Performance

Songs of Cole Porter

1 upcoming performance in New York

At The Bitter End, Janie Barnett revisits Cole Porter’s Broadway and film repertoire with rock/pop arrangements, treating the lyric as the main instrument. Porter’s particular New York story runs through the set: a writer whose songs helped define the city’s mid-century nightlife, theater district, and cosmopolitan wit, long before they became standards for jazz improvisers. Barnett’s approach emphasizes Porter’s rhythmic engineering and narrative detail, showing how durable these songs are when removed from their original settings.