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Anne & Mark Burnell, piano, vocals, harmony perform at member venue Hey Nonny for a delicious brunch!

May 1st
Backstage Pass
Behind the scenes of your favorite shows!
Sunday May 1st 6pm
Venue: Madden Theatre
30 North Brainard Street, Naperville, IL
Pricing: $35, 30


Have you ever asked yourself, "What's life like on film and TV sets? Can you go up to the celebrities? Do they become your friends? How does someone become famous? What's that actor really like?" Laura will answer all your questions, share gossip, "how-to" stories and more in this fun, "insider" musical evening. Prepare to laugh and get all the dirt! Songs include: "One," "Pure Imagination," and "Before the Parade Passes By."

Have you ever asked yourself, "What is life like on film and TV sets? Can you go up to the celebrities? Do they become your friends? How does someone become famous?" As Laura struggled to get in front of an audience, she worked backstage on Broadway to pay her bills before working with your favorite film and TV stars! She'll answer all your questions, share gossip, "how-to" stories and more in this fun, "insider" musical evening! Songs include: "One," "Pure Imagination," and "Before the Parade Passes By." https://finearts.northcentralcollege.edu/event/laura-freeman-backstage-pass

The Business Savvy Singer Podcast with Dr. Greta Pope provides weekly conversations with professional singers with a variety of experience in the music industry. Each week you’ll get a glimpse into their lives and celebrate their personal journey to success in the music business. We’re proud to be included in the NATSCast Network. NATSCast is the official podcast network of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It’s an honor to be part of this community and have the opportunity to provide encouragement, education and entertainment to Singers everywhere.

New episodes are released every Monday. Listen by visiting https://the-business-savvy-singer.simplecast.com/

Let's talk about what is going on in our country today, where we have been, where we are right now and where we could hope to go! It's not all serious, a little levity, as well.

Opening Night of the inaugural Chicago Cabaret Week 2022!

May 6, 7:30-10pm
Doors open at 5pm for Golden hour discounted drinks and appetizers.
Epiphany Center for the Arts
Featuring Acts Of Kindness Cabaret, Anne & Mark Burnell, the Feathered Beaus, and Claudia Hommel and Working In Concert.

Chicago Cabaret Week is a city-wide festival of 15 concerts May 6-15. Visit ChicagoCabaretWeek.org for the full schedule. Cabaret has been at the heartbeat of Chicago’s nightclub scene for more than a century. Come hear blues, jazz, American songbook, burlesque, French music, pop and Broadway.

Date: May 6, 2022

Showtime: 7:30PM

Tickets: $30 – General Admission, one intermission.

Featuring 3 songwriters..
Marnie Sher, Patricia Tyson,
and Medicine Ball with Keith Wakefield, Tami Peden, Jan King

SOLD OUT. SOLD OUT. SOLD OUT. SOLD OUT.

Jeff (and Alex) are always a sell-out, so call Davenports NOW to purchase your seats. See duplicate listing for more details!

This dynamic duo is also presented workshops as part of the Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion 4th Annual conference this year coinciding with Chicago Cabaret Week.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/auditor. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

JEFF HARNAR
BECAUSE OF YOU: Fifties Gold

Music Director: ALEX RYBECK

Bass: STEVE DOYLE

Director: SARA LOUISE LAZARUS

Award-winning New York vocalist JEFF HARNAR return’s to Davenport’s on Mother’s Day Sunday May 8th with BECAUSE OF YOU: Fifties Gold. The show taps into his parents’ record collection, highlighting songs from the Tony Bennet, Johnny Mathis, Nat “King” Cole, Doris Day and Johnnie Ray songbooks, among many others. Along with the title song, included are “Hold Me! Thrill Me! Kiss Me,” “Smile,” “It’s Not For Me to Say,” a special nod to the Novelty Songs of his childhood, a Doo-wop Medley and “Memories Are Made of This.”

“BECAUSE OF YOU: Fifties Gold” played major New York engagements at The Laurie Beechman Theater and The Firebird Cafe, the Hollywood Roosevelt’s Cinegrill and The Royal Room at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach. In Manhattan Jeff has won multiple Broadway World, MAC and Bistro Awards and is the winner of The Noel Coward Foundation Cabaret Award. jeffharnar.com

"A sly musical scrapbook of those not-so dreamy Fifties. . .Mr. Harnar's singing suggests a hybrid of Broadway and Pop singing . . .Larry Kert meets Johnny Mathis." The New York TImes

“A Sh-boom to Remember” – Rex Reed, The New York Observer

“Gold from a 40-carat voice” – The New York Post

SamaSama Project was launched as one of Chicago’s premiere Filipino Folk Fusion band in 2008. “SamaSama” translated as “united, together” truly live up to their name creating a blend of Filipino folk, rock, ska, and Latin music, inspired by a 1970s musical movement called Manila Sound.

Over the years, the talented group led by Baron Lloyd Cabalona, a versatile musician and arranger and wife, Lou Maningas Cabalona, a TV and musical theater actress in Asia and in the US have made their mark showcasing a fusion of Filipino traditional folk and contemporary music at many notable venues and events. SamaSama Project regularly performs around Illinois and other Midwest States notably at the Windy City Ribfest, Chicago Loop Alliance’s ACTIVATE Series, Old Town School of Folk Music – World MusicWednesday Series, the Chicago Cultural Alliance’s MOSAIC Fundraiser, Chicago Wildlife Conference, Bolingbrook Piyesta Pinoy 2014, Morton Grove Festival of Cultures, Northbrook’s Taste Of Asia. They also performed in Madrid, Spain for the Pope’s World Youth Day MacroFestival Concert for over 12,000 youth.

As one of the top bands in the Filipino American community in Chicago, and current winners of the Battle of the Bands Elgin 2017, SamaSama Project is highly sought after in providing great live band entertainment for weddings, anniversary celebrations, birthday parties, debuts (18th birthday), holiday parties and corporate events.

Inspired by the drive to promote diversity through music, SamaSama Project continue to captivate audiences with their unique sound that transcends all boundaries.

Lou Ella Rose – Lead Vocals and Agung (ethnic)
Baron Cabalona – Drums, Bass Guitar, Kulintang (ethnic), and Musical Director
Ran Sevilla – Rhythm Guitar and Dabakan (ethnic)
John Kniker – Lead Guitar
Ernie EJ Luna – Bass Guitar
Giga Yanong – Saxophone and Bongos
Jun Rodriguez- Saxophone
Freddie Rodriguez – Trumpets
Eddie Iriezzary – Trombone

The Business Savvy Singer Podcast with Dr. Greta Pope provides weekly conversations with professional singers with a variety of experience in the music industry. Each week you’ll get a glimpse into their lives and celebrate their personal journey to success in the music business. We’re proud to be included in the NATSCast Network. NATSCast is the official podcast network of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It’s an honor to be part of this community and have the opportunity to provide encouragement, education and entertainment to Singers everywhere.

New episodes are released every Monday. Listen by visiting https://the-business-savvy-singer.simplecast.com/

Q&A on Creating and Promoting the Diva in Each of Us. as moderator will collect your questions for the panelists prior to the conference. What do you want to know from Denise Tomasello, the “Queen of Chicago Cabaret”, that has given her career its longevity? What “Lessons from Josephine Baker” would you like Michèle Barbier to share? How has Lynne Jordan diversified her storytelling to become a favorite from Roger Ebert to the Raue Center artist-in-residence? Keep questions concise, to the point, and of course relevant.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

An Oscar Wilde quote serves as Isabelle’s motto for her masterclasses. There is joy to be shared and healing that comes from the sharing of song. We're excited to have this consummate and generous performer, Isabelle Georges working with Cabaret Connexion. Repeats Tuesday, May 10 at 10:00 a.m. at 2:30 p.m.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28.

Does your vocal technique get in the way of your communicating a song? Or is it more likely that your attempt to communicate a song gets in the way of your technique? Master voice teacher and vocal coach David Edelfelt will help you assess and then balance your strengths and weaknesses of both the technical aspects of singing and the skills needed for implementing compelling and effective choices in dramatic or comedic song communication to allow for a balancing of your best work in both areas. Please prepare two selections in any genre from which one will be chosen. AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Chicago Cabaret Professionals present Musical Monday “Pop Goes the Cabaret” at Old Town School of Folk Music.

What happens when pop music and cabaret meet? The wonderful sound of storytelling, POP GOES THE CABARET. A night of pop songs from yesteryear and today performed by members of the Chicago Cabaret Professionals. Hear the songs of Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt and more… re-imagined in a cabaret style.

The performers include: Neely Benn, Wydetta Carter, Cynthia Clarey, Joan Curto, T. Patrick Davis, John Eskola, Laura Freeman, Cathy Glickman, Cory Goodrich, Beckie Menzie, Tom Michael, Marianne Murphy Orland, Anna Palermo, and Joanie Winter. The show is produced by Laura Freeman, and directed by Wydetta Carter, with musical direction by Beckie Menzie and featuring percussionist Irwin Berkowitz.

An Oscar Wilde quote serves as Isabelle’s motto for her masterclasses. There is joy to be shared and healing that comes from the sharing of song. We're excited to have this consummate and generous performer, Isabelle Georges working with Cabaret Connexion. Alternate session Monday, May 9, 2:30-5:00 p.m.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

While in Cabaret rules are made to be broken, in this session Performer/Director JEFF HARNAR and Music Director ALEX RYBECK offer suggestions and guidelines on how to structure a cabaret act. Topics to be covered include the dramatic arc of the show, the pacing, the build and the use of patter: how best to realize your vision musically, structurally and thematically all in a way that is profoundly and definitively personal … and, we hope, winningly entertaining. Bring a notebook of 20 to 30 songs being considered for your next show. Alternate session at 2:30 pm same day.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

While in Cabaret rules are made to be broken, in this session Performer/Director JEFF HARNAR and Music Director ALEX RYBECK offer suggestions and guidelines on how to structure a cabaret act. Topics to be covered include the dramatic arc of the show, the pacing, the build and the use of patter: how best to realize your vision musically, structurally and thematically all in a way that is profoundly and definitively personal … and, we hope, winningly entertaining. Bring a notebook of 20 to 30 songs being considered for your next show. Alternate session at 10:00 a.m. same day.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

How to spice up any cabaret show with rhythm and style, spacing, phrasing, and improvisational ideas with your musicians.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28. Join renowned musical director and vocal coach Beckie Menzie for a session focused on how to identify and find the right material and then how to make it your own. Beckie will guide you in finding the right key, arrangement, lyric interpretation and presentation style and remove the obstacles that prevent you from making the leap from ‘good singing’ to delivering a powerful performance. AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28. ALTERNATE SESSION Thursday, May 12 @ 2:00 with participation spots still available.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Communicating with your audience. While other workshops will explore text and subtext of our lyrics, let’s take a look at what happens in between the songs. What setup or context connects the song to your audience? Whether the song serves as soundtrack to the world we live in or is a time-travel vehicle to another time, its “patter” helps point the way.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Speaking the Language of your Accompanist. Whether meeting for the first time at an open mic or working for years with a pianist partner, there’s an essential vocabulary to share. Tempo, Key, and Song Form. Knowing the song’s right key for your voice, how to set the tempo, knowing the structure of your song (for example, the 32-bar AABA American song), making room for piano solos, and what to do when the sheet music doesn’t give enough information. Alternate session: Thursday, May 12 @ 10:00 a.m.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28 (participation spots are sold out).
A master class using Elisabeth’s trademarked “Vocal Power technique“
Power, range expansion, vibrato control, volume, dynamics, pitch; whether singing Pop, Rock, Country, Blues, R&B or Broadway. Elisabeth will lay her hands on your voice to find new expression.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Thoughtful expression through the body—lessons from burlesque. Making music is at the heart; making sense of it is at the limbs. Actions of the body are as crucial as learning the notes and rhythm. Finding the “comfort zone” of your body language on stage during a performance will make or break the delivery of the song. We’ll dive into the theory that translates basic movements as choreography—everything from a simple smirk or gesture to using the landscape of the stage to your advantage. Tailored to your abilities and needs, each participant will have the opportunity to work one or two of their selections. Mild to wild—you get from the audience what you give them. We give you tools to pop off the page and onto the stage. Todd Michael Kiech (Hot Toddy), from Chicago, is the 2009 Burlesque Hall of Fame’s ‘King of Burlesque’. Alternate session available: same day, 2:00 p.m.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Speaking the Language of your Accompanist. Whether meeting for the first time at an open mic or working for years with a pianist partner, there’s an essential vocabulary to share. Tempo, Key, and Song Form. Knowing the song’s right key for your voice, how to set the tempo, knowing the structure of your song (for example, the 32-bar AABA American song), making room for piano solos, and what to do when the sheet music doesn’t give enough information. Patrick will offer his own arrangement of your song. How will you communicate even if you don’t speak French? Alternate session: Wednesday, May 11 @ 2:30 p.m.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Join renowned musical director and vocal coach Beckie Menzie for a session focused on how to identify and find the right material and then how to make it your own. Beckie will guide you in finding the right key, arrangement, lyric interpretation and presentation style and remove the obstacles that prevent you from making the leap from ‘good singing’ to delivering a powerful performance. ALTERNATE SESSION Wednesday, May 11 @ 10 with only AUDITOR spots available.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Thoughtful expression through the body—lessons from burlesque. Making music is at the heart; making sense of it is at the limbs. Actions of the body are as crucial as learning the notes and rhythm. Finding the “comfort zone” of your body language on stage during a performance will make or break the delivery of the song. We’ll dive into the theory that translates basic movements as choreography—everything from a simple smirk or gesture to using the landscape of the stage to your advantage. Tailored to your abilities and needs, each participant will have the opportunity to work one or two of their selections. Mild to wild—you get from the audience what you give them. We give you tools to pop off the page and onto the stage. Todd Michael Kiech (Hot Toddy), from Chicago, is the 2009 Burlesque Hall of Fame’s ‘King of Burlesque’. Alternate session available: same day, 10:00 a.m.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

We continue exploring what it feels likes to “sing with one’s bones”; and for those who prefer, we will apply this to singing in French. Poetry—the music of words and the depth of texts beyond the music itself— is one of the specificities of French song. Making vowels and consonants resound, using diction, resonators, sound colors and textures to release and share the emotion contained in a poetic text. “It’s because I’m resonating that the Other resonates with me.” Refining our ear to listen to the bones and their harmonics.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

The goal of this masterclass is to free up your presentation through your VOICE, BODY, & CHARACTER CREATION. Comedy is an Art, not a Science. We’ll explore methods of performing a “Comic Song” in many genres. Prepare a Comedy-Style Song from Broadway/Cabaret/Parody/Etc. Bring 2 copies of your sheet music and “Props/Costumes” you might want to use. Can also be taken (AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28) at 2:30-5:00 same day.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/auditor. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

A few things to know when you are transitioning from opera to cabaret! You already have a voice or talent, a need to perform, a willingness to take risks, and imagination. But now your audience is smaller and closer to you. You’re at greater liberty to sing what you like and not sound “operatic”. You’ll learn to adjust the rhythm, the key that suits your voice, the pronunciation of text, the use of microphone and possibly belting. You are responsible for your own musicians, your production, and promotion.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/audit. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

AUDITORS ONLY AS OF 4/28.

The goal of this masterclass is to free up your presentation through your VOICE, BODY, & CHARACTER CREATION. Comedy is an Art, not a Science. We’ll explore methods of performing a “Comic Song” in many genres. Prepare a Comedy-Style Song from Broadway/Cabaret/Parody/Etc. Bring 2 copies of your sheet music and “Props/Costumes” you might want to use. Can also be taken at 10:00-12:30 same day; participation spots still available as of 4/28.

Connexion daytime workshops: $75/participant, $50/auditor. The full week of conference activities: $650
For additional cost and registration information, please visit cabaretconnexion.org

The Chicago Paris Cabaret Connexion is an initiative of Working In Concert, 773-509-9360. This event is sponsored in part by a grant from the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Look for information here and at ChooseChicago about all Connexion and Chicago Cabaret Week events!

Kevin performs nationally. Most recently he has appeared in Palm Springs, CA where he debuted his new show,"Older But.....Not Much Wiser." He also appears in Chicago at The Skokie Theater, Victory Gardens Theatre, Davenport’s, The Old Town School of Folk Music, and Stage 773. Past NYC appearances include The Duplex. His popular shows include “Sentimental Journeys - A Cabaret Staycation,” and “I Was Here…..and I’m Back!” In addition to performing, Kevin has also produced and directed many concerts in the Chicagoland area featuring cabaret’s finest talents.

Kevin first performed "Taking A Chance" at Don't Tell Mama in September, 2019. He returned post-Covid in November of 2021 and returns May 21, 2022. Kevin takes the audience on a journey as you explore some of the chances we take in like - in love work, friendships, retirement, life in general - and more!

This show is directed by Lennie Watts and was originally co-created with director/arranger, Rick Jensen. For this performance, Beckie Menzie joins Kevin from the keyboard.

You are invited to take a chance and join them for a hour of diverse musical styles and entertaining stories.

To quote from Cabaret Scenes Magazine, the national magazine of cabaret, (Wood has)…”an engaging way, great chops, and excellent comic timing.”

The Business Savvy Singer Podcast with Dr. Greta Pope provides weekly conversations with professional singers with a variety of experience in the music industry. Each week you’ll get a glimpse into their lives and celebrate their personal journey to success in the music business. We’re proud to be included in the NATSCast Network. NATSCast is the official podcast network of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It’s an honor to be part of this community and have the opportunity to provide encouragement, education and entertainment to Singers everywhere.

New episodes are released every Monday. Listen by visiting https://the-business-savvy-singer.simplecast.com/

Mark Burnell & Russ Goeltenbodt host an open mic from 8:30 to 10:30. Great food and sound system. Corner of Halsted and Belmont

My weekly livestream, now in week 112, of great music, lots of laughs, bad jokes and yummy cocktails.
I'm a long-time CCP member, now living in Palm Springs, CA, but come back to the Midwest often!

Anne & Mark sing at this friendly Andersonville restaurant, with great food, beautiful patio, and slick atmosphere. No cover

The Business Savvy Singer Podcast with Dr. Greta Pope provides weekly conversations with professional singers with a variety of experience in the music industry. Each week you’ll get a glimpse into their lives and celebrate their personal journey to success in the music business. We’re proud to be included in the NATSCast Network. NATSCast is the official podcast network of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It’s an honor to be part of this community and have the opportunity to provide encouragement, education and entertainment to Singers everywhere.

New episodes are released every Monday. Listen by visiting https://the-business-savvy-singer.simplecast.com/

Marianos on Lawrence in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, get some groceries, have a glass of wine and listen to jazz!

The Business Savvy Singer Podcast with Dr. Greta Pope provides weekly conversations with professional singers with a variety of experience in the music industry. Each week you’ll get a glimpse into their lives and celebrate their personal journey to success in the music business. We’re proud to be included in the NATSCast Network. NATSCast is the official podcast network of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It’s an honor to be part of this community and have the opportunity to provide encouragement, education and entertainment to Singers everywhere.

New episodes are released every Monday. Listen by visiting https://the-business-savvy-singer.simplecast.com/

Every Tuesday, at Le Piano, from 7pm to 10pm, Daryl Nitz and Ester Hana host one of the most eclectic musical happenings in town. It's similar to a live variety show of the 70's. Not an open mic, but established performers, especially if looking to promote an event, are welcome to sit-in.