Jazz singer Carolyn Leonhart riffs on music

WKAR Public Media | By Current State

Published April 3, 2013 at 2:46 PM EDT

Jazz singer Carolyn Leonhart will turn Wharton Center’s Jackson Lounge into a jazz club next Wednesday. She’ll be putting on two performances that night to benefit East Lansing’s Summer Solstice Jazz Festival. WKAR’S Melissa Benmark caught up with her this week to ask what kinds of material she’ll be performing at her Wharton gig.

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