Second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. Performers bring dreams, voice, sheet music and persona and try them out on a friendly supportive audience. Host, soprano Leslie Holmes, adds vignettes about the songs and composers, based on her wealth of knowledge about the history of cabaret.
Leslie Lawrence has sung all her life, starting at age 10 when she won the role of Mary Magdalene in a church musical production. Leslie played the leads in high school musicals & dramas (Nancy in Oliver, Sophia in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, Pegeen Mike in The Playboy of the Western World) to rave reviews and studied theater at Emerson College. From there, Leslie’s rich, soulful voice and artistic versatility in a wide array of musical styles led her to work continuously with numerous, diverse bands over several de cades - - including everything from fronting a funk show band in the 70s (platform shoes!), rock, R & B and pop dance bands, jazz and swing bands, to singing phonetic Portuguese in a Brazilian bossa nova band. Performing in venues all over New England and New York, gigs included jazz clubs, resorts, dinner theatre, weddings, social and corporate events. Leslie also performed studio work recording commercial jingles and voiceovers. Recently, Leslie played the female lead role as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife in the Concord Town Cow Theatre group’s production of an original play, “Two Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe” and performed a feature tribute to Ronnie Spector of Ronettes 60s girl group fame with a local R & B group. Leslie now works by day as a project manager in the IT industry but continues to sing an eclectic and lively mix of music whenever the opportunity arises.
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