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Tag Archives | Ann Hampton Callaway
BOOM! Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway – live-streamed from 54 Below, New York
BOOM! Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway – live-streamed from 54 Below, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If there’s only one thing in the world of cabaret that beats being serenaded by one Callaway sister, it’s being serenaded by both Ann and Liz.
The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway – Crazy Coqs
The Best of Ann Hampton Callaway continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 29 November 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Callaway equates performing at Crazy Coqs to ‘singing in a human hug’, not such a bad description for how it feels to be in her presence.
New York State of Mind: Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway – 54 Below, New York
New York State of Mind: Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway – streamed from 54 Below, New York. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cabaret doesn’t get better than this.
Sirens of Swing: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry
Sirens of Swing: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry. Unbridled joy at the annual visit of the magnificent American singer/songwriter/pianist Ann Hampton Callaway mixes with melancholy as an era is coming to an end at Chelsea’s beloved cabaret room, The Pheasantry.
Five Questions With: Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway’s show Sirens of Swing arrives at London’s The Pheasantry this week, from 25-27 October 2024. The Tony-nominated will be performing selections from her highly acclaimed recordings To Ella with Love, From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project and Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! as well as signature songs from singers Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Etta James and more.
Such Good Friends: Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Such Good Friends: Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A choice collection and every one a winner.
Ann Hampton Callaway: Finding Beauty – Inspired Classics and Originals – The Pheasantry
Ann Hampton Callaway: Finding Beauty – Inspired Classics and Originals continues at The Pheasantry, London until 25 November 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
INTERVIEW: Jeff Harnar celebrates his new album A Collective Cy at London’s The Pheasantry
Award-winning vocalist JEFF HARNAR will be celebrating the release of his album A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman – featuring both hits and rarities from the Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer of Sweet Charity, City of Angels and more – with two special London concerts at The Pheasantry on 27 and 28 September 2023.
Let’s Fall In Love / Fever! The Peggy Lee Century – Ann Hampton Callaway
Let’s Fall In Love: Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fever! The Peggy Lee Century: Ann Hampton Callaway at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great cabaret is far more than just standing up with a microphone, […]
Remembering Donald Pippin (1926-2022) – Broadway’s favourite musical director, conductor and arranger
In many ways Donald Pippin, who has died at the age of 95, was the American musical theatre’s greatest maestro as a musical director and conductor. And from 1955 until 2018 he was also responsible for the vocal arrangements of some of Broadway’s most successful shows. Michael Darvell looks back on a great musical career… […]
Singer-songwriter and actress Ann Hampton Callaway chats about life during lockdown & returning to the joy of live music and theatre
Chicago-born singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY was recently in London performing her show The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho. In high school, Ann performed in musicals and after graduation studied acting at the University of Illinois […]
The Judy Garland Songbook / Cinematic Serenade – Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry / Pizza Express Jazz Club
Ann Hampton Callaway performed The Judy Garland Songbook at The Pheasantry, London and Cinematic Serenade at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Superlative American diva Ann Hampton Callaway has been rocking my boat for 30 years now – I first saw AHC at Pizza on the Park […]
The Callaway Sisters: Side By Side – Zoom concert from Tucson, Arizona
The Callaway Sisters: Side By Side – streamed Zoom concert from Tucson, Arizona (available until 31 May 2021). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My daughter Sarah once said: “Ann Hampton Callaway has a voice from another universe.” Those so-true words came to mind when watching Ann and her kid sister Liz […]
Book Review: The Pheasantry – The Untold Story
To coincide with The Pheasantry’s tenth anniversary as a seven-day-a-week cabaret venue, Joanna Strand, a performer there herself, has written a lavishly illustrated book tracing the history of the Chelsea nightspot right back to its 1865 roots when Jacko the ring-tailed monkey lived there. Way back in the last century ballet royalty Alicia Markova and […]
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry,
Standards and Ann-dards: Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When in the early 1990s the Prince of New York cabaret Steve Ross instructed me “on no account to miss” an exciting new name on the Manhattan beat when she debuted at Pizza on the Park. Little did […]
CD Review – Jazz Goes to the Movies – Ann Hampton Callaway
JAZZ GOES TO THE MOVIES – ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY (Shanachie Entertainment – SH5464) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I must preface this review with these words: I can’t stand jazz! I love all genres of music but there is something about jazz and all those ‘do-do-dah-do-do’s and ‘bap-pah-bah-bah’s that drive me round the […]
Michele Brourman – The Pheasantry
Michele Brourman at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Forty years after playing fierce piano on tour in Bob Dylan’s band, Michele Brourman was in the less frenetic surroundings of The Pheasantry singing her own compositions and making wonderful music on the Chelsea cabaret room’s Steinway. At 4ft 11in, this dainty lady […]
Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★★★★★ There’s good, then very good, then great, then perfect. This was perfection. Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom, with their friend and collaborator Michele Brourman much more than a mere accompanist on the piano, are singer-songwriters from the very top drawer and to have […]
Voices – Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Voices: Amanda McBroom at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “You know, I could listen to that voice all night,” said the lady next to me at The Pheasantry after the truly great Californian singer-songwriter Amanda McBroom had enchanted her audience for a spellbinding hour and a half with […]
The Ella Century – Ann Hampton Callaway – The Pheasantry
The Ella Century – Ann Hampton Callaway at The Pheasantry, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great is one of the most over-used words in the dictionary but just as Ella Fitzgerald was the greatest jazz singer of her era, so too is the magnificent Ann Hampton Callaway of hers. It […]
Divalicious! – Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom – The Pheasantry
Divalicious!, performed by Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom with Michele Brourman, continues at The Pheasantry, London until 13 November. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ After the blackest day in American history if you were a Democrat or ardent feminist (or plenty of other things too), two of cabaret’s all-time-greats, Ann Hampton Callaway and […]
Interview – Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom on being Divalicious at The Pheasantry
Two of the most inspirational songwriters and performers of the international cabaret scene, ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY and AMANDA McBROOM, will be appearing at The Pheasantry from 9-13 November. They will be accompanied by another wonderful songwriter and performer in her own right, Michele Brourman. Fiona-Jane Weston caught up with Ann and Amanda to discuss their work ahead of […]
Love and Let Love: New Collaborations with Old Friends – Michele Brourman – Crazy Coqs
Love and Let Love: New Collaborations with Old Friends was performed by Michele Brourman at the Crazy Coqs, London. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ After two weeks of caressing the ivories while her great pal Amanda McBroom took centrestage, the pocket rocket of American cabaret, “4ft 11 on a good day” […]
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters – Crazy Coqs
Feminine Persuasion – Ann Hampton Callaway Celebrates Women Songwriters continues at Crazy Coqs, London until 24 April, as part of the London Festival of Cabaret. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There aren’t enough stars in the galaxy adequately to convey the extraordinary pleasure of spending 90 minutes in the company of this […]
Sibling Revelry – London Hippodrome
Sibling Revelry continues at the London Hippodrome until 11 July. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you were expecting an unbiased review of anything involving the remarkable Ann Hampton Callaway, dream on. I have been in love with her superabundant talent, and in awe of it too, since Pizza On the Park days in […]
Sibling Revelry: an Exclusive interview with the Callaway sisters
EXCLUSIVE! Sibling Revelry: An interview with ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY and sister LIZ. Seventeen years after bring their Sibling Revelry show over from New York to form part of the Divas At the Donmar series, the Callaway sisters, Ann Hampton and Liz, are back in London from 7–11 July with an updated version at the Hippodrome. […]
Ann Hampton Callaway sings Sarah Vaughan – Ronnie Scott’s
Ann Hampton Callaway sings Sarah Vaughan continues at Ronnie Scott’s, London until 30 September. Blink and you’ll miss her, but the incomparable Ann Hampton Callaway is back in town for a short two-night love-in at Ronnie Scott’s, finally fulfilling a “bucket-list” ambition to perform at London’s jazz mecca. Like the No. 9 bus, it had been a long wait […]
Ann Hampton Callaway – Crazy Coqs
Ann Hampton Callaway: Diva Power continues at the Crazy Coqs, London, until 12 April. It’s been 13 years since the multi-talented American singer-songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway last aired her amazing vocal pyrotechnics and wicked sense of fun in London town and that’s far, far too long. She claims she hasn’t been back since 2001 “because […]
Liz Callaway – Crazy Coqs
An Evening with Liz Callaway at the Crazy Coqs, London, continues until 1 February. Just when everybody thought the evening was going like clockwork, Broadway star Liz Callaway ‘forgot’ her lines in the ridiculously fast ‘Another 100 People’ and had the first night Crazy Coqs audience gasping in surprise and sympathy as the Sondheim classic […]
