FRANCES VIETA on Italy's Stolen Treasures & BRYCE EDWARDS on Frivolity

Must RSVP by the Friday before because registration will be closed.

$55 admission includes a three-course lunch payable at the door by cash or check only

Frances Vieta unveils a dramatic, shadowy network of tomb robbers and corrupt smuggler-dealers exploiting Italy’s ancient archaeological sites and New York City’s prestigious art galleries, museums, and auction houses. 

Beginning in 1973, incited by the $1 million purchase of the Euphronios Krater by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vieta, a young journalist, is persuaded to join forces with the Carabinieri Art Squad to embark on a decades-long mission to identify and rescue priceless artifacts. History, danger, and legal battles ensue, offering a rare glimpse into the complexities of the art world’s dark underbelly. 

Vieta will be speaking to Dutch Treat about her award-winning book, "Looted: Rescuing Italy’s Stolen Treasures."

Bryce Edwards is a multi-instrumentalist and cabaret artist, specializing in hot traditional jazz and early 20th century popular music. A vaudevillian troubadour, Edwards is a unique vocalist who takes equal cues from the crooners and soft singers of the late 1920s and early 30s and from the bombastic voices of the acoustic phonograph era. As an instrumentalist, he plays banjo, ukulele, tenor guitar, and mandolin in the modernistic jazz idiom. His expertise lies in his ability to channel his passion into reviving some of that long-lost intangible quality of the Jazz Age and igniting interest in an all too often overlooked era of music that, despite being a century old, still bubbles with humor, beauty, and often a defiant youthful energy.

Edwards brings his singular verve and sensibility to songs made famous by great artists such as Bing Crosby, Ted Lewis, Jack Teagarden, and Rudy Vallée. Steeped in jazz age novelty, Edwards takes "frivolity" very seriously, and vows to thoroughly entertain his audience --- or die trying! 

Recent live appearances in Manhattan include: a performance/lecture on the history of songs and song stylists of the first few decades of the 1900s for The American Popular Song Society; featured spots in the annual Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention Concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center; a show called Hot Combination, honoring the iconic jazz duo Red Nichols and Cliff Edwards (with celebrated cornetist Mike Davis of The New Wonders); and multiple editions of The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour with his band. The last two events have been at Birdland Jazz Club where Edwards has also long been a regular entertainer at the weekly Cast Party nights. Otherwise, he keeps busy collaborating with or sitting in with various bands, composing, voiceover work, acting, researching music, attending concerts and theatre, and doing art work.

In addition to the few songs he is sharing for The Dutch Treat Club program, his repertoire includes 14,733 other treats that he hopes to entertain you with in future appearances, such as his next Birdland event on June 7th.