Stage 72 Presents HIDDEN TREASURES III, 11/30

Noted composer/lyricist/arranger and two-time Grammy Award nominee Larry Kerchner will be celebrated on Sunday, November 30, 2014, at 7 PM at Stage 72 at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street, in Manhattan. More than a dozen stellar music performers from New York's theatre, cabaret and jazz stages will perform songs with melodies, lyrics and/or arrangements created by Kerchner, at this third annual tribute performance, titled "Hidden Treasures III: More Songs of Larry Kerchner."

The star-studded lineup of performers includes (in alphabetical order): John Bolton, Jim Brochu, Dennis Chiccino, Alexis Cole, Aisha de Haas, Natalie Douglas, Kevin Earley, Jeff Harner, Nina Hennessey, Antoinette Montague, Marissa Mulder, Mark Nadler, Stacy Sullivan and other surprise guests.

Mercedes Ellington, founder and Artistic Director of The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts, will host the event. Tex Arnold is the Music Director. Sandi Durell is the event Producer.

"Larry Kerchner is one of the most versatile and multi talented people in the music industry," says Ms. Durell. "He has an enormous body of work as a composer, lyricist, totaling more than 300 published compositions and arrangements for symphonic band, concert band, jazz band, marching band, orchestra and chorus. And all these talents will be on display at this tribute concert featuring top notch vocalists and musicians! It will truly be an eclectic evening of exciting new songs that you can actually hum --- like the good old days!"

There is a $25 cover charge plus a two drink minimum.

For Reservations: 800-838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/907349

Larry Kerchner (www.LarryKerchner.com), a graduate of Berklee College of Music, is a voting member of NARAS, and a two-time GRAMMY Award nominee. He is also a member of ASCAP, the New York Sheet Music Society, and is on the Board of Directors of The Duke Ellington Center For the Arts. He has served as composer and arranger for more than 70 Colleges and Universities, as well as The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and is a member of the Drum Corps International Hall of Fame. In addition to the hundreds of songs penned under his own name, Larry has also written many well-known songs as 'works-for-hire', including "Somewhere In Time." When Kerchner's song, Winter in Manhattan was performed by Michael Feinstein at the Loews Regency several years ago, N.Y. Times critic Stephen Holden praised it as "Larry Kerchner's soft-focus cityscape" of New York City."

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