We’re in Milwaukee now, just arrived from Chicago. I feel like I’M LIVING THE DREAM = give me a gorgeous Gershwin song, a great mic, a follow-spot and I AM IN HEAVEN. This week the Milwaukee Symphony hosts my Heaven.
What a coincidence that we received the official link for purchasing my new “PEACE” CD online came today – Black Friday – and more importantly, the start of the Holiday Season! Please enjoy audio samples from “PEACE” on the home page.
I also launched a new Facebook Page with a sub page for the PEACE CD. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sylvia-McNair/223075764425657
Hoping you all have a wonderful Holiday weekend!
Got to open Act 2 for the Cabaret Convention at JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Oct 20. What a GREAT venue! And I shared a Dressing Room with Andrea Marcovicci, Barbara Carroll and Christine Andreas.
In the Broadway / Cabaret / Jazz world, it just doesn’t get any more glamorous than that.
Hate to leave without them! They are GORGEOUS and SWEET and HAPPY.
They are orphans—but ALL living in great Children’s Homes.
Here’s a photo of my “Kenyan daughter” Esther in between 2 of her friends, Beatrice and Faith.
Today we sat in the treehouse on the playground at AMPATH’s Sally Test DayCare Center working on MATH.
I know, I know, it’s August and I’m making the children work on math!
Truth is, they LOVE it. And ESTHER is a shining light = she ADORES school and she LOVES vegetables. The kid is perfect!
I am sitting in the makeup chair at WTTW, the VERY CHAIR where Barack Obama’s and Ella Fitzgerald’s BOTTOMS SAT !!!!!!
I am performing and discussing my latest ventures on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm. My interview and performance will be the last segment. I am singing two pieces including the short interview with “Eddie”!!!! Fun guy!
It’s not that often I wake up knowing I get to sing with THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY !!! But today it is true! I will sing scenes from ‘Porgy & Bess’ with Brian Stokes-Mitchell and the CSO this evening for the Ravinia gala.
75 years ago this month, George Gershwin himself played his ‘Rhapsody In Blue’ with the CSO at Ravinia so tonight’s Gershwin Tribute is special indeed.
Besides the ‘Porgy & Bess’ scenes, we will do 30 minutes of songs-around-the-piano with Kevin Cole (Gershwin pianist extraordinaire), “Stokes” as Brian S-M likes to be called and the awesome Broadway star Kelli O’Hara.
The orchestra will open with the ‘Cuban Overture’ and Kevin will close the concert with the ‘Rhapsody’.
Pinch me, I think this is really happening!!
I am featured on the Opera Theatre of St. Louis postcards for the 2012 season.
Singing with THE FOUR FRESHMAN is like sneaking into Heaven! I’m only doing one number with them (“Something’s Gotta Give”) but it is crazy-fun. They are amazing and adorable. Vocal Jazz is what made me fall in love with singing 35 years ago and these 4 guys are supremely good at it.
This week, marks my 20th engagement with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra over the past 31 years. I can hardly believe it myself. But the ISO Publicity office is the source of my information, so it must be true.
In January of this year (2011), I sang at a healthcare initiative event and I was the warm-up act for Michael Moore !!!! Well, sort of. I got to “open” for a showing of his film ‘SiCKO’, at least. (What a story…) The amazing guitarist is David Gulyas. Look for our new Christmas CD called “Peace!” out this fall.
