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Jackie Evancho, one of the brightest young stars in the music industry, is coming to this area for a pair of shows. Jackie will have a concert on August 21 at Longwood Gardens. When the tickets for the show at Longwood went on sale, they lasted about as long as an ice cube in a cup of hot coffee sitting in the sun on a sunny August day. Fortunately for area fans, tickets are still available for the show at the American Music Theatre.

If you heard Jackie Evancho’s vocals without knowing what she looked like, you’d expect her to be a mature woman who looked the part of an opera diva. Then, when you saw a picture of her or a video of one of her performances, you’d be stunned. Jackie Evancho, who sounds as if she could sing a lead role in a major opera or an adult lead in a Broadway musical, is a petite 14-year old singer from Pittsburgh. Her voice and ability seem way too mature for a small blue-eyed blonde with angelic looks but she delivers.

There is no doubt that Evancho is the real deal — the genuine article. Billboard magazine ranked her as the Number One Classical Albums Artist of 2011. In November 2011, she became the youngest person ever to give a solo concert at Lincoln Center in New York City as part of her “Dream With Me Tour.”

Evancho has released four studio albums and one EP since 2009. She has a new album ready to be released. Titled “Awakening”, the album will drop on September 23. “I recorded the new album at the beginning of the year,” said Evancho, during a phone interview last week from her home in western Pennsylvania. “It was really fun. I recorded it at a local studio in Pittsburgh. It’s just easier to record close to home and the people there seem like my second family. “We took one week out of each month to record every month. I picked some of the songs. The song selection came from a combination of me, my mom and dad, my manager and my record label.”

The album has a variety of styles under the umbrella of classical crossover — operatic songs, tunes from soundtracks, classical songs and pieces that came from Broadway hit musicals. The disc includes “Think of Me” from “Phantom of the Opera” and its first single is “The Rains of Castamere” from “Game of Thrones.”

‘Think of Me’ was a song I really wanted to do,” said Evancho. “It would be fun to do a Broadway musical but it requires a different style of singing. I like my style — classical crossover.”

Despite her young age, Evancho already is a top-selling recording artist, a veteran of live touring, a model in Guess Kids Campaign, a spokesperson the U.S. Humane Society and an actress in a movie “The Company You Keep”. “Acting is fun,” said Evancho. “It’s similar to singing because you have to pull emotions from inside. But, singing will always by my main thing. It’s what I love.

“I’m growing a lot more comfortable as a singer. Recording is easier. I’ve always felt comfortable on stage but I’m more comfortable now. Right now, I’m just doing a few concerts here and there. I’ll start a big tour after the new album is released”. Evancho has starred in two PBS specials for the television series “Great Performances”. She will tape her third PBS special at Longwood Gardens Open Air Theater. “I thought that Longwood Gardens was a beautiful place,” said Evancho. “We were looking for locations to make the new PBS special and decided on Longwood Gardens. It’s just a beautiful place to play.”