Kathleen would like to send out a special THANK YOU to everyone for their consideration in winning a 2010 Female Debut MAC Award. She would love your vote!
The 2010 MAC Awards will be held:
Tuesday, May
4th @ at BB Kings Blues Club
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Nightlife
and Bistro Award-winning Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street,
“MetroStar” is open to singers of all ages and backgrounds
who have not played a major engagement at The Metropolitan Room.
The grand prize-winner (who will be named the night of the contest's
finale on August 31) will win a fully produced, prime time booking
at the Metropolitan Room and a professionally produced live recording
of this upcoming show. "MetroStar’s" career-boosting
package of prizes and professional encouragements is worth over
$15,000. As it did last year, the club will engage several well-known
professionals and artists to collaborate with the winners.
The multi-award winning vocalist Lennie Watts returns as host of the contest. The jury chairman is critic Roy Sander, who serves as the contest’s permanent member. For the contest’s three trial rounds – July 13, 20, and 27 – Sander will bejoined by the award-winning vocalist Klea Blackhurst. In subsequent weeks, a rotating roster of jurists will help whittle down the contestants to 18 on August 3; ten on August 10 (the quarter finals), and then to five on August 17 (the semi finals). The five finalists will go head to head in two final rounds on August 24 and August 31. Scheduled to serve as judges are the cabaret and jazz entertainers Allan Harris, Baby Jane Dexter, Julie Reyburn, Eric Michael Gillett, Ricky Ritzel, Marni Nixon, Jay Rogers, Steven Lutvak and Mary Foster Conklin, and the media personalities David Kenney, Bill Boggs and Valerie Smaldone. Among the performers on the final night will be last year’s grand prize winner Anne Steele, whose highly praised show “Strings Attached” premiered in February and was reprised in March. Playing for the singers on a rotating basis throughout the contest are the popular music directors Nate Buccieri and Tracy Stark. As the contest progresses to the higher rounds, singers will be challenged to present their own original versions of the same song (the common song is not known in advance) and to prepare material in a style chosen by the jury (also unknown to the singers in advance). “MetroStar” encourages singers across a spectrum of styles and from any age bracket to present well-rounded stage performances in which creativity, innovation and authenticity are prized over vocal pyrotechnics. *
Kathleen made the Top 18 and thanks everyone for coming out to support
and vote for her!!! |
| TOP 18 MetroStar Competition:
Cornelius Bates |
