Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center's Music at the Mansion Continues 9/21

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, September 21, at 3pm. Performers include Mary Lahti, Garry Novikoff and Stearns Matthews. The featured performer in the "Young Musician Moment" will be Ellie Kallay.

Mary Lahti is a 2014 MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award winner for best New York Debut Show - Female (A Kid Again) and happy to share the award at home with her husband and Musical Director for the show, Jim Lahti. Mary's performance background is mainly in musical theater with a side of film/tv (recently seen in The Americans), dance/choreography and parody writing. She recently performed as Meg in the play A Lie Of The Mind with the Seeing Place Theater and as Georgia in the musical Curtains with the Riverdale Repertory Company.

ASCAP Foundation award winner Garry Novikoff is a truly multi-faceted artist and singer/songwriter - a folk story-teller, a creator of ironic pop songs and heartbreaking ballads, an irreverent rocker, a musical theater wordsmith and a celebrated children's songwriter. Time Out New York calls his CD A Normal Life "a catchy - and more importantly, funny collection of pop songs. His song, "Dog On The Moon" has been played on radio stations across the country, and was featured on the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet. His marriage equality dance anthem "It's Our Time" earned him two Outmusic Award nominations for Single of the Year, and Humanitarian Songwriter Of The Year. On November 15th he will launch a brand new video for his son "I Like Men" at Rockbar NYC with a video release party and concert.

Stearns Matthews is a three-time MAC Award Nominee for his solo cabaret shows, The Importance of Being STEARNSest (2013, Best Musical Comedy Performer), this will be... (2011, Best Male Vocalist), and IWas Here (2009, Best Male Debut). Stearns holds a B.M. in Music Theater from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey under the tutelage of Dr. Christopher Arneson and Nova Thomas. He has performed regionally in musicals with College Light Opera Company, Philadelphia Music Theatre Works, Women's Theatre Company, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Favorite appearances include Albert Peterson in Bye, Bye, Birdie!, Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, and Man 1 in The World Goes 'Round.

In addition to his MAC-nominated solo shows, in the summer of 2008, Stearns placed as first runner-up in the Metropolitan Room's first annual MetroStar Talent Challenge, despite being the youngest contestant to enter. In 2010, Stearns was one of twelve candidates selected to audition for the first annual Noel Coward Cabaret Competition, presented by the Mabel Mercer Foundation and appeared in 2010 and 2013 in the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Annual Cabaret Convention, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall. Stearns also serves on the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs (MAC).

"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. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Essex County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. Series hostess, Corinna Sowers-Adler, has been nominated as "Best Host of a Variety Show" and "Best Female Vocalist" for the 2012 Broadway World Cabaret Awards. Sowers-Adler was a featured soloist at the 24th 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. She will be performing "BY REQUEST - New York Moments" at the Metropolitan Room in New York City on Sunday, September 21, 2014 at 4pm.

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. Making beautiful music in a beautiful place with beautiful people...

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