Sat., Dec. 14, BRANDON MAGGART’s 91st Birthday Bash. Although longtime Gardenia patrons know Brandon Maggart best as the Dad of Maude Maggart (and Fiona Apple,) Mr. Maggart himself had a storied career on Broadway, and was connected with The Gardenia even before either Maude or The Gardenia were born, having starred on Broadway in Applause!...
Sun., Dec. 15. Doors open for dinner at 6p. Show is at 8p. DOLORES SCOZZESI and MARK WINKLER. Making her start “years ago, when Budd Friedman’s Improv sprinkled singers between its comedy acts,” Ms. Scozzesi studied with The Groundlings and with J.D. Lewis and Aaron Speiser. As “an actress who sings,” she was cast in...
Tuesday, Dec. 17. The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host, including Holiday Toy Drive. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.
Tuesdays, Jan. 14, 21, & 28. The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town, now in its twenty-fifth year. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.
Tuesdays, Jan. 14, 21, & 28. The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town, now in its twenty-fifth year. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.
Sun., Jan. 26. Doors open at 6. Show at 8. MAUDE MAGGART, in “Strangers.” One of the privileges available to Gardenia patrons is witnessing the transformation of Miss Maggart’s shows. This show, presented freshly conceived at The Gardenia in September, now returns fully mature, burnished by a run at Birdland in Manhattan. Andrew Poretz, writing...
Tuesdays, Jan. 14, 21, & 28. The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town, now in its twenty-fifth year. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.
Fri., Jan. 31. STEVE SIECK. Songwriter, pianist, and singer, Mr. Sieck begins a monthly three-show “residency” at The Gardenia with this first installment, “The Jazz In Me,” which draws from his own catalog of swing, bossa nova, blues, and “jazzy pop” numbers…along with favorite standards and pop classics. His February installment, “Pop and Soul,” will...
Sat, Feb. 1 (regular hours,) and Sun., Feb. 2. (Doors open at 6. Show at 8.) MAUDE MAGGART, in “Strangers.” One of the privileges available to Gardenia patrons is witnessing the transformation of Miss Maggart’s shows. This show, presented freshly conceived at The Gardenia in September, now returns fully mature, burnished by a run at...
Tuesdays, Feb. 4, 11, 18, & 25. open The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town, now in its twenty-fifth year. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 8. MATT WATSON. Obsessed with harmonica since listening to his grandmother play her Hohner Vest Pocket Harp one Sunday afternoon, Mr. Watson picked up a “10-hole Marine Band” harmonica at age 16, and “couldn’t put it down,” graduating to the “Super Chromonica” chromatic harmonica after hearing “Toots” Theileman play the theme song from...
Tuesdays, Feb. 4, 11, 18, & 25. The Gardenia’s OPEN MIKE, with Keri Kelsey, host. Starting at 8:30 p.m., Keri Kelsey hosts a Singers’ Open Mike Night---the best in town, now in its twenty-fifth year. Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.