Fri., Nov. 17.  JACKIE GIBSON.  “Songs at the Brill Building.”  1619 Broadway on 49th Street in New York was to the popular music of the late ‘50’s and ‘60’s as Tin Pan Alley was to the popular music earlier in the 20th Century, with the Brill Building’s girl groups and teen idols supplying popular music’s grist...

Tuesdays, Nov. 7, 14, & 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-fourth year.  Sign-up, libations, and noshing begin at 7 p.m.

Sun., Nov. 12 at 8 p.m.  TOM CULVER, in “I Love Hoagy Carmichael.”  For those for whom lyrics, melody, tonality, interesting harmonic progressions, and interesting 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...