"Champagne Sometimes....a night out with Chris Barrett" was recorded live at Helen's Hideaway Room, New York City in August 2005. The CD is a collection of songs written by theater's top composers including: Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, Noel Coward and Jerry Herman as well as some of cabaret's brightest stars, among them: John Wallowitch, David Friedman, Richard Rodney Bennett and Arthur Siegel. BIOCabaret singer and pianist Chris Barrett has been performing throughout the US and in Europe since 1973. Career highlights include repeat engagements at New York's Stanhope, Carlyle, Pierre, UN Plaza and Westbury Hotels. Also in New York he has appeared in cabaret at Helen's Hideaway Room, Danny's Skylight Room, Judy's Chelsea, L'Omnibus d' Maxims; Dillon's and the famed FireBird Cafe.Other US cabaret appearances include: Le Dome at The Manor, West Orange, N.J., Odette's, New Hope, PA, Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera Cabaret, The Metropolitan Club and The Terrace Room at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC.
Major US "lounge" engagements include: the Bel-Air Hotel, Los Angeles; the Colony and Chesterfield Hotels, Palm Beach, FL; , the Biltmore Hotel, Miami,FL. Chris has also performed solo concerts at The John Drew Theater, East Hampton, NY, and Steinway Hall, New York.
In Europe, he has enjoyed repeat bookings at the Hotel Cipriani, Venice, the Berkeley Hotel, London, and the Poseidon Hotel, Positano, Italy.
Chris made his symphonic debut in 2002 as guest artist performing a Noel Coward program with The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared in an invitational performance at The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and has performed in concert aboard the QEII and at private engagements for Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. He has also performed in New York for HRH Prince Philip and with an American cities tour for The Baron Philippe and Philipine de Rothschild.
The recipient of the BACK STAGE BISTRO AWARD for Best Singer / Instrumentalist and a finalist at the 2005 NIGHTLIFE AWARDS was declared "a pillar of New York nightlife" by John Hoglund of BACK STAGE. Chris has five recordings. This most recent CD "Champagne ...
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