Cool Parlour | Beth & Ritt

The night

Real players, real arrangements, no karaoke.

Two award-winning songwriters who happen to love a great cover. We take songs you already know by heart and rebuild them from the bassline up — Billy Joel, Broadway, jazz standards — arranged rather than covered.

You’ll know every word and still not know what’s coming.

Songs you know. Arrangements you don’t.

Eight photographs of Beth Falcone and Ritt Henn: in a New York crosswalk with his upright bass; in sunglasses against a teal studio wall; playing bass and keyboard against a yellow wall; playing on a rug beside a grand piano; performing in a wooden garden gazebo; Beth singing at a red keyboard in the gazebo; Ritt singing and playing upright bass in the gazebo; and Beth singing at a red keyboard in front of a brick wall. — Photographs by Varner Creative, except the bottom row

Ritt Henn singing and playing upright bass in the garden gazebo.

Regulars at

Julia Gabriel People’s Garden

NW corner of 111th & Amsterdam, Morningside Heights.

Ritt Henn with his upright bass and Beth Falcone in a doorway on West 79th Street.

Regulars at

Music Tuesdays at Blondie’s

212 W 79th St, New York City.

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Concert series, festivals, house concerts and private engagements. Want Cool Parlour in your club, garden or living room? Tell us the room and the date.

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