Key Dates

Key dates and highlights of Karen Kohler’s artistic career as singer, writer, podcaster, mentor and community-builder since 1995.

RudeWoke has launched!

By |2020-04-29T16:32:49-04:00April 3rd, 2020|Key Dates, News & Events, Rudewoke Podcast|

Today I'm announcing the launch of the RudeWoke Sessions! Find me in conversation with creatives of all kinds, getting inside the un-curated story of their lives to reveal the defining moment that changed everything and set them on their paths as passionate artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, activists, explorers and more. We have to wake up before we can wise [...]

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Guest Performance in “A Wery Weimar Christmas”

By |2020-04-29T15:52:23-04:00December 16th, 2019|Key Dates, News & Events|

On Monday, DECEMBER 16, 2019, Kim David Smith and pianist Tracy Stark returned to Club Cumming in the East Village with a holiday treat, "A Wery Weimar Christmas." Yours Truly made a guest appearance! "His Weimar mother, muse & chanteuse Karen Kohler brought the house down with laughter singing Surabaya Santa - a paean to the trials of being [...]

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Everything’s Coming Up Karens

By |2020-04-29T16:17:00-04:00January 25th, 2019|Key Dates, News & Events|

On January 25, 2019 Everything's Coming Up Karens debuts at the Beach Cafe, bringing together four distinctly different Karens of cabaret for an eclectic night of song, story and comedy at the Beach Cafe. Alongside Karen K are Karen Oberlin, Karen Mack and Karen Gross with Tedd Firth on piano to tie it all together.

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Artful Marriage

By |2020-04-29T16:21:15-04:00May 21st, 2018|Key Dates, News & Events|

On May 21, 2018, Karen and Robert (Fin and Mac) celebrate 35 years of friendship (and 30 of them married), having met as college students on Long Island. To commemorate the event and to support the cosmic vision of painters Alex and Allyson Grey, the Kohlers sat for Alex at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Wappinger Falls, NY. [...]

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Inaugural Crown Dialogue

By |2020-04-29T16:27:28-04:00April 28th, 2018|Key Dates, News & Events|

In May 2016, Karen founds the international sisterhood Crown Circle, a collective of colleagues and friends in their peak years. To mark the group's second anniversary, Karen organizes the inaugural Crown Dialogue between youth and elder women, on April 28, 2018 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in NYC.

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The Home I Love: Cabaret from Berlin to Tel Aviv

By |2020-04-29T16:53:14-04:00June 7th, 2017|Key Dates, News & Events|

The Home I Love: Cabaret from Berlin to Tel Aviv, teams Karen with Israeli singer Noa Levy and acclaimed New York musical director (and vocalist) Tracy Stark. Sponsored by the German Consulate in San Francisco, the show debuts at Temple Emanu-El and showcases a songbook of cabaret classics in German, English, Hebrew and Yiddish.

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History of Cabaret Lecturer and Moderator

By |2020-04-29T17:05:36-04:00January 6th, 2017|Key Dates|

Karen is an acknowledged authority on the history of cabaret and small stage performance. In January 2017, Karen was given an adjunct professorship to teach her 2-part course, The Tenth Muse: The History of Cabaret from Montmartre to Manhattan as part of the Hutton House Lecture Series at Long Island University. LIU/Post is the home of the world's only [...]

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Songs of Brecht and the Poet-Troubadours

By |2020-04-29T19:28:36-04:00May 7th, 2015|Key Dates, News & Events|

On May 7, 2015, Karen debuted Suitcase in Berlin: Songs of Brecht and the Poet Troubadours at the Irondale Center in her hometown of Brooklyn, NY. In the program she wove together the story song composers she loves most including Jaques Brel, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Noel Coward. A few days later she was featured with a [...]

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