Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center's Music at the Mansion Continues 11/30

NiCori Studios and Productions in association with the Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center announces a new installment of the monthly concert series, Music at the Mansion, on Sunday, November 30, at 3pm. Performers include Amy Rivard, 4th Wall Theatre and Raissa Katona Bennett & Kenneth Gartman. The featured performer in the "Young Musician Moment" will be the cast of Gas Lamp Teen You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Singer/Songwriter Amy Rivard, Windsor native, has performed on Broadway and in over 30 countries with shows like Celtic Woman, Riverdance and The Roy Orbison Story (with Roy's younger brother, Sam Orbison). She has performed her one woman show on SilverSea 6 Star Cruiselines & has performed the national anthem for NASCAR at both the Michigan International Speedway and Watkins Glen International as well as Madison Square Garden for the NY Rangers. In 2012, she released Shout it Out an EP of original theatrical pop songs with themes of heartache, longing, inspiration and even ghosts. Her hit, "The Three Divas" was inspired by a night she visited the restaurant "The Astor Room" www.theastorroom.com in the legendary Kaufman Astoria Studios, a major television studio in NYC. Let's just say she learned a lot about the silent film stars that used to dine there and "The Three Divas" pays homage to some of the glamorous beauties that have not yet left the building....

Praised for her vulnerability and honesty, the title song from Amy's new album released this year, "Where I Am" sheds light on the value of being in the moment and seeing life as it is, and not as it ought to be. "Where I Am" & "Shout it Out" can be found on itunes, Amazon and pretty much every digital medium out there! Amy has a BFA Honors degree in musical theater from the University Of Windsor. She lives and works in NYC.

4th Wall Theatre is the theatre in residence at the Westminster Arts Center on the campus of Bloomfield College, in Bloomfield, NJ. 4th Wall's roots are here in Essex County. It was started by eight friends, who all worked as performers or artistic staff members at the Montclair Operetta Club in Montclair, NJ. 4th Wall's mission has focuses on presenting diverse, seldom-performed, lesser known, or original works, which celebrate a wide spectrum of visions and voices in theatre. Proud of its commitment to cutting-edge theatre, the group has presented such works as A New Brain,Violet, Assassins, Nine, and A Man of No Importance, to name just a few.
Raissa Katona Bennett and Kenneth Gartman celebrate the songs that have inspired and uplifted us for decades. You'll enjoy popular standards and show tunes by America's greatest composers - Rogers & Hammerstein, Berlin, Sondheim and more - plus the best of a new generation of popular songwriters. Forget your troubles and just get happy with these two good friends, superb singers and musicians.

On Broadway Raissa is best known for playing "Christine Daae" in Phantom of the Opera and for her leading roles in the First National Tours of Cats and Parade. Raissa is a multiple award winning regular headliner at Feinstein's, The Metropolitan Room, and The Laurie Beechman Theatre. These critically acclaimed appearances have made her one of NYC's most sought after guest stars at some of Manhattan's most prestigious clubs, including: The Cabaret Convention at Lincoln Center, 54 Below, The Iridium, The Supper Club, The Rainbow Room, The Oak Room at the Algonquin and Radio City Music Hall.

Kenneth performed in the National Tour of The Music Man. He has also performed Internationally on a Live BBC Broadcast of Simply Sondheim and throughout Ireland in A New York Songbook: Way Off Broadway. Kenneth has appeared as both a singer and a pianist in the country's finest concert halls. Gartman's work in cabaret garnered nominations for Best Music Director and Best Male Debut in the 2012 Broadway World New York Cabaret Awards.

"Music at the Mansion" is a 2012 MAC award nominated series showcasing talented performers from NYC and NJ. The series is hosted by NYC Cabaret singer and Bloomfield resident Corinna Sowers-Adler and will feature Deborah Martin on piano. Series hostess, Corinna Sowers-Adler, has been nominated as "Best Host of a Variety Show" and "Best Female Vocalist" for the 2012 Broadway World Cabaret Awards. Sowers-Adler was a featured soloist at the 25th Annual New York Cabaret Convention held in the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center this past October. She recently made her solo debut at BROADWAY's Supper Club - 54 BELOW. Corinna has also toured and performed her solo cabaret shows Stories, By Request, Songs From the Heart and Let Me Sing and I'm Happy at venues in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Tickets for "Music at the Mansion" are $10 per person and are available at the door. Seating begins at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be served. Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center is located at 240 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield, NJ. For more information, please contact info (at) corinnasings.com or call Oakeside at 973-429-0960.

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