Maureen McGovern to Play Birdland November 8-12

Birdland (315 West 44th Street - between 8th & 9th Avenues) will feature Grammy Award-nominated singer Maureen McGovern in an exclusive one-week engagement (November 8-12).

Celebrating the second half of the Great American Songbook, Ms. McGovern will present "Dangling Conversations," an intimate evening of classic songs by iconic singer/songwriters including Paul Simon, J. D Souther, Joni Mitchell, Don Henley, Laura Nyro, Bruce Springstein, Jimmy Webb and Pete Seeger - including "Help Me," "The Dangling Conversation," "Faithless Love," "An American Tune," "Time and Love," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and many more.

Ms. McGovern will be accompanied on piano by her musical director Jeffrey Harris and on bass by Jay Leonhart. This engagement is arranged by Pat Philips and Ettore Stratta.

Maureen McGovern "Dangling Conversations" will play Tuesday through Saturday evening with two sets each night at 8:30 & 11pm. There is a $40 music charge for all performances. Full dinner menu available. For reservations, please visit www.birdlandjazz.com or call the club at (212) 581-3080.

Often called "The Stradivarius Voice," Maureen McGovern has been thrilling audiences on world-wide concert stages, on Broadway and on recordings throughout a career that has spanned over 40 years. Her current PS Classics CD, A Long and Winding Road has been praised by The New York Times as "... a captivating musical scrapbook from the 1960s to the early 70s.

Ms. McGovern's vocal technique is second to none." Grammy nominated for "Best New Artist" (1973) and "Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance" (1998), McGovern's recording career began with the Oscar-winning InternationAl Gold Records "The Morning After" (Billboard #1) and "We May Never Love Like This Again." Maureen is currently touring with her one-woman theatrical show, Carry It On (formerly: A Long and Winding Road) for which she won Boston's Independent Critics IRNE Award. On Broadway, she starred in Pirates of Penzance, Nine, 3 Penny Opera and, in 2005, originated her Drama Desk nominated role of ‘Marmee' in Little Women, The Musical.

Photo credit: Deborah Feingold