​The Modernistics are Peter H. Bloom, flute; Mark Leighton, guitar; Ted Powers, guitar, ukulele, percussion, tap and vocals; and Pamela Powers, tap and vocals.  The four artists have performed and taught extensively in the United States and abroad.  The group performs upbeat shows of Music and Dance from the Great American Songbook.  with crowd-pleasing favorites by Duke Ellington, Lerner & Lowe, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George Gershwin and other great American tunesmiths.

Among the many selections are:

Almost Like Being in Love
Sunny Side of the Street 
Fly Me to the Moon
Bye-Bye Blackbird
Blue Skies
Let’s Fall in Love
Top Hat 
The Way You Look Tonight
It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing

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​Acclaimed for their tap dancing prowess, inventive choreography, and winning personalities, Ted and Pamela Powers have performed extensively in the United States and abroad.  Ted Powers’ career in jazz, blues, and pop includes several years as a solo performer in the south of France and tap-dancing in the U.S. with the legendary Jimmy “Sir Slyde” Mitchell.  He appears widely as a solo artist and with the band Swing Café.

Pamela Powers has performed and taught in the United States, Germany and England.  She studied with Harold Nicholas of the iconic Nicholas Brothers and with renowned Broadway choreographer Charles Hughes.

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​Peter H. Bloom has concertized with jazz and classical ensembles in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand and is featured on more than 40 CDs. Praised for his “hip, jazzy flute work” (allaboutjazz.com), he is a veteran flutist/saxophonist with  the illustrious Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (“lush sonorities worthy of Ellington’s finest reed sections” - JazzTimes) and has appeared with jazz luminaries Charles Neville, Geri Allen, Jaki Byard, Sheila Jordan, Mark Harvey, Raj Mehta, Matt Savage and others.

​Mark Leighton is acclaimed as a jazz and classical guitarist, performs across the Northeast, at venues including The Taj, The Ritz-Carleton, The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, King's Chapel, Chatham Bars Inn, Corning Community College, and the Hudson River Museum of Art.  He was Director of First Night Quincy for 20 years and serves on the faculties of Colby College, Eastern Nazarene College and St. George’s School. He has appeared with jazz notables Billy Novick, Larry Carsman and others.  His teachers include Robert Sullivan, David Leisner and Sharon Isbin.   

Photos:  Benjamin  Bloom, Matt Samolis, Heloise Tanglewood