Working In Concert concerts

  • Mar 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Our annual celebration showcasing women in the arts.Advanced reservation discount ends March 6. Singers Kimberly Jones, Janet Mensen Reynolds, Alison Meuth, and Christine Steyer are joined by collaborative pianists Jennifer McCabe and Sarah Yoon-Mayer. Special guests will be poet Maureen Kwiat Meshenberg and singer Dayanara…

  • Feb 12, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Join Claudia Hommel at Le Piano for an evening with singer Gabrielle Goudard, Howie Pfeifer (piano), Patricia Spaeth (accordion), and Jim Cox (bass). Come for the music, stay for dinner, drinks, & romance! CLICK TO RESERVE 6970 N Glenwood. Street parking (free and metered) throughout…

  • Jan 28, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Show and Dinner to brighten the short days of winter. SongShop Live presents a jump-for-joy songfest led by music director Howie Pfeifer with singers Susan Dennis, Ruth Fuerst, Beth Halevy, Christian Halvorsen, Carrie Hedges, Claudia Hommel, Cristina Marinescu, Gina Mincy, Patrick Davis, The Swingin’ Sisters,…

  • Happy Apple Pie Shop Fundraiser

    Oct 28, 2023 @ 11:30 am – 5:00 pm – On Saturday, October 28, Oak Park’s Happy Apple Pie Shop will donate 10% of all their pies and mini-pie sales to Working In Concert’s Opera In The Classroom program. Since 2010, our Bellissima Opera outreach program has brought music to 24,000 area school kids.  Working In Concert President Christine Steyer will…

  • Two Concerts with Christine Steyer

    Oct 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Working In Concert President Christine Steyer will be offering two concerts this month. Steyer will be joined by Michael Finlay on piano and cellist Brian Hoffman in a unique program of seldom performed works. Click the link below to get tickets. October 27 in Schaumburg

  • Cabaret Connexion Showcase

    Sep 4, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – The festival closes on Monday, September 4 with a buffet dinner show at the Péniche Balle au bond. We present the participants of the 5th international Cabaret Connexion with singers from the Philippines, Romania, Spain, both coasts of the USA, Chicago, and Paris.  Jeanne Franks chanteuse et…

  • Sep 2, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm – The festival continues in Montmartre, where Chez ma cousine prepares the stage and the menu for a dinner show as we pay tribute to audacious women performers.   The repertoire of Nina Simone, Edith Piaf, Joséphine Baker, Eartha Kitt, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Cher and…

  • Sep 1, 2023 @ 9:15 pm – 11:15 pm – At the Studio Hébertot in the 17th arrondissement, this concert will feature brilliant American and French artists: Benjamin Legrand tells of travels with his father Michel, destined for Hollywood; Isabelle Georges and her melting pot, from Judy Garland to Jacques Brel, via Nino Rota and Yiddish music; the raising of Lynne…

  • Aug 31, 2023 @ 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm – The Festival kicks off on August 31 with a Cabaret Fantaisie du Cirque (Circus Fantasy Cabaret) at Les Deux pianos in the 15th arrondissement.  The clowns arrive: Clovis the musicopath and his partner Patrick Pernet, Anne Fromm and her Weill Circus (the Brechtian music of Kurt Weill), and Paulus the Cabaret Geek, direct…

  • Aug 28, 2023 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Singers from Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Paris perform in this musical tribute to Josephine Baker in her home region of Dordogne. Hosted by Michèle Barbier, Baker’s former secretary. Stefan Kukurugya at the piano. Our host Michèle Barbier, with singers Sue Berke, Jeanie…

  • Aug 28, 2023 – Sep 4, 2023 @ All Day – TRAVEL with us to FRANCE in 2023 The fifth Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion exchange takes place in Paris from August 28 to September 4, 2023. Our mission is to “advance together the art of cabaret”. The itinerary includes 20 hours of workshops and master…

  • Birds, Bees, And Other Beasts

    Jul 30, 2023 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Join us for our second summer friendraiser at a private garden in Albany Park. Swingin’ Sisters leads the pack with singers from SongShop and the Cabaret Connexion travelers including David Hoffman, the Swingin’ Sisters (Barbara, Carolyn and Tirzah), René Lara, Christian Halvorsen, Ruth Fuerst, Staci Kelley,…