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The Birthday Club with Dan Chouinard Feat. Arne Fogel
Most Sunday nights, Dan Chouinard brings in a stellar guest singer to toast the music birthdays and anniversaries of the month. Some familiar, some not, all worth celebrating. A dose of history no prerequisites or homework required, singing along optional.
ARNE - Arne appears frequently as a singer at the top jazz venues in the Twin Cities, and served as the opening act for Rosemary Clooney during her December 2001 appearance at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. He regularly hits the high-school-college-community meeting lecture circuit with songs and historical presentations of popular music and entertainment figures, was chosen from nationwide auditions to participate as a FELLOW of the 1998 EUGENE ONEIL THEATER CENTER CABARET SYMPOSIUM in Waterford, Connecticut, and was a lecturer, performer, and conference consultant to the Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York) conference BING! Crosby And American Culture (2002).
January 2015 saw the introduction of a new concert, HOLIDAY FOR FRANK - A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF BILLIE HOLIDAY AND FRANK SINATRA presented at BLOOMINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. In July of 2014, Arne Fogel brought his popular concert Fancy Meeting You Here - The Crosby-Clooney Story to the CHANHASSEN DINNER THEATER in Minnesota. Maud Hixson co-starred. Fogel wrote, produced and appeared in the concert presentations FRANKIE WENT TO HOLLYWOOD in 2012, and FRED ASTAIRE AND THE SONGWRITERS in 2013, both presented at BLOOMINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, and both co-starring vocalist MAUD HIXSON. Another BLOOMINGTON CENTER production in 2013 featured Fogel and vocalist JENNIFER ECKES in WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW - The music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. This show was given a repeat performance in February of 2015. .2013 also saw the presentation of another HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Fogel concert, WE LOVE OUR PIANOS, featuring Arne with singers NANCY HARMS & CONNIE EVINGSON, along with pianists RICK CARLSON & TANNER TAYLOR. In 2011, Arne Fogel created the concert presentations HOLLYWOOD CABARET in 30s, 40s, and 50s editions, at BLOOMINGTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS, where he also presented FANCY MEETING YOU HERE - THE CROSBY-CLOONEY STORY, with MAUD HIXSON that year. WITH THESE SONGS IN OUR HEARTS - The music of Rodgers & Hart, which brought hundreds of patrons to the HOPKINS (MN) CENTER FOR THE ARTS, was another recent Fogel creation in October of 2010. Also in 2010, Arne co-created and directed BLUE - SONGS ON THE INDIGO SIDE, for Minneapolis CAPRI THEATER as part of their LEGENDS series.
Other past concert presentations created by Arne Fogel have included PAIR-SHAPED TONES: A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT SONGWRITING TEAMS, WE GOT RHYTHM, BINGSONGS, THE MUSIC OF CAHN & VAN HEUSEN, and others, and Arne has participated in countless other special concert presentations, and live radio concerts, including the 2012, 2013, and 2014 editions of the NEW STANDARDS HOLIDAY SHOW in Minnesota. Along with the trio LIEBERMAN, FOGEL & BEY, Arne was a regular performer on GARRISON KEILLORS A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION for several years.
DAN - For nearly three decades Dan Chouinard has been pianist and accordionist for a long and distinguished roster of artists that includes Maria Jette, Prudence Johnson, Peter Ostroushko, Kevin Kling, and Philip Brunelle and Vocalessence. Hes appeared all across the upper Midwest and turns up occasionally on Garrison Keillors A Prairie Home Companion.
In 1994 he created an acclaimed radio series The Singer's Voice, broadcast live Sunday nights from the Dakota Jazz Club, then in St. Paul, hosting song-spiked conversation from the piano with a different singer each week, over 200 in the six years of the shows tenure.
As a writer and host he's often asked to create special live programs for Minnesota Public Radio, the MN Historical Society, the Rose Ensemble and others. His show Civil War Homecoming played at the Fitzgerald Theater in March, was broadcast on MPR in April, and televised in November on Twin Cities Public Television. Last year his show Steerage Song was on tour throughout Minnesota, a show co-authored with Peter Rothstein about the Ellis Island era of immigration to the US, depicted in folk songs, newspaper clippings and Tin Pan Alley tunes. In 2014 his show Cafe Europa was broadcast statewide, about bicycling with an accordion from Naples to Normandy in search of Minnesota WWII stories.
As a writer his work has been published in Minnesota Monthly, Saint Johns Magazine, the Minnesota Orchestras Showcase magazine and in the Minneapolis StarTribune.
Hes traveled extensively in France and Italy, with bicycle and without, and has presented French and Italian sing-alongs at the Alliance Française in Minneapolis. This past summer he spent two months working in Italy on an independent Hollywood film to be released early next year, a movie with the working title, Smitten!
Hes a musical consultant and sometime bandleader at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Community in South Minneapolis, and leads monthly community sing-alongs in downtown Minneapolis and St. Anthony Park.
He grew up in a big musical family near Lindstrom MN, attended St. Johns University in Collegeville MN and spent four years as a teacher of French and Italian as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
More information at danchouinard.com.
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LocationTHE DUNSMORE ROOM at Crooners Lounge and Supper Club (View)
6161 Hwy 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55432
United States
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