Mainstay Monday featuring Joe Holt and guest Van Albert

Join us for another Mainstay Monday!These eclectic evenings happen every Monday night and are hosted by our own Joe Holt at the piano. Partnering with a special guest. Each week is a unique, one of a kind show. Seating is casual and tables are available (bring your own dinner, if you like) along with a cash bar. Doors open at 6:30 pm with the show starting at 7:00. Click on the video link below to see select performances from recent Mainstay Mondays.

Our featured guest tonight is Van Albert. Van was an entertainer and musician in Germany back when there was an East and West, working with noted Freiburg-based Kabarett performers such as Volkmar Staub and Willi Winter. Later, as a grad student in Seattle, he worked first as a translator for an unknown startup named Microsoft Corporation, eventually joining the Microsoft team responsible for establishing German linguistic standardsand translation technology in the fast-developing software field of the 1990s. In 2005 he returned to the East Coast to be closer to family, settling in Chestertown in 2011 where he?s currently active as a digital technologist and inventor. For a unique Mainstay Monday entitled Kabarett? Nein Danke, Van takes a cross-milennial, cross-continental musical-satirical journey across a variety of genres from blues and ragtime to German Schlager ,from the 60s. Van takes a shot a deconstructing Mack the Knife, revisits songs from Fats Waller and the Beatles with an much-overdue textual update, and even pokes a little fun at his adopted hometown. With Van',s dynamic blues and fingerstyle guitar joining Joe, this show is sure to rock, swing and everything in between.