Al Corey’s Big Band vocalist and former Rumford area resident, Ginny Palmer, will be a guest performer at the Countryfolk MusicTheatre in East Dixfield during the Maine during the Music and Minerals weekend.

 Palmer, who says she grew up on country music in western Maine as a child, says she loves it and it comes from her heart, even though she has been the lead vocalist for Al Corey’s Big Band sounds for the past 15 years she is looking forward to performing at Countryfolk. “I just love what they do for the community and their youth music scholarship program,”  Palmer said.

“We are so happy to have Ginny appearing to help raise donations for youth music scholarships this year,” Bisbee said. 

 Palmer has been a professional jazz vocalist for nearly three decades. She received a bachelor of music degree from the University of Maine at Augusta. During her time there she was chosen by the Polish-American Youth Jazz Foundation to travel with a group of American music educators to Krakow and Warsaw Poland where she taught vocal jazz and also performed with many Polish and American jazz musicians throughout the country. Her Jazz vocal stylings have been heard from Maine to Florida. She also performs with the Pat Michaud Jazz Quintet and has most recently formed her own jazz combo called Jazz in Blue.

 Palmer taught music in a private school for 15  years and also returned to UMA to conduct the vocal jazz ensemble, pep band and to give private vocal instruction. 

She is a veteran adjudicator for Maine Jazz All-State competition ans  ha also visited many schools throughout the state conducting clinics and concerts with middle and high School students.