The event takes place on Thursday, June 4, from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. at 54 Below (254 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019). Libations and a two-course meal will accompany the cabaret performance ...

Read a conversation with Officer about the album and release concert. How were you first exposed to Mabel Mercer? When I moved to New York City in the mid-1980s, I was obsessed with theatre and music.

While it may not yet feel like autumn, the start of the traditional cabaret season is an unmistakable sign of the time. This year, the spirit of a major influence on the genre — the legendary Mabel ...

The Mabel Mercer Foundation—which is dedicated to preserving and performing the art of cabaret—tonight is celebrating two milestones: its 40th anniversary and the 125th year of its namesake, the ...

A lot of historic things happened in 1968 – one of which was a legendary concert at Town Hall. On May 19th cabaret’s queen, Mabel Mercer, and its young prince, Bobby Short, came together for a ...

Jessye Norman's commanding soprano voice makes her the quintessential operatic diva for many listeners. But she frequently draws inspirations from jazz: She ranks singers like Billie Holiday, Mabel ...

The music of Mabel Mercer, a gifted cabaret singer of the 1930's - 60's, is enjoying a resurgence in popularity with almost all of it now available on CD. The Art of Mabel Mercer presents her earliest ...

It’s a shame that more of us don’t know about Mabel Mercer. As KT Sullivan makes clear in Remembering Mabel, running this week at the Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel, Mercer was wrongly memorialised as ...