"An entertainer of the highest caliber!” (The New York Times) “Adrienne Haan is the First Lady of Cabaret!” (The Huffington Post) “A star who knows how to capture her audience!” (Berliner Morgenpost) “Haan and Danley’s interaction and voices are striking!” (Broadway World) This soirée tells the life story of great American composer, Irving Berlin, from Imperial Russia to Antwerp, Belgium via Ellis Island, to the lower East Side as a child, all the way to fancy Beekman Place in NYC, Broadway, and Hollywood as an adult. It reveals Irving's surprisingly close relation to the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, the tiny country in Europe, of which Adrienne Haan is a citizen. Combining their talents, Adrienne Haan and Music Director and Vocalist, Richard Danley, are presenting some of the most beautiful Christmas songs, as well as lesser-known oeuvres of the fabulous American composer, to start off the festive season with beloved music for young and old. Featuring Adrienne Haan With Richard Danley as Music Director (and vocals) Directed, choreographed and adapted to the stage by Adrienne Haan Original idea and written by Laurence Pierron

busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy. Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realized music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life. Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents’ divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.” The curious teenager started skipping school to frequent the city’s Latin Quarter where street musicians dwelled, keen to learn about their music and way of life. At 16, the fearless teen joined the Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz Band with whom she toured the streets of Europe, discovering Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday while “voraciously picking up all the songs and ...

Pat Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, MO on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-the-bandstand experience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility: a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues. With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players. Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to redefine the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument. Metheny's versatility is nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed ...