The Voice Podcast for Cafe des Voix
Purpose: To provide Cafe des Voix singers with new repertoire, singers, composers and songwriters and to focus on song presentation and lyric interpretation.
Through focusing on one or two singers in each episode my hope is to guide singers into some analytical listening leading to expanded repertoire and song presentation.
Repertoire: There is a vast songbook of wonderful songs that are left untouched by most singers. This podcast is focused on bringing those songs to singers of CDV.
Song Presentation: Many times the singers who have commanded the attention of audiences around the world are not just singers – but they know how to “put over a song” as they used to say in Vaudeville.
Karin Plato and Grant offer a dozen wonderful tunes by a dozen wonderful singers. Part 2
Episode One: Dave McKenna and Tony Bennett in concert at the Copley Plaza (Boston) 1982
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UPCOMING CAFE ROUGE DATES
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All performances take place from 1:00-2:30pm on the following dates:
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October 4, 2026 “Songs You’d Never Sing at Weddings”
Use your imagination on this one :) -
November 8, 2026 “Bad Decisions & Great Stories”
Funny songs, drinking songs, youthful mistakes, comic disasters. -
December 20, 2026 “Snow Globe Lives”
Tiny worlds, home, family, winter, being stuck inside together. -
January 10, 2027 “What a Wonderful Mess”
Songs celebrating imperfect lives, chaos, resilience. -
February 7, 2027 “Letters Never Sent”
Songs that feel like conversations, confessions, apologies, unanswered love. -
April 18, 2027 “Foolish Things!”
Songs about foolishness of all sorts. -
Rehearsals are 30 minutes each and can be scheduled by emailing grantsimpsonmusic@gmail.com