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The Songs That Mabel Sang—A Birthday Anniversary Concert Celebrating Mabel Mercer
Monday, February 6th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
No one could put a song across like the great Mabel Mercer. The likes of Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne and Peggy Lee attributed her with teaching
Stacy Sullivan: A Tribute to Miss Peggy Lee
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
“If I’m the Duke,” Ellington said, “Peggy is the Queen.” Sunlight streams through the two story windows of St. Peter’s Church. Pews are crowded in
Holiday Gowns That Make You Look Like a Million (for Under $500)
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Shopping Around
“Maybe it’s much too early in the game/Ooh, but I thought I’d ask you just the same/?What are you doing New Year’s/New Year’s eve?” Frank
Leading Cabaret Venue Celebrates Its Own
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Thursday night, December 8, one of the city’s leading, newly spiffed up cabaret venues threw its first annual Artist Appreciation Holiday Party honoring performers and
Urban Stages Honors the Keeper of the Flame
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
*Check the full upcoming schedule for a wide variety of intimate venue, reasonably priced musical events. Donald Smith, Executive Director and Founder of The Mabel
An Intimate Affair…A Man, a Woman, and the American Songbook
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Amanda King and T. Oliver Reid met a year ago and were drawn to each other’s vocal style. An Intimate Affair is broken up into
Love and the Weather—Thoroughly Entertaining
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Craig Pomranz’s thoroughly entertaining Love and the Weather is a clever concept. Love and the weather, birds of a feather/Can’t be depended upon/One day it’s
Sigali Hamberger: A Toast to Ava Gardner
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Ninety per cent of the way through Sigali Hamberger ‘s very personal retelling of Ava Gardner’s tumultuous life, she stands at the back of the
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