While it may not yet feel like autumn, the start of the traditional cabaret season is an unmistakable sign of the time. This year, the spirit of a major influence on the genre — the legendary Mabel ...

Read an interview with Officer about the new album here. Officer said that “It was imperative that I try to capture the ‘truth and honesty’ always prevalent in a Mercer performance. It was her most ...

Read a conversation with Officer about the album and release concert. How were you first exposed to Mabel Mercer? When I moved to New York City in the mid-1980s, I was obsessed with theatre and music.

The music of Mabel Mercer, a gifted cabaret singer of the 1930's - 60's, is enjoying a resurgence in popularity with almost all of it now available on CD. The Art of Mabel Mercer presents her earliest ...

It’s a shame that more of us don’t know about Mabel Mercer. As KT Sullivan makes clear in Remembering Mabel, running this week at the Crazy Coqs at Brasserie Zedel, Mercer was wrongly memorialised as ...

The music of Mabel Mercer, a gifted cabaret singer of the 1930's - 60's, is enjoying a resurgence in popularity with almost all of it now available on CD. The Art of Mabel Mercer presents her earliest ...

Bart Howard, the composer of ” Fly Me to the Moon ” and of cabaret songs recorded by Mabel Mercer, Johnny Mathis and many others, died Feb. 21 in Carmel, N.Y. He was 88 and lived in North Salem, N.Y.

On Mondays a grand and gentle countrywoman drives her station wagon south out of hill-and-meadow farmland. Half an hour or so from her 30-acre estate in Chatham, N.Y., she crosses the outer trenches ...

Tonight begins the Mabel Mercer Foundation’s annual Cabaret Convention, which, like many events during the pandemic, will be virtual. And, unlike non-pandemic years, three of the convention’s four ...

Tonight, October 26, begins the first, full, live and in-person Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention since 2019, before the pandemic. KT Sullivan, artistic director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation and host ...