"A Winter Wendy-Land Christmas" with Wendy Burns & Friends

About this event

Get into the holiday spirit with an evening of joyous Christmas jazz! Wendy Burns and Friends bring you a festive celebration filled with your favorite Christmas songs, holiday cheer, and music to make the season bright.

Wendy will be accompanied by an outstanding lineup of jazz musicians, including Melvin Macias, Tim Kreis, Bryan Brock, and Brian Allen. Together, they'll take you on a musical sleigh ride through the sounds of the season, sure to warm your heart and lift your Christmas spirit.

Wendy Burns Creator and producer of The Ladies Of Jazz Show, a multi year running show at Rudy’s Jazz Room. 2024 NIMA Award winner / 2022 ALM Nash Hall of Fame Inductee / 2023 & '24 Mississippi Awards Best Jazz / 2025 Southern Music Awards nominee.

Flute playing jazz vocalist Wendy Burns of Nashville TN has studied and performed songs from the 1940's Jazz Big Band era since the age of 9 years old. She has been described as having a unique voice that fits the era. She has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and has sessioned and performed with many of the Nashville classic country greats. With a deep passion for jazz standards.

Wendy believes there's beauty in staying true to the melodies as they were written. Her set list includes songs from the "Great American Songbook", jazz standards, and a number of her fabulous original pieces that reminisce of cherished jazz classics you've never heard. Wendy's influences are Judy Garland, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrew Sisters, and Helen Forrest, to name a few. You will also hear some of her original tunes in vaudeville fashion featuring "Grover" her ukulele.

"She expertly delivers jazz vocals in traditional speakeasy style and displays her exceptional talent on flute as well. She does an excellent job, a true entertainer, she holds her audience and has them laughing with her patter between songs." - Gary Cobb

"When singing the classics, I’ve always tried to sing the melodies as close to the original version as possible. I feel you can get closest to the composer's feelings by doing that and by staying within it that realm. To think that someone in a time long ago did their best to put their feelings and words of love on a sheet of paper so that generations ahead would hear it just as it was written is a golden key to a door of a time before that we all need to experience" - Wendy Burns