Laura Barge Trio will be back at Johnnie’s!

Laura Barge - vocals, Bill Stilfield - keys, Victor Perelmuter - drums

Laura Barge (Vocals) received a Jazz Vocal BA from Berklee College of Music in the late 1980’s. While attending Berklee she fell in love with the more contemporary forms of music. Contemporary Country/Pop/Folk, Jazz Standards and Rhythm & Blues are her favorites, but she loves most forms of modern Americana music. After touring with various bands around the country like ‘Black and Blue’, ‘Cruzin’, ‘Legacy’, ‘After Hours’ and ‘X-Factor’ for over a decade, she now resides in North KC where she performs for different venues, privately teaches, produces and promotes local acts and is the administrator for Corbin Theatre Company in Liberty, MO. Laura was nominated for Best KC Jazz Vocalist of the year for 2021 and 2022 through KC Jazz Ambassadors (JAM Magazine) and last year was featured in an article for VoyageKC Magazine in 2022 and will be featured in Voyager’s BoldJourney Series this fall.

Bill Stilfield (Keys) grew up in Liberty and is an LHS graduate. He later graduated with a music degree from MU. He’s been a lifelong pianist majoring in Music Theory and Composition. He spent 40 years in Los Angeles in the music business, first working for bandleader Stan Kenton, and then various jazz recording labels before forming his own two labels in 1987. Since Bill and his wife, Cathy, moved back to Liberty in 2012 he has performed with Corbin Theatre, volunteers on the Liberty Arts Commission and is the event director for Make Music Liberty. He played with the FMO Big Band for many years.

Victor Perelmuter (Drums) is a veteran musician, having played modern jazz for over 50 years. In the 1960’s he played professionally in Poland as an original member of the free jazz group Jazz Darings with Tomasz Stanko and Adam Makowicz. While in Poland he recorded, did radio/TV work and toured with variety shows and rock groups. In 1968 Victor moved to the USA, lived and worked in Cleveland, Ohio and was fortunate to play with the Cleveland Jazz Workshop Big Band and local groups Jazz Company and Mainstream.
Victor relocated to Kansas City in 1998 to become president of Siggins Company from which he retired in 2008.