Culture & Cocktails: In Time, In Tune

April 11, 2022

Deborah Silver is a #1 Billboard jazz vocalist, 2020 Broadway World Best Commercial Recording Award Winner, whose best-selling albums include Glitter and Grits, The Gold Standards, and Pure Silver.

Dennis Lambert is a 12-time Grammy-nominated songwriter who has helmed hit records for legendary recording artists such as The Four Tops, The Grass Roots, Dusty Springfield, Glen Campbell, Richard Harris, The Righteous Brothers, Natalie Cole, Dave Koz, Dionne Warwick, and more.

Moderator: Copeland Davis is an Emmy-nominated pianist and Tonight Show performer who was inducted into the Las Vegas Entertainers Hall of Fame in 2014.

Culture & Cocktails: Badgley Mischka

March 7, 2022

Mark Badgley and James Mischka, who have been hailed by Vogue as one of the “Top 10 American Designers” and as the darlings of the Hollywood set. The design duo made their mark over the past two decades with glamorous, stylish and wearable evening wear and accessories. Since launching Badgley Mischka in 1988, fashionable clients include Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Garner, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Mirren, and Ashley Judd. Badgley Mischka is sold in the most prestigious stores in the world, including Bergdorf Goodman, Nieman Marcus, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue, in addition to the designers’ flagship boutiques in Los Angeles and Palm Beach.

Moderator: Roe Green is an arts patron, activist, and CEO of the Roe Green Foundation.

Culture & Cocktails: Wayne Hosford & Stars of Tomorrow

April 5, 2021

Our annual musical finale of this series will be presented VIRTUALLY and will feature a conversation with and performance by Wayne Hosford, an award-winning entertainer, singer, comedian, actor and composer, who tickles the keys regularly at Club Colette in Palm Beach, was featured in five different shows at The Colony Hotel’s Royal Room, and has appeared with many cabaret giants (Michael Feinstein, Ann Hampton Callaway, Marilyn Maye). He will introduce musical performances by some amazing young talents, including:

Kai Alivia, 18, is the recipient of the 2016 Young Artist’s Award for the Society of the Great American Songbook, and has performed with her musical mentors Jill & Rich Switzer, and at such legendary venues as the Palladium, Carnegie Hall, Birdland Jazz Club, and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.

Tyler Corbett, 11, a sixth grader at St. Vincent Ferrer School, has performed in shows both there and at the Lake Worth Playhouse, and is a three-year member of the Delray Summer Sing Camp.

Kaylee Owen, 8, a second grader at Plumosa School of the Arts, performs as both a singer and pianist with the hip-hop dance club, K-2 Choir, and the Delray Summer Sing Camp.

Zachary Lee Williams, 17, a piano “wunderkind” who has performed with the Kretzer Kids, and wowed audiences from Café l’Europe to Presidential dinners. 

Interviewed by Kathi Kretzer, Founder & President of the Kretzer Music Foundation.

The Yamaha Grand Piano at this event is generously provided by Piano Distributors in Jupiter.

Culture & Cocktails: Bosom Buddies

March 1, 2021

A Dishy Chat Between Faith Prince & Rob Russell

Faith Prince has been dazzling Broadway audiences since winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as “Ms. Adelaide” in Guys and Dolls. As one of Broadway’s best loved leading ladies, she also won rave reviews and numerous Tony Award nominations for roles in such hits as Annie, A Catered Affair, Bells are Ringing, The Little Mermaid, Nick & Nora, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Noises Off, and Disaster, among others. On television, she has had recurring roles in Modern Family, Drop Dead Diva, and Spin City. She has sold-out cabarets and concert halls around the world, and recorded the album Total Faith at The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach.

Rob Russell was the longtime Entertainment Director & Emcee for the world famous Royal Room cabaret at The Colony Hotel. From his audience-wowing one man shows to occasional gigs as an announcer on Legends Radio, the ever dapper, occasional tapper Russell has been known to cause music lovers and fans of the Great American Songbook to jump up, dance between tables, and join in the revelry. He performs regularly at Café Centro in the Northwood Village neighborhood of West Palm Beach and The Pelican Café in Lake Park, and recently released his first CD, Hello Again. He is also a longtime chum of Ms. Prince.

Culture & Cocktails: Cultural Dynamos

February 1, 2021

Douglas C. Evans, Executive Director of The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, has been an international cultural leader for more than three decades. In addition to being CEO of Premiere Global Partners an international consulting firm, he most recently held the position of Chief Development, Marketing and Communications Officer for the Perez Museum of Art in Miami. He was the Founder of Classical South Florida Radio, and has held the position of Chief Operating Officer of Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment and President of Broadway China Ventures. A prolific producer of Broadway musicals and plays, he has worked with a galaxy of classic stars, including Barbara Cook, Carol Lawrence, Nell Carter, Ann Miller, John Raitt, Juliet Prowse and Shirley MacLaine.

Marjorie Waldo, President & CEO of Arts Garage in Delray Beach, delivers innovative, diverse, meaningful and accessible visual and performing arts experiences to multi-cultural audiences. “The transformative nature of the Arts moves us, and Arts Garage is proud to connect our community to the world through the arts,” she says. Waldo earned her BA in Drama from the University of Virginia and an MA in Educational Leadership from FAU, A career educator with over 25 years’ experience, she worked for several decades as a high school principal at Tomorrow’s Promise Community School and as an education consultant focused on working with students facing debilitating societal and personal obstacles. A non-profit turn-around expert, Waldo has been running Arts Garage since 2016.

Interviewed by Dave Lawrence, President & CEO of the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County