Racey and Whitfield Join Feinstein to Honor Jimmy McHugh With Concert at Zankel Hall 10/7

As part of Michael Feinstein's Standard Time series, ‘A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening...The Songs of Jimmy McHugh' will be presented at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on October 7.

The concert will feature special guests Noah Racey (Never Gonna Dance) and cabaret veteran Wesla Whitfield. The artists will be accompanied by pianists Mike Greensill and Ross Patterson. Feinstein is artistic director of the series.

Writing such classics as "I'm in the Mood for Love", "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street," McHugh is a one-man history of twentieth-century popular music. His career stretches from Tin Pan Alley to Harlem's Cotton Club and from Broadway to Hollywood. McHugh's music has been performed by Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Rod Stewart, and k..d. lang.

A biography dedicated to the remarkable works of McHugh, 'I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh', will be available October 5 from the University of Illinois Press. The book will be launched in New York with a booksigning event planned at Barnes & Noble. Author Alyn Shipton and McHugh's grandson Jimmy McHugh III will discuss the composer's life. Jazz vocalist and cabaret favorite Wesla Whitfield will perform music from the McHugh Songbook. The book event will take place on Friday, October 9, 7:30 pm, at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Triangle, Broadway and 66th St., Manhattan.

For ticket information on the concert, please visit www.carnegiehall.org.

 

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