The highly diversified and always entertaining, international music group, THE INDIE COLLABORATIVE returns to New York City on Monday night, December 4 to celebrate the holiday season in grand musical style at one of New York’s most exciting nightclubs, The Green Room 42. A cast of award-winning artists from the Classical, Broadway, American Roots, Jazz, and Global Music worlds will take the stage to honor Hanukkah, Christmas, Diwali, Kwanzaa, and the Winter Solstice in song and dance, beginning at 7 PM.
Co-founded in 2015 by Emmy Award® Winning writer and
producer, Eileen Sherman, and Billboard Top Ten charting American Roots singer/songwriter, Grant Maloy Smith, “THE IC” boasts a distinguished group
of over 2000 independent artists, many of whom are Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and
music chart toppers from around the globe. Grant and Eileen conceived the idea
of an arts organization that would foster unique and exciting collaborations
(crossing genres and continents) while forging lifelong friendships.
Members of THE IC can be found any night of the year, performing in the world’s
most prestigious concert halls, but every so often, Eileen and Grant curate an
Indie Collaborative Concert highlighting a variety of their members. Every
production is unique. Previous shows include evenings at Carnegie Hall and
Lincoln Center, and just this past summer, Eileen and Grant produced a special
showcase in Newcastle, England. Each show amazes the audience by its
sheer diversity and extraordinary artistry and December 4 in New York City will
be no different.
Per IC tradition, Grant Maloy Smith will serve as the emcee, with a line-up that has something for
everyone! As always, be on the lookout for terrific on-stage IC
collaborations.
Honoring Diwali, is South Indian-born composer and piano prodigy, Charu Suri with outstanding Jazz
guitarist, the Indian-born Noshir Mody. They will be performing Charu’s “Floating,” from her highly
acclaimed album, RAGAS AND WALTZES.
Native American Connor Chee, a multi-award winner and
brilliant pianist and composer will perform an original composition honoring
the Winter
Solstice.
The Bluestone Sisters’ Songwriting Team (Gail/music; Eileen lyrics) will offer two
songs from their holiday catalog. The jazzy and very comical “The Dreidel Song”
from their Emmy Award® winning Hanukkah musical THE ODD POTATO, will be performed by one of
Broadway’s most sought-after dancers, Ryan VanDenBoom (MJ, Something Rotten!,
Bandstand, Annie) with the award-winning jazz pianist, Alex Otey.
The Sisters’ second song honors the holiday of Kwanzaa. “Kwanzaa’s Pure Light” will
be performed by Gospel star Yocontalie with the Jennifer Tibbetts Singers. This piece has been described
as a “musical gumbo,” part Jazz, part Gospel, part Afrobeat, part Spoken Word,
and all brilliantly arranged by Yocontalie (vocals), Keith Middleton
(percussion), and Alex Otey (instrumental /chorus). Joining Yocontalie is Jennifer Tibbetts (Youth Choir Director and
her young choir), remarkable percussionists Ricky Persaud,Jr., Jean Carno-Rosneberg, and Valerie Persaud, with the very adept musical
theatre composer Jerome Brooks, Jr. (piano), jazz/fusion artist, Mowgli Giannitti (bass), and Alex Otey (flugelhorn).
The gorgeous vocals of Elaine Romanelli will melt holiday hearts
with her original Christmas Song, “Christmas Any Time.”
Providing the classical component of the evening is two-time
GRAMMY® winner Herschel Garfein, with world-renowned cellist, Sophie Shao. Together they will perform Mr.
Garfein’s “When the Moon Was Covered,“ from his newest album, LAYERS. All About the
Arts called
it “intensely emotional and inspired chamber music.”
And no IC concert is complete without some music from IC co-founder Grant Maloy Smith,
who will be presenting a unique Christmas medley. He’ll be joined on stage by one of New York’s favorite
sax players, Thomas Hutchings (saxophone), Noshir Mody (guitar), Charu Suri (piano), Mowgli (bass), and more.
As always, the grand finale of every IC concert will be the sing-along theme
song “We’ll Stay Together,” performed by a variety of surprise IC guest stars!
Show: THE INDIE COLLABORATIVE HOLIDAY CELEBRATION
Venue: The Green Room 42
Address: 570 10th Ave, New York, NY 10036 (inside Hotel Yotel)
Date: Monday, December 4,
2023
Showtime: 7:00 P.M.
Tickets Available at https://tinyurl.com/GreenRm42
