Jazz & Cocktails – The Lush Cabaret Life Celebrates One Year 2/11

Jazz & Cocktails - The Lush Cabaret Life, San Francisco's only weekly column devoted to cabaret, jazz & the nightclub entertainment experience, celebrates its One Year Anniversary on February 11, 2011. Published in the San Francisco Bay Times, a LGBT weekly with a print readership of 35,000 and an international online presence, Jazz & Cocktails - The Lush Cabaret Life has interviewed, reviewed and focused on some of the best artists and acts in the world as well as focused on the local Bay Area artists making an impact on the scene locally and nationally. Jazz & Cocktails - The Lush Cabaret Life is found on Facebook and you can follow on Twitter at LushCabaretLife.

Written by Mike Ward, a theatre director/choreographer/writer residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, the column came about when Ward contacted former colleague, playwright Tom W. Kelly, who had become the Arts Editor for the SF Bay Times. Ward first started with features on artists in a variety of genres, but noticed the lack of consistent quality cabaret coverage. "San Francisco is where many great cabaret artists live and perfect there craft," Ward offered. "Paula West, Wesla Whitfield & Mike Greensill, Sharon McNight, Andrea Marcovici, and the native Mary Cleree Haran whom we lost in a tragic accident this past week, are just a handful of many artists the region has launched and embraced. It seemed a natural to look at the scene here, explore what's happening and shine the light on the variety of artists, producers, presenters and audiences who support this remarkable art form."

Aside from writing, Ward has a number of works under his belt, musical and non-musical, including co-creating a revue with Tony-winner George Furth and Grammy-winning Broadway composer/arranger, Doug Katsaros. At that time titled The End, the piece was continuing its evolution right up until Furth's untimely passing in 2008. This coming week Ward makes his NYC directorial debut with Somebody to Love - My Tribute to Freddie Mercury, which he assisted in creating with rising cabaret star Carly Ozard (also making her NYC debut). The show bows at Don't Tell Mama on Friday, February 25, 7:30pm.

To celebrate the One Year Anniversary, Jazz & Cocktails - The Lush Cabaret Life is giving out tickets to a variety of acts. Included in the Gift Giveaway:

 

· 2 tickets to Anika Noni Rose's West Coast Cabaret premiere, Vintage Rose, direct from Lincoln Center. Part of Bay Area Cabaret's season at the crown jewel of nightclubs, the Venetian Room in the Fairmont Hotel.

· 2 tickets to Pete Escovedo's Latin Jazz Orchestra, featuring his daughter, r&b/dance percussionist, Sheila E., at Yoshi's San Francisco, in the historic Fillmore Jazz District.

· 2 tickets to Lady Bunny's "That Ain't No Lady!" at the intimate Rrazz Room in the beautiful Hotel Nikko, Union Square.

· 2 tickets to "Streep Tease" - An evening of Meryl Streep monologues and songs performed by an all-male cast, featuring Bruce Vilanch, Shawn Ryan, Russ Lorenson & others, at the treasured Great American Music Hall.

Various other gifts, including cds, will be given away as well. For information on the One Year Anniversary Gift Giveaway, please visit Jazz & Cocktails - the Lush Cabaret Life on Facebook. You can also read the column online at: http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?section_id=79&sec=tpl

 

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