Bastille My Heart

Doors open at 5:00 PM for Dinner and Drink Service. Fabuleux French songs and travel tales The fourth annual Bastille My Heart show: An effervescent evening of French and French-American songs and stories to celebrate the French national holiday from this quartet of compagnons de voyage: star vocalists Prudence Johnson, Maud Hixson and Bradley Greenwald, hosted by Dan Chouinard on piano and accordion. Dan Chouinard, host, piano and accordion Bradley Greenwald, vocals Maud Hixson, vocals Prudence Johnson, vocals Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based all-purpose pianist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler and bicycling vagabond who’s traveled across Europe with an accordion and written about it for MPR in a show called Café Europa. –– Bradley Greenwald is an actor, singer, writer, and director. His original cabarets of music and spoken word create illuminating portraits of Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the year 1918, among others. –– Maud Hixson has been hailed in New York and London as a singularly elegant exponent of great songs, familiar and not. She and Dan appear together on her 2024 Bistro Award-winning album Permanent Moonlight: Songs of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. –– Prudence Johnson has been on the musical theatre stage, in two feature films (A River Runs Through It and A Prairie Home Companion), on national radio and on concert stages across North America and Europe, including Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.