Announcing Lynn Henderson’s “A Skitch in Time: A Tribute to Maestro Skitch Henderson” A Concert to Benefit Hunt Hill Farm, August 11, 2018

 

 

Announcing Lynn Henderson’s “A Skitch in Time: A Tribute to Maestro Skitch Henderson”

A Concert to Benefit Hunt Hill Farm, August 11, 2018

New York – June 10 – Singer Lynn Henderson presents her critically lauded one-woman show,

A Skitch in Time – A Tribute to Maestro Skitch Henderson, on August 11th at 7pm as a benefit for New Milford’s beloved Hunt Hill Farm, founded by Skitch Henderson and his wife Ruth in 1972. A Skitch in Time was originally presented in New York City in April 2018, conceived by Lynn Henderson as a tribute to friend and mentor Skitch, who was the founder of the New York Pops Orchestra, Director of the NBC Orchestra and the Tonight Show bandleader under both Steve Allen and Johnny Carson. The concert will take place at Hunt Hill Farm in the Silo performing space. Tickets are $40 and reservations are essential. Call: 860-355-0300. The address of Hunt Hill Farm is: 44 Upland Road New Milford, CT 06776

A Skitch in Time is bewitching and emotionally accessible. Skitch would have been proud.”

– Cabaret Scenes Magazine

Lynn Henderson projects a rare and pure joy.” – Broadway World

After purchasing and combining two farms to make Hunt Hill Farm, Skitch and Ruth Henderson set about converting the many buildings into a cooking school, art gallery, museum and kitchen store. Gifted to the town of New Milford by the Hendersons, Hunt Hill Farm became a 501c3 non-profit institution in 2003. It has been a center of learning for over 45 years, offering educational opportunities and experiences for children, youths and adults to nurture a deeper understanding of art, music, cooking, organic farming and land use.

Lynn Henderson and Skitch, who are no relation, bonded over music at a benefit dinner in Connecticut, where they both lived at the time. Skitch assisted Lynn, who was Chairman of Deck The Halls benefits for New Milford Hospital, by bringing his New York Pops All Stars to Connecticut. He mentored Lynn as she created a show about his friend, Cole Porter, for a local club with a cast ranging in age from five to eighty five. Later, Lynn and her musicians brought her cabaret shows to Hunt Hill Farm.

Lynn, a resident of Litchfield County for many years before moving into Manhattan in 2014, is known for taste and style throughout several cabaret shows she’s performed in New York City, as well as her two recordings of Great American Songbook music. After performing in many venues in the Eastern U.S. since her college years as a big band singer, Lynn debuted in cabaret in 2012 at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan with Try to Remember, and followed that with I Travel Alone. In 2016, she brought ‘T’Ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do to Don’t Tell Mama, including music from composers Charles Aznavour, Doug Cohen, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerry Herman, Amanda McBroom and Cole Porter among others. She released her debut CD, Singer at Work (available on CD Baby) in 2012, followed by If We Only Have Love (available on iTunes) in 2014. Douglas J. Cohen, her musical director, arranger and accompanist, will join her at Hunt Hill Farm with bassist Bob Sabin and Special Guest, New York Pops percussionist and founder of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Sherrie Maricle. Powerhouse entertainer and multiple award-winning actress-singer, Klea Blackhurst, directs.

Pianist, Composer, Librettist and Arranger, Douglas J. Cohen, was the first recipient of the Noël Coward Prize, and has won the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting and the Richard Rogers Award for THE GIG and NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. He’s the composer and co-lyricist of THE EVOLUTION OF MANN – with an upcoming New York premiere – and BRIDGES, a Berkeley Playhouse world premiere. Cohen was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics for CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD… He received a Jonathan Larson Grant for his music to BARNSTORMER.

Mr. Sabin is a bassist, composer, and educator specializing in jazz and contemporary improvised music. He was awarded Second Place in the 2001 and 2003 International Society of Bassists’ Jazz Competition, and has appeared with Chico O’Farrill, Billy Taylor, Diana Krall, and Ernie Watts. He is on the music faculty of Hunter College High School and New York University, and a New York Pops Teaching Artist.

New York Pops drummer and founder of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Sherrie Maricle, has performed in the most esteemed venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl. She is a frequent guest musician at Jazz Festivals all over the world. The DIVA Jazz Orchestra has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and co-stars in the documentary, “The Girls in the Band” directed by Judy Chaikin. 

DIVA Jazz Orchestra is currently celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary, and their DIVA 25th Anniversary Project commemorative recording has been at the top of the jazz charts for months. It is DIVA’s first album release featuring completely original music written by the composers and musicians of DIVA.

Actress-singer, Klea Blackhurst, recently appeared in the New York premiere of Party Face at New York’s City Center. In 2016, she introduced the title role in the world premiere of Hazel at Drury Lane in Chicago. She starred in Goodspeed Opera’s 50th anniversary production of Hello, Dolly! and the world premiere of the Marvin Hamlisch/Rupert Holmes musical, The Nutty Professor. Her New York and regional stage credits abound. In addition she has appeared on TV and radio as: Shelby Cross on “Onion News Network,” “The Knick,” “Sesame Street,” and “Prairie Home Companion.” Known for her Ethel Merman tribute, Everything The Traffic Will Allow, her other concert shows are Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke’s Broadway and Dreaming of a Song: The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, in collaboration with Billy Stritch. She has appeared in legendary halls from London’s Palladium to Carnegie Hall, The Royal Albert Hall to Jazz at Lincoln Center and with symphony orchestras from Atlanta to Philly. Klea is a charter member of the Jerry Herman Legacy Concerts and a distinguished Alumna of the University of Utah.

Visit Lynn Henderson on the web at: http://www.lynnhendersonsinger.com

“Hunt Hill is becoming the music hub of Litchfield County with open mic night every Thursday, song writer’s series and the new summer concert series. A place to experience music scene this summer”

Famed music innovator and New York Pops founder Skitch Henderson created Hunt Hill Farm as an organization focused on food, art and music in 1972. Since then Hunt Hill Farm has been a center of learning for over 45 years, offering public programs for children, youths and adults to nurture a deeper understanding of art, music, cooking, organic farming and land use. Since its inception as a non-profit by Ruth and Skitch Henderson, Hunt Hill Farm has been a favorite gathering place for our community, chefs, musicians and artisans alike. Their vison is still at the heart of Hunt Hill Farm, and still relevant today.

For more information on Hunt Hill Farm and its food, art and music please visit http://hunthillfarm.org/. Media inquiries please contact maxwell@hunthillfarm.org or call 860-355-0300

Hunt Hill Farm

44 Upland Road

New Milford, CT 06776

Author: Harlem Valley News