Award-winning actress and vocalist Gabrielle Lee presents A Tin Pan Alley Celebration of Black History Month at Feinstein’s/54 Below on Friday, February 11 at 7 PM. Featured are bandleader Vince Giordano of Nighthawks fame, and vocalists and Broadway stars Phillip Attmore and Jennie Harney-Fleming. With Giordano on bass are music director Peter Yarin on piano, Damon DueWhite on drums and horn player Colin Hancock,
Lee and freinds will deliver an evening of ragtime, blues and Tin Pan Alley jazz standards celebrating Black History Month. This is the iconic American popular music that made legends of singers like Ada “Bricktop” Smith, Florence Mills, Lena Horne and Ethel Waters—not to mention stars like Bert Williams, George Walker and Paul Robeson. Gabrielle and friends groove to the music of masters such as Shelton Brooks, James P. Johnson, Turner Layton and Fats Waller, with “Darktown Strutters Ball,” “Some of These Days,” “He May Be Your Man But He Comes to See Me Sometimes,” “A Hundred Years From Today,” and plenty more great Tin Pan Alley hits.
Lee is a dynamic performer who has starred in A Blackbird Legends Cabaret and All Night Strut, and appeared theatrically as Bricktop as well as in title roles in productions of Once On This Island, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Smokey Joe’s Café, Blackbirds of Broadway, Dreamgirls and more. As a vocalist, she has worked with, among others, the New York Pops, Cab Calloway Orchestra, Ray Charles Orchestra, Harry Belafonte, Natalie Cole and Steely Dan.
Attmore is a dancer-singer who’s worked in multiple Broadway shows, film and television. He’s a three-time Astair Award winner and was on Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” as one of America’s “Top 20” dancers. Harney-Fleming is an award-winning singer-actor-songwriter who made her Broadway debut starring in the lead role of Nettie in the Tony and Grammy award winning musical The Color Purple. Most recently she joined the cast of Broadway hit Hamilton as a standby for the 3 Schuyler sisters.
Tickets range from $30 to $65, with a $25 food/beverage minimum. Tickets are available at www.54below.com or by calling 646-476-3551.
Feinstein’s/54 Below is located at 254 W 54th St. Cellar, NYC 10019
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