OCTOBER 2019 JANUARY 2020 Key for show genres Cabaret Music Theatre Musical Theatre Comedy Spoken Word NB. these categories are for guidance only. Some shows may crossover different genres and/or be more difficult to classify. Please refer to the end of this brochure for a full calendar of events. BOOKING INFORMATION Book tickets online www.LiveAtZedel.com or by telephone 020 7734 4888 Show dates and times are subject to change. Please always check the website for details.
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Jason Gardiner’s image courtesy of David Venni / Chilli Media RESIDENCIES THE JAY RAYNER QUARTET SHOW DATES & TIMES VARY £20 The renowned restaurant critic, MasterChef judge and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, Jay Rayner, returns to Crazy Coqs with The Jay Rayner Quartet: Songs of Food and Agony.
This ensemble of top-flight musicians will perform tunes from the Great American food and drink songbook including Cantaloupe Island, Black Coffee,
One for My Baby, and Save The Bones. There will be standards from the likes of BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Blossom Dearie and Dave Frishberg.
Alongside anecdotes from his life being paid to eat out on somebody else’s dime, he also talks about growing up with a mother, Claire Rayner, who was an agony aunt and plays tunes that draw on the narratives of the problem page letter.
With the singer Pat Gordon Smith, bassist Robert Rickenberg and saxophonist Dave Lewis. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
BLACK CAT CABARET “SALON DES ARTISTES”
MOST SATURDAYS EVERY MONTH | 9.15PM £32.50 The Black Cat presents “Salon Des Artistes” - an intimate evening of variety from London’s cabaret trailblazers, and the audacious petite soeur to the company’s full-scale theatrical productions. Inspired in part by the dark and daring heyday of Parisian cabaret culture, yet with a timeless sensibility of its own, the show features the very finest performers on the international circuit.
What to expect at the Salon of 2019? Comic song, live music, superior displays of showmanship and elegant burlesque - all bound together with razor-sharp wit by The Black Cat’s trademark belle époque spirit of giddy abandonment.
“Salon” was born at Café Royal’s infamous Grill Room in 2013 and has taken up continuous residency in the deco splendour of Crazy Coqs since 2017, appearing most Saturday’s every month.
Winner - ‘Best Production’, London Cabaret Awards 2014
“Cabaret in its most extraordinarily suave form” - The Guardian
The picture depicts a selection of the acts whom perform at “Salon Des Artistes”, the exact line-up will vary for each performance. The picture is not a representation of Crazy Coqs HAROLD SANDITEN’S OPEN MIC PARTY
SECOND THURSDAY OF OCTOBER & NOVEMBER | 9.15PM SECOND TUESDAY OF DECEMBER | 9.15PM £10
Join host, Harold Sanditen, and regular musicians, Michael Roulston on piano, Robert Rickenberg on bass and Jonathan “Kitch” Kitching on drums, at Crazy Coqs’ longest-running show, the über-popular Open Mic Party.
Audiences are assured a terrific show with performers from across the globe. Who knows, you might discover the next Streisand or Bublé, or spot a star across the room. Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Callaway, Anita Gillette, Marilyn Maye, Billy Stritch, Rowan Atkinson, Amanda McBroom and many more have already discovered the excitement of the evening, either attending or performing, or both.
If you’re a performer, it’s your chance to shine in one of the most beautiful music rooms in London. We welcome singers and instrumentalists, and our musicians can play jazz, cabaret, musical theatre, pop, rock, and even opera! We encourage everyone, from newcomers to seasoned professionals.
“It’s fun and funky and has to be the best value entertainment in London” - Thanasis Kalantzis, Cabaret Scenes WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
CRAZY COQS PRESENTS LAST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH | 7PM £20 (STUDENTS - £15)
Crazy Coqs continues its season of new shows, each with a different musical theme, featuring the cream of the West End presented by lyricist Mark Petty BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK and with musical direction by Henry Brennan.
Upcoming concerts include The Carpenters - A Celebration on the 27th October featuring all the biggest hits from their career. Performers so far include Vicki Lee Taylor. 24th November is our 80s Party Night with a string of hits from the likes of Cher, Tiffany, Kylie, Whitney, Lionel Richie, Wham! and many more. Performers so far include Sophie Isaacs. On the 8th December we present Christmas at the Musicals, a Winter Wonderland of all your favourite Musical Theatre Holiday songs. Performers so far include Kim Ismay. On 26th January we showcase the work of Jason Robert Brown. Performers TBC.
Follow the Crazy Coqs Presents for updates and videos on the following social media channels: Twitter: @TheCCPresents Instagram: @thecrazycoqspresents BOUNDER & CAD SHOW DATES VARY EVERY MONTH | 7PM £20 Featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club Pick of the Year.
***** “Trust me: they are big stars in the making. Catch them while you can” - Rachel Johnson, The Oldie
Following a sold-out spring/summer residency, Bounder & Cad return with their ‘face-achingly funny’ musical comedy show (and with official endorsement from everyone’s favourite Johnson).
Troubadours of the Twitter age, the raffish duo will thrill and delight you with BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | their unique and audacious songs, skits and party tricks, backed by their sizzling jazz trio. And, for loyal attenders, there’ll be hot new material every time. Book now for a ‘supremely entertaining’ evening out with friends, family and Tinder-dates.
Bounder & Cad are Adam Drew and Guy Hayward, accompanied by Ben Comeau / Sam Jewison, Harry Evans and Theo Guttenplan.
“Supremely entertaining” - Lloyd Grossman WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY | 11.15PM Free of charge
Every Friday and Saturday, following the 9.15pm ticketed event earlier that night, our distinctive cabaret space will play host to this late-night music show.
With a different band each week, playing from around 11.15pm until 12.30am, the diverse line-up will champion the like of Blues, Jazz, Swing, Cuban, Calypso, Americana, African Highlife and everything in between.
These events are completely free of charge with no reservation required. Entry will be on a first come, first served basis. MARCEL LUCONT’S CABARET FANTASTIQUE
SHOW DATES VARY | 9.15PM £20 Following sell-out seasons in 2018, France’s finest flâneur, raconteur and bon- viveur, Marcel Lucont, continues to serve his feast of alternative international cabaret, featuring comedy, music, poetry, magic and circus.
“Fresh, accessible and hilarious” - The Guardian “One of the finest nights in our fair city” - Time Out London “The most unique evening of cabaret you will experience… Lucont is a comedic genius” - The Australia Times
The November show will take the form of Marcel Lucont’s Cabaret Jazztastique and feature a special jazz twist to coincide with EFG London Jazz Festival programme. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM FLANDERS & SWANN SHOW DATES VARY EVERY MONTH | 7PM £20
“Impressive, suave… a delight!” - The Times
Having delighted audiences across the globe for the past decade, the Rolls
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK Royce of Flanders & Swann shows returns!
Join multi award-winning comedian, Tim FitzHigham, and BBC Radio 4 musical maestro, Duncan Walsh Atkins, as they starch their beards and trim their dinner jackets, ready to bring you the wit and wordplay of those ingenious comedy songsmiths, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
Lifelong fans and the uninitiated alike will delight to see the boys breathe new life into the much-loved words and music of Flanders & Swann, including all the classics: The Hippopotamus (Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud), The Gnu, The Gas Man Cometh and many more - plus a few hidden gems along the way!
“Astute wit and genius wordplay... great” - The Guardian SHOWS WITH LONGER RUNS LORNA LUFT LOVES LONDON: GO TO L!
1, 2 & 4 OCTOBER (7PM) | 3 OCTOBER (9.15PM) £35 Lorna Luft’s acclaimed career has encompassed virtually every arena of entertainment. A celebrated live performer, stage, film and television actress, bestselling author, recording artist, Emmy- nominated producer and humanitarian - she continues to triumph in every medium with critics labelling her one of the most versatile and
exciting artists on stage today. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
Daughter of the legendary entertainer Judy Garland and producer Sidney Luft, music and entertainment have always been integral parts of her life.
Join Lorna as she shares favourites from the Great American Songbook - some of them made famous by her mother, as well as stories from Hollywood, Broadway, and beyond as only she can tell them. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM HARRIET: THE PIANO SESSIONS 17–19 OCTOBER | 7PM £25
In this exclusive three-night London residency, Harriet performs intimate versions of her favourite original songs and some specially selected covers.
Harriet is a British-born singer songwriter whose music is deeply inspired by the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Carole King and The Carpenters, as well as artists such as Adele and Lana Del Rey. She has recently completed a series of sell-out headline UK tours and concluded 2018 opening for Michael Bolton on his Arena Tour, finishing up at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Her self-titled debut album, recorded in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and produced by Steve Anderson (Kylie Minogue/Mark Feehily) was a personal expression of loss and love, drawing inspiration from the warmth of the 1960s & 70s soundscape. Harriet is currently working on her second album in Stockholm, Sweden and is set to release new material in 2019. JASON GARDINER: IN THE CLOSET 16, 17 & 22 JANUARY | 9.15PM 3, 4 & 6 FEBRUARY | 7PM £25
You may know him from Dancing on Ice, but for the first time ever, Jason Gardiner bares all in his candidly funny, touchingly poignant, mind- blowingly honest (of course) debut one-man show. Accompanied on piano by his supremely talented collaborator, Philip Foster, this show invites the audience into Jason’s personal life as he shares his loves and losses, fame and pain. This musical menagerie takes you on a voyage from when he was a young boy struggling with a world that didn’t understand him to the dizzying heights of TV fame.
This is a powerhouse cabaret performance that feels more like a mini-musical full of hilarious stories with a few unexpected twists and turns.
Image courtesy of David Venni / Chilli Media WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM ROB BRYDON 2, 3, 4 & 7 DECEMBER (7PM) | 5 & 6 DECEMBER (9.15PM) £25
Join award winning comedian Rob Brydon and pianist Paul Herbert this December for an evening of music and stories.
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK With songs from Sondheim to Rogers and Hammerstein, from Paul Simon to Tom Waits and almost everything in between, expect Rob’s usual warmth and humour as well as some of his gallery of voices.
Don’t miss the chance to see one of the UK’s favourite entertainers in this intimate setting! JASON KRAVITS: OFF THE TOP 13-19 JANUARY | 7PM £20 American TV regular and Broadway veteran, Jason Kravits, returns to Crazy Coqs for a star-studded, week-long residency, where he will yet again attempt the daringly impossible (or at least scarily inadvisable) in his critically acclaimed, jaw-dropping, completely improvised solo evening of music and comedy, Off The Top.
The lights come up, the music starts, and Jason walks on stage with… nothing. No script, no songs, no story - and no net! By the evening’s end, he’ll have created an entire life story in song, with every bit of it - every lyric, every melody, every Sondheim standard and eleven o’clock number - made up on
the spot. Backed by the most fearless band in the business, and joined by a BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | different celebrity guest each night, Off The Top is one intoxicating cocktail of music, comedy and fun!
Dubbed “Hilarious” by the New York Times and “Seat of your pants perfection” by Cabaret Scenes, Off The Top isn’t just cabaret... it’s the show of a lifetime. Every time. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
LA VOIX – THE UK’S FUNNIEST RED HEAD!
29-31 JANUARY | 7PM £25
Back by popular demand La Voix - The UK’s Funniest Red Head!
Global Superstar La Voix’s show has become a phenomenon in many towns and cities around the world. 2020 sees La Voix’s most glamorous show yet taking the UK by storm.
La Voix has packed it by the case load and is heading to Crazy Coqs with her pianist for an unforgettable evening! Expect side splitting comedy, huge vocals, mesmerising impressions of the world’s biggest divas and buckets full of energy.
La Voix’s shows truly are not to be missed! With her hilarious brand-new show, new songs and even more gorgeous dresses, this is the MUST SEE show of the year!
“Go and see a legend in the making” - West End Wilma
“Wear thick pants because you’ll wet yourself laughing” - Jennifer Saunders DIETRICH: LIVE IN LONDON 1 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20 After touring internationally with award-winning one (wo)man show, Dietrich: Natural Duty, actor and drag artist, Peter Groom, returns to London after a sold-out performance at Crazy Coqs in July.
Drawing inspiration from Marlene Dietrich’s iconic solo show, performed internationally during her last years in the limelight, this new cabaret is a sensational evening of song that revisits some of the Hollywood star’s most memorable numbers, including Lili Marlene, Lola, and of course Falling in Love Again.
Groom also reimagines classics from the Great American Songbook in the inimitable style of the woman Hemingway called “the beautiful mystery”.
FIL STRAUGHAN PRESENTS AN EVENING OF SOUL
2 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £25
Award-winning singer, songwriter and entertainer, FiL Straughan, is well known for his soulful voice and boundless positive energy. He returns to present An Evening of Soul: His WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Own, Luther Vandross & Other Classics.
FiL left a NYC Wall Street career post September 11 when he embraced his musicality and took the leap of faith to pursue his passion. He has been a member of Ray Lew’s Drifters, fronted Hot Chocolate as well as written and released a dozen albums. He has written with and for other vocalists including soul legend D TRAIN and he has supported groups such as Kool & the Gang.
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3 OCTOBER | 7PM £18
Described by Vanity Fair as ‘scandalous and timely’, Melinda and her band will entertain you with an outrageous and eclectic evening of up-to-the-minute cabaret, political satire and musical comedy. Off the Scale is a sophisticated romp through social and political satire, packed with provocative original songs on internet trolling, selfies, cougars, hipsters, sex-pest cowboys, as well as an appearance by special guest Melania Trump. IT’S MISS HOPE SPRINGS 4 OCTOBER & 8 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £25 Broadway World’s Best Cabaret Award Winner at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe come- dy cabaret chanteuse, down-on-her-luck, highly medicated ‘recovering showgirl’, Miss Hope Springs, plays the piano and sings songs from her all-original repertoire, and re- counts tales from her Ritz-to-the-pits showbiz life.
Still wearing the sequinned pantsuit and marabou boa she was wearing when she left the Pink Pelican Casino in 1972, Hope blends finger snapping pop, romantic rhumbas, sassy bossa novas and smouldering torch songs in this ‘laugh-out-loud, move-you-to- tears show’. It’s Miss Hope Springs music and lyrics written and performed by Ty Jef- fries.
***** “Darkly comic numbers that would give Tim Minchin a run for his money” - Broad- BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | way Baby DEELEE DUBÉ 5 OCTOBER | 7PM £19
As the first and only British winner of the 2016 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Deelee Dubé is one of today’s foremost gifted
vocalists to have emerged from the London scene in many years. Embodying WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM a stellar African musical lineage, the eclectic tastes of a London upbringing and a deep love and respect for the jazz tradition, Deelee possesses what Jazz Times called “a warm tone, genuine blues feeling and easy rhythmic authority.”
“A beguiling soulfulness” - Jazz Times
HOWARD SAMUELS AND GARY JERRY: NEW LAND WAITS
6 OCTOBER | 7PM £20
Sexy, sleazy, sizzling, sorrowful and fabulous to behold this promises to be an evening to remember. Join Howard Samuels and his silver fingered accompanist Gary Jerry on their rock and rollercoaster ride through the back catalogue of Tom Waits Randy Newman and Fran Landesman. Jazzy, bluesy and bittersweet their work combines pathos and humour and glows with the tough wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of riding in fast convertibles and smoky bars.
In today’s climate of uncertainty maybe a New Land Waits for all of us....
“One of London’s outstanding cabaret performers...” - Musical Stages “Samuels has a top-notch voice and bucketsful of charisma” - The Scotsman BENOIT VIELLEFON SWING TRIO 7 OCTOBER | 7PM £15
Benoit Viellefon, a firm favourite at Crazy Coqs, is now proud to present his Trio’s debut album titled Out with the Wrong Women. This recording was made in 2018 in London with a truly international band comprised of Benoit with his signature French tinted vocals, playing a 1940s archtop guitar, USA’s finest stride pianist Andrew Oliver, and the incredibly talented Dave O’Brien on double bass.
Their music is a tribute to the timeless sound of The Nat King Cole Trio, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Ragtime, swing, French Chanson and early Latin American music. The all swinging band brings a fresh and different take on the Classic American songbooks of the 1930s and 40s, combining the elegance, fun and driving rhythms of the era!
WHERE RIO DE JANEIRO MEETS BAHIA 8 OCTOBER | 7PM £20 Mario Bakuna and Edmundo Carneiro are launching their new album Where Rio de Janeiro meets Bahia at Crazy Coqs.
WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM It’s a journey to Rio de Janeiro, the birthplace of Bossa Nova, and Bahia, the city that best represents the powerful African influence in Brazilian music. Mario Bakuna and Edmundo Carneiro integrate the rhythmic roots of Brazilian music and its sophisticated harmonies in a very special duo performance - acoustic guitar & voice and drums - celebrating great Brazilian composers like Dorival Caymmi and Tom Jobim.
Mario and Edmundo transport the audience to a place where the real and the imaginary are experienced and enhanced by poetry and music.
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8 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £25
Denis King, Sarah Eyden, Dave Olney and Mike Smith, aka ‘Love is in the Room’ are excited to be hitting the road in 2019 for their first UK and European tour!
Love is in the Room – Live is set to captivate audiences with a fantastic blend of laid back jazz and easy listening music combined with uplifting original melodies by Denis King and well-known songs by legendary performers with whom the band have worked (Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Junior.) With award winning composer and pianist, Denis King, the stunning and soaring notes from vocalist, Sarah Eyden, the UK’s leading concert and studio session drummer, Mike Smith, and the very highly regarded concert and studio session player, Dave Olney, on bass, it really promises to be a show not to be missed! OH LA LA! “MIDNIGHT IN PARIS” – A TRIBUTE TO FRENCH MUSIC
9 OCTOBER | 7PM £20
Oh la la! mixes Parisian folk music with 60’s French pop, film & impressionist music and unforgettable jazz standards.
The evocative sound of the accordion blended with Olly Wilby’s clarinet, Colin Oxley’s guitar, Julian Bury’s double bass playing and the voice of Fifi la Mer will take you straight back to that little café by the Eiffel Tower, or straight to a crazy Parisian jazz club by Pigalle. All the band members are world class musicians - performances include the Royal Albert Hall, touring the world as well as appearing on television in Mr. Selfridge, the Proms, Holby City, TOP2 live, Children in need (Canada).
This promises to be an evening of high emotion and exhilarating fun. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
BATTLE OF THE WEST END 9 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £15
Battle of the West End is a fun filled stagey evening featuring a musical director and performers from three West End shows as you’ve never seen them before, battling it out in a number of exciting singing challenges. BATTLE WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM OF THE All three take part in Act One with one being eliminated just before the interval by the WEST END audience who vote in a secret ballot. The two survivors will battle it out in Act Two ahead of the Big Finale. Following the Big Finale, the audience once again vote on who should be crowned the winner! The prize is bragging rights for the performer and a member of the audience will be randomly selected from the secret ballots to win a bottle of bubbly. A show in two acts...
AN EVENING WITH CANTABILE – THE LONDON QUARTET
11 OCTOBER (9.15PM) | 9 NOVEMBER (7PM) £22.50
They’re back! The London Quartet return with their trademark mix of comedy, charm and vocal virtuosity: from pop to the classics, from folk to jazz, from musical to movie. Great singing, great songs, great fun from a Great British vocal group.
Accompanied at the piano by Chris Hatt, Associate Musical Director of Hamilton, in an evening which embraces the sublime and the ridiculous, there will be songs of cricket and songs of love and war. With music from some of the great vocal groups, including the Hi-Lo’s and the Four Freshmen from 1950s America and the great inter-war German group, the Comedian Harmonists, The London Quartet exhibit their signature blend of virtuoso singing and side-splitting humour.
“One of the finest vocal groups in Europe” – Classic FM CAROLINE NIN: SONGS AND STORIES OF THE PARIS LIDO
12 OCTOBER | 7PM £25
In a city famed for its sophisticated nightlife, one venue stands out on the Champs- Elysées: The Paris Lido!
In 2012, French chanteuse, Caroline Nin, was invited to headline the glamorous revue, quel bonheur! Backed by a 6-piece band, Miss Nin entertained 6 nights a week to a 2000 strong crowd. For five years, Caroline introduced her audiences to the longings, struggles and heartaches of Lola Lola, the alter ego she had created on stage by singing some of the best cabaret songs. Her repertoire celebrates the cosmopolitan city of Paris with showstoppers from Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Shirley Mc Laine and Marlene Dietrich.
JAMES GILLAN: A RETROSPECTIVE 13 OCTOBER | 3PM £22
Laurence Olivier award nominee, James Gillan, has performed in musicals for almost 30 years. He is currently at the Apollo theatre on Shaftesbury avenue in the smash hit WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM musical Everybody’s talking about Jamie.
Having worked with some of the world’s most famous composers and lyricists, this cabaret will take you on a journey through his vivid musical career. This “retrospective” is a chance to hear him sing the best roles of his theatrical life in one afternoon.
Songs from The Who’s Tommy, Wicked, Starlight Express, Pippin, Joseph, Peter Pan, Assassins, God spell, Little shop of Horrors, and Boy Georges Taboo.
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14-16 OCTOBER | 7PM £30 Steven Brinberg, the internationally acclaimed Barbra Streisand impressionist, returns to London by popular demand for three shows to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film, Hello Dolly!
Featuring many songs from the film as well as songs from Streisand’s fabled catalogue including her latest album, Walls. The show will have musical direction by Nathan Martin.
For 11 years, Brinberg toured with Marvin Hamlisch, composer of The Way We Were, and appeared on Broadway in an all-star one-night concert of Funny Girl. He has recorded two albums, appeared in the films Boys Life and Thirsty, and on the television series Blue Bloods. KITTY LA ROAR TRIO 15 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £15 Stylish London singer, Kitty La Roar, debuts her new quartet singing, scatting and free- styling at the drums. The band will be showcasing original compositions from the album Valentine’s Eve, as well as original lyrics to the music of Monk, Ellington, Strayhorn and Sonny Rollins.
Inspired by Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson and Sarah Vaughan, Kitty La Roar’s unique talents are not just as silky voiced songstress, scat-singer and drummer: she has a spellbinding ability to freestyle lyrics to melody on the spot, telling stories and weaving in references to life, love, nature, politics, and even to people in the audience. The band performs highly original songs by Kitty and her pianist Nick Shankland and with Jamie
Anderson on saxophones. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
BEVERLEY BEIRNE: JJWTHF TOUR 17 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20
Raised on a diet of Jazz and 80s pop, British Jazz Singer Beverley Beirne has combined the two with her latest freewheeling, stylistically expansive new album and project Jazz Just Wants to Have Fun. Singing with an honest and heartfelt, deep-soul sensuality and WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM scatting with abandon in places that would do Ella proud, she swings both lightning fast and seductively slow on clever and stylish re-imaginings of perfectly chosen 70s and 80s hits, including a swinging ‘Come on Feel The Noize’ Slade; a seductive ‘Prince Charming’ Adam Ant; a sultry Bette Davis Eyes, Kim Carnes and many more…!
**** “Such is Beirne’s skill that she sings these pop favourites as though she were singing Gershwin, Porter or Berlin…” - Jazz Journal
BECKI BIGGINS: IT’S A MAN’S WORLD 18 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20 Imagine if Chet Baker, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz and Cannonball Adderley were reincarnated in the body of a rural Shropshire girl. Imagine no more and meet Becki Biggins, the multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and saxophonist.
It’s A Man’s World is a celebration of great songs, written, popularised and inspired by good men, performed by a strong, secure woman. Joining Becki Biggins for this great show are top-flight musicians John-Paul Gard on organ, Ben Waghorn, saxes & woodwind and Andy Tween on drums.
“Biggins’ It’s A Man’s World show is one with the potential to appeal to a wide audience, while retaining enough genuine jazz and blues elements to keep the purists happy.” - The Jazz Mann ANITA GILLETTE: AFTER ALL 20 OCTOBER (3PM) | 22 OCTOBER (7PM) £20 After two sold out performances for her acclaimed Irving Berlin tribute, Broadway legend, Anita Gillette, returns with Paul Greenwood at the piano in a new show full of equally delicious songs and stories that define her six dizzying decades in show business.
After All is filled with hilarious and touching incidents and observations, covering everything from singing with Burt Lancaster and riding an elephant with Bill Murray to Tina Fey and her Aunt Thelma!
Critics have called Anita “dazzling, sassy hilarious, poignant and moving”. She has won Tony and Emmy nominations, and several MAC and BISTRO awards for her distinguished cabaret work. BERNADETTE ROBINSON: SONGS OF BERNADETTE
20 OCTOBER | 7PM £25
After her sold out shows in August, Bernadette Robinson returns!
WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM The Times called her “A jaw-dropping talent”; The Telegraph, recalling her portrayal of Callas singing Vissi D’arté from Puccini’s Tosca, commented “It’s so sublime, it’s like a shot of morphine; for a blissful few minutes, all the cares of the world are gone.”
In this concoction of musical delights Bernadette pays tribute to legendary performers (Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas) and others, presents songs by contemporary songwriters such as Damien Rice, Jane Siberry and Jackson Browne, and introduces some surprise guests (think Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey and Julie Andrews).
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK HOLLYWOOD’S LOST CHORDS: SONGS FROM MGM’S CUTTING ROOM FLOOR 21 OCTOBER | 7PM £20 Broadway historian and pianist Dominic McHugh (Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady) presents a selection of overlooked gems from the Golden Age of the MGM musical.
Join West End performers Alex Young (Follies, NT; Me and My Girl, Chichester), Rebecca Collingwood (Much Ado About Nothing & Love’s Labours Lost, RSC) and Scott Hayward (Pippin, Southwark Playhouse) as they perform little-known songs by the likes of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. SLIXS 22 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20 SLIXS are turning ‘a cappella’ listening habits on their head. With a powerful and daring mixture of jazz, pop and funk, classical and world music, these six multi-talented voices have rocked audiences at concerts across Europe and Asia. Their first appearance in London since 2014 will include songs from their latest album Playgrounds and their stunning interpretations of music by J.S.Bach.
The SLIXS singers all share the same musical ambition: to explore the depths of the human voice. Ward Swingle, founder of the legendary Swingle Singers, was captivated by the band and praised them saying “Your style is unique.” King’s Singer, Gabriel Crouch, named SLIXS “better than any group (he’s) ever heard!” BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
GEOFF EALES: SPIRIT OF THE MINE 23 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20
Written by celebrated composer and pianist Geoff Eales, Spirit of the Mine is a compelling new musical highlighting the indomitable spirit of the Welsh miners in the face of adversity. This exclusive musical evening, directed by Geoff himself and starring WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Mike Sterling (Phantom of the Opera, Evi ta) and Emma Kershaw (Les Misérables, Into the Woods), and special guest appearance by renowned choreographer Christian Holder, showcases many captivating songs from the show.
A story of passion, pride and courage, the music will touch your heart.
“As both a pianist and composer, Geoff Eales has an exquisite touch, delicate but purposeful” – The Observer
RICHARD & ADAM: THE GREATEST SONGMEN
24 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20
Welsh brother duo Richard & Adam wowed the nation with their extraordinary harmonies on Britain’s Got Talent. Having since performed to over 14 million people around the world, they return for their much-anticipated UK Tour, making their debut at Crazy Coqs.
Success on BGT was followed by their debut album The Impossible Dream, which sold over 1 million copies and remained at the No.1 spot for four consecutive weeks.
Join Richard & Adam for The Greatest Songmen tour, where the boys will captivate you with a night of world-class music, including A Million Dreams, Volare and The Impossible Dream. VIP tickets are available, including reserved seats in the front rows and a pre- show Meet & Greet with Richard & Adam. AN EVENING WITH BOBBY CRUSH AND HIS MUSICIANS
25 OCTOBER | 7PM £30
With a career spanning over 45 years, Bobby Crush is Britain’s top piano entertainer. From gold and silver albums and seasons at the London Palladium to his recent starring role on ITV’s Last Laugh in Vegas, Bobby continues to dazzle audiences at home and abroad.
Following his sell-out show last April, he returns with a sparkling programme including the music of Michel Legrand, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Sergio Mendes and many more…
Band line-up: David Carter (Musical Director), Steve Richardson (bass guitar), Martin Layzell (drums)
CELESTE CARAMANNA: SOULFUL FUNK 26 OCTOBER | 7PM £20
A fantastic night of music, embracing the power of funk, soul and jazz with fusions and contaminations. The protagonist of this unique show is Celeste, a phenomenon of 20 WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM years old, with an incredible voice, precocious maturity, and an extraordinary vocal capacity to journey through different musical genres.
She has rapidly gained a huge following in the UK, accompanied by her loyal band of world-class musicians, stepping on to the stage of the most renowned jazz venues including the Barbican, Union Chapel, Coliseu do Porto, Paradiso in Amsterdam, and Casino de Paris. She has performed in Brazil, UK, Italy, France, Ireland, Holland and Belgium.
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West End Wilma, the mother and son theatre blogging duo, host a series of Sunday afternoon chats with some of the West End’s biggest stars. The audience will also be able to ask their own questions.
For the final instalment, Rachel Tucker joins Wilma to talk about her incredible theatre career, from playing ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked on Broadway and the West End, We Will Rock You and her current role in the award-winning hit musical, Come from Away. LA VOIX: LIVE, LOUD AND FABULOUS 28 OCTOBER | 7PM £25
Star of Ab Fab the Movie, Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist and now BBC Radio megastar, larger than life, La Voix, dazzles audiences with her incredible voice, natural wit and hilarious impersonations. From celebrities to the Royal Family, her glamorous performances have taken her around the world.
La Voix and her pianist perform bewitching renditions of jazz, musical theatre and pop classics that are scarily accurate impressions of her female icons - from Cher to Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey to Liza Minnelli - no diva is spared.
A feast for the senses, this evening of frills, frocks and fun is one not to be missed! BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ***** “Stomach Punchingly Funny” - Broadway Baby LORNA DALLAS: STAGES 29 OCTOBER & 5 NOVEMBER | 7PM £25
In March, Lorna Dallas premiered Stages, a loving homage to the places where she honed her gifts as an artist, as well as to the other stages in a life. Now she returns for two final performances. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
“A night to remember, and truly an antidote to the blues” - Plays to See
“One of the best cabaret evenings I can remember” - Musical Theatre Review
“Captivating, magical and heart-warming, the ultimate masterclass in stylish cabaret. A must-see!” - The Review Chap
“Truly a once in a lifetime event not to be missed.” - Cabaret Scenes
ROSABELLA GREGORY 29 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £20
Award-winning Rosabella Gregory returns following her 2018 sold out show and three packed performances of City Stories.
Expect the unexpected from a genre bending musician, collaborator, composer and arranger working with greats such as Bob James, Anoushka Shankar, Bernhard Schimpelsberger, Soumik Datta, and Caroline Sheen. One of ten composers selected for The Canales Project #HearHerSong initiative, she has just returned from playing her commissioned piece at Joe’s Pub in New York.
Rosabella’s voice reserves an intimate musical language, enriched with folk, jazz, and shades of Indian classical. A storyteller at heart, Gregory’s songs are thought-provoking observations of the world; poignant, playful, arresting and raw. ALI SINGS ELLA 30 OCTOBER | 7PM & 9.15PM £25 Laurence Olivier Award nominated vocalist, Alison Jiear, and her jazz quartet perform music made famous by the First Lady of Song with a show packed full of iconic standards such as A Tisket a Tasket, Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye, Lady be Good, Hernando’s Hideaway and That ‘Ol Black Magic.
“A bring-down-the-house voice” - New York Times
“A gentler exposition of nuanced vocal work” - What’s on Stage
PIXIE AND THE GYPSIES 31 OCTOBER | 7PM £15
Returning from the Cork Jazz Festival, Pixie & The Gypsies return to perform music from their chart-topping debut album, Honey Trap, alongside a selection of covers from the
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Their number 1 album debuted in August with the band playing sold-out shows at Pizza Express Jazz Club and Upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s. The band performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Rye Jazz & Blues Festival, and played 8 gigs at Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in 2018.
Pixie & The Gypsies consists of Taylor Notcutt (vocals & accordion), Connie Chatwin (violin & backing vocals), Twm Dylan (double bass), and Matt Wilson (guitar).
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31 OCTOBER | 9.15PM £28 Want to experience the impossible? Want to know why magic works? Dr Gustav Kuhn is an award-winning magician, renowned author and psychologist who has created this Experience the Impossible show to explore how our mind is so easily deceived by magic. This fascinating and entertaining magical show is designed to delight; understand how magic fools the brain by exploiting huge gaps in our conscious experience, change the way you think of your perception and reality, and gain a new appreciation of your brain’s amazing capacity.
Dr. Kuhn founded MAGIC (Mind, Attention & General Illusory Cognition) Lab, he is one of the leading researchers in the science of magic in the world, president of the Science of Magic Association, and a member of the Magic Circle. EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL
BARB JUNGR: BOB, BREL AND ME 10-11 OCTOBER & 15-16 NOVEMBER | 7PM £25 Barb Jungr’s reputation as “one of the world’s great cabaret singers” (Time Out New York) may have gone to her head, as she will now only sing songs by writers whose names start with the letter B. But this means she can return to two colossi of popular song, whose writing has helped define her whole career. A good plan, because she is “one of the best interpreters of Jacques Brel and Bob Dylan anywhere on this angst-ridden planet today” (Village Voice).
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | In this brand new collection for 2019, Barb will turn her acclaimed ability at reinvention and reinterpretation to exploring her relationship with a set of Dylan and Brel songs she has never tackled before on stage or on disc, all in original arrangements. Placed alongside them will be some of Barb’s own songs, written with several wonderful collaborators.
“It’s as if Edith Piaf and Nick Cave had a love-child, who was adopted by Carmen McRae” - Glam Adelaide WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
SUSANA SHEIMAN: BY MYSELF 15-16 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £20
Susana Sheiman is back for the London Jazz Festival 2019!
She is one of the most acclaimed jazz singers on the European scene. Born in Madrid where she had her musical training, she now lives in Barcelona.
As a young girl, Susana would listen and learn from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Anita O’Day, Judy Garland, Kay Starr, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson and Rachelle Ferrell. These are the great ladies who inspired and helped her create her very own personal style. Indeed, the sheer quality of her voice, the intensity of her expressiveness means that, from blues to swing through ballads and bossa novas, Susana’s performance is always a unique experience.
Her second appearance in London will be a more intimate programme: By Myself. Just her voice, a double bass and the musical direction of Alain Guiu (former accompanist for the late Charles Aznavour) on piano. CHRISTINE BOVILL: TONIGHT, YOU BELONG TO ME
20 NOVEMBER (9.15PM) | 21 NOVEMBER (7PM) £25 Brand-new show from the award-winning, five-star Glaswegian chanteuse, Christine Bovill. With her heart-melting, smoky, evocative voice, Christine cherry-picks some of the most celebrated songs and engrossing stories from the Jazz Age – the era of Prohibition, women’s suffrage, radio, flappers, vamps, F Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindbergh and Bessie Smith. A decade of heroes and villains; of sex scandals; literary giants and criminal low lives – all beautifully bound in the seductive rhythms of jazz.
‘She is becoming the stuff of Fringe legend’ - BroadwayBaby
***** - Scotsman
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SILJE NERGAARD & ESPEN BERG 22 NOVEMBER (7PM & 9.15PM) | 23 NOVEMBER (7PM) £30
Silje Nergaard has ventured into an exciting collaboration with the great jazz pianist, Espen Berg. Espen, considered a world class pianist, was the recipient BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK of Molde Jazz Festival’s renowned music award in 2016.
Silje’s album At First Light still reigns as Norway’s top selling jazz album of all time. This duo has carefully selected songs from Silje’s vast musical catalogue, resulting in a best-of concert with gorgeous versions of her best songs, including Be Still My Heart, The Waltz, Japanese Blue, and Tell Me Where You’re Going.
Bringing the personal stories behind the songs to light, Silje’s beautiful and expressive voice is truly allowed to shine in this wonderful musical landscape created with Espen’s dynamic and playful piano. This duo will give you a unique concert experience - nothing less than pure medicine for your ears, your heart, and your soul!
“A beautiful spring flood of Silje’s own and other’s songs in lyrical, melodious streams … as if from some other world...” - Romsdals Budstikke ***** THE LEGEND OF THE JAZZ PENGUIN 16 NOVEMBER | 11AM & 1PM 7 DECEMBER | 1PM £10 - £30 for 4 tickets
Welcome to the North Pole Jazz Lounge, a magical place with a very special guest. It’s a wintery evening and it’s snowing outside, so come into the warm and join the Jazz Penguin.
We hear the tale of how the Penguin found Jazz, on an adventure around the world meeting a variety of different musical animals from dancing eggs to a drumming Octopus. Expect tooting, trumpeting and bopping in this hilarious and Christmassy celebration of music.
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | The Legend of the Jazz Penguin features original music, brilliant puppetry and lots of fun interaction that will have children aged 2+ jumping for joy.
Goblin are an acclaimed theatre company who make shows for young people. Goblin has performed in lots of brilliant venues across the UK, including runs at Southbank Centre, National Theatre & Royal Exchange, Manchester, as well as two co-productions with Little Angel Theatre. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
NEAL RICHARDSON’S QUARTET PRESENT: NOT KING COLE
17 NOVEMBER | 3PM & 7PM £25
For all of pianist/singer Neal Richardson’s career, Nat King Cole has been hovering in the background, an ever-present inspiration.
Neal’s father, also a pianist, was a fan of Nat’s and so the young Neal grew up listening to classics such as Orange Coloured Sky, Mona Lisa and Sweet Lorraine.
Not to put too fine a point on it, Nat’s music was the main reason why Neal wanted to become a professional pianist in the first place. Whilst working in Los Angeles, he was privileged to have the opportunity to play Nat’s piano at Capitol Studios.
So, this tribute is a work of love, from one pianist and singer to the memory of another.
Rather than attempting to imitate Nat King Cole, the show is an honest and affectionate re-working of some of his greatest hits, with a biographical strand running throughout as Neal tells Nat’s inspiring and uplifting story. VULA VIEL 18 NOVEMBER | 7PM £15
“Dance to it, make love to it, consume it, listen to it, stare at the clouds to it!” - Iggy Pop
This special performance for the London Jazz Festival sees forward-thinking Vula Viel continue their unique musical journey centred around the Gyil (Ghanaian xylophone). It will feature music from their current CD Do Not be Afraid and preview new material from their forthcoming CD to be released in early 2020.
Described as “Ghanaian minimalism”, with the unassuming ability to blur the lines between atmospheres, Vula Viel’s sound may nod to Steve Reichian jazz, but influences don’t stop there: one can hear echoes of Bill Laswell and the irresistible energy of Arthur Russell.
PARTIKEL 19 NOVEMBER | 7PM £15
Partikel take a unique and fresh look at the saxophone trio format. Their exciting live performances lead them to being dubbed as “one of the most exciting trios in WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM improvised music” according to Jazz Podium.
Having four eclectic albums under their belt has seen them perform at venues and festivals all over the world and tonight they will be premiering some new material that will feature on their new album set to be recorded next year.
Featuring: Duncan Eagles – Saxophones / Max Luthert – Bass / Eric Ford - Drums and Percussion
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25 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £20
Jay Rayner, alongside Pat Gordon Smith (singer), bassist Robert Rickenberg (bass) and Dave Lewis (saxophone), return with Songs of Food and Agony. The evening will see the quartet perform turns from the Great American food and drink songbook including Cantaloupe Island, Black Coffee, One for My Baby and Save The Bones. There will be standards from the likes of Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Blossom Dearie and Dave Frishberg.
Alongside anecdotes from his life as a restaurant critic and journalist, Rayner also talks about growing up with a mother who was an agony aunt and plays tunes that draw on the narratives of the problem page letter. TRUDY KERR SINGS DORIS DAY 20 NOVEMBER | 7PM £20 Doris Day wasn’t just a great actress – she was one of the most expressive jazz singers of her generation. She said the best time of her career was as a big band singer. She just loved singing, with a sparkling style and had “a voice so fresh you could smell it” - Andy Williams.
She enjoyed many hit songs including Que Sera Sera, A Secret Love, When I Fall in Love, Sentimental Journey, It’s Magic and the everlasting jazz standard Lullaby of Broadway.
Trudy Kerr is renowned as one of the UK’s finest jazz vocalists. She will be accompanied on piano by award winner Tom Cawley and on double bass by BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | jazz legend Geoff Gascoyne, to perform some of Doris Day’s hit songs.
“Trudy Kerr is the genuine article - She is a Joy!” - Mojo Magazine
“100% real jazz musician with a warm and sensuous tone.” - All About Jazz WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
LIANE CARROLL 21 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £25
London born and Hastings raised, multi-award-winning singer-pianist, Liane Carroll, is one of the UK’s greatest musical treasures. A soulful, emotive singer, she can move an audience to tears with her heart-breaking ability to inhabit a lyric and in the very next moment have them jumping for joy with her breath- taking vocal virtuosity.
Her last album, The Right to Love, was released to great critical acclaim in 2017. Her 2015 album, Seaside - a homage to her life by the coast - won a British Jazz Award for Best New Album and received a nomination for a 2016 Parliamentary Jazz Award.
“She seems, in some magical way, to be made out of music” - The Observer
“Deeply soulful, wonderfully honest” - The Times NATE SIMPSON: WHAT’S GOING ON, A NIGHT OF MARVIN GAYE
1 NOVEMBER | 7PM £22 A tribute to international Motown icon Martin Gaye.
Expect his unmistakable soulful tunes including award winning tracks What’s Going On and Let’s Get It On. Musically rooted in R’n’B, jazz, gospel, soul and funk, singer songwriter Nate Simpson performs his own versions of Marvin Gaye’s classic songs. Nate starred on the X Factor in 2016. He has performed alongside the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae, Beverly Knight, Jamie Cullen, Jessie J, Boy George and many more. He has taken on the roles of Marvin and Berry Gordy in the hit West End musical Motown and performed countless gigs and festivals. He is currently enjoying the role of Simba The Lion King in Paris.
BABS SAVAGE 1 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £25
The R’n’B singer sensation Babs Savage, who won the 2018 international Chicago Music award for her Outstanding Contribution to Music, returns with her 5-piece band. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Babs hit the London stages when she was just 15 and opened for George Michael’s hit band Wham. After meeting Rickey Rainbow, a highly acclaimed producer/singer songwriter, together they produced Babs debut album London Kisses. Her singles La La and Hot Apple Pie, topped the US billboard charts.
Babs will cover her favourite songs from Stephanie Mills, Diana Ross, Nina Simone to David Bowie, as well as performing several tracks from her new dance album.
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“The funniest concert you will ever see” - Time Out
Stand-job comedian, conductor and all-round musical genius Rainer Hersch returns accompanied by the most magnificent comic device ever seen – his very own mini Orkestra of madcap virtuosos. Still under development, this ‘concert in progress’ has brand new routines for orchestra and audience alike. Expect an evening of laughter and great music making, everything from Tchaikovsky to Ti t a n i c . Yes, it’s a concert Jim, but not as you know it and whether you are a professor of harmony or couldn’t tell a string quartet from a string vest, this is “a guaranteed laugh every four bars” - Scotsman. AN EVENING WITH AMELIA ADAMS-PEARCE AND JASON DENTON
5 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £15 Join old school friends Amelia and Jason for an evening of musical comedy, classics and hidden gems from their varied careers in theatre. Sit back, indulge in a cocktail and let a night of music, anecdotes and laughter commence…
Both trained at Italia Conti and have accumulated numerous West End credits between them. Jason appeared as Daveed Diggs in Spamilton and as Joe Soap in Hot Stuff. Notable credits for Amelia include Lois Lane in Kiss Me Kate, and most recently, Martha Burelli in The Rat Pack. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
PIPPA EVANS: JOKES AND SONGS 7 NOVEMBER | 7PM £15
Pippa Evans presents a laughter-filled evening of songs she’s written; songs other people have written and songs to be made-up on the night. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Star of the Olivier Award-winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and ITV’s Tonight at The Palladium.
“Pippa Evans is little less than a comic genius” – The Telegraph
SARA DOWLING: REMEMBERING NANCY WILSON
7 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £20
Happy Talk, Save Your Love for Me, Never Will I Marry, The Masquerade Is Over. From the early 60s on Capitol with Canonball Adderley and the classic The Swingin’s Mutual with George Shearing onwards, jazz/ R’n’B singer Nancy Wilson (1937-2018) had the knack of making every song sound as if it had been written for her. Rising star of British jazz Sara Dowling has been inspired by her: “World-renowned vocalist, activist, actor, wife, mother, grandmother, 60 years in the spotlight, 70 albums, 3 Grammys, a presence which was commanding and endearing...yours is a legacy which every vocalist can only be proud to carry each time we walk out on stage.” Tucker
MELINDA HUGHES: DIVA II DIVA 8 NOVEMBER | 7PM £20
Alison Limerick, the voice behind the epic club anthem Where Love Lives, teams up with satirist Melinda Hughes after their sell-out success in March.
Backed by a live band and special guest trumpeter Graeme Flowers, they will indulge in their mutual love for soul, jazz and swing. Expect ingenious musical twists and plenty of comical shenanigans.
CLOSER 10 NOVEMBER | 3PM £20
CLOSER are an exciting blend of three of the UK’s finest vocal – and vocally versatile – talents, combining a wealth of music and theatre industry experience, with many WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM years of friendship. Mix that in with some of the most flawless and exquisitely unique harmonies, and you have a vocal trio who bring an original take on classics old and new into their programmes, whilst having the vocal prowess and dexterity to move and excite you with their solo voices, original arrangements and distinctive sound. Join them for an evening of gorgeous vocals and beautiful harmonies.
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Press and audience worldwide agree; there is hardly any other artist who comes so close to David Bowie as Ratzke. Now Ratzke dives back into Bowie’s world very differently, with only Ratzke’s voice and a virtuoso Christian Pabst on the piano.
In Where are we Now, Ratzke looks back - and ahead - to the life of Bowie. By giving the songs his personal touch, Ratzke reveals the classics in a brand-new light without losing the style and sound of the original master. Add to this, new songs that could have come from the Bowie himself. Prepare for a crazy, intimate, funny and majestic rock- n-roll roller coaster ride. This great entertainer takes you on a journey into the Bowie universe! Tucker
RACHEL TUCKER: OLD, NEW, BORROWED & BLUE
3 OCTOBER (11.15PM) | £20 10 NOVEMBER & 8 DECEMBER (9.15PM) | £30 Rachel Tucker is currently starring in Broadway and London 4-time award winning Olivier show Come From Away as Captain Beverley Bass at the Phoenix Theatre. Featuring some of musical theatre’s most iconic songs from a diverse back catalogue including Wicked, The Last Ship, old classics, and new songs from the cutting edge of musical theatre, Rachel brings her soaring vocals, impassioned performances and caustic wit to a brand-new show.
“She’s funny, charming, relaxed and listening to that voice…is like, well not much else. Her extraordinarily powerful lungs can boom through the songs, but they can bring them right back in, making them quiet, emotional and
heart-breaking.” - What’s on Stage on Rachel Tucker Unplugged (2017) BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
Rachel won Best Cabaret Performance from West End Wilma in 2015 and 2017. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM MIKE PARKINSON: TALKING SHOP 12 NOVEMBER | 7PM £15
“This man should go far – Australia perhaps” - Sir Michael Parkinson
The worm has turned. Son of Parky dishes the dirt on his terrible childhood at the hands of his domineering father. How he was forced to turn his back on a career as an interpretive dancer to work as a slave producing his domineering egomaniacal father’s show. How he endured meeting and spending time with some of the most awful stars of stage and screen. How the talk show has ruined his life.
****SPOILER ALERT***** all the above is untrue
Actually it’s just an hour of funny and entertaining memories of growing up on a talk show set, the strange world of celebrity, working on his father’s show and his own view of the talk show business with the aid of clips featuring Parky, Frostie, Wogan and one or two who didn’t quite make the grade but ended up producing some of the most inadvertently funny moments on telly.
50% of ticket proceeds go to the charity for the support and protection of battered and emotionally exploited children of celebrities. KIT & MCCONNEL 13 NOVEMBER | 7PM £22.50 With only the vaguest of nods to good taste and propriety, cabaret veterans Kit & McConnel (Formerly Kit & The Widow) are delighted to present their latest offering of up-to-the-minute topical songs & sketches.Regular panellist on Radio 4’s Just A Minute, screenwriter, Country Life columnist, and opera director, Kit Hesketh-Harvey is joined by Emmy Award-winning composer, author and pianist James McConnel.
Of late, they’ve ploughed and scattered their dear friend and colleague, Joan Rivers, entertained Egyptian arms dealers in Sardinia (though they understood not a word), and nudged David Cameron’s 50th birthday party into something approaching disarray. Heavily laden with their take on subjects ranging from Macron to mackerel, Putin to Pampers, do join them for a diverse and hilarious evening of wit, musical silliness, improvisation and general absurdity. ‘I could barely write for laughing, most of the time’ - Edinburgh Fringe Review WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM DAZZLING DIVAS 13 NOVEMBER (9.15PM) | 14 NOVEMBER (7PM) £20
Dazzling Divas is a spellbinding musical journey illuminating the lives and work of the legendary trailblazing women - Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Patsy Cline, Janis Joplin, Mama Cass, Karen Carpenter and Dusty Springfield BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK - the divas who died too young.
Issy van Randwyck is a triple Olivier Award Nominee. Her many recordings include Song of Singapore in which she starred, and The Glory of Gershwin with Larry Adler produced by George Martin.
Issy began her career with Divas of a very different kind at Madam Jojo’s in the drag line up of London’s hottest revue and she has since performed extensively throughout the world. Issy has created Dazzling Divas to explore the music and lives of seven of the Twentieth Century’s ground-breaking and original women. Musical direction by Michael Haslam.
‘One of the fizziest talents in British Showbiz - the singing is golden’ - Th e Daily Telegraph TORI SCOTT IS PICKLED 26 NOVEMBER | 7PM & 9.15PM £20 Following a hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe season, Tori Scott returns to the UK this Autumn with a hilarious brand new show. She’s still thirsty and refuses to learn from her mistakes, so not much has changed! Tori will be celebrating poor life choices and an unconditional love of vodka - New York City style. This Garland for the Grindr era is “a force to be reckoned with” (Broadway World), desperate to escape Trumpland and be let loose on London!
**** “Utterly shameless... you’ll leave thirsty for more” - West End Wilma ***** “Sheer delight... what a marvel” - British Theatre
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PURDY 27 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £20
Watch Purdy once and you will fall in love. Those who have seen this wonderful artist perform live know that they can expect a rich velvety voice, a musical feast of emotions
and a playful, witty and alluring engagement with her audience. Purdy has supported WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Jools Holland on tour with her first album Diamond in the Dust and has captivated audiences at The Royal Albert Hall and Wembley Stadium. Join her and her incredible band for original Pop noir and celebrated Jazz covers.
PATTI BOULAYE – ARETHA AND ME 28 NOVEMBER | 9.15PM £30
The award-winning singer Patti Boulaye, returns with her brand-new one-woman show Aretha and Me.
In this fascinating show, Patti, who is accompanied by her musical director Alan Rogers, compares her life with the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, who had a celebrated career including 17 Top 10 pop singles and 20 No.1 R&B hits during her 5 decades of recording.
Patti, who made her West End debut in the 70’s in the musical Hair, will be singing some of her favourite Aretha Franklin numbers including Respect, I’d Rather Go Blind, Say A Little Prayer and Chain of Fools as well as many more lesser known Aretha song. EVE FERRET: FABARET 29 & 30 NOVEMBER | 7PM £20
Eve Ferret is regarded as one of the most original performers on the stage today. She spins cabaret on its head and back again. Warm and heartfelt with a rollicking and tender voice, Ferret will bring her life enhancing mix of original songs, stories and completely unexpected choice of material back to Crazy Coqs. Ferret has worked on stage, TV and Film, with David Bowie in Absolute Beginners and his Grammy award winning, Jazzin for Blue Jean and Gene Wilder in Haunted Honeymoon. “Queen of Cabaret” - BBC Radio 4
***** “Delivers a rich, velvety blues voice, she could be compared to Bette, Ella or Peggy but, in truth, she is Eve Ferret the one and only” - LondonTheatre1.com
THE SONGS OF FRANK SINATRA AND ELLA FITZGERALD – WITH JAMIE LAMBERT AND MARISHA WALLACE 1 DECEMBER | 3PM & 7PM £20
See two world class performers pay tribute to Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald – two of
WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM the greatest voices of all time.
Jamie Lambert is one quarter of Collabro, the million-selling Musical Theatre vocal group, and has sold out concert halls and arenas throughout the world. Marisha Wallace is a Broadway and West End star with roles in Dreamgirls, Wai tress, Book of Mormon and more. Most recently she played the iconic role of ‘Rather Tasty’ in the Aladdin live action movie.
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Currently in the Olivier award winning musical Come From Away, Jennifer has performed in several productions including Wicked, Mamma Mia, Shrek, Jerry Springer the Opera, Chess & Saturday Night Fever.
Whilst her love for musical theatre has given her 20 years in the industry, this concert will have a variety of material by her favourite artists & writers through the generations. With unique arrangements and accompanied by friend and musical director Craig Adams (Lift - the musical), it promises to be a musical evening not to be missed. SHIRLEY & SHIRLEY 3 DECEMBER | 9.15PM £15
Shirley and Shirley went forth and multiplied. Now they’re back and want to tell you all about it. Postpartum they remain as punchy as ever, unleashing their pitch-black comedy through sketch and stand up. Celebrating their similarities and exposing their differences, they promise to have you rolling in the aisles.
Without a doubt, Shirley and Shirley are the best British-Surinamese, Irish-Palestinian double-act working on the comedy circuit today.
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MICHAEL DORE: ‘LET ME SING & I’M HAPPY’ – SONGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 8 DECEMBER | 3PM £20
Michael Dore returns after his many sell out performances. This time he interprets
songs he has performed on the many iconic stages around the world: Carnegie Hall, the WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Sydney Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall, often with the world’s leading orchestras.
He celebrates the music of his favourite singers, including Barry Manilow, Michael Bublé, Bing Crosby and Barbra Streisand with musical direction by John G Smith
“A fabulous interpreter of any song in any style... a delight to listen to” - Ken Bruce, BBC Radio 2
CHRISTIAN HOLDER: AT HOME & ABROAD 9 & 10 DECEMBER | 7PM £20
Christian Holder returns after enthusiastically successful appearances at New York’s Cabaret Convention, and at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, in New York’s Theatre Row.
Steve Ross, the prince of New York cabaret, said in the New York Times: “I heard a fantastic cabaret act two nights ago…It was Christian Holder. He was a dancer and then became a singer and cabaret act. The chances that he took — he sang a lot of songs we all know — and he made those songs totally part of his story. I continue to be impressed and inspired by audacity.” BAMBOOZLE 27 DECEMBER | 7PM £20 Dynamic. Different. Unique.
Known for their world class musicianship and high energy performances, Bamboozle seamlessly combine the vibe of the swinging 1950’s with the sounds of today, in a way that mesmerises both retro loving and modern audiences.
The band combines internationally renowned singer/guitarist/songwriter Jim Knowler (The Keytones, Gotz Alsmann), injecting his exciting and instantly recognisable guitar riffs, with new face on the scene, singer/bassist/songwriter Serena Sykes, lighting up the stage with her dynamic performances, electric vocal and daring double bass stunts, backed by the slick, thrumming grooves of drummer/vocalist Les Curtis (Imelda May, Darrell Higham, Wanda Jackson).
JAY RAYNER: MY LAST SUPPER 28 DECEMBER (7PM) | 29 DECEMBER (3PM) £25
It’s your last meal on earth. What are you going to have?
WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM It’s the question award-winning restaurant critic and MasterChef judge Jay Rayner has been asked most often by audiences across the UK. Finally, he’s set out to answer it. In this barnstorming new show, Rayner examines our fascination with last meals and tells the stories behind the ingredients that would be on his menu: how he was introduced to oysters by his late mother, for example, or how he almost torched a hotel through his love for snails. He’ll also get the audience to design their own last meal.
My Last Supper with Jay Rayner. It’s a show to die for.
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK GARY WILLIAMS CELEBRATES THE RAT PACK 29 & 30 DECEMBER | 7PM £25 Here’s your invitation to celebrate the magic of Frank, Dean and Sammy with Gary Williams, star of the West End’s Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas. Gary played Sinatra at over 150 performances of the show in London, Berlin, Vienna, Germany and Scandinavia.
The London Evening Standard described him as “the UK’s leading standard bearer for the supercool era” and he’s performed everywhere from Bestival to Buckingham Palace, the Royal Albert Hall to Ronnie Scott’s.
Join Gary for an unforgettable night of fun and great music, including: Come Fly With Me, Under My Skin, Volare, My Way, Mr. Bojangles, That’s Amore, What Kind of Fool Am I?, Fly Me to the Moon, Candy Man, That’s Life, New York and many more! CHRISTMAS BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
GARY WILLIAMS: A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS
20 DECEMBER (7PM) | 21 & 22 DECEMBER (3PM & 7PM) | 23 DECEMBER (7PM) £25
A Swingin’ Christmas returns for what the Evening Standard awarded five stars and called “the jolliest sleigh ride in town”.
Gary’s Christmas show has become a fixture in London’s season calendar and this year promises to be the coolest one yet. More songs, more sing-alongs and more mince-pies!
It’s packed with all your favourites like The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, The Twelve Days of Christmas and Let It Snow. It’s wrapped up in Gary’s trademark wit and buckets of Christmas cheer.
Bring your friends, make a night of it with dinner in the brasserie or cocktails in the very stylish Bar Américain and join the star of the West End’s Rat Pack Gary Williams for another Swingin’ Christmas at London’s most fabulous cabaret room.
“An evening of old school virtuosity” - Time Out London
“One of this country’s most loved big band singers.” - Clare Teal BBC Radio 2 BLAKE: CHRISTMAS CLASSICS 25 NOVEMBER | 7PM & 9.15PM £22 Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year and a time to treat your loved ones and of course yourself! Begin your Christmas celebrations with Blake as they take you on a journey of Christmases through the years.
The BRIT award-winning trio will be performing timeless Christmas songs including Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Let It Snow and White Christmas with the warmth that only their rich vocal harmonies can deliver. A spectacular evening is in store with great music, funny stories and a ‘virtual duet’ with Dame Shirley Bassey!
ALICE FEARN: A NOT SO SILENT NIGHT 5 DECEMBER | 7PM £25
Alice Fearn, recently seen as the green witch Elphaba in London’s West End smash hit musical Wicked, returns to get you in the Christmas spirit. With her vocal idol’s Celine WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Dion, Barbra Streisand & Judy Garland always an inspiration, Alice is sure to go full out with her festive tunes. Come along and let’s sing the festive night away not so silently...
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK ALI WISHES YOU A SWINGIN’ CHRISTMAS 22 DECEMBER | 9.15PM £25 Laurence Olivier Award nominated vocalist Alison Jiear returns with her swinging Christmas Show and her tinsel-clad quartet. From the traditional Jingle Bells (with a twist) to Ella Fitzgerald’s Rudolph, Ali has festive finger-tapping gifts to enjoy. It’s the perfect pre-Christmas night out.
“A bring-down-the-house voice.” - New York Times
“… gifted, accomplished and versatile vocalist … many more studied jazz singers lack Jiear’s voice and musicality.” - Sydney Morning Herald
“A star is born.” - David Walliams NICKY GAYNER’S UNASHAMEDLY CHRISTMAS
4 DECEMBER | 9.15PM £22 It’s December, it’s Christmas and for those in the mood for a festive cabaret, Nicky Gayner’s Unashamedly Christmas is here.
Join Nicky, along with her musical director Tom Foskett-Barnes and band, for an evening brimming with merriment. Unashamedly Christmas is a celebration of our favourite time of the year. Let Nicky take you on a journey through her advent calendar of sparkling fun and festive ditties, featuring old time classics, cheeky pop hits and of course, a few unexpected treats from the bottom of her stocking. Let your Christmas countdown begin!
“Unashamedly Christmas avoids the twin perils of cynicism and saccharine BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | to create an authentic celebration of the many facets of the holiday, which should ensure its widespread appeal and ongoing presence in the Christmas calendar…. a classy, warmhearted Christmas cracker of a show, designed to melt the stoniest of hearts.” - Cabaret Scenes WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
CHRISTMAS WITH NATALIE RUSHDIE 15 DECEMBER | 7PM £25
With her inimitable glittering style and her unforgettable vocal talent, Natalie returns for a very festive celebration of some of her favourite Christmas music. Join her for a night to remember filled with Christmas cheer and sing- along-songs including some of the great Christmas classics: Let It Snow, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Santa Baby…
Since her Crazy Coqs debut in 2017 when Natalie announced her move to Jazz from Classical music, she has stunned audiences with her powerful performances at The Royal Albert Hall, London Coliseum, Wembley Stadium, The Other Palace, Chelsea Flower Show, London Hippodrome and St Paul’s Cathedral. In February this year, Natalie headlined the BAFTA Gala and soon after sold-out her Crazy Coqs solo show this past June. This is one Christmas show you don’t want to miss. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
MISS HOPE SPRINGS: CHRISTMAS AGOGO!
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK 13 DECEMBER (7PM & 9.15PM) | 14 DECEMBER (7PM) £25
Revisiting her lost 1972 TV special (to this day considered an unaired classic) join down-on-her-luck comedy cabaret chanteuse Miss Hope Springs as she unwraps a glittering array of original seasonal songs all sprinkled with a fine frosting of vintage-Vegas glitz.
Expect fabulously festive numbers performed live at the piano and, if you get enough eggnog down her, Hope might spill the beans on her ‘Ritz-to the-pits’ life and loves in this hysterical trip down her somewhat potholed, memory lane.
Broadway World’s Best Cabaret Award Winner at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
‘Stupendous song writing’ - Best Christmas Shows to See, Evening Standard
‘The Greatest star that never was sings the greatest hits that never were’ - Jonathan Ross Arts Show BBC Radio 2
British Theatre ***** Evening Standard **** Musical Theatre Review **** SHAW SHIMMERS INTO CHRISTMAS 19 DECEMBER | 7PM & 9.15PM £25 An exclusive seasonal show, written especially for Crazy Coqs.
In this inimitable one-man powerhouse show, join Ian Shaw as he explores the joys, tears and sheer horror of the festive season. Expect songs, razor-sharp comedy and some very special guests from the world of music and theatre.
“a brilliant vocal chameleon... there’s actually more heart in Ian Shaw’s cleverness than in many singers who wear their hearts conspicuously on their sleeves” – The Telegraph BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
MEL & LENNY’S CHRISTMAS DING DONG
20 DECEMBER | 9.15PM £20
Musical comedian, Melinda Hughes, backed by her live band, presents a fun- packed Christmas cracker of a show with special guest Lenny Beige. Expect a musical extravaganza of satirical quips, classy cabaret, sassy swing and seasonal duets all sprinkled with a touch of Beige.
Melinda Hughes (described by Vanity Fair as “scandalous and timely”) is a smash hit satirical songstress, performing regularly in London, New York and the Edinburgh Fringe. A specialist in Weimar Cabaret, she has also performed at festivals in Bermuda, Barbados and Beirut and has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 3 InTune and BBC Radio 4.
Lenny Beige is one of London’s leading cabaret entertainers. He has had residencies at The Talk of London (five years), The Pigale (three years) and The Playboy Casino (one year). His television series, Lenny Beige’s Variety P ack ran for two seasons on the BBC with 16 shows as well as a Channel 4 special and numerous appearances. He has presented a tribute to Anthony Newley for the past decade. LA VOIX’S ABSOLUTELY FESTIVE SHOW
16 DECEMBER | 7PM & 9.15PM £25 It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And what better way to start your festive shenanigans than with our very own Countess of Christmas!
Expect side splitting comedy, incredible sound alike impersonations and truly the best night out. La Voix’s shows are a feast for the senses.
This show provides fans and first timers, a truly unique evening of entertainment in the company of a true legend and guarantees to bring the audience to their feet with this evening of music and laughter all with an absolutely festive twist!
‘’Wear thick pants because you’ll wet yourself laughing” - Jennifer Saunders WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK THE BLACK CAT “SALON DES ARTISTES” NEW YEARS EVE SPECIAL 31 DECEMBER | 10PM £100 Playing to full houses every Saturday night as one of Crazy Coq’s infamous Residents, The Black Cat “Salon Des Artistes” return this New Year’s Eve for a ‘supercharged’ evening of the finest feline cabaret to see in 2020.
This one-off soirée will feature sensational singers, crazy comics, bewitching burlesque artistes, mind-blowing magicians, and heroic high skills performers from London’s cabaret underworld, all supported by a jaunty jazz musicians to keep you dancing and whisk you into the New Year.
Every ticket includes a free glass of Champagne at midnight. Full line-up of artists TBC. Please refer to the website for details.
“Cabaret in its most extraordinarily suave form” - The Guardian “London’s trailblazing, hell-raising cabaret troupe” – Time Out “You’ll never want to leave” – ES Magazine FILIPPO DALL’ASTA QUARTET - MEDITERASIAN GYPSY JAZZ
8 JANUARY | 9.15PM £15
Filippo Dall’Asta is an Italian Gypsy jazz guitarist, composer, bandleader and arranger, mixing the sounds of Gypsy-jazz with traditional Indian music, to forge his own style of progressive guitar playing.
Flippo released his first solo album in December 2018: Mediterasian, innovative album featuring over 20 musicians in which the erratic energy of Gypsy jazz combines with the meditative sonorities of Indian music. His album was reviewed as “One of the best instrumental albums of 2018” by LA Music Critic Awards
Tonight, he will perform with his quartet. An evening not to be missed. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
BY GEORGE 10 JANUARY | 9.15PM £17.50
Following a sell-out appearance in August, award winning actor and singer Morgan James returns with his one man show, combining his story of growing up a “sensitive”
boy in the 1980’s in a small Welsh mining town with performances of George Michael’s WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM greatest songs.
Ever since George’s all too early and tragic death, Morgan wanted to produce and perform a show that highlights the genius of George as a songwriter and celebrates the man and the music. Morgan shares his own stories of growing up “different”, his early days in the cut throat acting industry and the highs and lows of becoming a proud out gay man.
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Opera singer Birgit Beer and baritone Phil Lee-Thomas invite you to an evening of cabaret, with iconic solos and duets from a kaleidoscope of genres including opera, operetta, csardas (Hungarian blues), alongside musical theatre and songbook evergreens.
Soprano Birgit Beer was born in Lübeck, and grew up in Vienna, with a career that has seen her perform in the world’s greatest opera houses including Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Munich, under the likes of Solti, Domingo, Abbado and Del Monaco.
Miss Beer’s special guest is Cardiff-born jazz and musical theatre baritone, actor, producer and London cabaret stalwart Phil Lee-Thomas.
Birgit and Phil are joined by composer and arranger David George Harrington on piano, and international violinist Orpheus Leander Papfillipou. JASON CARR: WE KISS IN A SHADOW 23 JANUARY | 7PM £20 Received with a rapturous standing ovation at its premiere at the Crazy Coqs in 2019, this very personal solo show from two-time Tony Award nominee composer/lyricist/ orchestrator Jason Carr explores musicals from a gay perspective.
Expect some Sondheim, Coward and Porter, as well Hollywood composers Hugh Martin and Roger Edens (proverbial and real-life friends of Dorothy), plus songs from Jason’s own critically-acclaimed shows. Jason is well-known at Crazy Coqs for accompanying Maria Friedman and Anne Reid.
CATHERINE LIMA: THE ALLURE OF MISS LEE
25 JANUARY | 7PM £20
Jazz vocalist Catherine Lima and her quintet bring you an evening of songs of jazz icon, Peggy Lee. With stories about the life of this troubled performer, Catherine explores WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM Peggy Lee’s rise from humble beginnings in North Dakota, to her first break as a big band singer with Benny Goodman through to her successful solo career as a singer/ song writer and one-time Hollywood actress.
With classic material such as Fever, I’m a Woman, He’s a Tramp, and some of Peggy Lee’s lesser known back catalogue Catherine brings a fabulous mix of songs that explain how this talented singer maintained her prominence on the popular music scene for so many years.
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK SPIDER DANCE – CELEBRATING FANNY KELLY AND LOLA MONTEZ 26 JANUARY | 3PM £15 Come on a fantastical journey through the lives and loves, romances and revolutions of one of the great women of the nineteenth century and the woman who was her muse. Their journey began here in Soho. Lola Montez was famed for her Spider Dance, an extraordinary creation that was part Tarantella, part crazed trance-dance, part erotic performance. It was uniquely the beginnings of both Burlesque and Contemporary dance pre-echoing artists as diverse as Isadora Duncan, Gipsy Rose Lee and Josephine Baker.
Watch Fanny Kelly’s gender fluid performances and Lola Montez’s transgressive dances. Hear their words and be astonished by what is presented before you. Prepare to be horsewhipped! AMY BAKER: SOME LIKE IT HOT 27 JANUARY | 7PM £20
Swing and jazz singer, Amy Baker, presents her all-female band in Some Like It Hot - a show that celebrates her passion for swing, jazz and that big band sound with songs that you know and love - Fever, Big Spender, The Lady Is A Tramp and Every Time We Say Goodbye, to name a few.
A regular guest vocalist with The Jive Aces, arguably Britain’s finest live jump jive outfit, Amy is being recognised as a solo artist in her own right. Her inaugural album, Get Happy, was released in 2018 to great acclaim. Amy’s new album, It’s A Good Day, released in April 2019 pays tribute to both Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE |
SARA DOWLING SINGS JUDY GARLAND
28 JANUARY | 9.15PM £20
Following a sold out show in London’s 2019 Jazz Divas Series, Sara arrives at Crazy Coqs for an evening of swing, poignancy and anecdote - her explorations of the career
and catalogue of Judy Garland, one of Hollywood’s brightest yet most troubled stars. WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM
Sara is now recognised as one of the UK’s leading jazz vocalists. Her distinctive voice owes much to her Irish father and Lebanese mother, surrounded by the records of her father’s jazz collection and the chant like voices of Lebanese singers.
“Her voice has all the qualities that you find in the great singers” – Guy Barker
Accompanied by Chris Ingham – piano, Dario DiLecce – bass & George Double- drums.
THE GREATEST LOESSER: FRANK LOESSER FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD 30 JANUARY | 9.15PM £20
Marking the seventieth anniversary year since the premiere of Guys and Dolls on Broadway, writer and pianist Dominic McHugh presents a programme of hits and overlooked gems by the beloved composer-lyricist Frank Loesser.
Joining the show are West End performers Emily Squibb (Young Frankenstein), Scott Hayward (Pippin) and Luke Redmore (Cats), who’ll perform hits from How to Succeed, Where’s Charley? and The Most Happy Fella. The programme will also include numbers from the forgotten shows Greenwillow and Pleasures and Palaces, plus a selection of songs from Loesser’s Hollywood years, including the favourite Baby, It’s Cold Outside. BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM IN THE LOUISE MESSENGER AND JAZZ MARAUDERS HER BOOM LALETE+GUEST DANA KERTEIN cost. On Sunday, a different duo will will duo adifferent Sunday, On cost. extra no at to Saturday, Monday .30pm, from jazz late-night best the Experience Brasserie. the in diners bands on rotation performing for finest of London’s avariety We have BENOIT VIELLEFON QUARTET KOUROSH KANANI QUARTET perform each week at 8.30pm. at week each perform GABRIELLE DUCOMBLE THOMAS HAMILTON RABIT FOOT SPASM MANDY MEADOWS KAMAO QUARTET NEW YEAR’SEVE FIFI LAMER 25 NOVEMBER 23 DECEMBER 18 NOVEMBER 16 DECEMBER 11 NOVEMBER 4 NOVEMBER 28 OCTOBER 9 DECEMBER 2 DECEMBER 20 JANUARY 14 OCTOBER 21 OCOTBER 27 JANUARY 13 JANUARY 7 OCTOBER 6 JANUARY
BRASSERIE ZÉDEL
A grand Parisian brasserie serving remarkable value traditional French food in a historic Beaux Arts/Art Deco interior. Located just across the foyer from Crazy Coqs, be sure to book a table at Brasserie Zédel for dinner before or after a performance.
Menu Prix Fixe 2 Courses £10.50 3 Courses £13.75
Menu Formule 3 Courses including water & wine £19.75
Hours Monday to Saturday, from 11.30am until midnight, and until 11pm on Sundays, with the best late- night jazz from 9.30pm, at no extra cost.
Book your table: www.brasseriezedel.com 020 7734 4888
“ The only real WWW.LIVEATZEDEL.COM brasserie “ in London Pierre Koffman BAR AMÉRICAIN Bar Américain, a classic cocktail bar adjacent to Crazy Coqs, is open for drinks and snacks before and until late after the shows. CRAZY COQS
BOOK TICKETS ONLINE | ONLINE TICKETS BOOK Presenting a thrilling programme of regular house events, one-off performances from international stars and London’s hottest new talent, Live At Zédel brings together all art forms in this extraordinary space. ZL CAFÉ A relaxed street level coffee & wine bar, open Monday to Sunday. PRIVATE EVENTS Crazy Coqs and Bar Américain are available for private hire by special arrangement.
Call 020 7734 4888 to enquire. SPACES
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