Welcome to the New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Just when you think things have slowed down, you get to look back and see that, "Hey, I did some good stuff this year!" There were readings and puppets and a Co-Star on And Just Like That, oh my! Celebrating 10 years of The Ides of March with the Rigano Brothers and returning to the Red Bucket Follies, and continuing the good mashup times with not one, but TWO BinderSuze shows.
And somehow I still managed to get to DC and Denmark with my family and show my son the power of the Smithsonian Museums and Tivoli Gardens. 
Honestly the end of 2024 was a bit of a blur, but for good reason. Once December started:
12/6 I was back behind the kit for the final No Name show at Otto's for the year. BinderSuze performed a brand new mashup that night as well.
12/7 I was at Don't Tell Mama kicking off Goldie Dver's two part cabaret benefit for St. Jude's. Cabaret icons like Richard Skipper, Meg Flather, and Ruby Rims were among the amazing performers that night. 
12/9-10 I was thrilled to be back as an offstage singer and "Vanna" with Broadway Cares/Fights AIDS Red Bucket Follies. It truly is one of the joys of the year to be able to support and then watch such talented performers who created performances you wouldn't see anywhere else, for such a wonderful and needed cause. 
12/15 BinderSuze played Pangea, our second show this year and third live show overall. It was a great time with a great crowd. We performed favorites and brought in some new material that we can't wait to record. Look out for more  material and new shows in the spring. 
12/18 I was a walking Frost Giant for the Lincoln Square Winter Ramble with Processional Arts. There is nothing like walking with a large scale puppet around the Lincoln Center when people are not expecting to see glowing large scale puppets walking around.
12/19 MABC had its Christmas Gala featuring singers from the emerging artists programs as well as our choir. We sang from Haydn's Creation and Mozart's Coronation Mass and it truly was a lovely evening.
12/24 We had our Christmas Eve service at MABC which always ends with Silent Night to candlelight. 
So what's coming up? 
1/3 No Name will be breaking in the New Year at Otto's with an incredible line up: Liz Miele, Menuhin Hart, Jillian Thomas and Leighann Lord among others. BinderSuze will be part of the band and we'll be performing one of our new mashups!
1/19 QED Astoria is one of my favorite venues and its owner, Kambri Crews, one of my favorite people. She is handing off QED and pressing "restart" on her journey. No Name wants to send her off with a bang and has a great show planned.
1/26 The last time I did a reading of my solo show Single What? Female, it was at QED and we had a stellar night... and hopefully we can repeat that and send off Kambri in the process.
2/15 I'll be back performing in a 20 minute musical over at Lincoln Center with Across A Crowded Room. I love this organization and how it brings artists together to create new work. 
In the meantime, I hope you had a wonderful holiday(s), and celebrated the New Year with people (and/or animals) you love and here's to getting all the joy and abundance a we can in 2025.