CABARET NEWS - NEW YORK CITY

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KABARETT FETE ANNOUNCED: NYC'S FIRST EUROPEAN CABARET FESTIVAL

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Karen Kohler will present KABARETT FETE (http://www.kabarettfete.com/ ) New York City's first cabaret festival devoted to the European cabaret arts from Tuesday through Saturday, January 23rd through 27th at HELEN'S RESTAURANT, CABARET & PIANO LOUNGE (169 Eighth Avenue, NYC - 212-206-0609 - http://www.helensnyc.com/ ) as part of her continuing effort to nurture the European cabaret arts in the New York cabaret scene. These NY-based artists come from seven countries including France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Canada, and the USA, and are dedicated to the authentic interpretation of the Great European Songbook. Several have been members of Kohler's 4-year old cabaret ensemble, Kabarett Kollektif, winner of the 2006 New York Nightlife Award for "Unique Cabaret Performance."

Two programs will make their NY debut in Kabarett Fete: Swedish-born Olivia Stevens' tribute to the controversial Swedish star Zarah Leander, a siren of the Third Reich; and Rebecca Fletcher's exploration of the Yiddish cabaret music of Warsaw. Kohler has also secured the rights to screen the documentary Dance of Death: Cabaret in the Camps by Berlin film-maker Volker Kuehn in NY for the first time. This film, which combines rare footage of cabaret in the concentration camps with interviews of some of the surviving artists, has been described as "an especially stirring document of the Holocaust.... more forceful than any known commentary... a memorial for the more or less unknown hero of the concentration camps."

The festival programming is as follows:

Tuesday, January 23rd
6:30 pm - Micheline, Brel & Piaf
9:00 pm - Karen Kohler, Three Pennies and A Touch of Venus: The Songs of Weill & Dietrich

Wednesday, January 24th
6:30 pm - Olivia Stevens, Pleasure & Peril: Zarah Leander and The Third Reich
9:00 pm - Jean Brassard, The Kid from Paris: Jean Brassard Sings Yves Montand (with a special guest appearance by cabaret legend Steve Ross)

Thursday, January 25th
6:30 pm - Rebecca Joy Fletcher, Kleynkunst: Warsaw's Yiddish Cabarets
9:00 pm - Film Screening, Dance of Death: Cabaret in the Camps

Friday, January 26th
6:30 pm - Frans Bloem, Passage to Aznavour
9:00 pm - Micaela Leon & Karen Kohler, Noise & Smoke: Hits of Weimar Berlin

Saturday, January 27th
6:30 - Theo Bleckmann, Songs of Love, War, Peace and Exile
9:00 - Greta, Love Noir: Chansons Then and Now

Cover for each show is $25 plus $15 food/drink minimum. Film Screening on the 25th is free admission plus $15 min. A special prix fixe festival menu will be available, as well as discount festival cards (any 4 shows for $75 plus min). See details on all shows at KABARETT FETE (http://www.kabarettfete.com/ )

Kabarett Fete is made possible by the support of LTU Airlines, Schaefer Trans Inc., and private donations.

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