CABARET EVENTS FOR CALIFORNIA & THE WEST COAST FOR TONIGHT FROM CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
Here are today's cabaret events as listed on the home page of CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE! Every day in every way we're promoting Cabaret! Your event missing? Send press releases to stuhamstra@svhamstra.com to be included - listings are FREE!
PALM SPRINGS, CA: LADY RIZO AT THE COPA
Cabaret favorite Lady Rizo will perform at THE COPA (244 East Amado Road, Palm Springs CA - 760-866-0021) on Saturday, November 1st at 8:00 pm. Rizo exploded on to the New York stage with a powerful voice and stage charisma that has made audiences take note. As a chanteuse and comedienne revives the cabaret genre by creating vintage arrangements of pop songs from the 80s, 90s and today. Lady Rizo (nee Amelia Zirin-Brown) co-created the cult caburlesque spectacular Lady Rizo and the Assettes in 2005. In January 2010 she won her first Grammy on a duet with acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She also sings and records with multi-platnum recording artist Moby and was nominated for an MVPA for the choreography the video for the single New York, New York featuring Debbie Harry. Lady Rizo has headlined at The Highline Ballroom, Joe's Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, The Box, The Cutting Room, The Zipper Factory, Mo Pitkins, Lotus, Galapagos, and at the Speigel Tent at Bard. She is the Mistress of Ceremonies for the hotspot The Darby which is in the same location as the legendary nightclub Nell's. She brings her arrangements there nightly to entertain music luminaries like Prince, Ashford and Simpson, Beyonce & Jay-Z. Call for cover/minimum information.
LOS ANGELES, CA: LIZ "LOMAX" GOLDSTEIN AT THE GARDENIA
Liz "Lomax" Goldstein will perfotrm at THE GARDENIA (7066 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA - 323-467-7444) on Saturday, November 1st at 9:00 pm. A native of New Orleans, Lomax studied and performed with Dini Clarke, who during his lifetime backed Mel Torme, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Jarreau, and Dianne Reeves. As an actress, she is known to Los Angeles audiences for her stage roles as Josephine Baker in Sang Sista Sang, (produced by Smokey Robinson;) as "Betsy" in the musical comedy, Dates from Hell, written by Karen Ann Knotts; for her work in Bruce Bonafede's Advice to the Players; and for her romp in Frank Mohr's comedy, Big Baby. Call for cover/minimum information.
LOS ANGELES, CA: HELEN REDDY CELEBRATES 73RD BIRTHDAY
Helen Reddy celebrates her 73rd Birthday and will be continuing her celebration at CATALINA JAZZ CLUB(6725 West Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, CA - 323-466-2210) on Saturday & Sunday, November 1st & 2nd (call for showtimes). Born into a well-known Australian show business family, Helen Reddy has had a life and a career richer and more varied than anything she could ever have imagined as a girl in Melbourne. She has dined on her birthday with the Prince of Wales, danced in the White House with the President of the United States, and had a tulip named after her in Holland. Best known as a recording artist, Helen Reddy had more than a dozen Top 40 hits in the United States. She was the first Australian to win a Grammy Award and to have three #1 hits in the same year. In television, Helen was the first Australian to host her own one- hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with several specials that were seen in over forty countries. She is currently touring the world and after 30 years, just toured her homeland in Australia April 2014. Call for cover/minimum information.
SAN FRANCISCO: "I GOT RHYTHM" WITH KAREN HIRST, ROBERTA DRAKE & TOM SHAW
Vocalist Karen Hirst, drummer Roberta Drake and singer/pianist Tom Shaw return to MARTUNI'S (4 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA - 415-241-0205) on Saturday, November 1st at 7:00 pm with their show 'I Got Rhythm'. They are ushering in the month of November with a celebration of the brothers Gershwin and more. New songs, old favorites and of course, at least one audience sing along! With special guest vocalist, Doug Wilson. There is a $10 cover.
SAN FRANCISCO: PONCHO SANCHEZ & HIS LATIN JAZZ BAND AT YOSHI'S
Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band perform at YOSHI'S (1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, CA - 415-655-5600) on Saturday & Sunday, November 1st & 2nd with shows at 8:00 & 10:00 pm. (1 hour earlier on Sunday). If music were about pictures, percussionist Poncho Sanchez's music would best be described as a kaleidoscopic swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At any given show, on any given record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that are no less than dazzling. Although born in Laredo, Texas, in 1951 to a large Mexican-American family, Poncho Sanchez grew up in a suburb of L.A., where he was raised on an unusual cross section of sounds that included straightahead jazz, Latin jazz and American soul. By his teen years, his musical consciousness had been solidified by the likes of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Wilson Pickett and James Brown. Along the way, he taught himself to play guitar, flute, drums and timbales, but eventually settled on the congas. There is a $20-$28 cover.
SAN FRANCISCO: LESLIE UGGAMS AT THE VENETIAN ROOM
Bay Area Cabaret continues it's new season at THE FAIRMONT VENETIAN ROOM (950 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA - TKTS: 415-392-4400) on Sunday, November 2nd at 8:00 pm with Tony-winning Broadway, TV and concert artist Leslie Uggams (Hallelujah, Baby!, Beulah, Roots), who will perform her highly acclaimed cabaret show Classic Uggams ... and let us know what really happened that day on the White House lawn! Call for reservations and information - There are no food or drink minimums at the Venetian Room. copyright 2014 - See cabaret listings from all over the world at CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE
