Features


Bistro Bits: A Greeting—Plus, What Makes for Super-Great Cabaret?

As you may have noticed, cabaret singers customarily perform two songs before greeting their audience at the top...

More Songwriters Explain How Their Artistry Has Evolved

A few weeks ago, we shared with you the thoughts of four songwriters associated with cabaret: Amanda McBroom,...

Changing Their Tunes…or Not: Cabaret Songwriters Adapt in a Volatile World

All sorts of people in cabaret circles can put “songwriter” on their résumés: singer-songwriters in the tradition of...

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Club Reviews


“Amy Beth Williams Sings Leiber & Stoller”

As with most singers enduring and then coming out of the pandemic with its quarantines and lockdowns, Amy...

Roberto Araujo: “I Just Wanted You To Know”

When Roberto Araujo came out to his family he was thrown out of the house and fled Mexico...

Melissa Errico: “Broadway Baby—From Manhasset to Manhattan & Beyond”

Melissa Errico won a 2023 Bistro Award for her recording, Out of The Dark: The Film Noir Project, a wonderfully...

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Album Reviews


CD Review: Hannah Gill’s “Everybody Loves a Lover”

Sometimes it’s a simple, refreshing delight when a singer records an album that is not out to re-invent...

Anya Turner and Robert Grusecki’s “Mid-Century Modern”

An appealing new studio recording of ten original songs co-written and performed by vocalist Anya Turner and pianist...

Maud Hixson’s “Permanent Moonlight—Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett”

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was a man of many sides—a renowned composer of opera, film scores, jazz and...

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