Down with Love: A Valentine's Day Cabaret
Schedule
Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
New Castle Town Hall | New Castle, DE
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Our friend and acclaimed vocalist Augustine “Gus” Mercante and famed pianist Terry Klinefelter explore love, laughs, and a little heartbreak in Down With Love—not your average Valentine’s Day cabaret. One night. All the feelings.About Augustine Mercante:
"Praised by Gramophone for his “lyrical intensity and the way he polishes each word with lapidarian ecstasy”, Augustine Mercante enjoys an active career singing repertoire from the Baroque to the newly-created, performing regularly with organizations throughout Delaware and Pennsylvania including Opera Philadelphia, Tempesta di Mare, Brandywine Baroque, Reading Choral Society, the Serafin Ensemble, Newark Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Choral Arts, and Delaware Choral Society. He has appeared at festivals both locally and abroad including the Salzburg Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, La folle journée, Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, Serafin Summer Music Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Wilmington Fringe Festival, and the International Gluck Festival in Nürnberg, and has toured internationally and in the US with the American Spiritual Ensemble."
More on Gus:
http://www.augustinemercante.com/biography.html
About Terry Klinefelter:
"Heralded by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “on the cosmic cusp where Mozart might mingle with Mingus”, pianist Terry Klinefelter has performed in a wide variety of settings in both the classical and jazz fields. Appearances include the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Endless Mountain Music Festival, Chadds Ford Winery Jazz Festival, Jazz at the Springs and the Arcady Festival in Bar Harbor, Maine. Dr. Klinefelter has been pianist for the Pennsylvania Ballet, and a soloist with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra (where she has also served as keyboardist for many years), the Allegro Society, Bux-mont Chamber Orchestra, and recently with the WCU Symphony Orchestra at the Kimmel Center. She has performed in Mexico, Italy (Rome Festival Orchestra), and collaborated with such diverse artists as renowned early music soprano Julianne Baird (tours with The Jane Austen Songbook), violist Emanuel Vardi, Philadelphia Orchestra violinist Kim Fisher and jazz pianist George Shearing (opening of Bally’s Grand, Atlantic City). Past awards include the PMTA Collegiate Artist Award as well as prizes in the Wilmington JCC Young Musicians Contest and a recent teaching grant from the Main Line Music Teachers Association. As a jazz musician, Dr. Klinefelter also performs regularly in the area with many of Philadelphia’s finest musicians, and has appeared on several recent recordings (Anne Sciolla’s Diva-Free Zone and Paul Klinefelter’s Night Mood). Her debut jazz trio CD, Simple Gifts, was praised for its “impressive sonority”. Dr. Klinefelter was recently invited to create jazz settings for several poems by renowned poet Dana Gioia for WCU’s Poetry Salon this fall, in collaboration with soprano Anne Sciolla."
https://thejazzsanctuary.com/dr-terry-klinefelter/
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New Castle Town Hall, 201 Delaware St,New Castle, Delaware, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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