(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- Celebrated R&B and jazz vocalist Freda Payne will take to the main stage of Stockton University’s Performing Arts Center to pay tribute to the “First Lady of Song” Ella Fitzgerald on Saturday, October 14, 2023. Showtime is 7:30pm.
Freda Payne, who shot to fame with her No. 1 hit “Band of Gold,” plans to “recreate the spirit of Ella” with her renditions of “A Tisket, a-Tasket,” “Sweet Georgia Brown,” “It Don’t Mean A Thing” and “Mack the Knife,” as well as many other Fitzgerald classics.
Payne is most known for her disco and soul music career from the 1960s and ’70s, but her long range of accomplishments includes hosting her own talk show, acting on Broadway in shows such as “Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Sophisticated Ladies” and “Blues in the Night” and being inducted into the 2017 class of the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in her hometown of Detroit.
Tickets are $40 for the general public; $38 for senior citizens; $35 for Stockton University alumni; $30 for Stockton staff and faculty; $18 for children (12 and under); and $10 for Stockton students. Special pricing for groups of 10 or more people is also available. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit stockton.edu/pac. Tickets also are available at the Stockton Performing Arts Center box office from 10:00am to 3:00pm Monday through Thursday, and 90 minutes before showtime. Call 609-652-9000.
Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Our more than 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at our coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.
