Most people don't realize how frequently HFQ is booked for private, social and corporate affairs. In addition to the usual roster of weddings and office parties, over the course of the just one month we have been engaged to play functions for New York Magazine, Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, jazz writer Geoffrey Ward, a RISD benefit for Frank Gehry, a tribute to Senator Pat Moynihan and a private concert for members of the National Arts Club! If you think you or someone you know might be interested in booking the band, just follow the "BOOKING" link on our website. We'd love to play your holiday party! Thank you all for your continued support! 2000 has been our best year yet!
Attention Holiday Shoppers
We continue to make our new CD "I LIKE YOU A LOT" available to you, our fans, in advance of its official release in February of 2001. And to make ordering easier, you can now order both CDs directly from our website by using PayPal, a secure-connection, online transaction outfit. Order now to ensure timely arrival for the holidays. Give HFQ to your friends -- they'll be happy you did!
Season's Greetings from the Howard Fishman Quartet
This month, in addition to weekly shows at Pete's Candy Store and Sardi's, the band makes its return to the NYC downtown scene with two shows at the inimitable MERCURY LOUNGE on Friday, December 8 and Saturday, December 9 (**note: no Sardi's show on December 8** ). HFQ will continue the musical excursions begun to such success at Joe's Pub in October. For info, be sure to check our website at www.howardfishman.com
The Eagerly Awaited Follow-Up to HFQ's Debut
At long last! The eagerly awaited follow-up to HFQ's debut CD has arrived and is available now only in a prerelease offer to our loyal fans. IMPORTANT: When ordering, please specify that you want the CD "I LIKE YOU A LOT." Recorded early this fall, "I LIKE YOU A LOT" contains nearly 70 minutes of music and features the band's new lineup: Russell Farhang: violin, Jonathan Flaugher: double bass, Erik Jekabson: trumpet, Howard Fishman: vocal, guitar, piano, banjo. The recording includes 11 new HFQ originals, plus one standard ("I Surrender, Dear") and one traditional ("Oh Death"). We think you'll like it. Thanks to all for your continued support!!
The Village Voice Votes on the Best of New York
The HFQ has been chosen The Best Cabaret Act for People Who Don't Like Cabaret - "Sophistication is usually defined as the absence of country: urbane and urban, same-same. And what's more citified than cabaret? Clever, meticulously crafted songs interpreted with delicacy and tact. Of course, where the rubber meets the road, that translates as often as not into tired old warhorses put across with an enervated, aren't-we-all-too-fabulous archness. Feh. In fact, cabaret could probably use a pint or two of square-jawed hillbilly orneriness. That's what Howard Fishman thinks, anyway, and he's been proving it at, ah, "intimate venues" all over town for the last couple of years. Backed by a hard-swinging trio of fiddle-all right, violin-trumpet, and string bass (the players are always changing, but the instruments stay the same), he sics his guitar and man-in-black deadpan voice on a well-chosen mix of songwriter standards and mountain blues. He can make a dark hollow out of the Oak Room."