The Brownville Concert Series welcomes back Brownville favorite, Carole J. Bufford. “Roar! Music of the Jazz Age” features classics from the Jazz Age songbook made famous by the likes of Sophie Tucker, Louis Armstrong, Al Jolson, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith, Helen Morgan, Ruth Etting, and more. Carole will travel back to a time where flappers, vamps and sheiks were shimmying in gin joints as a whirl of great social and political change happened all around. The show will be in cabaret on Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m., and in concert Sunday, May 7, at 2:00 p.m. Sponsors are State Bank of Table Rock, Community Insurance Group, Laura French, and Jeffrey Meade and Shannon Stemm.

Carole J. Bufford is one of the most sought-after performers on the American vintage pop and cabaret scene. Her shows, including “speak easy.” (featuring the Grammy Award-winning Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks), “Come Together,” and “You Don’t Own Me,” earned her rave reviews from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Times (UK). She currently tours with her solo shows as well as with symphonies all over the country. Carole is also the recipient of BroadwayWorld’s Vocalist of the Year and the recent Gold Medal winner of the American Traditions Vocal Competition.

Carole J. Bufford originally hails from Lincolnton, Georgia, where she grew up on healthy doses of Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Dinah Washington, and Bessie Smith. She attended Ithaca College where she majored in Musical Theater.

Tickets can be purchased them online at www.brownvilleconcertseries.com, on Facebook or call 402-825-3331. The Nebraska Arts Council (www.nebraskaartscouncil.org), a state agency, supports this program through a matching grant funded by the Nebraska Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.