, makes her Solo Debut in Chicago in a One Night Only performance, Sunday, September 15th at the well known
Show time: 7:00 PM.
As an undergraduate at Northwestern, I co-created a musical review, “The Little Ones’ ABC’s, that ran for months on Rush St. After graduation, I stayed in Chicago, playing in piano bars then in jazz clubs. I was taking graduate courses at NU, but the clubs – that was where I really learned! I’d play 5 nights a week, 6 hours a night (7 hours on Saturdays!) – so I learned a LOT about playing and singing, about what makes a great song, about how to arrange and re-arrange songs so that they were always new, always fresh. Judy Roberts taught me how to play with a trio, so I got to play with some superb musicians. I got taken to several gospel churches on the South Side where my friend George Winfrey played organ – even got to sit in one day when Jesse Jackson was preaching. I think back on my “apprentice years” in Chicago with tremendous love and appreciation! I returned to Chicago to write dance and incidental music for a workshop of “Working," at the Goodman Theatre before we took the show to Broadway. Years later, I came back to be part of an ASCAP/Mercer Award concert, and to share an evening at Davenport’s with two brilliant songwriters - Julie Gold and the late, Carol Hall. And later still, NU invited us to do a workshop followed by a full production of the musical “Dangerous Beauty” that I co-wrote with Amanda McBroom and Jeannine Dominy.