SongShop Live Salon OUR PERFORMERS OCTOBER 23, 2016 BOBBY SCHIFF, pianist, is one of the a cappella quartet, Route 66; teaching The Fabric of Our Lives: Autumn Colors nation’s premiere arrangers and accompanists, Chicago-area inner city youth about healthy recording and producing albums for numerous lifestyle choices as a member of School Street Arlene Armstrong, Caryn Caffarelli, Don Hoffman and Robert Scheible independent artists, leading several events bands Movement; singing and dancing in a summer at Chicago-area venues, and playing in a variety festival in Elspe, Germany; and both singing directed by Claudia Hommel and pianist Bobby Schiff of venues with greats like Mel Torme and Peggy and serving as board member of Acts Of Lee. His CD, Late Game, includes his signature Kindness Cabaret, a not-for-profit organization Don Hoffman style string arrangements on several of the tracks. offering professional cabaret performances to Nice Work If You Can Get It George & Ira Gershwin (A Damsel in Distress) He has been Music Director for the Women of help raise funds for other local not-for-profit How Little We Know Hoagy Carmichael & Johnny Mercer (To Have and Southport Jazz Festival in Chicago. Bobby is a organizations (www.aokcabaret.org). She Have Not) recipient of the Dal Segno Award, a recognition received her MFA in Vocal Performance at In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning David Mann & Bob Hilliard from colleagues and peers for his contributions to Northeastern Illinois University, and has taught I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Irving Berlin (On the Avenue) the field of music, music production and serving voice in her own studio. What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? Frank Loesser as inspiration in all the areas of his endeavors. In addition to cabaret singing, Caryn and her He also earned the Musical Achievement Award husband Craig live in Wilmette with their two Caryn Caffarelli from The Association of Professional Orchestra daughters Anna and Gina. Her solo CD Journey Bei Mir Bistu Shein Sholom Secunda, Sammy Cahn & Saul Chaplin Leaders (APOL). www.bobbyschiffmusic.com is about her path to motherhood and is enjoyed (1932 Yiddish musical, I Would If I Could) Recently, Bobby was featured as piano soloist by music lovers of all ages. Caryn is thrilled Part of Your World Alan Menken & Howard Ashman (Disney’s The with the Mount Prospect Community band to be singing with this lovely group of fellow Little Mermaid) in a performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in SongShop enthusiasts. What fun we have on I’m Going Bananas Michael Kernan & Andy Paley (Dick Tracy) Blue; a full concert at the Harris Theater of his Tuesday nights at DePaul sharing our lives The Second Star to the Right Sammy Fain & Sammy Cahn (Disney’s Peter Pan) arrangements of Christmas music for big band through song! with strings; and three symphonic orchestral Arlene Armstrong arrangements of American classic popular songs Satin Doll Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn & Johnny Mercer ARLENE ARMSTRONG. Actor-Director- sung by Wayne Messmer in a performance Musician. A multi-hyphenate before she was Star Eyes Gene de Paul & Don Raye with the Park Ridge Symphony. He is currently out of grade school, she recruited friends to do Charmed Life Diana Krall involved in an ongoing series of concerts with variety shows in her basement. “I wrote the Mood Indigo Duke Ellington, Irving Mills & Albany Bigard violinist Daniela Bisenius featuring mixtures of scripts, built the set, auditioned all the acts. Ever Classical Music, Jazz, Tango and Gypsy Music. since I played the Goose That Laid the Golden Claudia Hommel Egg in a school production of Jack and the Automne* Gabriel Fauré & Armand Silvestre DON HOFFMAN is a practicing oral surgeon Beanstalk, the stage was mine.” She sang in the church choir and local gospel groups. “After Robert Scheible who has always found solace in singing. Don has participated in various singing groups church on Sundays I would come home and Early Autumn Ralph Burns, Woody Herman & Johnny Mercer listen to blues and jazz with my father while my Autumn Leaves/Les feuilles mortes Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert & Johnny Mercer since childhood, studies voice with Mary Ann Beatty. When not sculpting in clay, he gets brother played and my mother sang as she made Autumn in New York Vernon Duke Sunday dinner.” [mystery song] Dave Stamper, attrib. (Bayes & Norworth) great satisfaction interpreting the rhythms and lyrics of the American Songbook. He has sung She’s performed three solo shows with Bobby in SongShop productions of Take the Ride of Schiff—Just a Girl and a Piano, Jazz Bird and your Life, Life at Home, Friends & Lovers, the * Autumn, your misty skies and heart-breaking horizons, rapid sunsets and pale dawns, To Carmen, with Love (a tribute to Carmen SongShop Coloring Book, and at Davenport’s for McRae). With Ruth Fuerst and Carol Weston, I watch flowing past like a torrent your melancholy days. CCP’s Strut Your Stuff. she has appeared in Life is…Snapshots in Song and Thank You for the Music; She is a My thoughts, carried away on the wings of regret (as if our age could ever be relived!) member of Chicago Cabaret Professionals CARYN CAFFARELLI’s performance In reverie they roam the enchanted slopes where long ago my youth once smiled. and has performed in CCP and Midwest career spans musical theatre, treading the boards Cabaret Conference showcases, and in several as a member of Actors Equity Association at SongShop Live concerts. She looks forward to I feel, in the sunny glow of memory triumphant, the scattered roses reblooming in Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre, the Athaneum, presenting a new show in Fall 2017. bouquets; and tears well up in my eyes, tears which my heart at twenty had already and the former Candlelight Dinner Playhouse; forgotten! touring the area as a member of the female more.... ROBERT SCHEIBLE is a native of Chicago and a recently retired About SONGSHOP environmental engineer specializing in design and operation of wastewater Claudia Hommel’s SongShop, treatment plants worldwide. In addition, an ongoing workshop, offers Robert has been an active member of theatre and music students, the Barbershop Harmony Society for novices and professionals, the over 55 years, half of which have been opportunity to strengthen and with the Northbrook New Tradition deepen how they approach, who has won 19 medals in International interpret, and communicate competition including 1 gold and 8 meaning in a song. consecutive silver medals. Robert’s seniors quartet, Gadzooks, won the Illinois state championship in 2011 SongShop is open to all singers and has also competed internationally and takes place Tuesday several times. Robert studied voice with evenings at DePaul School of David Edelfelt for several years and Music and Saturday afternoons in sings at several piano bars, open mikes, Hyde Park.Find yourself in song Mango’s, and Davenport’s including at a place that feels like home. three shows with Ron Anderson. www.songshoplive.com CLAUDIA HOMMEL. Born in Paris, raised in Detroit, and seasoned in SPECIAL THANKS TO New York, Claudia moved to Chicago you, our audience! to “do the work”. A favorite from the Cabaret Lapin Agile in Paris to Cliff And to Barbara & Don Hoff man Dwellers Chicago, Claudia specializes for opening up their home to in international classical and theatre SongShop songs, chanson to American Songbook. Projects include Vocal Canvas concerts Susanne Baker, director of DePaul for museums and arts center, the University School of Music, crossover Jazz Fauré Project; master Community Music Division classes in song interpretation, and Paris- Addi onal SongShop pianists & inspired French-based school programs. coaches: Phil Caldwell, Philip Claudia invites her fans to join her for Seward, Elizabeth Doyle, Mark Cabaret InTourludes to France. Burnell, Bob Moreen and She is a member of the actors’ Wyde a Carter unions and is on faculty at the DePaul School of Music Community Music Owen Leroy for his design work Division. Under the Maison Clobert and prin n g of our postcard rubric, she has recorded five CDs and and poster at Digiworld the Vocal Canvas film. She is proud (312.593.8598) to have founded the Chicago Cabaret Professionals (CCP) and SongShop with Do you have a piano salon at so many like-minded performers. home? 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