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Belle Linda Halpern Benefit Concert for The Food Project
The Food Project invites you to a join us for a lively afternoon of songs about food with celebrated cabaret performer Belle Linda Halpern!
WHAT: Concert and Supper to Benefit The Food Project
WHEN: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 4 p.m.
WHERE: Regattabar and Henrietta’s Table – Charles Hotel, Cambridge, Mass.
Belle Linda HalpernIn celebration of her new CD titled CRAVINGS: Songs of Hunger & Satisfaction, Belle Halpern will be performing selections from her original heartwarming show of the same name – a funny, thought-provoking take on our constant cravings for food, love, acceptance, fame … and true nourishment. Belle will be accompanied by pianist Ron Roy.
Following the concert, join Belle and Food Project youth, staff, and friends for supper at nearby Henrietta’s Table.
Tickets can be purchased online at Brown Paper Tickets. Two ticket types are available:
* $25: One ticket for the concert only.
* $100: One ticket for the concert, a copy of Belle Halpern's CD, and supper at Henrietta's Table.
For an additional $50, supporters can also donate tickets so Food Project youth and others can attend.
Supper includes your choice of one appetizer, one main dish, one dessert, and one glass of wine or another beverage.
For more information, please contact Diane Kelzer at 781-259-8621 x38 or via email.
Belle Linda Halpern’s performance launches a series of celebrations commemorating The Food Project’s 20th anniversary.
About Belle Linda Halpern:
Belle has been hailed as "Stunning, both as music and theater" in the Boston Globe and as "an extraordinary, sensual singer" in the Boston Phoenix. She has performed as a cabaret singer and actor at clubs and theaters including New York's Town Hall, and in Boston, San Francisco, Paris, Munich, Jerusalem, and Bombay. A graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe, she performs in French and Italian as well as Yiddish and Hebrew. Belle's other theater credits include work with Robert Wilson and Andrew Serban at the American Repertory Theater. She has taught singing and performance since 1991 at Harvard University and each summer in Italy through the Tuscany Project.
CRAVINGS: Songs of Hunger & Satisfaction includes songs that range from Tin Pan Alley classics to pop anthems, contemporary ballads and Yiddish showstoppers spiced with comic personal narrative reflecting Halpern's Jewish-American culinary journey. Belle Linda Halpern has performed CRAVINGS to sold-out runs, received a nomination for best solo show in Boston, and was named in the Boston Globe's round up of best Boston theater in 2009.
For more information about Belle Linda Halpern and the show, CRAVINGS, visit www.cravingscabaret.com.
"Halpern shapes a unique dramatic performance with each musical change of mood...brassy and exuberant...hot and bluesy...and how she can put the torch to a song." The Boston Herald
