Singer Barb Jungr and pianist/singer/musical director John McDaniel will team for Float Like A Butterfly—The Songs of Sting on Sunday, July 28 at 7 pm at Birdland Theater. The duo will perform work from Sting’s time as both a member of The Police and a solo artist, during which he has combined huge commercial success with continual risk-taking and experimentation.
When paired with Jungr, McDaniel is a pianist, singer, arranger and partner in banter. In their shows together, they mash up British cabaret nous with American musical theatre chutzpah and some phenomenal songbooks. He’s also a conductor, a composer and a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning producer of theatre, albums and television. He has accompanied stars including Betty Buckley, Tyne Daly, Carol Burnett and Patti LuPone, whose 1995 one-woman show and top-selling recording he arranged and conducted. He also spent seven years in living rooms across America as the Musical Director and bandleader on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show.”
Sting has been writing and performing songs for 40 years and has won 16 Grammys in the process. The body of work he has created over that period has encompassed and intermingled a diverse collection of genres, styles and influences. Included among these from the very start is jazz, which has formed an integral part of Sting’s musical life since he was Gordon Sumner from Wallsend. More recently, his musical explorations have taken him to Broadway.
Barb Jungr & John McDaniel Float Like A Butterfly—The Songs of Sting, Sunday, July 28 at 7pm, $30 cover, $10 food/drink minimum.
Birdland Theater is located at 315 West 44 Street, NYC
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