Special Guest Artist: Rodger French
The custodians of the Abernethy-Shaw House are delighted to present their special house guest, variety artist Rodger French, who will be performing as Lenny DeLuxe, Accordion Virtuoso and leader of the Deluxe Vaudeville Orchestra during both days of the April Tour of Homes. Those who take the tour of the house may have the opportunity to overhear Lenny Deluxe rehearsing the songs for his new revue in the music room. Don't be shy, get closer for a good listen, and experience what it was like to rely on live performance as virtually the only source of musical entertainment.
A versatile musician, he performed in the Off-Broadway production of “Shlammer,” a Jewish-Gangster-Vaudeville, and, most recently, in a production of “Indecent,” at The Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta. From 2006-2019, while working for the State Department, he had the opportunity and privilege to teach and perform in Ghana, South Africa, Argentina, Myanmar, and Italy.
Recently Rodger has been in demand as a well-informed historian of Vaudeville.
Rodger is also the founder of The DeLuxe Vaudeville Orchestra (DVO), and has several album producing credits, including two with The DVO and four solo accordion CDs: “Main Squeeze,” “Main Squeeze Deux,” “Che, Acordeón – Tangos from Buenos Aires”, and, most recently, “Loose Endz.”
You can listen to two of Rodger's CDs of accordion specialties on Sound Cloud:
Che--Accordion Tangos from Buenos Aires
Rodger has written several Travel Diaries recounting his time working for the State Department and they are available on Amazon
You can watch Rodger Play on this Video from Youtube
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