CELEBRATED NEW YORK CABARET ARTIST COMING TO TEN CHIMNEYS MARCH 19TH
Eric Yves Garcia hailed as “the brightest new discovery” and “a handsome young singer and pianist with genuine star quality.” – Stephen Holden, New York Times
GENESEE DEPOT, WI – He has performed with rave reviews in New York City, Paris and London. It is our pleasure to announce Eric Yves Garcia will come to Ten Chimneys for the first time Saturday, March 19th at 7 p.m.
Mr. Garcia’s performance will feature songs from the Great American Songbook with selections reflecting the rigor and melancholy of his life, love, and loss in the city, all while using his self-deprecating humor and cool affability to keep everything buoyant and entertaining.
The Wall Street Journal’s Will Friedwald wrote, “He puts everything together in a highly personal, intensely intimate fashion that allows the songs to come to us through him in a way that’s by turns incredibly moving and very funny – often both at the same time.”
Eric Yves Garcia comes to Ten Chimneys with several musical accolades, including the 2014 Margaret Whiting Award presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He received the 2014 Bistro Award for Outstanding Singer/Instrumentalist.
His career highlights include the Margaret Whiting Birthday Tribute at Carnegie Hall, the Wall-to-Wall concert series at Symphony Space and multiple engagements at the famous Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. Mr. Garcia’s solo show, “One Night Standards,” garnered praise in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and was featured in the Brownsville Concert Series in the Midwest. Internationally, Mr. Garcia enjoyed two weeklong runs at Club Raye in Paris, and a highly lauded debut in London at The Crazy Coqs. He is a graduate of Fordham University at Lincoln Center’s theatre department, an audiobook narrator and provides music for Ronald McDonald House charity events.
Ten Chimneys Foundation President & CEO, Randy Bryant, says having a cabaret gem, like Eric Yves Garcia, honors the rising artistic talent valued by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
Tickets to the March 19th performance are $75, which includes light hors d’oeuvres and a beverage. For more information or to reserve your seat, please ring (262) 968-4110.
For press tickets or for an interview with Mr. Garcia, please contact:
Courtney Kihslinger
Marketing & Communications Manager
Ten Chimneys Foundation
PH: (262) 968-4161 ext. 216
ckihslinger@tenchimneys.org
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ABOUT TEN CHIMNEYS
Ten Chimneys, the Wisconsin estate lovingly created by theater legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, is open to the public as a world-class house museum and national resource for theatre, the arts, and arts education. For much of the 20th Century, Ten Chimneys served as a haven for the Lunts and the artistic leaders of their era. The couple hosted acting greats, including Katharine Hepburn, Sir Lawrence Olivier and George Burns. Carol Channing famously said of Ten Chimneys, “there is a peculiar feeling for actors or anybody in the theater that when you went to ten Chimneys you had done something right. You had died and gone to heaven. You were home.” Ten Chimneys is known for its groundbreaking Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program. Begun in 2009, the program brings together the country’s best regional theater actors for a week of mentorship and inspiration from Master Teachers. The illustrious list of teachers include Lynn Redgrave, Barry Edelstein, Olympia Dukakis, Joel Grey, Alan Alda, David-Hyde Pierce and Phylicia Rashad.
