PORT TOWNSEND — The Chameleon Theater, 800 W. Park Ave., will host a solo performance by Amy “Bob” Engelhardt — a Grammy-nominated vocalist who gained notoriety with musical group, The Bobs — at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets are $15 and are available at the door.
Engelhardt said in a news release she is pleased to return to Port Townsend to perform.
Port Townsend, she said, is “one of my favorite towns in the tall, tall, dark green and beautiful Northwest.”
Engelhardt currently is a performer on the New Old Time Chautauqua tour with the Flying Karamazov Brothers.
Award winning
Engelhardt is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter and comedienne, according to her website.
She recently was honored by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets with a Dottie Burman Award for Songwriting, and was one of 10 semi-finalists for the inaugural Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award for musical theatre composer/lyricists.
She has released a solo album, “Not Gonna Be Pretty.”
For 14 years, Engelhardt was the sole female member of The Bobs, which won numerous American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awards for her writing, arranging and vocal work on their albums and DVDs, according to her website.
With The Bobs, she performed concerts and vocal, folk and jazz festivals in New York, Los Angeles and in Lichtenstein. She also co-created — with Bob Malone of the John Fogerty Band — “Rhapsody in Bob,” George Gershwin’s concerto arranged for piano and vocal orchestra, according to her website.
Top 10 finalist
For the musical theater, Engelhardt’s first score, “Bastard Jones,” was a top 10 finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award for New Musicals and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference, according to her website.
In Seattle, she wrote lyrics and vocal arrangements for commissioned adaptations of Carl Sagan’s, “Contact,” and music and lyrics for, “A Comedy of Eras” with the Flying Karamazov Brothers, according to her website.
For more information, visit http://amy-engelhardt.blogspot.com/.
