Hey, Piano Bar Lady! at Edinburgh Fringe August 3 - 25 2012

Follow kiwi singer Linn Lorkin down the streets of 80s New York as she takes that city's night-spots by storm.   From rusty SoHo to ritzy Park Avenue here are her heady adventures in the Big Apple, told in stand-up style and laced with quirky, catchy, cool songs, delivered from a piano-stool.

PRESS QUOTES

"Fabulous style … a cross between Victoria Wood and Edith Piaf" 

Musical Theatre Matters 

"a charm that gave me the tremendous feeling of being the only person in the room…I could simply lie back and be taken on a journey" 

BroadwayBaby   * * * * 

"Adorable, classy, charming, fun … a definite treasure" 

ThreeWeeks * * * *  

"Altogether inviting ... that cat's got skills!"  

The Skinny  * * * * .

'"A sparkling combination:  beautiful singing, spirited story-telling and dazzling jazz piano-playing"

Magee Hickey, WCBS-TV, New York

" Lorkin writes songs with brilliantly tangled rhymes and dizzying musical twists … She's a cultural treasure." 

New Zealand Listener

HISTORY OF THE SHOW

"Hey, Piano Bar Lady!"  was developed through a series of house-concerts in Berlin, Auckland and New York and continues to evolve.

Public performances 

Don't Tell Mama, NYC, 2010,

Auckland Fringe, 2011 

Edinburgh Fringe, 2011

The Triad Theatre, NYC, 2011

LINN LORKIN BIO

Brought up on a New Zealand dairy-farm, Linn Lorkin got her first piano lessons from her mother, a Ferguson from Aberdeenshire. In Europe her early professional career ranged from singing in a low dive in Copenhagen for sailors and prostitutes to playing with her own trio at Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London.  She played the New York piano-bar scene for eight years.  Back in New Zealand Lorkin leads the French chanson trio French Toast,  sings with NZ's premier klezmer group The Jews Brothers Band and is a prolific song-writer whose recordings enjoy frequent radio-play in New Zealand and Australia. 

HEY, PIANO BAR LADY! AT EDINBURGH FRINGE

SpaceCabaret @54    Venue 54

Venue Box Office : 0845 557 6309 

boxoffice.cabaret@thespaceuk.com

August 3rd - 25th (except 13th, 20th)

Daily matinée : 14.00 

£6 ( £5)

Duration: 75 min

E-mail: linn@rouge.co.nz

Phone: +64-9-376-1838 (NZ)  +44-7741-709-279 (UK)

Twitter:  @pianoladynz

Website:  www.linnlorkin.com