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Saturday is Tin Pan Alley Day in NYC

Saturday October 23, 12-4pm is Tin Pan Alley Day in NYC!

I will now do appropriate homage by supplying you with a clattering cacophony of links.

My brand new article for Chelsea Community News with all the details of the upcoming musical/historical celebration is here.

My first-hand account of a similar event held by the same folks in 2017 is here.

The Tin Pan Alley section of Travalanche is here, featuring over 100 posts, mostly about great American songwriters of the vaudeville and early Broadway era, and some performers who interpret them.

And now, in the words of Dorothy Fields:

Grab your coat and get your hat!
Leave your worry on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet —
To the sunny side of the street!

Published by travsd

Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.