Michael Zilber’s Billy Collins Project, Sunday at the Bach
Featuring vocalist Andy Kirshner, eleven poems by former Poet Laureate Billy Collins, America’s most beloved and widely known poet, set to music for voice, sax, piano, bass and drums. Andy Kirshner, an astonishing singer who mixes, pop, soul and traces of Johnny Hartman in his voice, gives perfect realization to the settings.
Andy Kirshner (vocals), Michael Zilber (sax), John R Burr (piano), John Shifflet (bass), Jason Lewis (drums).
Sunday at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Miramar. $30.