Matt Leahy

















"A GUY WALKS
     INTO A BAR..."

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CHARLIE BEALE
Charlie is currently the Music Director of the NYCGMC having recently served as Musical Director of the London Gay Men’s Chorus since 2002. Charles studied at Cambridge, England and specialized in jazz performance at Masters level at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he won the Rose Morris Prize as a composer and jazz pianist. Charles has a stylistically diverse and active freelance performing career. He recently directed members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in an improvised performance at one of London's major concert halls. His playing has also included national radio broadcasts as a classical pianist, an organ concerto with the UK's National Youth Jazz Orchestra, West End theatre work on shows including ‘An Evening with Anthony Newley’ and ‘Sweet Lorraine’. He has playing and arranging credits on albums and singles by pop and dance artists including Whitney Houston and Adeva, and gigs regularly on the London jazz scene with the likes of Bobby Wellins and the Frank Williams African Jazz Quintet. Since completing his Ph.D. in 2001, he has written a critically acclaimed book 'Jazz Piano from Scratch', and the chapter on Jazz Education in the recent Oxford Companion to Jazz. In the past 10 years, he has toured internationally in the UK, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore.






GRAND OPENING BENEFIT FOR THE
NEW YOK CITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS
Wednesday, April 23rd @7:30PM
 
Additional Shows April 30th & May 7th @ 7:30pm
 
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: JEFF WAXMAN
 
Featuring: Matt Diaz (The Highland Shatners)
 
Special Guest

THE SHOW

The stories, songs and crazy experiences of the familiar folks found in corner bars, crowded clubs or the local coffeehouse unfold when “A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR” The guy is multiple award winning singer/writer/producer Matt Leahy. The songs are by James Taylor, Lennon/McCartney, Sheryl Crow, Jason Robert Brown, Hootie and the Blowfish, Joni Mitchell and Cole Porter. The stories are about all of us on both sides of the bar as lovers, friends, barmaids, romantics, baristas, jokesters, philosophers and more partake, imbibe and ultimately prove “in vino veritas” – there is truth in the wine!

Matt Leahy Reviews and Accolades

"One of New Yorks's top 25 Cabaret Artists.  His talents do not stop with his great vocals - his creativity in presenting a show that is entertaining, interesting and exciting is amazing...this is cabaret at its finest"
- Stu Hamstra
"Leahy has a sweetly timbered voice that is very appealing"
- Barbara & Scott Siegel
"Intelligence and creativity, an antic sense of humor and lots of very good singing."
- Roy Sander






ABOUT MATT LEAHY
Twice named by Cabaret Hotline as one of the top 25 cabaret performers in New York City, MAC nominee Matt Leahy has been singing professionally for 30 years in venues ranging from the top clubs of Los Angeles and Manhattan to Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. In 2007 his nimble vocals were featured on Caroline Kennedy’s CD of “A Family Christmas” singing styles covering pop, blues, gospel and classical to name a few. His other recordings include “Her First Roman ‘with Richard Kiley and Leslie Uggams, D. Jay Bradley’s “Don’t Let Christmas Pass You By” and “Self-Produced.” Matt has also been active as producer of projects such as the NYCGMC “Holiday Spectacular” at Carnegie Hall with Kelli O’Hara and the Musical “The Present” for which he also supplied the book. In other media, Matt has been on the production staff of “My Sister Sam” “China Beach” and the first three award-winning seasons of “Murphy Brown.” Theater credits include “Man of La Mancha” “Phantom of the Opera” “Sugar” and “The Present.”








































For more information, please send us e-mail at this address:

matt@mattleahy.com

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