There are not many people who have a musical styling named for them. But Janet Clazzy is the creator and propagator of a musical form called clazzy, which is defined as “the spirit of classical and the soul of jazz - pop-minded.”

Blowing her way on the oboe and also the WX-5 Wind Machine, a horn touting the sounds of 250 instruments, she brings three decades of music to the stage, having played in the Chicago, Houston and San Jose symphonies - along with a prolific ability to compose.

“I came out of a musical pond as an oboist, played symphonic music for a while, and hooked up with Jonathan Richard Cring, a composer and author.”

Presently, Clazzy is touring the country with Cring, creating a duo dubbed SpiriTed, a living organism of an orchestra and show, evolving before your eyes.

“We started traveling 15 years ago, developing our own musical style – clazzy – a blending of all the great American stylings.”

A survivor and single mother of three grown sons, she provides a heartwarming back-story and a front-story, giving all of her audiences future tales to share.

On Sunday, July 10, at 7 p.m., Clazzy and Cring will perform a free show at the Apple Creek United Methodist Church, at 269 West Main Street in Apple Creek.

“The show is a perfect blending of entertainment and inspiration. We offer instrumental music, and because of the WX-5, it sounds like a full orchestra up there,” said Clazzy. “It’s a human show, geared to people, using language of our times.”

For more information, contact Steve Kimbrell at 615-419-6753 or 615-419-6755.