For those for whom lyrics, melody, tonality, and interesting harmonic progressions and rhythm are the most important elements of musical production, Tom Culver’s shows provide veritable Master Classes in how music geniuses of the last century brought these five elements together to create the yet-to-be-surpassed mid-20th-Century Great American Songbook. Supporting are: Karen Hernandez, Piano Michael...

A longtime member of the theater faculty at Occidental College, playwright and musical performer Ms. Meade has sung in Southern California venues “both sacred and profane,” and directs a choir for The Secret City.  Her vocal musicianship has turned heads at The Gardenia Open Mike, where we were delighted to learn that she has penned...