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Brian De Lorenzo

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Talent America's "Performer of the Year" and "Top Ten of New York Cabaret

“Top Ten of New York Cabaret ” and two-time MAC Award nominee Brian De Lorenzo is equally at home in theatres, concert halls, jazz clubs, and cabaret rooms including The Metropolitan Room, The Iridium, Don’t Tell Mama, & Eighty-Eight’s (NYC); Scullers Jazz Club & Club Café (Boston); The Pheasantry Jazz Club (London); Downstairs Cabaret Theatre (Rochester); The Palm, & Incanto (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico); and cruise ships in Alaska, the Mediterranean, and crossing the Atlantic. He has sung at the prestigious Mabel Mercer Cabaret Conventions in New York and Chicago, at three Boston Cabaret Festivals, the International Cabaret Festival in New York, The Cape Cod Cabaret Festival, and numerous times at CabaretFest! in Provincetown. He has performed tributes to Frank Sinatra an Tony Bennett (“Sinatra, Tony, & Me”) and to Nat King Cole at New York’s Metropolitan Room and Boston’s top jazz club, Scullers. He has appeared at London's The Pheasantry Jazz Club and at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico’s top cabaret rooms The Palm and Incanto. Brian's latest album, Toast of the Town Vol. 2, a follow-up to Toast of the Town Vol. 1, will be released on April 24, 2026. Volume 1 was nominated for the “Recording of the Year Award” by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC). Both albums, accompanied by the Tom LaMark Orchestra, are comprised of swing numbers and ballads from the Great American Songbook and feature a “big band” sound. Of his recording, “I Know More Now,” entertainment writer John Hoglund said: “De Lorenzo has a penchant for story songs that pack a profound punch. In this regard, he is always committed and gives thrilling interpretations of old and new gems that speak from the soul.” He appeared with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and the Little Apple Big Band in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of The Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Brian’s debut recording Found Treasures was nominated for the “Recording of the Year Award” by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets (MAC). He is also featured extensively on the original cast recording Made in America: Vaudeville Songs, a tribute to the Gumm (Judy Garland) family in which he starred at Don’t Tell Mama in New York City.

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This page was last updated on 2026-04-20.

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