Postponed from last season.

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.

Note: This season’s finale will be presented free of charge and online, on the Cultural Council’s website and YouTube channel.

The 2020-2021 season of CULTURE & COCKTAILS is generously sponsored by*:

The Roe Green Foundation, Roe Green, Founder

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