Cabaret Spotlight with Jan Peters

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CABARET SPOTLIGHT hosted by JAN PETERS with special guests CHRIS COBB & JEFF HOVIS.

“Jan Peters is a powerhouse performer….”, Cabaret Hotline, New York
“Nights out don’t get much better……with Jan Peters at the helm steering us toward Nirvana with her clarion vocals …..”, John Amodeo, Cabaret Critic

JAN PETERS has been a Napoleon Room favorite for over 20 years delivering Broadway and American Songbook favorites with “one of the most beautiful voices in the Boston cabaret scene today.” She was honored to be named Improper Bostonian Best Cabaret Act 2005, IRNE Award winner Best Female Cabaret Artist 2002 and Bay Windows Best Cabaret Performer 2002. Jan’s cabaret show “Old Fashioned, Please!” was named one of Boston’s Top Ten (Bay Windows 2000 Cabaret Year In Review).

Most recent performances include, Six Degrees of Sondheim, where Jan’s performance was hailed as “worth the price of admission”, and Jan Peters Sings Johnny Mercer performed to a SRO crowd. By invitation, Jan has performed at the famed Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention multiple times, including Mabel Mercer’s 21st Anniversary Celebration at Lincoln Center in New York. Other performances include, “I Feel A Song Coming On” at The Cultural Center Theater in Port Charlotte, Florida, The Jazz On A Sunday Afternoon Performance Series in New Hampshire and Boston’s Riverside Theater Works Cabaret Festival.

In addition to her cabaret work, Jan performs throughout the country accompanied by ensembles ranging from intimate jazz groups to large swing orchestras and appears at many of Boston’s best nightclubs and hotels.

Her debut CD, “Somebody Come and Play” (2002), received rave reviews; “An excellent debut.” (Boston Herald); “…the classic torch singer…a voice like fine wine…it is glorious.” (John Amodeo, Cabaret Scenes, Bay Windows contributor). Her second CD, “You Started Something” was also released to glowing reviews, “Jan Peters has scored another great success performing material she was born to do.” Jordan Rich, WBZ Radio, Boston.

Jan created The Cabaret Spotlight Guest Artist Series to celebrate the piano bar experience where Jan happily got her start, giving budding cabaret performers the chance to strut their stuff! www.janpeters.com

Chris Cobb is a singer and cabaret performer based in Lynn, Massachusetts. Chris began his performing arts journey in Michigan. He spent years working with the Peppermint Creek Theatre Company in Lansing, Michigan. His acting, tech, and dramaturgy credits from Peppermint Creek include Take Me Out, The Seafarer, and Next to Normal, among others. Since moving to Boston, Chris has sung with several choral groups and the Arlington Street Church choir, where he has been a summer soloist. Chris has performed two cabaret shows in the Josephine’s series at the Napoleon Room. To quote the late, great Stephen Sondheim: “Anything you do, let it come from you – then it will be new.”

Jeff Hovis is a singer, actor and cabaret performer based in Lynn, Massachusetts. His performing arts background includes acting in more than a dozen Shakespeare plays with the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, including East Coast touring productions, and a recent alumni production of King John. His journey with singing began with the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, and quickly moved into cabaret performances, including recitals at the Brookline Public Library and Josephine’s Cabarets at the Napoleon Room. When he is not singing he is a college professor, innovation consultant and program director for two graduate programs at Merrimack College.