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MARTIN: Mary Agnes Carey is a senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News. That's a nonprofit news service. It's not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente, and she was kind enough to join us here in our Washington, D.C. studios. Mary Agnes, thanks again.
Sunday, March 25 / 3:00 p.m. Berks Jazz Fest Night: Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz presents MARY STALLINGS Steinman Hall at the Ware Center / Lancaster Tickets: www.artsmu.com. Greatly influenced by Carmen McRae, San Francisco native Mary Stallings is a passionate, robust singer who brings a lifetime of emotional intelligence that enables her to truly inhabit a lyric. The niece of saxman Orlando Stallings, she started singing as a child and sang jazz in Bay Area clubs during her teenage years. After stints with Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine in the 1960s, Stallings toured with the Count Basie Orchestra as a featured vocalist from 1969-1972.