GREEK TAVERNA NIGHT! OPA!

We won BEST OF WESTWORD 2009 for our Around the World Wine Tasting Nights!

Can’t afford a big vacation this year? Let Lannie’s take you ’round the world with our wine/food and music nights on the last Tuesday of the month. We’ve been to Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Latin America, and now Greece!

Join us for this special evening 6PM Tuesday, May 26th for a “Night in Greece” to sample the wines, tastes and the special music of this passionate country. A certified Sommelier will guide you through the basics of wine tasting as you enjoy tastings of specially selected Greek food and wine pairings -by Flavor Catering.

The tasting will be followed by a dance concert by: The Hellenic Folk Dancers

The Assumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Metropolis Cathedral of Denver is proud to have one of
the finest Greek Folk Dance programs in Colorado, The Hellenic Dance Academy.

The mission of the troupe is to instill pride in the culture, promote the tradition of Hellenism, and expand the appreciation of this awesome heritage in the Greek Orthodox youth through folk dances, costuming, music, song and fellowship.

The Dance Academy proudly displays a variety of dances and costumes from
all parts of Greece. Dressed in vibrant costumes, accompanied by authentic music, the Hellenic Dance Academy dancers capture the richness and elegance of traditional Greek folk dancing.
The groups, both past and present, have performed and promoted their Greek culture throughout the state . The Hellenic Dance Academy of Denver has been acclaimed by newspapers and magazines across Colorado.

$45.00 includes: Wine, Food and Concert.

CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC

PRIVATE EVENT

This legendary old school, soul and R&B group have legions of devoted fans of all ages…decades of experience and popularity and they are still going strong.

Their high energy showmanship, top notch musicians and their warm
soulful singing and not to be matched stage presence bring their audiences to their feet everytime. There WILL be dancing in the aisles. If you love R&B music and real old school soul, this band IS it. We’re having a “Freddi-Henchi Party!”

Back AGAIN by popular demand…WE LOVE THEM!

$20

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Lannie and her swingin’ 10 piece band bring to life the big band era with a night of Big Band Swing, Latin, Ballads and More.
Swing and sway to nostalgic classics like Benny Goodman’s, “Don’t Be That Way,” Chick Webb’s, “Play Me a Swing Song,”
Ella and Sinatra classics and a cache of favorites from this treasured era. Jump and jive when her band wails on Louis Prima’s “Oh Babe” and Big Joe Turner’s, driving boogie woogie classic, “Roll “Em Pete.” Don’t Get Around, Fever, It Don’t Mean a Thing, Come Rain or Come Shine…..

REVIEWS:
“She blew the doors off the place with two sets of torch songs, standards and blues. Be there or be square!”
-Bill Husted/Rocky Mtn.News

“Lannie can belt out a torch song like no other and two weeks of capacity crowds proves it.”
-John Baldwin/Onstage Magazine

“Doing her own interpretations or dusting off a rendition in the style of Ella, Keely Smith, Dean Martin or Durante, Lannie comes across with the goods. …she had the crowd gyrating.”
-Bob Bows-KUVO Radio, theatre critic

May 8 and 9th 8PM $35

Bob Dubac’s Male Intellect: The 2nd Coming    $30.00

Friday & Saturday, May 15th-16th    8pm
ROBERT DUBAC’s MALE INTELLECT: THE 2nd COMING!.
“Hilarious” “Intelligent” “Provocative” and “Scorching” all describe this production.  It’s comedy on steroids.
Fueled with humor, Robert Dubac takes your audience on a fast paced joy ride over the pot-holed highways of cultural hypocrisy. Armed with a fertile imagination and rapier wit he portrays multiple characters who take turns beating the hornets nest of hype and spin with the big stick of knowledge. Their mission? Separating the Truth from Illusion. Your audience’s reward? They get to see the Bigger Picture.
If you like your satire served up with a clever intelligent edge; if you want to hear a voice that speaks as though it originated from inside of your own frustrated head; if you are tired of adolescent comedy generated by the mediocrity of television; then come on down!

The bottom line simply is Rob Dubac is “Amazing!” With rapid-fire presentation, changing characters instantly, Dubac’s honest funniness comes from intelligent thinking and observation. He’s not mean. He’s not cruel. He doesn’t put anyone down, stepping all over them with spiked heels, like many so-called comedians feel the necessity to do to grab a laugh. He’s not grossly shocking with rough, lame or uncouth language for attention. He’s just honest, warm, tender, observant, insightful and very, very funny.

One of the stunning aspects of Dubac’s show is that he obviously enjoys his own material. He’s not just rattling off jokes because he thinks they are funny. His eyes dance with a soul fire deep within, claiming he enjoys the journey as much as he wants the audience to.

With direct eye contact, he engages audience members in his dialogue. Sure-footed and personable, you can’t help but sense he is talking directly to you, with you, even when snuggled in the midst of several audience members. For a one-man show, that is a very good thing, as well as an “amazing” aspect.

Loaded with material in machine gun fashion, Male Intellect: 2nd Coming is rich in content, provocative, mind tickling, perceptive, always hysterically honest and funny, some lines are going to be missed no matter how deep the concentration. Definitely, this is a “Don’t miss Show.” I’m already chomping at the bit for his third show.

Colorado Backstage Magazine

Dubac is also a talented actor who intellectualizes the stupid aspects of human behavior through brief character-based monologues that employ a range of interesting alter-egos.  He uses magic, lighting effects and a few parlor tricks to help make his point during the performance.  He is charming and disarming.
The News-Herald

Even while you’re laughing, you may find yourself rethinking long-held points-of-view.
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

“Thought provoking, and original and LOTS of laughs.”

Reserved Seating based on the order of purchase. Seats will be given up 10 minute after showtime

California based Candye Kane sings in the brash blues stylings of Big Maybelle, Ruth Brown, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James (whom Candye has opened for several times) and Bessie Smith. Candye’s live show is the stuff of legend. She honors the bold blues women of the past with both feet firmly planted in the present. She belts – growls – shouts – croons and moans from a lifetime of suffering and overcoming obstacles. She’ll deliver a barrelhouse blues tune or a soulful ballad and then slay the crowd with her balls out rendition of “Whole Lotta Love” Led Zeppelin style. She often says she is a “black drag queen trapped in a white woman’s body” and she dresses the part. Bedecked in bright colored feathers, sequins and rhinestones, Kane’s performance is Mississippi by way of Las Vegas with a quick stopover in San Francisco.

Since her first Antones’ release, Home Cookin’ in 1992, she has recorded 8 cds for labels that include Discovery, Rounder/Bullseye and Sire records. Her most recent work, titled “Guitar’d and Feathered” features a remake of the song “Female Trouble;” penned by drag queen Divine for the John Waters movie of the same name and boasts guitar solos by a collection of some of the greatest players around. Produced by former Muddy Waters guitarist, Bob Margolin, it proves to be an exciting merger of Candye’s powerful vocals with scorching guitar icons.

Awards include the Best Blues Band award at the San Diego Music Awards 7 times including 2006. Other honors include winning an OUT music award in 2006 for best art design for her 7th CD, White Trash Girl. Best Blues CD of 2005 at the San Diego Music Awards, the Trophees France International Award 2004 for Best International Blues Chanteuse and Artist of the Year. She also unseated Jewel for Artist of the Year at the San Diego Music Awards and won the California Music Award for Best Swing-Cabaret Artist.

Her audience is a mixture of the disenfranchised: bikers, blues fans, fat girls, queers, porn fans, feminists, men who love fat girls, rockabilly kids and everyday folk flock to see Candye and hear her message of love and empowerment.

“a big voice with authority and sass.. ” BB KING

“The most powerful female blues singer of her generation” – Downbeat Magazine

Sunday May 17th $20.00
7:30 PM

National Blues Foundation Male Soul/Blues Artist of the Year Nominee for 2009
Four-time Blues Music Award nominee

Tad Robinson and his band are gonna tear the place up with his real-deal, blue-eyed soul show.  Robinson is best known for his passionate, soulful vocals and fiery harmonica work. In a review of his disc,” Did You Ever Wonder?,” Downbeat Magazine declared, “Robinson places near the top of the list of the finest living singers of soul blues.”

Soul legend, Otis Clay, put it this way, “When Tad Robinson dies, he’s going to soul heaven…a place reserved for a very few people.”

Don’t miss this rare Colorado performance by one of the new lions of modern soul/blues. Power harmonica from the lungs and singing straight from the heart!”

Sunday, May 10 7:30pm
Tickets: $20.00