At The Colony Hotel's Royal Room Cabaret in December: Nicolas King, Aaron Weinstein & Tierney Sutton, The Four Freshman

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Subject: At The Colony Hotel's Royal Room Cabaret in December: Nicolas King, Aaron Weinstein & Tierney Sutton, The Four Freshman
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The Colony Hotel's Royal Room Cabaret Celebrates the Holiday Season with + Nicolas King - Dec. 3-5 + Aaron Weinstein & Tierney Sutton - Dec 10-12 + The Four Freshmen - Dec. 16-19

(Palm Beach, FL - November 12, 2015)  The Colony Hotel - which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as "probably the best place for cabaret on the planet" - is celebrating the holiday season with more Manhattan headliners in the hotel's world famous Royal Room:
December 3-5 Nicolas King Back By Popular Demand The modern day "King of Swing" and the youngest performer ever to debut in the Royal Room (he was 19 at the time), Nicolas King has been singing since he was 4. The young protege of Liza Minnelli was first seen on Broadway in Beauty & The Beast, then in A Thousand Clowns opposite Tom Selleck, and in Hollywood Arms directed by Hal Prince, all before the age of 13.  Other credits include eight consecutive annual performances on The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, ABC's The View, NBC's Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and more than a dozen nation TV commercials. King went on the road as Liza's opening act during her 2006 tour, and he received the prestigious Julie Wilson Award from the Mabel Mercer Foundation at the 2010 Cabaret Convention. 
Reviews of Nicolas King: + Stephen Holden, The New York Times: Nicolas King is "a polished crooner … a promising pop-jazz crooner." + Liza Minnelli: "Look out Showbiz, here comes Nicolas King." + Carol Burnett: "This kid is amazing." + Joe Franklin, Bloomberg Radio: "Riveting performances … Nicolas King is my candidate for super-stardom this decade."
The Cost to Attend Nicolas King: For each guest there will be a $65 cover charge, plus a $50 minimum for food and beverage.

December 10-12 Aaron Weinstein & Tierney Sutton Aaron is Back By Popular Demand, Tierney is Making Her Royal Room Debut Named a "rising star violinist" by Downbeat Magazine, Aaron Weinstein has earned a reputation as one of the finest jazz violinists of his generation. As a featured soloist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wolftrap Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Blue Note, the Iridium, and abroad at jazz festivals in England, France, Switzerland, Iceland, and Israel. Mr. Weinstein performed and recorded with an array of jazz icons including: Les Paul, Bucky Pizzarelli, John Pizzarelli, Scott Hamilton, Dick Hyman, Dave Frishberg, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross.  He has written arrangements for artists including Janis Siegel, Michael Feinstein, Billy Stritch, and Hilary Kole, and is a New York Nightlife Award. 
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously announced Bucky Pizzarelli is unable to appear and will be replaced by jazz artist and 7-time Grammy nominee Tierney Sutton. She has received six consecutive nominations for Best Jazz Vocal Album and her nine CDs have earned both popular and critical acclaim, including her 2013 release "After-Blue," a jazz-inspired re-imagining of the legacy of Joni Mitchell. She has headlined in recent years at The Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and Jazz At Lincoln Center, and can be heard various film and television soundtracks and TV commercials for BMW, Green Giant, Yoplait Yogurt and Coke.   
Reviews of Aaron Weinstein & Tierney Sutton: + David A. Frey in The Palm Beach Daily News: "A true prodigy with an impressive career that belies his age, Weinstein consistently strikes a balance between his undeniable technical prowess and an approach to the music that is refreshing and respectful. This natural knack for the jazz genre is complemented by a similar knack for comedy, with a great low-key delivery that serves him well." + This Is Cabaret:  "Weinstein is very much the epitome of that rare paradox that Woody Allen displayed all those years ago: non-threatening yet, crucially, underneath it all, supremely talented.There is certainly no denying Weinstein's ability with a stringed instrument." + Wall Street Journal: "Aaron Weinstein is providing much-needed adrenaline to pre-modern jazz styles in general and the hot violin in particular . . . In his onstage patter, he is slyly understated and as dry as six martinis." + The New York Times: Tierney Sutton is "a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level." + Los Angeles Times: In jazz as in pop music, there are singers' singers, there are independent stylists and there are audience darlings. Tierney Sutton occasionally dips into all those areas, but she is most accurately described as a musicians' singer - a vocalist whose most attractive qualities are defined by the standards usually applied to instrumentalists."
The Cost to Attend Aaron Weinstein & Tierney Sutton: For each guest there will be a $60 cover charge, plus a $50 minimum for food and beverage.

December 16-19 The Four Freshmen Back By Popular Demand It wouldn't be December in the Royal Room without the 12th annual visit from The Four Freshmen, the nation's longest lasting vocal harmony group who are celebrating more than a half-century of crowd-pleasing performances. From their first hit song, "It's a Blue World," to being voted Down Beat Magazine's Vocal Group of the Year in both 2000 and 2001, the group presents classic jazz-pop songs with cutting-edge vitality.  The Four Freshmen have released more than 40 albums and 70 singles and been nominated six times for a Grammy.    
Reviews of The Four Freshmen: + David A. Frye, Palm Beach Daily News: "The reason for the long collaboration (between The Colony Hotel and The Four Freshmen) is simple: the combination of tight, spot-on four-part harmonies, brilliant arrangements of carefree classic tunes and the intimacy of the Royal Room is a near-perfect match." + Charles Osgood, CBS Sunday Morning: "Some musical groups survive and even flourish, year after year, decade after decade. The Four Freshmen have endured for the simple reason that they are top in their class."  + The Virginia-Pilot: "A more charming evening of jazz there never was." + Topeka Capital-Journal:  "The sound of The Four Freshmen remains as fresh and vibrant as when the original quartet started singing more than 50 years ago."
The Cost to Attend The Four Freshmen: For each guest there will be a $70 cover charge, plus a $50 minimum for food and beverage.
Showtime & Ticket Information: For all Royal Room Cabaret performances, the doors open at 6:30 for dinner and the show starts at 8:30. To make reservations, people should call the hotel box-office at 561.659.8100.  The Colony is located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach, just one block south of Worth Avenue, one block west of the Atlantic Ocean.
Music Nightly in The Colony's Popular Polo Lounge: Sporting colorful polo-themed murals by legendary photographer Harry Benson and floor-to-ceiling pillars painted to resemble sophisticated bar drinks, The Colony's popular Polo Steaks & Seafood is the ultimate playground for Palm Beachers seeking good conversation, perfect martinis and great music all week long, including: + Norm Kubrin, the former resident pianist at the Waldorf Astoria's Peacock Alley - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7:30 to 9:30 pm.  + Motown Fridays with Memory Lane performing everyone's favorite Soul City/Top 40 hits from the 60s through today - Every Friday, 9:30 pm to 12:30 am. + Jill & Rich Switzer, the popular morning hosts on Legends 100.3 FM - Every Saturday, 9:30 pm to 12:30 am  + Sunday Jazz Brunch with Bill Mays, the prolific pianist, composer arranger and recording star - Every Sunday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. 
About The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach: Host to American Presidents and British Royalty, Movie Stars and Corporate Czars, The Colony has been the center of Palm Beach society for nearly 70 years. An intimate, friendly boutique hotel, The Colony recently enjoyed a $14-million "reimagining" by internationally renowned designer Carleton Varney. Now each room and suite is different - no cookie-cutter rooms here - put together with a lot of vivid upholstery, unique lamps, floral patterns and eye-catching artwork, many by local artists. The result is a happy, classy feeling that maintains The Colony's traditional British Colonial foundation while making it more Florida feeling and Palm Beach specific.   Located just steps away from shopping on world famous Worth Avenue, and about 100 yards from a beautiful Atlantic Ocean beach, The Colony offers guests the choice of charming hotel rooms, luxurious suites, spectacular penthouses and spacious two bedroom villas, all with the latest high tech amenities such as large, flat-screen, smart TVs and Bluetooth-enabled telephones with built-in chargers, plus comforting slow-glow lights in the bathrooms, striped walk-in closets, luxurious Frette linens, and dazzling views of the ocean, the Everglades Club golf course and the mansions of Palm Beach.
Sporting colorful polo-themed murals by legendary photographer Harry Benson and floor-to-ceiling pillars painted to resemble sophisticated bar drinks, The Colony's popular Polo Steaks & Seafood is the ultimate playground for Palm Beachers seeking good conversation, perfect martinis and great music. Motown Friday Nights have become a local tradition with the get-up-and-dance sounds of Memory Lane.   In addition, The Colony's world famous Royal Room is widely considered to be one of the top three sophisticated cabaret rooms in the United States, featuring many Tony Award winners straight from Broadway and headliners from the classiest nightspots in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Manhattan.
Over the last several years The Colony Hotel has won numerous awards, including the highly coveted 4-Diamond Rating from AAA (2015); Hotel of the Year Award from the Hotel & Lodging Association of Palm Beach County (2012); the Quintessentially Palm Beach Award from the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce as part of the town's Centennial Celebration (2011); and the Providencia Award from Discover The Palm Beaches (2009), the only time a boutique hotel has ever won South Florida's most prestigious honor celebrating excellence within the local hospitality and tourism industry.
For more information, please call 561.655.5430 or visit www.thecolonypalmbeach.com.
Attached Jpegs: + Nicolas King + Aaron Weinstein + Tierney Sutton + The Four Freshmen
Media Contact: Gary Schweikhart PR-BS, Inc. 561.756.4298 gary@pr-bs.net

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