Circleville Herald 10.10.2025

Pumpkin Show will provide great entertainment, and great variety

KATANYA BREWER of SIDEWALK SERENADES, LLC

• Wednesday, October 15 at 2:00 p.m.

• Thursday, October 16 at 2:00 p.m.

• The Savings Bank Stage at Pumpkin Show Park

KaTanya Brewer is a first-time performer of the Circleville Pumpkin Show, which will give her two performances during the week an interesting touch to everything else happening around Downtown Circleville.

She began in Columbus, after being laid off from a corporate job just before COVID came, changing everything. In that uncertain time, she and her husband created Sidewalk Serenades.

Brewer elaborated, “At that time, bars had been shut down. Places where people would go to celebrate a birthday or anniversary or promotion or something like that, they had nowhere to go — or grandparents that they would want to go visit and stuff were most at risk for COVID. What ended up happening was people began to call on me, and I began going around the city of Columbus and the outside suburb area, surprising people with serenades.

“I’d go knock on the door and kind of surprise someone. There’d be family members sitting in the driveway or on the lawn. I’d do a 20-minute concert, maybe happy birthday or happy anniversary.

The family wanted to see you so bad, but they didn’t want to come in and see you. It was a wonderful way to surprise someone. It was a wonderful way to show a unique way of how much you cared about that outside of having a party or taking them out to dinner. Neighbors would come out, take video, and they’d feel so special,” Brewer ended.

Her music extends beyond genre. She can sing Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, and Amy Winehouse, plus a variety of other songs and bands. She enjoys singing things that anyone walking by can recognize, whether they are 6 or 96.

To Brewer, “no audience is too small.” She enjoys the one-on-one experience of interacting with her audience, which makes Sidewalk Serenades so successful.

“Music is the only thing, I would say, that can get to your subconscious mind without your permission,” Brewer added.

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