Music at the Mansion

NiCori Studios and Productions in association with Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center announces a new installment of the monthly concert series, "Music at the Mansion", on Sunday, November 24, at 3pm.  Performers include Carol Erickson, Warren Schein,  and Garry Novikoff.  The featured performer in the "Young Musician Moment" will be Dean Schansinger.

Known as a gifted story teller Carol Erickson breathes new life into the Great American Songbook singing standards by beloved composers Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George and Ira Gershwin among others.  She has been invited to share these wonderful songs with audiences thoughout NJ, NY and PA.   Carol is a vocal student of Mia Norrie of Montclair.  She is a member of the Schumann Music Club of Essex County  and The Montclair Music Club . She was a vocalist at multiple fundraisers sponsored by the Salem Roadhouse  Café in Union, NJ.  Carol has performed at The Metropolitan Room, The Crossroads in Garwood and Skippers Plane Club in Newark as part of Carrie Jackson's Vocal Collective.   She has been known to sing on occasion for her patients at Mountainside Hospital where she was employed for 40 years. 

Singer and comedian Warren Schein, nicknamed “The Velvet Mist,” has been performing on stages from New York to LA for over two decades. He has played lead singing roles in many stock and Off Broadway performances. Warren is also a actor and voice-over artist for TV and Radio. He has recorded for such well know advertisers as The History Channel, Nickelodeon, WPLJ Radio, AMC, M&M’s and A&E. 

ASCAP Foundation award winner Garry Novikoff is a truly multi-faceted artist and singer/songwriter - a folk story-teller, a creator of ironic pop songs and heartbreaking ballads, an irreverent rocker, a musical theater wordsmith and a celebrated children’s songwriter. Time Out New York calls his CD A Normal Life “a catchy – and more importantly, funny collection of pop songs.  His song, Dog On The Moon has been played on radio stations across the country, and was featured on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. His marriage equality dance anthem It’s Our Time”earned him two Outmusic Award nominations for Single of the Year, and Humanitarian Songwriter Of The Year. On November 15th he will launch a brand new video for his son "I Like Men" at Rockbar NYC with a video release party and concert.
"Music at the Mansion" is a 2013 MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) award nominated series showcasing talented performers from NYC and NJ.  The series is hosted by NYC Cabaret singer and Bloomfield resident Corinna Sowers-Adler and will feature Deborah Martin on piano. This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Essex County Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs.  Series hostess, Corinna Sowers-Adler, has been nominated as "Best Host of a Variety Show" and "Best Female Vocalist" for the 2012 Broadway World Cabaret Awards.  Sowers-Adler recently made her Lincoln Center debut in the 24th Annual Mabel Mercer Cabaret Convention.  Corinna also performs her solo cabaret shows Stories, By Request, Songs From the Heart and Let Me Sing and I'm Happy. 

Tickets for "Music at the Mansion" are $10 per person and are available at the door.  Seating begins at 2:30pm.  Light refreshments will be served.  Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Center is located at 240 Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield, NJ.  For more information, please contact info (at) corinnasings.com or call Oakeside at 973-429-0960.  Making beautiful music in a beautiful place with beautiful people...