The French Connection 6/28/26 Jacques Brel

Beginning in 1953, Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel wrote and performed poignant and passionate songs that brought him a devoted following in France. By the 1960s, Brel had become a major influence on counterculture performers such as Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. Translations of Brel’s songs have been recorded by a wide range of singers from Nina Simone to Frank Sinatra.

Jerome Kern

Picture This Playlist 123: Lost in the Stars (with Kurt Weill and in Act II, Jerome Kern)

A show in two acts, Act I featuring the timeless music of Kurt Weill from his days writing with Bertolt Brecht in Germany and progressing through his Broadway and Hollywood songbooks …Happy in the Act II to finally get to the work of Jerome Kern, who wrote some of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most enduring melodies …