The following is a press release from the Westfield Memorial Library: 

On Saturday, August 4 at 10:30 a.m., the Westfield Memorial Library meeting room will be filled with the sounds of ragtime. Westfield resident and jazz pianist Prestine Allen is on tap for two hours at the library.

Mr. Allen is an accomplished pianist who has performed solo at Carnegie Hall and has accompanied the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir at Radio City Music Hall. He has also played at Six Flags Great Adventure with "Our Father's Music Business."

The program is free and open to Westfield Memorial Library and MURAL cardholders. (MURAL cardholders belong to libraries that are part of the Middlesex Union Reciprocal Agreement Libraries. Check our website to see if your library participates.) To register for the program, visit the library's website at www.wmlnj.org , click on the Online Calendar, or call 908.789.4090 option 0.