Annie Ross appears Tuesday nights at 9:30 at Metropolitan Room.  On the Tuesday I was there, she had a broken ankle and sat in a chair during the show, but put us immediately at ease by telling this story: "I was concerned about playing with a broken ankle and Tardo Hammer, my piano player, said 'Annie, you don't sing with your ankle!'"

                                                    Go ahead and give credit to Benjamin Franklin and his kite and Thomas Edison and his light bulb and George Westinghouse, go ahead and talk about the movements of electrons in the old atom, go ahead and dust off your old textbooks or your grade school science fair project to get a sense of what electricity is all about.

                                                                                                                    Justin Vivian Bond displays plenty of beauty, poise and talent in the artist’s new cabaret show at Joe’s Pub, Mx America. But, while the evening’s title – with “Mx” pronounced as “mix” – invokes the idea of a beauty pageant, the work only occasionally references this fact, mostly via a recurring image of a tiara projected onto a screen.  What interests Bond more is the difference between how you see yourself and how others see you. As a transgendered person, Bond – who utilizes a

                                                                                                                                      If singer Janet Planet is an acquired taste, so are filet mignon and fine champagne. Yum. She’s not just the real deal, she’s the ideal deal. Pick up seats to this week’s Cabaret Pick of the Week (see top right-hand corner of the front page) and you’ll have picked a winner, too. I caught up with her and her musical director, guitarist Tom Theabo once again at Metropolitan Room and was mesmerized, but not surprised. The musical intelligence, the control, the elegance, the hypnotic quality and the uniquely beautiful voice in all its facets fascinate......

Scott Evan Davis's revue of his original material will be back at The Duplex on Monday, April 8.  A click on the pic will do the trick to strat the veideo interview he did with Terese Genecco. 

NATALIE DOUGLAS made her Carnegie Hall debut in: Standard Time with Michael Feinstein  on February 20 - NYC

HIGH HOPES: Celebrating a century of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
featuring Artistic Director Michael Feinstein, Natalie Douglas, Tom Wopat with Mark Hartman and Tex Arnold. The show was sold out.

Tanya Holt’s cabaret act, Forever Home, has been on hold since last March. But hold on! The holding pattern has ended and she’s coming to Iridium to reprise it.  March must be her lucky month because that show is a major reason she took home a Bistro Award this March 4th in the Vocalist category. And this March finds her busy singing again.

As I watched the Grammy Awards recently, I couldn’t help but wonder two things— Where were the awards? And why do those who produce the show lead the public to believe there is no diversity left in music when that is not the case? Days before the awards, I attended the Wishbone Project’s performance at Iridium. The group, a New York-based jazz quintet, featuring Kat Gang on vocals and Nate Mayland on trombone,