Michael Feinstein's Tribute to Tony Bennett
Saturday, March 21, 2026
3:00 PM
Kupferberg Center for the Arts
65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 11367
Scheduled
About This Event
Michael Feinstein presents a tribute to Tony Bennett at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Feinstein, an advocate for the American Songbook and a former assistant to Ira Gershwin, draws on decades of work interpreting standards to foreground the repertoire of Tony Bennett, the jazz and traditional pop singer who won 20 Grammy Awards and co-founded the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.
About Michael Feinstein's Tribute to Tony Bennett
At Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Michael Feinstein presents a concert-length tribute that traces Tony Bennett’s place in the American songbook, with Bennett’s own presence shaping the evening’s point of view. The program moves through standards associated with Bennett, treating them less as nostalgia than as a record of mid-century pop craft and survival. In New York City, where Bennett’s career was repeatedly affirmed on major stages and broadcasts, the tribute reads as local cultural history. Feinstein’s approach is measured and archival in spirit, attentive to phrasing and context.
About the Artists
Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein, the Ambassador of the American Songbook, has dedicated his career to preserving and celebrating the timeless classics of American music. As a former assistant to Ira Gershwin, Feinstein has been a passionate advocate for this rich musical heritage since the early 1980s, captivating audiences at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall and Kupferberg Center for the Arts.
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett, born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, was an American jazz and traditional pop singer whose recordings helped define the vocal-jazz and adult-standards tradition. Over a long career he earned multiple Grammy Awards and was later recognized as an NEA Jazz Master and a Kennedy Center Honoree.