Legendary Singer-Songwriter JUDY COLLINS Among the Honorees at the 34th ANNUAL BISTRO AWARDS Gala
Monday, March 11 at Gotham Comedy Club Frances Ruffelle, Lee Horwin, Luba Mason, and Sidney Myer Also Recognized Among the 15 Winners Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and Grammy Hall-of-Famer Judy Collins will be honored, along with a diverse group of 14 other outstanding artists, at the 34th Annual Bistro Awards on Monday, March 11 at Gotham […]
Legendary Singer-Songwriter JUDY COLLINS to Receive the 2019 Bistro Award for Lifetime Achievement
Monday, March 11 at Gotham Comedy Club (New York City, Jan. 21, 2019) — Internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter and Grammy Hall-of-Famer, Judy Collins will be honored at the 34th Annual Bistro Awards on Monday, March 11, where she will be receiving the Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award, the Bistro Awards’ highest honor, for her six decades […]
2018 ASCAP Outstanding Revue Award
(New York City, February 7, 2018) — ASCAP, the performing rights organization and longtime sponsor of the Bistro Awards, annually gives its name to one of the Awards. This year, ASCAP has chosen the revue It Helps to Sing About It: Songs of Ben Schaechter & Dan Kael as the recipient of the ASCAP title in recognition […]
Monday, March 12, 6:30 pm at Gotham Comedy Club Marta Sanders, Shemekia Copeland, and Will and Peter Anderson Also Recognized Among the 15 Award Winners (New York City, January 31, 2018) —Tony and Drama Desk nominee and multi-Audelco Award winner André De Shields and internationally acclaimed jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan are among the artists who […]
It’s always encouraging to see a performer, too young to have personally experienced the subject of her tribute show, go to great lengths to impart to her audience a real-life sense of the honoree. The flip side of that cross-generational combination is, of course, that the distance between live artist and deceased subject can be […]
They were both born in Georgia. And as members of the Southern diaspora and living most of their lives elsewhere, Down Home was so often in their thoughts. He was Johnny Mercer, one of the preeminent lyricists of the mid-20th century American songbook. She is Nancy McCall McGraw, who recently chose Mercer as the subject […]
John and Matthew Drinkwater are twins—singing, football-playing twins, in their senior years at Wagner College. As I sat down to watch their recent show at Don’t Tell Mama, I must admit I had a little trepidation that—with their being young, playing to a home crowd, and probably not thus-far knocked around by show business—I’d be […]
In the show she performed in 2016, Lynda Rodolitz declared, convincingly, that she was “Off Her Rocker.” She underscores, maybe even expands, that comic assertion in her laugh-rich current show, Animal Magnetism (at Don’t Tell Mama, directed by Lennie Watts). In this musically sophisticated outing, she purports to solicit dating advice from the animal kingdom—by […]
Don’t Tell Mama Mondays April 1 & 8, 7:00 pm Tommy J. Dose, Brian Kalinowski, Paul Pilcz, and Jon Satrom might be known best for their individual work as piano bar entertainers, but they come with extensive backgrounds in theatre and television. More to the point, they’re first-rate singers and performers, with impressive voices and […]
The Green Room 42 Saturday April 6, 7:00 pm With her engagement extended into 2019, Frances Ruffelle returns to The Green Room with her theatre piece Frances Ruffelle LIVEs in New York. In part, it tells of one woman’s quest for love and the rise and fall of a romance, so of course there are several French selections. […]
Birdland Sunday April 7, 6:00 pm To celebrate the release of her latest CD, Pick Up My Pieces: Gabrielle Stravelli Sings Willie Nelson, the multi-award-winning jazz vocalist is joined by the the full 9-piece band from her recording. From the first track—a highly charged, rhythmic “Lady Luck” paired with a sassy “If You’ve Got the […]
