The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour at Birdland

On Monday, December 15 at 7pm, nouveau vaudevillian Bryce Edwards will storm the stage with his critically acclaimed Frivolity Hour! Join in the excitement of Birdland’s favorite crooning troubadour, as he shares his original brand of hot traditional jazz and early 20th-century popular music, playing all the lush serenades and hot novelties you never knew you always wanted to hear.

Come see why Broadway World named The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour one of the ”not to be missed,” best cabaret shows of 2024, alongside entertainment royalty such as Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, and Marilyn Maye (to name a few).

Edwards is a unique vocalist who takes equal cues from the crooners and soft singers of the late 1920s and early 1930s and from the bombastic voices of the earlier acoustic phonograph era, as well as an instrumentalist who plays banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar, and mandolin in the “modernistic” jazz idiom. Leading a hot combination featuring the talents of extraordinary jazzmen Scott Ricketts (cornet), Ricky Alexander (clarinet, alto saxophone), Conal Fowkes (piano), and Brian Nalepka (upright bass), Edwards channels his passion into reviving some of that long-lost intangible quality of the Jazz Age and igniting interest in an all-too-often overlooked era of music that, despite being a century old, still bubbles with humor, beauty, and often a defiant youthful energy. He brings his singular verve and sensibility to songs made famous by great artists such as Cliff Edwards, Ted Lewis, Jack Teagarden, Rudy Vallée, and Bing Crosby. Steeped in jazz age novelty, Bryce Edwards takes frivolity very seriously and vows to entertain his audience or die trying.

“Let’s be clear: this kid is going places,” raved Theater Pizzazz. BroadwayWorld called the show “Non-stop fun. The cheekily-titled ‘Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour’ valiantly and victoriously brings back vintage vaudeville with vim and vigor.” According to noted writer James Gavin, “Edwards replicates the vocal and sartorial style, facial expressions, body language, and humor of 1920s male singers, notably Ted Lewis, to such an astonishing degree that I sat there wondering how this could ever have happened.”