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Benefit Performance to Feature Winters

Episcopal News Service. May 6, 1982 [82112]

NEW ORLEANS (DPS, May 6) -- When the Episcopal Church's General Convention meets here in September, comic Jonathan Winters will head an entertainment bill which will also include Preservation Hall Jazz Band and comedienne Ann B. Davis.

An evening with Jonathan Winters is one of the entertainment programs planned to benefit the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging. Davis, featured on "The Brady Bunch" and other television programs, will be hostess for the evening.

Scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 8, the benefit program will be at the recently restored Saenger Performing Arts Center, within walking distance of the Convention site and hotels.

Winters, known for his improvisational skills which enable him to create instantly characters and situations, supplying a wide range of his own sound effects, is a native of Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Springfield. He was confirmed and married in the Episcopal Church.

He enrolled at Episcopal-related Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and later transferred to Dayton Art Institute. It was his wife, Eileen, who initiated his switch from an amateur comic to professional entertainer. He is still an active and serious painter and has enjoyed two critically-acclaimed one-man shows.

His reputation as a comic was developed in nightclubs, television and the movies. He has made 12 albums for Columbia Records. In addition to creating his own comedy material, Winters writes short stories and light verse.

Preservation Hall was started in New Orleans in 1961 so there would be a place where musicians and others could get together in a relaxed atmosphere, where music was the important thing.

The Society is also sponsoring a benefit moonlight cruise on a Mississippi River boat on Labor Day, Sept. 6. The cruise will feature a seafood buffet, fried chicken picnic dinner, and the big band sound of Jubilation. A jazz march, led by the Olympia Brass Band, will escort the group from the Convention site to the riverboat.

A third entertainment feature sponsored by the Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging will be visits to some private patios and courtyards in the French Quarter. These areas will be opened especially for the participants at General Convention.

The courtyard visits will be on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2 to 4 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 11, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Sept. 12, 2 to 4 p.m. The Saturday night event will feature the Dr. Jazz Banjo Band and the Alvin Acorn Trio.

The Society plans to offer an original poster commemorating the 1982 General Convention featuring New Orleans. The poster will be designed by a New Orleans artist.

For details on these benefit programs and poster and ticket information, write or call Lorraine D. Chiaventone, Executive Director, Episcopal Society for Ministry on Aging, RD 4, Box 146-A, Milford, NJ 08845 (201/995-2885).