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4th Friday at the Arts Cafe

The Marlborough Arts Center, at 231 North Main Street in
Marlborough, CT.,  continues with its
popular "4th Friday at the Arts Cafe" musical evenings on Friday,
March 28, 2014,  starring Ashly Cruz, the
sultry Jazz and Blues entertainer, who is back by popular demand with her
Cabaret Show, this time featuring an homage to Ella Fitzgerald. Ashly Cruz
brings her interactive Cabaret Show to the Marlborough Arts Center's beautiful
Charles W. Hall Gallery which musicians love because of its acoustics and
intimate setting close to the audience, and where the audience relaxes and can
enjoy the music and refreshments in comfort.



Ashly Cruz is a Connecticut native who began her musical
career as a dancer in the Hartford Ballet Company, later becoming a founding
member and choreographer of the Hartford Contemporary Dance Theater. She earned
a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Carnegie Mellon University in the
prestigious Musical Theater Drama Department. Her love of song, dance, and
drama led to parts on television, regional theaters across the country, and on
to Los Angeles where she formed, and became the lead singer for, the rock band
"Taboo You" which headlined at The Roxy and The Whiskey on
Hollywood's Sunset Strip. After the break-up of the band, she went on to
Nashville, where she put together a special French/American Cabaret show which
drew great crowds. Now back in Connecticut, she has headlined at BB King's
Dance Club at Foxwoods Casino, as well as bringing her wide variety of song and
dance to La Vie En Rose Bistro in New London. Never still for long, she
released her first single and video titled "My Tango Baby", as well
as developing the unique "Cardio Latino" which is a fun and effective
fitness routine that has become a craze in Connecticut for the last few years.
She is a multi-talented performer and just being in the audience means having a
fun and exciting evening.



Admission is $8/individual and $15 for two. BYOWine. Other
refreshments are available. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m., but the doors open
at 7:00 so you have time to get settled with refreshments, visit the Gift Shop
and art available for sale, and chat with friends before the show.

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The Marlborough Arts Center is a non-profit regional center
for the fine arts, performing arts, and fine crafts. Visit the website
www.marlborougharts.org or call (860) 295-9389 for details about the myriad
exhibitions, shows, classes and artistic possibilities open to the public, or
check them out on Facebook.  If you are
interested in supporting the arts in the area through membership in the
organization, membership information and applications are also on the website.



 

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