Monday, October 12 @ 7pm
Internet sensation Miranda's New York City concert debut at Birdland last month was such a smash hit that she is making a return visit! Miranda Sings is an internet character created by California-based theatre student Colleen Ballinger, and proliferated via YouTube. The character is a satire of increasingly common YouTube videos featuring mediocre or even bad singers who film themselves singing as a form of self-promotion. Miranda is supposedly from Tacoma, Washington, sings comically off-key, and, when confronted by viewers who take the videos seriously, uses the catchphrase “Haters back off!"
CHITA RIVERA
Wednesday-Thursday, October 14-15 @ 8:30pm only
Friday-Saturday, October 16-17 @ 8:30 & 11pm
Universally regarded as an American national treasure, Chita Rivera is Broadway's most accomplished and versatile dancer/actress/singer. She recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by President Obama and received the prestigious Kennedy Center honor in 2002 and was the first Hispanic to receive this award. Chita has won two Tony Awards as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and has received seven additional Tony Award nominations.
DOMINICK FARINACCI QUINTET
Tuesday-Thursday, October 13-15 @ 11pm
At only twenty-five-years of age trumpeter and Juilliard grad Dominick Farinacci has already released six CDs including the recent “Lovers, Tales & Dances" for Koch Records. He has also been named “International New Star" and received three gold disc awards from Japan's “Swing Journal." When he is not busy recording or performing with the likes of Tony Bennett, Ira Sullivan, Joe Lovano, Joey DeFrancesco and Mulgrew Miller, Dominick leads his own quintet through a program of standards and original compositions.
DAVID OSTWALD'S LOUIS ARMSTRONG CENTENNIAL BAND
Every Wednesday from 5pm-7pm
THE BIRDLAND BIG BAND directed by TOMMY IGOE
Every Friday from 5-7pm
Featuring the finest musicians in New York! The BBB roars into action every Friday, playing the finest Jazz, Latin and Brazilian music from the world's best arrangers.
Hilary Kole Performs Benefit For The Walden School
Sunday, October 18 @ 5-7:30pm
Did you know that jazz singer Hilary Kole composed a prize-winning piano trio as a teenager? Ms. Kole received a scholarship to study music and composition at The Walden School and participated in the program for six summers. The Walden School is a unique summer music school and festival offering programs that inspire creativity in young people, specifically through music improvisation and composition. Proceeds from the event will provide scholarships for New York musicians to attend Walden in the summer of 2010.
CHICO O'FARRILL'S AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Directed by Arturo O'Farrill:
Sundays October 18,25; November 1,8,15,22,29 - 9 & 11pm shows
*Special Chico O'Farrill Birthday Celebration, November 1 @ 6pm
Arranger-bandleader Arturo 'Chico' O'Farrill, Sr. began introducing Afro-Cuban rhythms into jazz in the 1940's. The band that bears Chico's name (and is directed by his son Arturo) “continues to showcase the most seamless blend of clave rhythm and bebop harmony anywhere."
JIM CARUSO'S CAST PARTY
Hosted by Jim Caruso, with the Cast Party “Symphony Orchestra"
Mondays October 12,19,26;
November 2,9,16,23,30;
December 7,14,28
9:30pm until 1am
“No one can call themselves a true New Yorker until they've been to the 'Cast Party,' which is to Broadway what the Conde Nast cafeteria is to publishing. Divas and dapper-dans insouciantly sip cocktails while watching each other sing and perform at the open-mic event during Broadway's dark night."
“Don't Stop Till You Get Enough"
Broadway Salutes The King of Pop
Monday, October 19 @ 7pm
Jim Caruso's Cast Party, in association with Amy Birnbaum, is proud to announce that the Broadway community will pay musical tribute to Michael Jackson in DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH, on Monday, October 19 at 7pm at Birdland. A portion of the proceeds from the concert will benefit The VH1 Save The Music Foundation. DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH will feature an 8 piece band and the vocal stylings of Broadway top stars including Norm Lewis, Christine Ebersole, Capathia Jenkins, Darius De Haas, Marty Thomas, Destan Owens, Antonique Smith, Kendrick Jones, and others.
PHIL WOODS QUINTET
Brian Lynch (trumpet)
Bill Mays (piano)
Steve Gilmore (bass)
Bill Goodwin (drums)
Tuesday-Saturday, October 20-24 @ 8:30pm & 11pm
Phil Woods has had his own sound since the mid-1950s and is one of the true masters of the bop vocabulary having lost neither his enthusiasm nor his creativity through the years. The Phil Woods Quintet is arguably one of the best working groups in jazz today and two of the original members of that group, STEVE GILMORE and BILL GOODWIN, are still with him, more than thirty years later.
It's Hallo-WING!
Sunday-Monday, October 25-26 @ 7pm
The Hong Kong native and Asian sensation returns to Birdland for a special two-night run as part of the Broadway at Birdland series. Wing achieved cult status through her unique vocal stylings, interpreting hit songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber, ABBA, the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Mariah Carey, AC/DC, and so many more!
CD Release Celebration
PAT MARTINO ORGAN QUARTET
Eric Alexander (sax)
Jeff “Tain" Watts (drums)
Tony Monaco (organ)
Tuesday-Saturday, October 27-31 @ 8:30pm & 11pm
Virtuoso guitarist Martino got his start on the “chitlin' circuit" with organ groups led by “Groove" Holmes, Jack McDuff, Don Patterson, Trudy Pitts, Charles Earland and others.
The Marcy & Zina Show
CD Release Celebration
Monday, November 2 @ 7pm
The team voted “Best Knocking on Broadway's Door Songwriting Team" in the Village Voice, comprised of Award-winning songwriters Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, will once again bring the intimate Marcy & Zina Show to Birdland to celebrate the release of their brand new album!
Django Reinhardt Festival
Featuring Tchavalo & Samson Schmitt, Brian Torff, Andreas Oberg, Ludovic Beier, Aurore Voilqu, Ted Gottsegan & special guests!
Tuesday-Sunday, November 3 - 8 @ 8:30pm & 11pm
The spirit of Django lives on in New York, celebrating the annual festivals 10th anniversary! Excitement over the music of the legendary French gypsy jazz guitarist has grown immeasurably since Producers Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta founded the Django Reinhardt NY Festival in 2000. Combining the best players from Europe with some of America's finest jazz artists, a unique atmosphere of virtuosity and fun pervades Birdland for one week only!
With music directed by bassist Brian Torff, this years festival features guitarists Tchavalo and Samson Schmitt, Andreas Oberg, Ted Gottsegan, accordionist Ludovic Beier, and violinist Aurore Voilqu. Nightly special guests include saxophonist Joel Frahm (11/3), trumpeters Dominick Farinacci (11/4) and Terell Stafford (11/5), harpist Edmar Castaneda (11/6), harmonica master Hendrik Meurkens (11/7), and washboard percussionist David Langlois (11/8). See for yourself why this Birdland tradition is one of our most anticipated events of the year!
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