Featuring new performers with every show, the weekly, award-winning Piano Bar Live! (PBL!) streams this Tuesday, December 8 at 7:15 pm ET, with host Scott Barbarino. PBL! is proud to continue the long-established tradition of the piano bar—that special place where we can gather, entertain, support and create, as we connect with live music. Best of all, PBL! is the the unique chance to see veteran performers pass the torch to the next generation of blossoming young talent. The line-up always features a mix of veteran and rising star performers from the world of piano bars, cabaret and Broadway.
This week’s guests are Chris Dilley, Cynthia Crane, Tara Martinez, Sue Matsuki, MaryJo Mundy, Laura Pavles, Larry Scheraldi, Austin Sprague, plus Mystery Guests and MORE!
Join us this TUESDAY, December 8th at 7:15 pm ET at www.facebook.com/PianoBarLive, on BroadwayOnDemand.com or on YouTube @PianoBarLive
Chris Dilley has shared stages with such artists as Sting, Jennifer Lopez, Patti LuPone, Hugh Jackman and Lorna Luft. He sings with the Tony Award-winning Broadway Inspirational Voices. Dilley also teaches private voice at NYU, as well as through his own vocal studio.
Cynthia Crane has enjoyed a long and esteemed career in cabaret. She’s been a fixture in New York clubs both past and current, such as Tavern-On-The-Green, Eighty-Eights, Don’t Tell Mama, Danny’s Skylight Room, Barney’s Mad 61, Jan Wallman’s, Royal Roost, Palsson’s, the Fives, Panache and more. After a ten year pause, Crane returned to her singing career in the 1980s as the founder/producer of the Impossible Ragtime Theatre (IRT). Crane has performed cabaret concerts in French at the American Embassy on the Place de la Concorde and the Musée de Montmartre in Paris, as well as played Helen Morgan at the Russian Tea Room, sung for the Dutch Treat Club, the National Arts Club, the Players and the Friars club.
Tara Martinez is a multi-award winning actress, recording artist and cabaret performer. With a background in musical theatre, rock/pop, R&B and jazz, Martinez continually crosses genres in developing new shows, which she performs on stages all over the world. A recipient of the 2019 MAC award for piano bar entertainer of the year, she can be seen entertaining audiences weekly at Don’t Tell Mama in Manhattan’s theatre district.
Sue Matsuki is an award-winning singer and songwriter, producer, host, teacher, vlogger and columnist as well as the co-author of So You Want to Sing Cabaret. She is the 2020 Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Collaboration, celebrating her 25 years of working with her Music Director, Gregory Toroian and was the very first (2004) recipient of the Julie Wilson Award given by the Mabel Mercer Foundation. Matsuki has also been placed on the “Wall of Fame” at Don’t Tell Mama, celebrating her 33 years of singing there. Additionally she is an 11-time MAC Award nominee and a three-time winner for Jazz Vocalist, Jazz Duo and Songwriter awards. Most recently, she was nominated in the 2020 Major Vocalist category. Over 35 years, Matsuki has played many major NYC cabaret and jazz rooms including: Feinstein’s at the Regency, Feinstein’s 54 Below, Tke Town Hall, The Algonquin, Jan Wallman’s, 88’s, Birdland, Don’t Tell Mama, The Village Gate, The Iridium, Sweet Rhythm—and Carnegie Hall! www.SueMatsuki.com
As a little girl, MaryJo Mundy found a 45 record while she was playing outside one day and later discovered it was Aretha Franklin singing the Lerner and Loewe classic “If Ever I Would Leave You.” Mundy found a deep love and inspiration that day and shortly after made her musical debut at a Church in Minnesota, garnering her first standing ovation at the age of 6. She knew from that moment on that her life had to be about music. Mundy went on to explore musical theater in High School and College and later moved to Chicago where she began her career in cabaret. Her latest CD is The Fourteenth Confession: Songs of Laura Nyro, released in 2019.
Laura Pavles is a Boston Conservatory graduate who has toured with numerous theatrical productions including A Year with Frog and Toad and The Lincoln Center production of South Pacific. As a singer, Palves has backed up Randy Rainbow and Ty Herndon. She’s also been on staff at Don’t Tell Mama and sings at sea with RSVP cruises and Cunard in the group Chanteuse.
Larry Scheraldi discovered Piano Bar in the late 1980s and fell in love with the genre then and there. He’s worked at most NYC bars, mostly at Rose’s Turn, Judy’s ( both Midtown and Chelsea), and Marie’s Crisis. He is thrilled to be a part of the PBL! family
Austin Sprague is a copywriter by day and a piano bar performer by night!
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