Renee Smith
 

      St. Louis recording artist Renee Smith has earned the title "Queen of St. Louis Soul." She grew up singing gospel 
   music and made the St. Louis music scene take notice after her dynamic pairing with legendary guitarist Bennie
   Smith at the 1996 Blues Heritage Festival. Perfecting her chops with the likes of Fluid Drive and the Oliver Sain
   All Star Revue, she has recently returned from a successful tour of the Far East.

      You have seen her on Channel 9 on New Year's Eve from the Sheldon and before huge crowds on the banks of the
   Mississippi at the Labor Day Weekend Blues Festivals, where the St. Louis Post Dispatch called her performance
   "power packed, pure soul energy." Now enjoy her as she brings her bluesy, soulful style along with her love of all
   types of music from country to jazz, from standards to classic blues, from old to new, to the intimate confines at Savor.
   "I am looking forward to exploring another facet of myself singing about love in a cabaret venue," Renee says. You
   should be too!

   Renee performs:

   8:30pm on Friday, May 9

   8:30pm on Saturday, May 10

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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 Paula West
  with the George Mesterhazy Trio
       I sat rapt at each of her five shows here last spring. Then I saw her new show in New York in November, and it’s hard
   for me to overstate how good I think Paula West is. She sings everybody -- from Irving Berlin to Cole Porter to Hank Williams
   to Oscar Brown to Bob Dylan to Celtic traditional to Keith Richards – and she puts her stamp on whatever she touches. For
   Paula West, a great song is a great song and a great lyric is a great lyric. The songbook is where she finds it. Wrapped around
   one of the great voices is this beautifully intoxicating phrasing, this gorgeous way of bending the words around the melody and
   making them part of the sensual experience.

      Time Out New York’s Adam Feldman picked her show as the best of the year in 2006, and as one of the top two again in 2007:
                    “If a night of jazz were still up to the standards of Ella, Billie and Sarah, then Paula West
                    would be the only (yes, only) contemporary vocalist worth the price of admission. Not only
                    is her full-bodied contralto a thing of beauty, it’s connected to an emotive intellect that makes        

                    the American Songbook speak to the future rather than the past. Her annual Oak Room
                    engagement ranks among the year’s most satisfying evenings of cabaret.”
      

      Paula sells out a month at the Oak Room at the Algoquin each year, and at press time is booked to open the successor
   the The Plush Room in San Francisco for five weeks. We are fortunate to have her in St. Louis for five shows.
      

      Music director George Mesterhazy is a virtuoso jazz pianist and a creative, stylish arranger who, with his trio, adds
   another dimension to this show.

   Paula performs:

   8:30pm on Wednesday, May 14

   8:30pm on Thursday, May 15

   8:30pm on Friday, May 16

   8:30pm on Saturday, May 17

   Tickets $40 plus a $12 minimum

   Free valet parking.

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 St. Louis Singers Showcase
  

      Cabaret singers who make their homes in St. Louis are featured in this showcase for homegrown talent.

      Some are well-known in our town, some are breaking into the game professionally, and some are skilled amateurs.   They will 

   all show their talents at The Cabaret at Savor on Thursday, May 22 at 8:30pm.

      Performers include:

    Anna Blair

    Ken Haller

    Barbara Parker Helmer

    Pegi Johns

    Merry Keller

    Chuck Lavazzi

    Fred Lewis

    Kay Love

    Katie McGrath

    Deborah Sharn

    Jeff Wright

   Performance:

   8:30pm on Thursday, May 22

   Tickets $15 plus a $12 minimum

   Free valet parking.

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 Uvee Hayes


       Uvee Hayes has delighted audiences for more than twenty years with her interpretations of R&B, Soul, Torchy Love
   Songs and the Delta Blues.

      Uvee has recorded ten albums, cassettes and CD's with some of the worlds finest musicians, including Oliver Sain,
   Stevie Wonder, Luther Ingram, The Phoenix Horns, Keith Doder, John May, Rich McDonough and many others. She
   has appeared and performed on shows with Bobby Rush, Tyrone Davis, Ike Turner, Little Milton Campbell, and
   countless others.

      Her last CD, "There'll Come a Time" is a favorite in St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Jackson, the Far East and in the
   United Kingdom. Hers is an elegant, stylish approach, and she is a cabaret natural.

   Uvee performs:

   8:30pm on Friday, May 23

   8:30pm on Saturday, May 24

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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  Kim Massie
 

      Kim Massie is one of St. Louis's best blues singers, which is to say one of the country's best blues singers.

      She's worked with Oliver Sain, Johnny Johnson, Bennie Smith and Cindy Lauper. She tours all over, and we are lucky to   

  have her in our own back yard at Savor as part of the Cabaret in Blue series. 

      She'll be singing here in a cabaret style, with a baby grand piano and a bass, in an intimate listening room with 65 seats. The  

  emphasis here will be on lyric and melody.

      Kim will bring it home.

      Savor's the kind of place, with the people gathered up real close, where a whole new side of Kim might start to show.

   Kim performs:

   8:30pm on Friday, May 30

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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 Erin Bode

      Vocalist Erin Bode has one of the prettiest voices in town.

      Erin has performed at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., Zanzibar Blue in Philadelphia, and at Sweet Rhythm in New York.

  She and her group have also made two tours of Italy and South Africa. She's opened for Mary Wilson of the Supremes; for  

  Michael Buble at The Pageant; with Macy Gray on the steps of the Arch; and for Jamie Cullum at the Sheldon Concert Hall, and 

  with Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion at the Fox.

      At the Cabaret at Savor, you'll get a chance to hear Erin doing her favorite jazz standards.

   Erin performs:

   8:30pm on Thursday, June 5

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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 Sherry Drake

   with Terry Thompson

      St. Louis native Sherry Drake has been a favorite on the local jazz scene for many years, winning over

  audiences with her impeccable sese of rhythym and energetic stage presence. In addition to previous    

  appearances at the Sheldon, Drake as performed at venues and festivals throughout the St. Louis area,

  including Cookies in Webster Groves, Ridgeview Winery, and Taste of Lafayette Square.

   Sherry performs:

   8:30pm on Saturday, June 14

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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 Dean Christopher
   Frank and Sammie and Dean

   The Sands

   Las Vegas 1962

      Dean got his start at local clubs in his hometown of St. Louis, such as The Sting, The Speakeasy and the Playboy Club,  

   singing, doing standup and impressions.

        But his favorite music has always been sounds of the Rat Pack in Las Vegas.

        Frank Sinatra saw a resurgence in his style of music in the later years of his life. After Sinatraís death, Dean's love of that

   style of performance caused him to return to his roots as a night club/cabaret performer, hoping to keep alive the music of the

   performers he learned so much from in the beginning of his career.

   Dean performs:

   8:30pm on Friday, June 20

   8:30pm on Saturday, June 21

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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 Debby Lennon
    with Carolbeth True

        Debby Lennon, a member of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus for eleven seasons, she made her solo debut with the St. Louis   

   Symphony Orchestra in the 1992 Carnegie Hall premiere of William Bolcomís Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Boston 

   Globe called her, brassily irresistible. She is a frequent soloist with the “SLSO Queeny Pops", Bob Colemanís Legacy Big Band 

   and the Steve Schankman Orchestra as well as being an active freelance artist in the St. Louis area.

       From 1992-1999, she recorded and performed with the nationally known a capella group Pieces of 8 of which she was a 

   founding member. In March of 2003, Debby performed in Lincoln Centerís Avery Fischer Hall as a soloist with the New York 

   City Gay Menís Chorus in Viva La Diva and in June of that year was a back-up singer for Sissel in her PBS American debut at 

   the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis Missouri. In February of 2004, Debby performed as a soloist with the Space Coast Pops 

   in a Tribute to the Big Band Era again in March of 2006.

     Debby is adjunct professor of voice at Webster University and Director of the Webster Jazz Singers in St. Louis, Missouri.

   Lennon also serves at St. Joseph's Academy as vocal instructor ad she maintains a private voice studio. Debby attended

   Fontbonne University and studied voice at Wahington University in St. Louis, Missouri and at the L'ecole Hindemith in

   Vevey, Switzaerland. I'm All Smiles is Debby's first solo CD. It was released in November of 2005 to sold out performances at

   Finale Music and Dining in St. Louis, Missouri.

   Debby performs:

   8:30pm on Saturday, June 28

   Tickets $17.50 plus a $12 min.

   Free valet parking.

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