Corinna Sowers-Adler Hosts "Music at The Mansion" Sunday

The Oakeside Mansion's Artist in Residence talks about life, music and the intimacy of cabaret.

  Meet Corinna Sowers-Adler, the Artist-in-Residence at the Oakeside Mansion.  Sowers-Adler is a singer and performer with roots in Broadway, classical and cabaret theater.  Residing in Bloomfield since 2008, she is the host of the popular Music at the Mansion concert series which takes place the last Sunday of the month at Oakeside.  Join her this weekend, when she hosts Gerry Mastrolia, Fran Leonardis, and Sean Harkness. “Cabaret fits me.  I love the intimacy of it,” she says with a smile, sitting outside the mansion grounds on recent afternoon.  She has just performed at the annual gathering, A Taste of Bloomfield, where she regaled her rapt audience with a variety of classic cabaret tunes.  “I love that I can create a show and tell a …

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VIDEO: Taste of Bloomfield

Video of the Oakeside Mansion event, "A Taste of Bloomfield," provided courtesy of WBMA TV

Music at the Mansion Offers a Holiday Escape

Corinna Sowers-Adler’s cabaret series, “Music at the Mansion” is an eclectic melange of comedy, jazz favorites, movie soundtracks and good old-fashioned blues.

  The decorated atrium at the Oakeside Mansion once again served as the backdrop to “Music at the Mansion,” a delightful afternoon of musical entertainment. Hostess Corinna Sowers-Adler began with a bubbly welcome to the appreciative crowd.  She opened the show with a cover of Garry Novikoff’s “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?”, a comical take on an accidental poisoning that was especially apt just days after Thanksgiving. She then relinquished the stage to the first singer of the event, Bistro Award Winner Deb Berman. Although she appeared to forget a few of the lines in her first song, she actually seemed more comfortable with the twisty, serpentine lyrics and melodies that dominated the middle of her set. Accompanist for the afternoon Sean …

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