Harry Belafonte News

Jelell! This Wolof expression means something along the lines of 'Take it!' or 'Grab it!' or 'Seize the moment,' but, like so many of the world's great untranslatable words, carries a richer, deeper, contextual meaning. It's that contextual core, that powerful frame of reference, that drives this album, Leni Stern's 20th full-length release and her deepest foray into African music yet.

Gap's global marketing campaign, 'Make Love' focuses on giving and spreading love, hope and joy this holiday season. The campaign continues to build upon the idea of getting back to what matters most, which Gap introduced earlier this fall with its 'Back to Blue' campaign.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced their zesty line-up of impressive talent for the month of December 2013. Featuring: Michael Feinstein, Stacey Kent, Jazz Stories with Eddie Gomez, Kenny Barron, Al Foster, Wallace Roney, Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Cabaret, Cheyenne Jackson, Donna McKechnie, Frank Wildhorn & Friends with Jeremy Jordan, Laura Osnes, Jane Monheit and more, A Swinging Birdland Christmas, Native Soul, Victoria Shaw, Natalie Toro, Shoshana Bush, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more!

Birdland Jazz Club has announce their line-up of impressive talent for November 25-December 1, including Cheyenne Jackson with special guest Christine Ebersole, David Holland, and more. Below, check out the details.

One of the biggest-selling female artists around the world, Nana Mouskouri, returns to the stage with her 'Happy Birthday Tour', starting on her birthday in October 2013 in Athens, and making a stop at the Beacon Theatre in New York City on January 22, 2014 at 7:30pm.

HBO Documentary Films presents a weekly series this fall, debuting provocative new specials every Monday, now through December 9. Featuring recently unearthed photographs, rediscovered performance footage and the words of entertainers and historians, WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY includes interviews with Eddie Murphy, Joan Rivers, Sidney Poitier, Kathy Griffin, Harry Belafonte, Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones, Arsenio Hall, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who emphasize how Mabley paved the way for female comedians and performers everywhere in provocative stand-up routines that challenged racism, sexism and ageism. WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY debuts as part of the HBO Documentary Films Fall Series on Monday, November 18. Watch a promo for the doc below!

GRAMMY award-nominated and Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inductee, Gordon Lightfoot performs his '50 Years on the Carefree Highway Tour' at The Colonial Theatre tonight, November 8 at 8pm.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series will present singer Anne Tofflemire in concert on Monday, November 18 at 7pm. Backstage Bistro Award-winning singer Anne Tofflemire returns to New York with her latest show, This Funny World, an evening of popular songs from Rodgers & Hart, Stephen Sondheim, Joni Mitchell, Irving Berlin, Charles Strouse & Lee Adams. Accompanist/music director for the evening will be Ross Patterson. Anne Tofflemire was raised in Northern California, where she starred in the long running San Francisco productions of Side by Side by Sondheim and Rap Master Ronnie. She was discovered by the Academy Award winning lyricist Sammy Cahn, with whom she toured nationally and internationally in his Sammy Cahn: Words and Music. Her other theatre credits include Peter Pan opposite Cathy Rigby, Maria in West Side Story, A Little Night Music, and understudying, as well as going on for Donna McKechnie as Mama Rose in Gypsy. Her cabaret appearances include Town Hall, Firebird Cafe, Delmonico's, and Eighty Eights in Manhattan, the Plush Room in San Francisco, the Gardenia in Los Angeles. Her CD, Let's Face the Music, was released by Harbinger Records.

Jelell! This Wolof expression means something along the lines of 'Take it!' or 'Grab it!' or 'Seize the moment,' but, like so many of the world's great untranslatable words, carries a richer, deeper, contextual meaning. It's that contextual core, that powerful frame of reference, that drives this album, Leni Stern's 20th full-length release and her deepest foray into African music yet.

After piling up a vast array of positive critical reviews for her work as an actress and singer on stages and at venues all over the globe, the multi-talented, versatile Gabrielle Lee will make her cabaret debut at The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street) in New York City today, November 3, at 4 PM.

Four guys, forever classy wearing white dinner jackets, appear in the musical revue Forever Plaid at The Rep's Stackner Cabaret. And when Frankie, Jinx, Smudge and Spanky perform their four-part harmony in the fictional singing group, they exude slightly clueless personalities while, to the audience's delight, their musical talent exceeds expectations.

Birdland Jazz Club has announced its sensational line-up of lively talent for November 11-17, featuring New York Voices, Nilson Matta, Loston Harris, David Raleigh, Jim Caruso's Cast Party, and more!

The Black Institute, in collaboration with the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy, SEIU 1199 and the Caribbean Research Center, will hold a forum at Medgar Evers College to highlight the plight of African, Caribbean, and Afro-Latino immigrants in America, especially in relation to Comprehensive Immigration Reform. The revolutionary musician and social activist Harry Belafonte, Jr. will give a special guest performance.

After piling up a vast array of positive critical reviews for her work as an actress and singer on stages and at venues all over the globe, the multi-talented, versatile Gabrielle Lee will make her cabaret debut at The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street) in New York City on Sunday, November 3, at 4 PM.

Often referred to as 'the funniest woman in the world,' the iconic African-American standup comedienne Jackie 'Moms' Mabley broke racial and sexual boundaries and continues to inspire comedians to this day. In her directorial film debut, a modern-day comedy favorite pays homage to this pioneering talent when WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY debuts MONDAY, NOV. 18 (9:00-10:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.

EBONY Magazine, the curator of the African American experience, past, present and future, today announced that it will host a gala event in New York City at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall on Monday evening, November 4, 2013 to celebrate the honorees on its annual EBONY Power 100 list. The event is presented by Nationwide Insurance, and this is the second year the company holds the presenting sponsor title.

GRAMMY award-nominated and Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inductee, Gordon Lightfoot performs his '50 Years on the Carefree Highway Tour' at The Colonial Theatre on Friday, November 8 at 8pm.

New York author (A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer) and Mozart Academy founder Caroline Stoessinger is leading the New York celebration of the 110th birthday of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor, whose spirit of survival has been made possible by her lifelong love of music. The New York celebration is focused on these two events: