Watch Jimmy Webb Perform at the 2022 Bistro Awards

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This past May, three-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb received the Bistro Awards' highest honor, the ASCAP-Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award, for his musical and storytelling accomplishments over a career of five-plus decades. Here he is at the 37th annual Bistro Awards gala as he accepts his award and performs one of his songs, mostly associated...

Ricky Ritzel Uncut!

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Multi-Bistro Award-winning cabaret artist, Ricky Ritzel, shares with a friend his best memories of the Bistro Awards evenings.      

How About an Apéritif Before the Show?

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Whet your appetite for April 30th's Bistro event with a taste from our 30th anniversary awards show. A buffet of performers at their best including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Carol Fredette, Jason Graae, Karen Mason, Marilyn Maye, and others. (Jason Graae's opening number written by Rick Jensen and Sally Mayes; video created by Evan Seplow/StageBuddy Pro....

Darlene Love: From “Rebel” to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Pop icon and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Darlene Love was honored at the 32nd Annual Bistro Awards on Monday, March 13, 2017, receiving the ASCAP-Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award for her five decades of musical accomplishments. Rolling Stone has called Love “one of the greatest singers of all time,” and The New...

André De Shields: A Video Glimpse of an Artiste Extraordinaire

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 The Bistro Award team created a video montage for the multi-award-winning artiste extraordinaire, André De Shields, when he was honored with its 2018 Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award. However, as things can happen during a live performance, we never got the chance to show it!  So, here it is now, a two-and-a-half minute glimpse of...

Cabaret Fave Jason Graae Opens the 2016 Bistro Awards

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Weren't we lucky to have musical theatre, film, TV, opera, and cabaret artist Jason Graae host the 31st Annual Bistro Awards show. Cited by the New York Times for being a "manic mischief," watch this four-time Bistro recipient in action in this clip that I found while sifting through the many years of Bistro Award...

Judy Collins: A Video Retrospective

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  Just before Suzanne Vega presented Judy Collins with her Bob Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award in March, 2019 at the 34th annual Bistro Awards, we showed this video retrospective that we created for the acclaimed singer-songwriter and Grammy Hall of Famer, in recognition of her six decades of musical accomplishment. The award was sponsored by...

The 2020 Honoree Roll Call: Stephanie Trudeau

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Stephanie Trudeau transforms herself into Mexican ranchera artist Chavela Vargas in her show, Chavela: Think of Me, which won the 2020 Bistro Award for Outstanding Tribute Show. Vargas, who broke gender barriers in both a highly macho society and music world, is portrayed by Trudeau with compelling vocals and visuals. Here’s her performance of “El” Último...

Highlights from the 2018 Bistro Award Show

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Watch highlights from our 33rd annual Bistro Awards show (2018) that features André De Shields (Lifetime Achievement), Sheila Jordan (Outstanding Contributions to the Art of Jazz), Marta Sanders (Consummate Cabaret Artistry), Shemekia Copeland (Producer's Award), among 19 other individual artists. Bistro Award house band includes Daryl Kojak (piano), Ritt Henn (bass), and Rex Benincasa (drums)....

The 2020 Honoree Roll Call: Spencer Day

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Whether embodying the hip, impossibly cool style of West Coast jazz, or performing his own wonderfully crafted songs, Spencer Day brings a personal and tuneful strain of American music into a new century. Recipient of a 2020 Bistro Award for Outstanding Singer-Songwriter-Recording Artist, here’s how he envisions “One” (Marvin Hamlisch, music, Ed Kleban, lyrics), along...