Bistro, BroadwayWorld, MAC and Margaret Whiting Award winner Celia Berk makes her Birdland Theater debut on Tuesday, April 23 at 7pm with Comes Love, the new collaboration with pianist Sean Gough. Meeting at an intersection between jazz and cabaret, they have created a program of songs about love, including the kinds of hidden gems by great songwriters that have become Berk’s trademark. They are joined by bassist Steve Doyle.
The collaboration brings together two approaches to the music. Gough comes to popular song mainly as an improviser, while Berk performs through the lens of storytelling. The result is a discovery that the lyrics of the songs chosen guided both to unexpected musical places.
Gough is best known for his more than decade-long collaboration with veteran bass player Gene Perla, with whom he has appeared across the United States and in Europe, including clubs Smalls, Zinc and Knickerbocker in New York. From a young age, he has accompanied his grandfather, Metropolitan Opera tenor Ronald Naldi, in recitals.
Berk’s second album, Manhattan Serenade, received the 2017 LaMott Friedman Award and is arranged and conducted by Alex Rybeck and co-produced by Tony Award winning sound designer Scott Lehrer, the team behind her debut album You Can’t Rush Spring. Her solo cabaret debut, directed by Jeff Harnar, earned Berk a 2015 Bistro Award: Vocalist, 2015 MAC Award: New York Debut—Female, 2015 BroadwayWorld Award for Best New York Cabaret Debut and The 2015 Margaret Whiting Award.
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Birdland Jazz Room and Theater is located at 315 West 44 Street, NYC
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