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Back To Bacharach And Beyond. Free shows at your NY | NJ | CT | MA Public Libraries. Travel back in time with us..
The Christine Spero Group in Back to Bacharach, a show that will, lovingly, take you on a journey through Burt Bacharach’s greatest songs, complete with a few surprises. Six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner Burt Bacharach is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music and has written hundreds of pop songs from the late ’50s through the ’80s, mostly in collaboration with Hal David. Bacharach songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists and in 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David at #32 for their list of 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
The Christine Spero Group, a quintet, consists of Christine Spero on piano and vocals, Peter O’Brien on drums, Steve Rust on bass, Chris Pasin on trumpet, and Elliot Spero on Sax & percussion.
**Next** (Duo) February 10th Sunday 2:00PM At West Caldwell NJ Public Library (Duo) April 14th 2:00PM Clifton Park NY Public Library (DUO)
April 25th Thursday 7:00PM "Back To Bacharach" (Group) At 54 Below NYC Buy a ticket:
https://54below.org/events/back-to-bacharach-feat-the-christine-spero-group
Past Performances:
Libraries and Theaters that have presented or will present these shows either as a duo, trio or quartet:
Suffern NY 3/2023 Warner PL -Tarrytown NY 3/2023 Guilderland NY 3/2023 Bethlehem/Delmar 2022 & 7/2023
Port Washington, LI, NY 2015, 2017, 2022
Ridgewood, NJ 2016 & 2020
Fanwood, NJ 2017, 2022
Springfield, NJ 2017, 2019, 2022
Thomas Crane, MA 2017
Guilford, CT 2017 Long Beach NY 2021 Ocean City, NJ 2018 Mahwah, NJ 2019-2020-2021-8/2022 Englewood, NJ 2020 Roeliff Jansen Community Library Hillsdale NY 2020 East Greenbush, NY 2021
Bethpage, NY 2021
Poughkeepsie NY 2/2022, 9/2022 Albert Wisner, Warwick NY 7/2022 Hewlett-Woodmere NY 7/2022 Syosset NY 9/2022 Teaneck NJ 2023 Pearl River NY 2023 West Caldwell NJ 2024 Clifton Park NY 2024 Irvington NY 2024
THEATERS
The Iridium NYC 2022 Clive Davis PAC/Bedford Playhouse 4/2023 Jazz Forum Arts 2022 My Father's Place, Roslyn NY
Caffe Lena, Saratoga NY
Triad Theater and Cutting Room NYC Round Lake Auditorium NY
Sellersville Theater, SummerSounds Greensburg, Pa
Outpost in the Burbs, McCloone's Supper Club NJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHUEt72mDeo
Guthrie Center MA
Bearsville Theater and the Colony, Woodstock NY
Towne Crier Beacon, NY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61fovYsIO7o LIU CW Post's Hillwood Recital Hall Greenvale NY Live At The Falcon Marlboro NY Algonquin PAC Manasquain NJ Cutting Room NYC World Cafe PA The Van Dyke Schenectady NY Hartford Ct Festival of Jazz Tribeca PAC NYC
Back to Bacharach And Beyond:
Back to Bacharach and Beyond by Christine and Elliot Spero is a show that will lovingly take you on a journey through Burt Bacharach’s greatest songs with some surprises. Bacharach, who is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music, has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, mostly in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.
A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. He has written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David at number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Take the journey back in time with us.
Christine Spero is no stranger to the stage. As a teen she recorded with Neil Sedaka and Don Kirschner at RCA Records. Her song "He Wasn't Always That Way" was the USA Songwriting Competition Jazz Category winner and "Caribbean Nights" was one of the finalists. The Christine Spero Group perform her original Nu-Jazz, Latin Fusion with 2 CD releases and a third, "Spero Plays Nyro" the music of Laura Nyro.
Christine and multi instrumentalist, producer Elliot Spero have been recording and playing live shows with the group or as a duo for over 20 Years.
