Diane "deedles" Schuur at Montgomery County Community College

As part of Montgomery County Community College’s Lively Arts season, American jazz/pop singer, pianist and Grammy Award winner Diane “Deedles” Schuur will perform songs from her wide-ranging catalog on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Theater, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell. Tickets cost $38. Visit www.mc3.edu/livelyarts or call 215-641-6518 for more information and tickets.

Blind since birth but blessed with perfect pitch and the ability to play piano by ear, Schuur has built a solid following by embracing traditional and contemporary jazz, pop, country and rhythm and blues. ...

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As part of Montgomery County Community College’s Lively Arts season, American jazz/pop singer, pianist and Grammy Award winner Diane “Deedles” Schuur will perform songs from her wide-ranging catalog on Saturday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. in the Science Center Theater, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell. Tickets cost $38. Visit www.mc3.edu/livelyarts or call 215-641-6518 for more information and tickets.

Blind since birth but blessed with perfect pitch and the ability to play piano by ear, Schuur has built a solid following by embracing traditional and contemporary jazz, pop, country and rhythm and blues.

“As far back as I can remember, singing was in my blood,” she recalls. “My parents loved music, and I loved to sing. I was scatting at an early age. I was determined to succeed at what I wanted to do. I wasn’t going to let my disability stand in my way.”

Throughout a distinguished career that has earned her two Grammy Awards and three additional nominations, she has recorded nearly two dozen albums over the past three decades―including her latest, “I Remember You: With Love to Stan and Frank,” which pays homage to mentors Stan Getz and Frank Sinatra. She has toured the world, headlined at Carnegie Hall and The White House, and collaborated with an incredibly diverse cross-section of musical greats, from B.B. King, Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra to Barry Manilow, Vince Gill and Alison Krauss.

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