NiCori Studios and Production Presents Gretchen Reinhagen and More in MUSIC AT THE MANSION

NiCori Studios and Productions in association with the Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center announces a new installment of the monthly concert series, Music at the Mansion, on Sunday, March 29, at 3pm. Performers include Gretchen Reinhagen, Christian Fabian and Rosemary Loar. Aleah Colon-Alfonso will be the Young Musician Moment.

Gretchen Reinhagen received the coveted triple crown of cabaret awards - The Nightlife, Bistro, and MAC Awards - for her show, "Special Kaye: A Tribute to the Incomparable Kaye Ballard". She was also nominated in the female vocalist category for her performance of Janis Joplin's iconic final album, "Pearl" as well as her show, "Both Sides Now". Equally at home behind the scenes, Gretchen works as a voice teacher and director and won the 2013 MAC Award for directing. She is currently producing a series of shows at New York's Metropolitan Room entitled "Reinhagen Redux", where she'll revisit three past shows, over three months with three different musical directors. The series opens on April 1st with the return of her 2009 rockin'/blues show, "Almost Blue".

Christian Fabian was born in Sweden and grew up in Germany after the age of six. It was there that he saw a Dizzy Gillespie concert when he was 12-he met Dizzy and was so inspired he decided to play jazz. When Berklee College of Music awarded him a full scholarship, he moved to Boston and graduated with a degree in performance and Film scoring Magna Cum Laude in 2000. Lionel Hampton selected him as bassist for the Lionel Hampton Big Band, and he has performed with the Band since then. Fabian also received several invitations from the Thelonious Monk Institute to participate in their summer workshops. He was an Artist in Residence at the University of Massachusetts , and has studied with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Billy Taylor, Mike Longo among other Jazz greats.

Christian's own band, the Fabian Zone Trio, has released six CDs since 2006: Across the Tracks, Curtain of Life, Of The Essence, The Masters Return!, Keys in Ascension and West Coast Session, featuring top musicians as special guests. On national airplay charts, the Fabian Zone Trio reached #1 on Music Choice, Top 10 on Jazz Radio for Canada and Top 20 on Jazz Week (national US radio chart) several times.
Christian will be joined by special guest World Famous Harmonica Player and the only student of Toots Thielemans Enrico Granafei, the owner of the legendasry jazz club Trumpets in Montclair, NJ.
Rosemary Loar was seen on BROADWAY in You Can't Take It With You, CATS (Grizabella), Chess, Sunset Boulevard, Once Upon A Mattress and How the Grinch Stole Christmas at Madison Square Garden. She was in the national tours of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Godspell and 42nd Street. Rosemary appeared in HBO's Show Stoppers starring Mary Martin and Ethel Merman. Rosemary performed in the PBS-TV production, New Year's Eve with Guy Lombardo, at Town Hall (Cabaret Convention), and Carnegie Hall (concert version of Chess). She has performed her many cabaret acts in NYC, LA, Chicago and Munich, Germany.

Ms. Loar's musical Spoolie Girl won best music and lyrics for the MITF Festival. Rosemary has 6 CD's available on iTunes.
"Music at the Mansion" is a 2012 MAC award nominated series showcasing talented performers from NYC and NJ. The series is hosted by NYC Cabaret singer and Bloomfield resident Corinna Sowers-Adler and will feature Deborah Martin on piano. Series hostess, Corinna Sowers Adler, has been nominated as "Best Host of a Variety Show" and "Best Female Vocalist" for the 2012 and 2014 Broadway World Cabaret Awards. Sowers Adler was a featured soloist at the 25th Annual New York Cabaret Convention held in the Rose Theater of Jazz at Lincoln Center this past October. She recently made her solo debut at BROADWAY's Supper Club - 54 BELOW. Corinna has also toured and performed her solo cabaret shows Stories, By Request, Songs From the Heart and Let Me Sing and I'm Happy at venues in New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.

Tickets for "Music at the Mansion" are $10 per person and are available at the door. Seating begins at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be served. Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center is located at 240 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield, NJ. For more information, please contact info (at) corinnasings.com or call Oakeside at 973-429-0960.
Photos attached are Gretchen Reinhagen, Rosemary Loar and Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center

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