Jaye Maynard's 'BIRD AMONGST THE BLOSSOM' Plays Don't Tell Mama Tonight

PlaidBird Productions will present Jaye Maynard in "Bird Amongst the Blossom - A Tribute to the First Blossom Dearie Songbook" tonight, October 17th at Don't Tell Mama in NYC. House opens at 9:00pm; the show starts at 9:30pm.

Featuring Jaye Maynard (vocals), Jon Delfin (musical direction/piano), Leon Lee Dorsey (upright bass) and Vin Scialla (drums).

Don't Tell Mama reservations may be made by calling 212-757-0788 after 4pm daily. $18 cover, 2-drink beverage minimum or buy online at http://www.donttellmamanyc.com/shows?task=view_event&event_id=1474.

Also coming up are three Sunday jazz brunches at The HourGlass Tavern on Restaurant Row; Oct 19, Nov 23, and Dec 21. Seating at 12:30 Set at 2pm. Reservations and ticket for the brunches can be found at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/863188.

Vocalist, Jaye Maynard, recently competed to the semi-final level in Madison Wisconsin's Overture Center's Rising Star Talent Competition. At the Hour Glass, Delfin will accompany Maynard on Blossom's last apartment piano, which she discovered and purchased on Ebay after Dearie bequeathed it to the Manhattan Association of Cabarets. Maynard interprets "The First Blossom Dearie Songbook", containing songs written for and by Dearie in collaboration with Johnny Mercer, Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg and Mahriah Blackwolf, arrangements by Mike Renzi. Maynard is now representing the posthumously published "Blossom Dearie Songbook" for Hal Leonard Music.

The show had its theatrical debut at NYC's United Solo Theater Festival on Theatre Row , has played The Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village and The Laurie Beechman Theater and Metropolitan Room here in NYC following its Los Angeles premiere Upstairs at Vitello's Red Carpet Jazz, as well as Sterling's Upstairs at the Federal Bar in North Hollywood and more recently at The M Bar, Hollywood and Don't Tell Mama-NYC. Maynard styles her show as a mid-Century modern NYC supper club act ala 1962. Known throughout the world as "a musician's musician," Dearie was a unique and inimitable singer; sophisticated and genuinely funny, whose legacy of material remains fresh, hip, smart and sassy.

For more, go to www.TheBlossomDearieSongbook.com.

Watch a preview of the show below!

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