MARIETTA – The Jess Baldwin Quintet will take center stage Saturday night at the Peoples Bank Theatre for the second installment of the Stage Door Cabaret.

The evening, beginning at 8 p.m., features music, hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, with intimate table seating on the stage of the historic Peoples Bank Theatre on Putnam Street.

Jess Baldwin’s voice has been described as “world class,” “effortless” and “pure beauty.” She has performed in jazz, funk, soul, fusion, pop, rock, musical theater, gospel, Americana, and classical groups.

Although The Jess Baldwin Quintet is very jazz-influenced, it isn’t a straight-ahead swing group, which is what most people envision when you say “jazz,” said singer-quintet founder Jess Baldwin.

“I choose songs that I love from the wide variety of genres that I’ve sung and studied, and I re-arrange them using elements that I love from the world of jazz: lush harmonies, complex rhythms, and a love for good texts,” Baldwin said.

The Marietta audience will hear Bjork, Bach, Ani DiFranco, Samuel Barber, Esperanza Spalding, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch and more on Saturday night. Some songs are fun and light, Baldwin said.

Some songs are enchanting and ethereal. Some are heavy and sad, she said.

Baldwin is joined by regional musicians guitarist Ryan Kennedy, pianist Sean Parsons, bassist Steven Heffner and drummer Andy Hall.

Hipp Stage Productions, a nonprofit offshoot of Peoples Bank Theatre, created the Stage Door Series because it wanted local musicians to have an opportunity to be a part of the theater’s annual programming without the pressure of having to fill up 1,000 seats, Baldwin said. To accomplish this, they decided to close the curtain and set the stage with table seating.

Technical Director Brad Smith does an amazing job transforming the stage into a swanky nightclub that seats about 100, Baldwin said. The audience enters through the stage door for the event, thus the name.

Each Stage Door concert features a different group of local musicians. The last concert featured Tiffany CasaSante and Friends, and the one this summer will be put together by Susan Meredith.

“I’ve put the music together for this one, and it will feature my group, The Jess Baldwin Quintet,” Baldwin said.

“I think the setting is something parents might want to experience as a night out rather than a family affair. That said, kids are welcome,” Baldwin said.

Baldwin said she is fortunate to play with an all-star cast of regional musicians.

Parsons and Heffner have performed with Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. The quintet has performed in the Evergreen Arts and Humanities Series, at Adelphia Music Hall, and at the Jazz and Rib Fest in Columbus.

As both a musician and a music teacher, Baldwin said she has always had a passion for crossing genre boundaries in music. “I never really bought into the idea that you had to pick just one kind of music and stick to it,” she said.

Baldwin earned two classical singing degrees and studied contemporary and commercial (popular) music at Shenandoah University.

She earned the 2015 Ohio Music Award for Best Cover Song for her recording of Gillian Welch’s “One Little Song.” Baldwin was a quarterfinalist in the 2015 American Traditions Competition in Savannah, Ga.

“I’ve been spending the past year recording and releasing singles in different genres with different regional musicians. My next one, a cover of Weezer’s ‘El Scorcho,’ is due out this summer,” Baldwin said.