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Six of Clubs in the Drawing Room

PURCHASE TICKETs Join us for a very special Show and Dinner!   The Six of Clubs will perform “Not the American Songbook” in a salute to great songs of England and France evoking memories of the glamour of British Theatre in the pre- and post- WW II era and the sophistication of French Cabaret. Songs from writers Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, Edith Piaf, Lionel Bart and Charles Trenet will include Keep the Home Fires Burning, We’ll Gather Lilacs in the Spring…

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October 19, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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PURCHASE TICKETs
Join us for a very special Show and Dinner!  
The Six of Clubs will perform “Not the American Songbook” in a salute to great songs of England and France evoking memories of the glamour of British Theatre in the pre- and post- WW II era and the sophistication of French Cabaret. Songs from writers Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, Edith Piaf, Lionel Bart and Charles Trenet will include Keep the Home Fires Burning, We’ll Gather Lilacs in the Spring Again, Louise, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, La Vie En Rose, My Man and Someday I’ll Find You.  
The evening begins at 6:00 with wine and cheese on the Carriage Porch and the concert at 7:00 in the Historic Drawing Room.  Dinner in the Exhibition Gallery immediately follows the concert. 
Formed in 2010, SIX OF CLUBS is a group of six friends (John Hargraves, Rich Miller, Beatrice Broadwater, Angela Cason, Win Rutherfurd, Nick Firth), who perform songs from The Great American Songbook–the finest songs from the Broadway musical theatre, and Hollywood musicals from the 1920s to 1960s. SIX OF CLUB’S repertoire includes over 200 songs from the Great American Songbook.  Previous Six of Clubs’ shows have featured the songs of Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane and Frederick Loewe, Rodgers and Hart and Rodgers and Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter as well as songs from Hollywood Musicals, and the Fabulous Fifties and The Swinging Forties, Legends of the Great American Songbook and Stephen Sondheim.  
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Wine/Cheese & Concert  |  $50
Wine/Cheese, Concert & Dinner  |  $250

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