Photo Flash: CULTURE & COCKTAILS At The Colony Presents Conversation with Dick Robinson

Dave Lawrence, President and CEO of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County today announced that a sold-out crowd of 180 friends, supporters and music fans attended this season's final CULTURE & COCKTAILS conversation. It was held last Monday at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach and, like all of the C&C Conversations this season, it was completely sold-out.

With the title of Platter Chatter, the fascinating, often humorous conversation was between legendary broadcaster Dick Robinson and Rich & Jill Switzer, celebrated cabaret performers and co-hosts of The Morning Lounge on Legends 100.3 FM.

Robinson, the owner of Legends Radio in North Palm Beach, has carved a stellar career over the last six decades that blended working for and owning radio stations, founding the Connecticut School of Broadcasting (the nation's oldest and largest group of broadcast media schools), founding the nonprofit Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook, and launching the syndicated radio/TV showDick Robinson's American Standards by the Sea.

The evening included audience-wowing performances by Chris Santiago, the talented 17-year-old singer who was recently named Young Artist of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook, and two stirring numbers by the always dynamic Avery Sommers, star of stage, screen, television and numerous first class cabarets and nightclubs.

The extraordinary live performances, the delightful banter by Jill and Rich, and the hilarious anecdotes of "The Old Jock" Dick Robinson generated numerous standing ovations from the audience, which included the much loved stage, screen and TV personality Michelle Lee (Seesaw, The Love Bug, Knott's Landing).

The 2018-2019 season of CULTURE & COCKTAILS was generously sponsored by The Roe Green Foundation, Roe Green, Founder, also The Gardens Mall, Clo & Charles S. Cohen, First Republic Bank, the law firm of Haile, Shaw & Pfaffenberger, P.A., and Woolems Luxury Home Builders.Additional support for the series is provided by the Palm Beach Daily News, Legends Radio, and PR-BS,a Boca-based public relations firm.

The 2019-2020 season of CULTURE & COCKTAILS At The Colony will be announced soon.

Admission to each CULTURE & COCKTAILS event is $75 per person in advance and $85 at the door, and FREE for members of the Cultural Council ($250 level and above). All proceeds go to support the nonprofit Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. For membership information, please contact Debbie Calabria at 561.472.3330 or visit www.palmbeachculture.com/membership/.

The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County is the official support agency for arts and culture in The Palm Beaches, Florida's Cultural Capital®. The Council provides grants to cultural organizations and professional artists, advocates for art and cultural funding, enhances local arts education, offers support services to foster growth of the sector and promotes cultural tourism.

The Cultural Council also serves as a venue for exhibitions and performances featuring artists who live or work in Palm Beach County, and provides additional programming at its headquarters in the historic Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. Building in Downtown Lake Worth. Also on the property are the Roe Green Uniquely Palm Beach Store featuring hand-crafted items by local artists; the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Visitor Information Center, a VISIT FLORIDA-designated Florida Certified Tourism Information Center; and the Project Space, an open-air garden for live music and large-scale sculpture.

The Cultural Council is open to the public from 10 am - 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, including a complete calendar of cultural activities in The Palm Beaches, visit palmbeachculture.com.

Photo Credit: Jacek Photo

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