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The Riverdale Y kicks off its annual jazz series on Saturday, October 17 at 8 pm with a return performance by jazz great Nicki Parrott, who will be performing with noted jazz pianist Rossano Sportiello. Tickets are $25 / $20 for seniors, and are available online at www.RiverdaleY.org.

Barnes & Noble's July calendar of events features your favorite writers, celebrities, newsmakers, and musicians. You can find the details for all events by hitting the 'Stores and Events' button at www.BN.com.

This week's shows at Yoshi's Oakland (510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, California 94607) include Mose Allison & Bob Dorough and Vidya.

Barnes & Noble's July calendar of events features your favorite writers, celebrities, newsmakers, and musicians. You can find the details for all events by hitting the 'Stores and Events' button at www.BN.com.

The incomparable jazz pianist and vocalist Patti Wicks, who began her career in New York in the early 70s playing such clubs as Bradley's, The Half Note, Ted Hooks Backstage, Jimmy Westons, The Living Room and The Apartment, continues her steady New York reemergence from the shadows in an exclusive five-show engagement at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, from April 7 to 11. In a new act ?Songs of Love and April,? Wicks shows why she c an lay claim to being one of the most arresting jazz soloists playing today. According to Bruce Crowther of Jazz Journal International, ?This is jazz piano playing of the very highest order.? Her smoky vocals ? by turns craggy and lyrical -- have been called haunting, blissful, fascinating, sensuous and captivating.

The incomparable jazz pianist and vocalist Patti Wicks, who began her career in New York in the early 70s playing such clubs as Bradley's, The Half Note, Ted Hooks Backstage, Jimmy Westons, The Living Room and The Apartment, continues her steady New York reemergence from the shadows in an exclusive five-show engagement at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, from April 7 to 11. In a new act ?Songs of Love and April,? Wicks shows why she c an lay claim to being one of the most arresting jazz soloists playing today. According to Bruce Crowther of Jazz Journal International, ?This is jazz piano playing of the very highest order.? Her smoky vocals ? by turns craggy and lyrical -- have been called haunting, blissful, fascinating, sensuous and captivating.

The world premiere of Maureen Whiting Company?s Myth of Me and You heralds a new era of contemporary dance presentations at ACT. Created during a year-long residency supported and presented by ACT?s innovative Central Heating Lab, this highly conceptual new work shines an intense light on our own personal mythologies. Myth of Me and You premieres in ACT?s Allen Theatre March 13?15, 2009. Tickets are $25 and available at the ACT Ticket Office, 700 Union Street, Downtown Seattle, (206) 292-7676 or online at www.acttheatre.org.

CAROL HALL'S 'HALLWAYS: The Songs of Carol Hall' WINS 2009 BISTRO AWARDS'ASCAP AWARD FOR OUSTANDING CD The 2009 BISTRO AWARDS have been announced. This year's ASCAP Award for Outstanding CD has been given to composer/lyricist CAROL HALL'S 'HALLWAYS, The songs of Carol Hall' which LML Music released nationally in stores and online at iTunes and Amazon.com on March 11th, 2008.

The world premiere of Maureen Whiting Company?s Myth of Me and You heralds a new era of contemporary dance presentations at ACT. Created during a year-long residency supported and presented by ACT?s innovative Central Heating Lab, this highly conceptual new work shines an intense light on our own personal mythologies. Myth of Me and You premieres in ACT?s Allen Theatre March 13?15, 2009. Tickets are $25 and available at the ACT Ticket Office, 700 Union Street, Downtown Seattle, (206) 292-7676 or online at www.acttheatre.org.

Birdland (315 West 44th Street ? between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of March.

LML MUSIC released HALLWAYS, The Songs of Carol Hall on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 nationally in stores and online at iTunes and Amazon.com. The CD's critical and popular success has led to a second printing which was shipped Tuesday, January 20th nationally. The CD also remains available online at iTunes and Amazon.com. The first person ever to record one of Carol Hall's songs was the young Barbra Streisand. Subsequently, her songs were performed by such extraordinary singers as Tony Bennett, Barbara Cook, Margaret Whiting, Julie Wilson, Chita Rivera, Michael Feinstein, Mabel Mercer, Amanda McBroom, Lari White, Olivia Newton-John, Maureen McGovern, RuPaul, Miriam Makeba, David Campbell, Frederica von Stade, Kermit the Frog and Big Bird. Among others. She's also one of the few songwriters to have a hit Broadway show. Her classic musical The BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS entertained Broadway audiences for almost five years, received a Grammy nomination for its cast album, and became a popular film starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Dolly's recording of Carol's song 'Hard Candy Christmas' won an ASCAP Most Performed Country Song Award, and the film generated an ACADEMY AWARD nomination for Charles Durning, singing 'The Sidestep' as the slippery Governor of Texas.

Carol Hall's new play THE SEX EDUCATION OF MY MOTHER will be read by the author/composer/lyricist for the Prospect Theater's Dark Night/Solo Series on Sunday, October 26, 2008, at 8pm at the Hudson Guild Theatre at 441 West 26th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

Carol Hall's new play THE SEX EDUCATION OF MY MOTHER will be read by the author/composer/lyricist for the Prospect Theater's Dark Night/Solo Series on Sunday, October 26, 2008, at 8pm at the Hudson Guild Theatre at 441 West 26th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues).

Award-winning Playwright/Composer CAROL HALL joins Kia Corthron, Jeffrey Sweet, Gary Garrison, Roland Tec, Hilary Chaplain & David Engel, Kristine Niven and Margo Hammond in Artistic New Directions' presentation of 'AN ECLECTIC EVENING OF SHORT WORKS.'

Dianne Reeves and Jane Monheit are among the headliners at the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, which runs from August 29 - 31

LML Music will release 'Hallways, The Songs of Carol Hall' on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The new CD will be available nationally in stores and online at iTunes and Amazon.com.

Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ) opened Happy Days: A New Musical, on Sunday September 30 at 7:30PM. Based on the hit Paramount Pictures television series, Happy Days is created by Garry Marshall who also wrote the book, with music and lyrics by Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning Hall of Fame songwriter Paul Williams. Directed by Paper Mill favorite Gordon Greenberg, this musical comedy will run at the Millburn Theatre through October 28.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and La Vie Productions proudly present Unlock'd, a new musical comedy based on the 18th century mock epic poem 'The Rape of The Lock' by Alexander Pope, with book and lyrics by Sam Carner and music by Derek Gregor. Unlock'd will play a strictly-limited, six-performance engagement as at TBG Theatre beginning September 17.

Birdland has announced its September line-up

Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Aves.) has announced its line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of August.