BRATTLEBORO — “The Flip Side,” a special evening of cabaret song and style benefitting the Brattleboro Concert Choir is set for Saturday, March 10.
According to a news release, the Performance Hall at the new Brattleboro Music Center will be the setting for “a trip back in time, when the clubs were swanky and the music cool.”
Singers Junko Wantanabe, Jennifer Hansen, Peter Shea, and Charles Mays Jr. will join Concert Choir Director Susan Dedell at the piano for a smooth evening of cabaret entertainment.
“You've heard them on the concert stage, you've seen them at the Marlboro Festival, and as soloists with the New England Bach Festival, Boston Early Music Festival, and the Boston Lyric Opera,” Dedell said in a news release. “But just wait until you hear them sing favorite show tunes, jazz standards, and songs from the Great American Songbook.”
Ticket sales will benefit the Concert Choir, the BMC's oldest performing ensemble, which has been under the direction of Susan Dedell since 1989.
“As much as we revere our soloists in their familiar roles, we thought it would be great fun to show their flip sides, highlighting their talents in a different way, supporting the Concert Choir at the same time,” Dedell said. “I am grateful that they agreed. There will be quite a bit of 'strutting their stuff.”
The Flip Side cabaret starts at 7:30 p.m. and will feature plentiful hors d'oeuvres provided by Kris McDermet and Judy Hueber, and a cash bar provided by Windham Wines.