Our annual holiday concert is now a Christmas classic. Staged as a fundraiser for all our cultural and social-support programs, “NY Croons for Christmas” is headlined by the incomparable Colm Reilly, son of co-founder Paddy Reilly, who gathers a spectacular line-up of cabaret artists, singers and musicians, blending holiday favorites from near and far. Your ticket includes complimentary holiday refreshments. We thank you!
$60 - Includes open bar for duration of the show
Our Performers
A two-time MAC Award-winner, Colm Reilly is a frequent performer and host at the Center, who has also appeared and headlined at The Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Iridium Jazz Club, Birdland, Feinstein’s/54 Below and at Carnegie Hall. He has also toured with the Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland, and in theatre productions across the US, including “Forever Plaid, “Brigadoon, and “Hello Dolly!” One of his two MAC Awards was for Best Male Vocalist.
Carolyn Montgomery is the co-founder and executive director of the American Songbook Association, which promotes and preserves classic American musical legacies, as well as a multi-MAC, Nightlife and Bistro award-winning performer.
A much-admired cabaret vocalist in New York City, Jeanne McDonald has earned several MAC Awards, a NY Nightlife Award, a Backstage Bistro Award, and the coveted Julie Wilson Award for Excellence in Cabaret.
A former Associate Director of the Cabaret Conference at Yale University, Wendy Lane Bailey is currently Assistant Artistic Director for United Solo Theatre. She is a frequent collaborator with composer Michelle Brourman and singer-songwriter Amanda McBroom, and is currently developing a solo theatre project, “She Has Wings,” featuring music of Michele Brourman.
The Bistro Award-winning actress and singer Kathy Kaefer has appeared at Birdland, and Feinstein‘s at the Regency in the hit off Broadway show Our Sinatra. She has performed with the Tom Postilio Big Band at the famed Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center and debuted her award winning show “I’ll Be Seeing You, Stories From the Homefront” at the Metropolitan Room in New York.
Sean Harkness composes and arranges music for solo guitar and for small ensembles, and accompanies many singers, musicians, and theatrical productions. Awards include a Bistro Award, a Broadwayworld Cabaret Award for Best CD Release, and six MAC Awards: for ensemble instrumentalist, his solo shows, a CD with duo partner, Canadian trumpeter Mike Herriot, and Major Duo/Group with Lina Koutrakos & Marcus Simeone. Sean represents Walden Guitars.