dave Samuels," which was released on the Heads-Up label. This recording was also nominated for a Grammy in the same category that same year.

Wednesday, July 13, 8pm
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival presents: Kairos

In 2015, harpist Alix Raspé and flutist Fanya Wyrick-Flax launched kairos, a Boston-based flute/harp duo. The ancient Greeks had two words for time: chronos and kairos. While chronos refers to the chronological and sequential aspects of time, kairos the right or opportune moment - an indeterminate point in time when action is propitious. As this year's recipient of both the competitive Ensemble Fellowship and the Entrepreneurial Musicianship Grant at New England Conservatory, kairos has been invited to perform in several community venues throughout Greater Boston, including the Boston Public Library.

Summer Concerts are appropriate for all ages.