Cabaret Star Maude Maggart Releases New Album, March 13

Acclaimed cabaret chanteuse Maude Maggart has announced the release of her new recording, "Maude Maggart Live."

The CD will be available on her website and on Amazon.com on March 13, 2007.

The disc includes classic love songs such as "You Go To My Head," "Skylark," "I Can't Get Started," "All The Things You Are" and "The Song Is You," in addition to rarely-heard vintage compositions by Kurt Weill ("The River Is So Blue"), Jerome Kern ("Let's Begin") and Harry Warren ("Coffee In The Morning, Kisses In The Night").

Recorded live in concert at The Oak Room of The Algonquin Hotel in New York and The Gardenia in Los Angeles, the album features musical director Lanny Meyers on piano, David DePalma on saxophone, clarinet and flute; Yair Evnine on cello and guitar; Dr. James Sitterly on violin; and Andy Stein on saxophone and violin.

This new CD continues a year of success for Maggart, including a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List," a feature segment on NPR's "Morning Edition," and a Time Out New York cover story. Maggart recently filmed her screen debut in a new movie about composer Kurt Weill by director/actor/screenwriter Robert Downey, Sr. She recorded a duet with Broadway and TV star John Lithgow for his new CD, "The Sunny Side of the Street," which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Maude makes her London debut this month as part of Jeff Harnar's "American Songbook in London" series at the Jermyn Street Theatre.

Her latest show, "Good Girl/Bad Girl" - which explores the emotional complexities of songs written for both naughty and nice, and others open to interpretation, played in New York and Los Angeles. She will reprise the program in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Theater Company on March 8, 2007. 

Previous CDs include "Maude Maggart Sings Irving Berlin" and "With Sweet Despair."  Her recordings are available at Amazon.com and CDBaby.com.  She has performed at nightclubs around the country, including Feinstein's at the Regency in Manhattan, the Plush Room in San Francisco, the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, the Savor Room in St. Louis and Schroeder's in San Diego.  Maggart is the recipient of the 2005 Time Out New York Award for Special Achievement, the 2005 MAC Award for Best Female Debut and the 2005 Back Stage Award for Special Achievement.

For more information, please visit www.maudemaggart.com or www.amazon.com.