Black Voices in Cabaret
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Jan 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Christine Steyer offers a special session on Healthy Singing––A New Year’s Resolution for Vocal Health Register Today! Join award-winning soprano and voice teacher Christine Steyer for a fun-filled session on maintaining a healthy singing voice. We will explore body parts involved in producing a powerful and…
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SongShop Live presents “Things Change”
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Claudia
Dec 11, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – A concert for seasons and other things that change in us. Howard Pfeifer is music director, with singers Susan Arjmand, Evelyn Danner, Jeanne Franks, Ruth Fuerst, Carrie Hedges, Claudia Hommel, Staci Kelley, Jonathan Lewis, and Gabriel Valentino. We’re exploring in song the many ways change…
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Women in Music, Song, and Verse
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Claudia
Nov 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Black Voices In Cabaret partners with the Guild Literary Complex for The Musicality of Poetry series featuring singer-storyteller Lynne Jordan and vocalist Arlene Armstrong, and poets Nikki Patin and Toni Asanti Lightfoot. Raymond Glover is at the keyboard. Along with poetry performances, there will be…
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The Stars Come Out at Night
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Lydia Stux
Oct 17, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – A letter from Anne Burnell: Dear Friends, Our first live Gala since 2019 is next month. The 2022 Chicago Cabaret Professionals Gala will include performances by 25 singers, and an awards ceremony celebrating artistic achievements and community leadership. Invite your friends and family to join us at Epiphany Center for the…
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Talking to Petals & Strangers
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Claudia
Aug 20, 2022 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – SongShop Live presents a garden concert in Albany Park. USE THE FORM BELOW TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE. The garden is in bloom. For forty fortunate people there’s room to enjoy songs up close and personal, whether jazz, blues, operetta, musical theatre or new and contemporary.The…
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Black Voices in Cabaret presents: “Celebrating Sisterhood”
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Dave DeGooyer
Jul 27, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Black Voices in Cabaret: “Celebrating Sisterhood” The Cliff Dwellers Club invites you to an exclusive dinner and show. Celebrating Women’s History Month, we feature these amazing performers who have come together in the network of Black Voices in Cabaret. Host: Margaret Murphy WebbMusical Director: Christie…
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Bastille Day, July 14th – dinner & show!
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Claudia
Jul 14, 2022 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm – An evening of French cabaret music at Norman’s Bistro Come kick up your heels with Claudia Hommel and accordionist Patricia Spaeth as we bring you the magic of Paris for Bastille Day. You’ll be humming “Bonjour Paris” as we stroll down the “Champs Elysées” “Under…
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Josephine Baker and the legacy of fervor
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Claudia
May 16, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – A grand finale for both Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week 2022. In Person – In French & English. Ten performers from Paris and Chicago pay tribute to an extraordinary woman and artist! Featuring Michèle Barbier, who served as Josephine’s personal assistant. With…
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“Making jazz, Arthur Briggs, and Josephine Baker French” – an online international round table
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Claudia
Apr 10, 2022 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Making Jazz, Arthur Briggs and Josephine Baker French: Join an international conversation about the history of African-American artists living in France, the cross-cultural stories of their fight for recognition, race relations, and the embrace of solidarity through music. Travis Atria (author of Better Days Will…
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Celebrating 100 Years of Chicago Cabaret: Black Voices in Cabaret & The French Connection
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Dave DeGooyer
Oct 3, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Oct 3, 2021 @ 3:00pm Directors: Daniel Johnson, David Stephens Music Director: Elizabeth Doyle Where it all began…in Paris and Chicago. Spotlighting the exchange off cultures from Montmartre to State Street, and the extraordinary contribution of African American music and musicians to the evolution of…
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Celebrating 100 Years of Chicago Cabaret: Cabaret Burlesque & Great American Songbook
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Dave DeGooyer
Sep 19, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Sept 19, 2021 @ 3:00pm Directors: Anne Burnell, Kyle Hustedt Music Director: Mark Burnell A celebration of LGBTQIA artists featuring drag, burlesque, and dancers interwoven with the hits from the Great American Songbook – Jazz, Broadway, standards, composers and lyricists of Tin Pan Alley. Featuring:…
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Healing through Song Part 3 – Dream On
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Dave DeGooyer
Mar 28, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Healing through Song Part 3 – Dream On (Sunday, March 28th) Room opens at 2:30 p.m. to meet and greet the artists and each other. Show begins at 3:00 p.m. Live-chat with emcees David Stephens and Arlene Armstrong and today’s cast from Chicago and…