'Lost Tribes of Vaudeville' at the Merkin Concert Hall

The New York Festival of Song presnts Lost Tribes of Vaudeville, an evening of Jewish and Black Vaudeville, at the Merkin Concert Hall on Wed 11 May 2005

The evening will explore Jewish and Black Vaudeville, two great entertainment cultures, their contributions to each others� worlds and to ours.

The program will include works by Duke Ellington, Shelton Brooks, Joe Jordan, W. C. Handy, Harold Arlen, and Irving Berlin. Many of these songs were originally introduced by Fanny Brice, Sophie Tucker, Ethel Waters, Bert Williams, Cab Calloway, W.C. Handy, and Al Jolson.

Artists will include Judy Kaye, Anika Rose, Bruce Adler, Darius de Haas, and James Martin, with; Alan R. Kay, clarinet; Greg Utzig, guitar; Paul Cavaciuti, drums and Steven Blier, pianist and arranger.

Highlights of the program will include The Sheik of Avenue B, by Kalmar and Ruby; You'd Be Surprised by Irving Berlin; Some of these Days, by Shelton Brooks; Lovie Joe by Will Marion Cook; and When the Sun Comes Out by Harold Arlen.