Tom McGuire and The New-Yorkers

With Tom MacGuire and the New-Yorkers, we return to Tin Pan Alley, that stretch of West 28th Street in Manhattan where, a century ago, the sound of pianos echoed out onto the street and helped shape the American music industry. It was in these small venues that some of the songs which defined an entire era were born. This concert celebrates that golden age of melody, when composers such as Arlen, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern and Porter wrote the tunes that would become the bedrock of jazz, musical theatre and Hollywood cinema — and, over time, the heart of the Great American Songbook.