Palais Royale Presents Spider Salof's 'My Funny Valentine' Concert 2/13

Lampkin Music Group is proud to present critically acclaimed jazz singer, Spider Saloff, in a special Valentine's Eve dinner concert "My Funny Valentine" on Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 5 p.m. at the Palais Royale at the Morris Performing Arts Center.  Dinner starts at 5 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $50 and available by calling 574-235-9190 or online at www.morriscenter.org.

Nationally acclaimed vocalist Spider Saloff will make a rare appearance in South Bend for this elegant and romantic evening at the Palais Royal. Saloff will present a priceless collection of songs about love, many from the Great American Songbook as well as some lesser known material. She will also interject her own special brand of humor into the performance with antidotes about the songs and love itself!

Since the great success of her nationally syndicated radio series "Word & Music", Spider is known as one of the great interpreters of the American Songbook and has thrilled South Bend audiences in her stellar Gershwin concert with The South Bend Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Saloff will perform with area favorite, The Jim Steele Duo. This show will be a perfect tie in to your Valentine experience in the romantic glamour of The Palais Royal for a full evening of fine dining and classic music. Songs included: IT HAD TO BE YOU , EMBRACEABLE YOU, ISN'T IT ROMANTIC and PRELUDE TO A KISS

"One of the finest jazz singers working in this or any other city," The Chicago Tribune stated emphatically. "A wicked way with a lyric!" exclaimed The New York Times.

Ms. Saloff has played such renowned jazz and night club venues as New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, Iridium, Joe's Pub, Birdland ,The Russian Tea Room, Michael's Pub, and The Algonquin, as well as San Francisco's Jazz at Pearl's, and Plush Room and Seattle's Triple Door. And Chicago's famed Gold Star Sardine Bar, The Green Mill, and the Fairmont Hotel.
Other leading venues include symphony orchestras and concert spaces such as; The Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, Wilmington Grand Opera, Wallingford Symphony, The Castro Theater is San Francisco, and Town Hall and Dick Hyman's Jazz in July in New York.
Spider Saloff has recorded and performed with such jazz luminaries as Les Paul, Tom Harrell, Nick Brignola, Ray Drummond, Harry Allen, Mark Murphy and Dick Hyman. She has worked frequently with Larry Novak, Tony Monte, Steve Laspina, Ken Peplowski and Bill Charlap.

A five-time winner of the prestigious MAC Award, including one for Best Female Jazz Vocalist, presented by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets, she also received a special citation for her musical contributions from NARAS (presenter of the Grammy Awards).
Spider Saloff has 7 CDs released nationally on Kopaesthetics Records: 1938, Sextet, The Memory of All That, Cool Yule and A New Set of Standards, Like Glass.. Her Christmas CD entitled Cool Yule was a finalist for the Indie Awards. Her newest recording, Cole Porter Live at Maxim's was released summer of 2008. Television and radio credits include: The Bonnie Hunt Show (CBS), The Steve Baskerville Show (CBS), Centerstage (PBS), Artbeat (PBS), Words & Music (syndicated series, 57 episodes), a one-hour feature on the Noteworthy Women series (Public Radio), and Studs Terkel (WFMT).

So come and have a wonderful romantic evening for two with one of the nation's best jazz vocalists touring today!

For more information please visit: www.morriscenter.org, www.spiderjazz.com, www.lampkinmusic.com.

 

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