Ruth Leon recommends…A Christmas Rose – Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman

A Christmas Rose – Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman
Click here for tickets : $20 + £4 handling charge
Here are brand new Christmas songs by the McBroom/Brourman team, surely soon to be classics, some new political observations about life, the holidays, and Covid, (which Amanda describes as “the three gifts from really twisted Magi”, one great mash up of Irving Berlin and Leonard Cohen, and, no McBroom concert could finish without her biggest hit, The Rose, of course.

It is typical of the great cabaret performers, Amanda McBroom and Michele Brourman, to give us a Christmas concert without the dreadful dreariness of the standard Christmas song repertoire. Instead, they have written their own (except for two which are McBroom with Ann Hampton Callaway and another which is McBroom with Tom Snow).

Here are brand new Christmas songs by the McBroom/Brourman team, surely soon to be classics, some new political observations about life, the holidays, and Covid, (which Amanda describes as “the three gifts from really twisted Magi”, one great mash up of Irving Berlin and Leonard Cohen, and, no McBroom concert could finish without her biggest hit, The Rose, of course.

This performance was livestreamed from Feinstein’s at Vitello’s in Studio City, Los Angeles, and is only available until January 4. Hurry.

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