Nov

20 2014

Concert with Margie Gibson and John Gilmore

6:45PM - 8:00PM  

Rose Schnitzer Manor 6140 SW Boundary Street
Portland, OR

Contact Deborah Elliott
503.535.4004 (Phone)
503.535.4214 (Fax)
deborah@cedarsinaipark.org
http://www.RoseSchnitzerManor.org

Margie Gibson has worked in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles and Chicago, as a singer, songwriter, recording artist, actress and teacher. Early in her career, she opened shows for Mel Torme, Marvin Hamlisch, Danny Thomas, and toured extensively with Bob Hope. Margie has sung and written for movies, television and other recording artists. She has appeared on the concert stage with big bands, jazz ensembles and symphony orchestras. 

Her tribute to American Popular Music, featuring songs by Irving Berlin and Leonard Bernstein, has been presented in Los Angeles, New York, and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, among other venues. While in Chicago, Margie was a guest artist with the Fine Arts Symphony Orchestra, starred in “Side by Side by Sondheim,” and performed for Stephen Sondheim at the Symphony Center. Now in Portland, she is busy reuniting with musicians she knew from her years in Los Angeles.

John Gilmore is a vocalist-pianist whose musical career spans 35 years. Originally from Los Angeles, he comes from a musical family, his father having been a record producer and Vice President of Capitol Records and my mother a big-band vocalist.  While majoring in music at UCLA, John won First Prize in the Frank Sinatra Awards, Pop Vocal category. He worked in the Los Angeles area from 1974 through 1991 as an entertainer and band leader at such venues as The Beverly Hills Hotel, The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, The Hotel Bel-Air and many others. 

As a solo act, John appeared at the world-renowned Jimmy's Restaurant in Beverly Hills for six years.Since moving to Portland in 1992, John has performed solo and in group settings at such venues as the Heathman Hotel, the Benson Hotel, Portland City Grill, Wilf's Restaurant and Bar, the Oswego Lake House, Arrivederci, the Riverview Restaurant and at numerous social events and corporate functions throughout the Portland area.  His debut CD, “For My Father & Frank,” is a tribute to Frank Sinatra and his dad, Voyle Gilmore, who was Sinatra's record producer from 1953 to 1958.