JEFF HARNAR
BECAUSE OF YOU: Fifties Gold
Music Director: ALEX RYBECK
Bass: STEVE DOYLE
Director: SARA LOUISE LAZARUS
Award-winning New York vocalist JEFF HARNAR return’s to Davenport’s on Mother’s Day Sunday May 8th with BECAUSE OF YOU: Fifties Gold. The show taps into his parents’ record collection, highlighting songs from the Tony Bennet, Johnny Mathis, Nat “King” Cole, Doris Day and Johnnie Ray songbooks, among many others. Along with the title song, included are “Hold Me! Thrill Me! Kiss Me,” “Smile,” “It’s Not For Me to Say,” a special nod to the Novelty Songs of his childhood, a Doo-wop Medley and “Memories Are Made of This.”
“BECAUSE OF YOU: Fifties Gold” played major New York engagements at The Laurie Beechman Theater and The Firebird Cafe, the Hollywood Roosevelt’s Cinegrill and The Royal Room at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach. In Manhattan Jeff has won multiple Broadway World, MAC and Bistro Awards and is the winner of The Noel Coward Foundation Cabaret Award. jeffharnar.com
"A sly musical scrapbook of those not-so dreamy Fifties. . .Mr. Harnar's singing suggests a hybrid of Broadway and Pop singing . . .Larry Kert meets Johnny Mathis." The New York TImes
“A Sh-boom to Remember” – Rex Reed, The New York Observer
“Gold from a 40-carat voice” – The New York Post