“There are good shows and there are great shows,
but once in a blue moon you're at a cabaret and you know something extraordinary
is going on. De Lorenzo is at the top of his game.”
- Beverly Creasy, Cabaret Scenes
Dear
Music Lover,
That's
a pretty good quote, don't you think?
We hope you'll join Brian and the wonderful Bill Duffy
Quartet for an unforgettable evening of the music of the great Nat King Cole! Order
your tickets HERE or by calling 617-562-4111.
Oh - and you might want to check out
these interviews in Wicked Local and EdgeBoston.
BOSTON, MA - Award-winning singer Brian De Lorenzo swings into Scullers
to celebrate the artistry and remarkable career of one of America’s favorite
singers, Nat King Cole. De Lorenzo presents songs for which
Mr. Cole is well known – songs such as “Nature Boy,” “Mona
Lisa,” and “Don't Get Around Much Anymore”
– plus stories and anecdotes about Mr. Cole’s personal and professional
lives. De Lorenzo will also interweave memories and anecdotes from his own experiences
of Nat King Cole’s music.
As we approach the 40th
anniversary of the passing of this wonderful entertainer, De Lorenzo feels
that Mr. Cole deserves to be honored for his talent as a singer and for his importance
to entertainment and race relations in the 20th Century. Cole also has connections
to Massachusetts and Boston as a performer and through family members. Boston-area
audiences will find those connections to be extremely interesting.
Bios
Talent America’s 2001 “Performer of the Year” Brian
De Lorenzo is equally at home in cabaret rooms, concert halls, and theatres
including venues in Boston (Scullers Jazz Club, Club Café), New York (Birdland,
Eighty-Eight’s, Don’t Tell Mama), Provincetown (the Crown & Anchor),
Chicago, San Francisco, and cruise ships in Alaska and the Mediterranean. Brian
has performed at the prestigious Mabel Mercer Cabaret Conventions
in New York and Chicago and at three Boston Cabaret Festivals. He has appeared in
IRNE- and Elliot Norton Award-winning theatre productions in the Boston area including
The Wild Party and On the Twentieth Century.
Other theatre credits include “Bob Cratchit” in A Christmas
Carol at North Shore Music Theatre; “Max” in Lend
Me a Tenor; “Zangara” in Assassins
at Lyric Stage (voted best theatre production of 1998 by The Boston Globe);
“Jinx” in Forever Plaid; and a tour of Esther
in Europe. His CD “Found Treasures” was nominated for
the 2000 “Recording of the Year” Award by the Manhattan
Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC). Brian can also be heard extensively on
the Original Cast Recording of Made in America: Vaudeville Songs.
He is also featured on the world premiere recording of the musical Smooth
Sailing. He has been nominated three times for an IRNE Award for “Best
Cabaret Show.” Brian is well known for finding wonderful songs that aren’t
so well known; and for his interpretations of standards from the Great American
Songbook and musical theatre.
Bill Duffy has been entertaining
audiences on both coasts and in Europe for 35 years. A gifted multi-instrumentalist,
Bill was house pianist at the Park Hyatt in San Francisco, and later had a seven-year
residency at the Four Seasons Boston. His recording career began with the San Francisco-based
Martini Brothers, and continued on CD’s by Overall Junction, Krisanthi Pappas,
and Dane Vannatter, among others. Bill has toured nationally with Senegalese guitarist
Pascal Bokar, and as a civilian player in the U.S. Air Force “big band.”
Especially noted for his warm and supportive style, Bill accompanies singers throughout
the Northeast, while maintaining a busy schedule of jazz trio dates and private
teaching. Bill was accompanist for the critically acclaimed Brian De Lorenzo…
& Friends, also at Scullers.
WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING
“He
has one of those rare voices that make first-time listeners stop and say, “Who
is that?’”
- Worcester Magazine
“Well worth a listen.”
- WVOX/WRTN Radio, New York
“His vocals place him among the
best currently appearing on the New York cabaret scene.”
- Cabaret Hotline Online
“Although
the title of Brian De Lorenzo’s Found Treasures CD refers
to the songs it contains, the cabaret singer is one himself.”
- Show Music
“Wonderful vocal work.”
- Boston
Herald
“A
particularly accomplished singer.”
- Boston Phoenix
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