SPEAKER: MICHAEL RIEDEL | ENTERTAINER: CAROLYN MONTGOMERY

Forty-five dollar admission includes a three-course lunch payable at the door by cash or check only

SPEAKER: MICHAEL RIEDEL

MICHAEL RIEDEL has been an influential Broadway columnist of the New York Post for over 20 years. Riedel's book Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway won the Marfield Prize for arts writing.

ENTERTAINER: CAROLYN MONTGOMERY

CAROLYN MONTGOMERY is a multi MAC, Bistro and Nightlife award winning singer/songwriter, who has performed in major venues across 36 states, Montreal and London. In 2017, she co-founded the American Songbook Association, a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization that promotes and preserves classic American musical legacies (Jazz, Musical Theatre and the American Songbook, classic and new) through education programs, senior enrichment, live events, and Cabaret Scenes magazine. Now in her second year as Executive Director of the ASA, Carolyn creates programs that reach thousands of public school students annually, across all five boroughs of New York City and recently, Chicago. She employs some of New York’s finest entertainers as instructors and partners with some of New York’s most underserved communities, nurturing their students with music. Carolyn is bringing her love of performing and classic American music together in a celebration of Rosemary Clooney at NYC's Birdland in January 2024.