Chicago Cabaret Professionals Holiday Benefit Concert 12/3

Chicago Cabaret Professionals (CCP) will spread the joy and music the season with its 9th annual holiday benefit, featuring members of CCP. This is a one-night-only concert on Monday, December 3 at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7PM). The event will be held at Davenport's Piano Bar and Cabaret, 1383 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago (773) 278-1830. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased by calling Davenport's or the CCP hotline at (312) 409-3106. Online orders are available at www.chicagocabaret.org. All proceeds go to Teen Living Programs of Chicago and Save the Children.

Over twenty merry singers of CCP again take the stage to share the joy of their favorite Holiday songs. Directed by Amy Cole and Carla Gordon, with musical director Jeffrey Roscoe, "Merry and Bright" includes songs ranging from hilarious comedy to spiritual carols. Singers at press time include Chicago favorites Robert Whorton, Carol Holmes, Steven Johnson, Laurie Marchese, KT McCammond, Pam Peterson, Suzy Petri, and Carolyn Wehner.

Teen Living Programs is a Chicago-based agency delivering services to youth for over 30 years. Itd is the only agency in Chicago devoted entirely to serving homeless youth. Teen Living's 38 beds represent about 30% of the total number of beds (130) in Chicago available for the City's thousands of youth who are homeless. The agency has served Chicago's most disadvantaged young people since 1975.

Since 1932, Save the Children has been working in the most impoverished communities in the country, and around the world. Today the organization works in 12 states, reaching thousands of children, to provide literacy, physical activity and nutrition programming. Its goal is to create programs to improve academic performance, health, and ultimately, children's lives. Save the Children works to reconstruct the lives of children and families affected by Katrina, and other disasters.