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It was a different vibe at the Metropolitan Room last Sunday night when singer, songwriter, turned soloist, Porter Carroll and Wali Ali & The Tambourine Band took the stage. I spend a lot of time at the Metropolitan Room, and I am usually listing to the American Songbook, Broadway Tunes, Ballads of all kinds or to my iconic Dorothy Bishop and her Dozen Diva’s, but on this …
Porter Carroll Jr. beautifully guides us through iconic and transformational music by re-imagining the cabaret experience. Not only are the songs he selected timeless, showcasing his rich and versatile understanding of our greatest catalog, but he proves in an entertaining way that so is his voice, adeptly and humbly convincing the audience that he was the originator. In every song, …
Reinventions, reinterpretations and re-imaginings are all part of the popular music cycle. Just ask Porter Carroll Jr. The elegant, soulful artist, an established soul crooner and founding member of the legendary American R&B group Atlantic Starr (among many other projects including his role as percussionist/vocalist in the current Hall and Oates band), has always believed in putting his own spin …
The Town of Greenburgh Honors Atlantic Starr, World Renowned Music Entertainment Group- Monday, June 5, 2017, 6:00pm at Greenburgh Town Hall, 177 Hillside Avenue, White Plains/Greenburgh, NY 10607. (Founders and Original Members Are Greenburgh Residents and Graduates of Greenburgh Central School District) On Monday, June 5, 2017 from 6:00 to 8:00pm, a program will be held at Greenburgh Town …
Supper Clubs… remember them? Porter Carroll, Jr. and his band create “The Evolution of Cabaret” and played to a packed house at NYC’s 54Below. As I walked down the stairs in through the double doors I seemed to have fallen right back into the days of the 1920’s, when Supper Clubs were all the rave of Manhattan! Enter, from what …
Atlantic Starr is Greenburgh homegrown, through and through. And now anyone who lives here, and those just passing through, will know it, regardless of generation, or musical taste. On Monday, Greenburgh honored the chart-topping R&B group by renaming a section of Old Tarrytown Road — between Knollwood Road and Hillside Avenue — Atlantic Starr Way. “This is a success story that must …
