Jeanne MacDonald - Company (2000)

Tracklist

01. There's A Terrific Band And A Real Nice Crowd
02. Both Sides Now
03. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
04. Hard Hearted Hannah
05. Let's Take The Long Way Home / Let's Take A Walk Around The Block
06. Let Me Sing And I'm Happy
07. Amanda Sang
08. Lazy Afternoon
09. Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)
10. Tell Me On A Sunday
11. Company
12. The Water Is Wide



A critically acclaimed performer of both standards and contemporary music, Jeanne MacDonald's talent has garnered multiple awards for her work in cabaret. In January she received the 2004 Nightlife Award for Cabaret Female Vocalist at New York City's Town Hall, followed by the 2004 MAC Award (Manhattan Assoc. of Cabarets & Clubs) for Female Vocalist in May. This performer has also earned a BACK STAGE Bistro Award and the prestigious MAC Hanson Award. In 1999, MacDonald was named one of the Ten Best Female Solo Acts in cabaret by InTheater Magazine and she has been a Cabaret Hotline Online Critics Choice for Female Vocalist.

Originally from Freeport (Long Island) NY, Jeanne MacDonald began her cabaret career at the Bradstan Country Hotel in White Lake, NY in 1991. She continues to perform there each year in their distinguished Inn Cabaret Series in The Nancy LaMott Room, which has been host to such talents as the late Nancy LaMott, Karen Mason, Ann Hampton Callaway, Karen Akers, the legendary Margaret Whiting and the incomparable Julie Wilson.

Some of the other rooms in which MacDonald has appeared are the renowned Oak Room at New York's Algonquin Hotel, the FireBird Cafe, Danny's Skylight Room and the former Eighty Eight's. Jeanne has performed in the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Annual Cabaret Convention at Town Hall and in The Amazing Singing Voice: A Celebration in Song to benefit the Schein Voice & Laryngeal Center at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Other appearances include the Manhattan Plaza Aids Project Benefit with Audra McDonald and Robert Cuccioli, MAC/ASCAP Songwriters' Showcases, Ruby Rims' Annual Teddy Cares Benefits, and the Holiday Cabaret Benefit for Hale House.

In 1997 Jeanne participated in the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Symposium and was invited the following year to perform in their Master Teachers? Evening. MacDonald has performed at such venues as the Turning Stone Casino and Resort Hotel in Oneida, NY, Eighty Eight?s Cafe Society in Hollywood, FL, the Hotel Syracuse, and the Villa Roma Resort in Callicoon, NY.

As a recording artist, Jeanne?s debut CD Company, produced and arranged by her longtime musical director Rick Jensen, was nominated for a MAC Award for Recording of the Year. Lesley Alexander of WRTN-FM/WVOX-AM had this to say about the recording: The long awaited release of Jeanne MacDonald's first CD entitled Company (no, not Sondheim but a wonderful Rickie Lee Jones song) is a blend of nostalgia and newly mined material including the title track which shows off MacDonald's pure and mellifluous vocals. It's the sweetest, warmest voice. So easy on the ears.

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