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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…

  • 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…

  • SongShop Live presents “Love Is in the Air”

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    Claudia

    Mar 22, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – All about love —for friends, dogs, community or Mr. Right. Join us for a delightful gala-like event in two acts! We’ll escape the sappiest of love songs to explore all the ways love plays its games or raises us up. Join us afterward for dinner…

  • Master Class with Spider Saloff

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    Claudia

    Feb 7, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm – START the NEW YEAR with Jazz-inspired SONGS Spider Saloff is back by popular demand. So much so we’re holding two sessions! Spider says: ” Hey cats! Here is your chance to have an intense course in one evening! It will be a blast. “Some of the…

  • Master Class with Spider Saloff

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    Claudia

    Feb 6, 2022 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm – START the NEW YEAR with Jazz-inspired SONGS Spider Saloff is back by popular demand. So much so that we are holding 2 sessions! RESERVE NOW at songshoplive.com/rsvp2 Spider says: ” Hey cats! Here is your chance to have an intense course in one evening! It will…

  • SongShop Live presents Invitation to a Voyage

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    Claudia

    Dec 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – SongShop Live presents Invitation to a Voyage at the DePaul School of Music Recital Hall, Tuesday, December 14 at 7 PM. The spirit of thanks and giving gets a special meaning when it’s an invitation to a voyage, a journey for life. Songs from Berlioz…

  • Celebrating the life and music of Bob Moreen, the Quintessential Cabaret Man

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    Claudia

    Nov 29, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm –   Le Piano, 6970 North Glenwood Avenue, Chicago 6 PM: Passed hors d’oeuvres with Red, White and Bubbly will be followed by cash bar and Le Piano’s fine menu. Entertainment beginning at 7 PM provided by Barb Bailey, Carla Gordon, Ester Hana, Claudia Hommel, Daryl…

  • More than the Rainbow – Carrie Hedges brings us the songs of Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen

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    Claudia

    Nov 7, 2021 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Sunday, November 7, 2021, 3:00 p.m. First Unitarian Church of Chicago, 5650 S Woodlawn Ave Free-will donations are going to Chicago Children’s Choir and Working In Concert’s SongShop Scholarship Fund RSVP at rainbow@workinginconcert.org

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • Midsummer’s Dream—songs in 2 acts

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    Claudia

    Jul 17, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Songs to celebrate summer, rose gardens, lazy afternoons, midnight walks, and moon dancing. Pianists: Elizabeth Doyle, Bobby Schiff, Dan Stetzel. Singers: Adrienne Minnes, Carrie Hedges, Carol Weston, Christian Halvorsen, Claudia Hommel, Evelyn Danner, Jonathan Lewis, Lydia Stux, Patrick Davis, Ruth Fuerst, Sharon Waltham TWO WAYS…

  • SongShop Live Garden Concert: “Midsummer’s Dream” June 27

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    Dave DeGooyer

    Jun 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – SongShop Live Garden Concert: “Midsummer’s Dream” Sunday, June 27, 7 p.m. Garden gates open at 6:30 pm central time. Pianists: Elizabeth Doyle, Bobby Schiff. Singers: Adrienne Minnes, Barb Smith, Claudia Hommel, Jonathan Lewis, Joyce Thomas, Julie Soroko, Lydia Stux, Patrick Davis, Sharon Waltham. We’re gathering…