NYC Life: Comedy, Wine, Bastille Day, Motown, Pianos and More
That’s a quote from the very funny Carole Montgomery and you can catch her show in Norwalk this month. If you love all things French, head to Madison Avenue on Sunday for the Bastille Day Street Fair. Tickets for our Sept. 30 wine trip to the North Fork vineyards will go on sale next week. If you love Motown, head to Green Room 42 for a night of fabulous music. And a piano festival is coming to town. Valerie Smaldone celebrates flowers and a play in Boston. It’s fundraising season in the Hampton’s and Randie Levine Miller was at the Samuel Waxman Cancer Center Fundraiser and shares photos. And our roving photographer reports in from Maine.
SAVE THE DATE
Tickets for our hugely popular wine trip will go on sale next Wednesday (watch your email.) If you want to join us do not delay. Last year we sold out in one week! Here’s a recap of last year’s event.
July 16. Bastille Day Street Fair
Join FIAF (French Institute Alliance Française) on Sunday, July 16, from noon-5pm, for New York City’s largest celebration of France’s national holiday! A welcoming neighborhood event for more than 20 years, this year, the Bastille Day Street Fair returns to its recently expanded Madison Avenue location from 59th to 63rd street, offering live music, a rosé & bubbly party, prize drawings, family activities, a special film screening, and more than 50 booths showcasing the best of French food and francophone culture. GET ALL THE DETAILS.
July 29. Very Funny Women
Carole Montgomery and Leighann Lord, who were both part of our Renewal Summit this year, are heading this upcoming show, which was started by Carole to give older women comics a chance to be seen and heard. The show travels the country and became a Showtime special that made history and broke ratings records. Two more specials followed and a
national tour is in the works. You will laugh your ass off! GET TICKETS.
July 27. Soul Searching: A Raucous and Sexy Show
Head to the Green Room 42 where Mark Arthur Miller, actor/singer/songwriter and son of the late Motown hit songwriter, Ron Miller, brings his wildly popular show, Soul Searching for one night only. The show includes original music by Mark and a string of Motown hits that you’ll know all the words too.
The Green Room 42 is located at 42nd St. and 10th Avenue, on the 4th Floor of the Yotel. Tickets for Soul Searching at The Green Room 42 on July 27th at 7PM are available here: https://tinyurl.com/2sf4kcwj
July 18-23. Third Annual International Stretto Piano Festival
This is an exciting series of concerts celebrating the narrow key! Head to Engelman Recital Hall for thrilling performances. You will be treated to classical piano masterpieces, Jazz, the music of Joni Mitchell, by Stretto Piano Concerts Founder, Hannah Reimann
This is the only music festival in the world that gives pianists a CHOICE OF PIANO KEY SIZE – that’s right! We will have two beautiful Steinway grand pianos on stage for our live concerts: One with narrower-than-conventional keys for small and medium-sized hands and one piano with big, conventional keys for large hands! 5.9-inch-octave and 6.5-inch-octave sizes.
Get more details at strettopianoconcerts.org/2023
Tickets for In-person Concerts in NYC: General Admission for all shows: $25 VIP seating: $40 The Full Festival Pass is $100 (seven concerts)
Engelman Recital Hall at BPAC (Baruch Performing Arts Center). 55 Lexington Ave. entrance on East 25th Street.
Roving in Maine
Our roving photographer, Nicole Freezer Rubens, reports in from Maine this week…
Last weekend I drove north in another direction and visited the charming towns of Kennebunkport and Portland Maine. I got a little bit of a lot of things, a taste of Americana, a whiff of sea air, active industrial fishing ports and shipbuilding, a hazy beach day and of course some sweet blueberry ice cream!
Kennebunkport is a small town of 3,600 residents while Portland, the largest city in Maine has a population of 68,000. Tourism is big and in the summertime and both towns swell and feel kinetic on the weekends, but in the most inviting sense. I found both areas to be bursting with color. The contrast between the pristine mansions along the shores and the eroded industrial buildings on the wharf, offer a perfect mix of what this area is all about.
Next time of course I need to go deeper into the state and tackle the endless mountains, but for a quick trip from New York, the southern tip of Maine has so much to offer.
~Nicole Freezer Rubens is the author of poetry/photo book, “The Long Pause and the Short Breath.” Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/nfrconsult/
The tomato behind The Three Tomatoes.
Cheryl Benton, aka the “head tomato” is founder and publisher of The Three Tomatoes, a digital lifestyle magazine for “women who aren’t kids”. Having lived and worked for many years in New York City, the land of size zero twenty-somethings, she was truly starting to feel like an invisible woman. She created The Three Tomatoes just for the fun of it as the antidote for invisibility and sent it to 60 friends. Today she has thousands of friends and is chief cheerleader for smart, savvy women who want to live their lives fully at every age and every stage. She is the author of the novel, "Can You See Us Now?" and co-author of a humorous books of quips, "Martini Wisdom." Because she's lived a long time, her full bio won't fit here. If you want the "blah, blah, blah", read more. www.thethreetomatoes.com/about-the-head-tomato
