Cabaret Spotlight with Jan Peters

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CABARET SPOTLIGHT hosted by Jan Peters with special guest LISA GAIL JOHNSON and TOM LAMARK on piano.
The late great “Maestro” Barry Levitt said in speaking of Lisa Gail Johnson, “She is a powerhouse performer!” Richard Skipper states, “Lisa is phenomenal! Go and see her!”

“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

LISA GAIL JOHNSON began performing professionally at the ripe old age of 12 appearing in “Annie Get Your Gun” playing Minnie Oakley to Beth Fowler’s Annie Oakley. Lisa had the good fortune of singing with the mega pop group Abba during their 1979 North American tour in the kid’s chorus of “I Have a Dream”. Lisa won the prestigious Moss Hart Award at the New England Theater Conference for her role as the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Lisa discovered the world of cabaret performance after being a finalist in Diamond Jim’s Sing Off competition at Boston’s Lenox Hotel. Most recently Lisa has been a featured performer at CabaretFest in Provincetown working with cabaret coaches Marilyn Maye, Mark Nadler, Sharon McNight, Karen Mason, Angela Bacari, John O’Neil and Carol o’shaughnessy to name a few. The late great “Maestro” Barry Levitt said in speaking of Lisa, “She is a powerhouse performer!” Richard Skipper states, “Lisa is phenomenal! Go and see her!”