Holly Penfield, a native of San Francisco, has lived and performed in London for the past fifteen years.
A luminary on the jazz / cabaret scene, she has appeared in prestigious venues including Pizza on the Park, Cafe de Paris, Beach Blanket Babylon, Pizza Express, China Jazz, and Scott's on Mount Street. She has appeared in top hotels including The Lanesborough, The Landmark, The Mandarin Hotel in Knightsbridge and The Ritz. She has twice played New Year's Eve galas at the Millenium Hotel, has sold out dinner concerts at the Savoy, and is currently in residency at The Dorchester. Holly is regularly booked by London agents for hotels, private parties, special events and cruises. Holly has been a high-heeled trailblazer in London's lively cabaret and burlesque scene, performing in nightclubs including Too Too Much, Volupte Supper Club and Cafe Royal.
Holly has performed for notables including Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Boy George and George Michael. She also performed with Michael Jackson at the 1996 Brit Awards.
Touring Europe extensively, she has presented shows at ski resorts in the Alps, at a Russian art gallery in St Moritz and has sung in an amphitheater in Sicily and in many a chateau for sexy French farmers. In Norway she conducted a 13-city tour culminating in a concert in Oslo. Other European credits include music festivals in France, Italy and Germany, gigs in Istanbul, Munich, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv and Tokyo (at the enormous Budokan Theatre where she competed in the Yamaha Songwriting Festival, winning a motorcycle!) She has appeared with her quartet at Cairo's legendary Mena Hou Oberoi Hotel, at the base of the Keops Great Pyramid, singing swing at the El Khalifa Room.
Holly has appeared at the world renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival where she presented her original and critically acclaimed show "Fragile Human Monster" which was recorded as a CD in 1992.
Holly returned to Edinburgh in 2005 and 2006, garnering glowing reviews from the UK press for her shows "Holly's Hot Spot" and "Both Sides Now", for which she won "Best Singer of the Fringe 2006" Award from Fringe Report.
Holly's heritage is musical; her grandmother Anna Penfield was a classical pianist with the New York Philharmonic Ballet and Opera. Holly herself is a pianist whose serious songwriting talents come to the foreground in her original compositions on her most recent CD "Both Sides Now" and the previous "Le Jazz Hot" recorded live at Pizza on the Park. Holly has recorded five albums of her own material, with one song reaching the Top 100 in the American charts.
Having developed her jazz / cabaret act in London, Holly Penfield now turns her attention to her birthplace and the American market. She is ready to try out her European act in American venues and hopes to cast the same bedazzling spell on enthused audiences.
I was thrilled to find your recent comment. It means a lot to me to hear from you and know that you are doing well. you were an important part of my life, living in L.A. take care, stay safe and keep smiling. roger
Hope you and Ian both had a marvellous and successful trip to California; can't wait to catch a performance on this side of the Atlantic or on yours xox ellie
Have a fabulous birthday!!! I'm hoping that you can make it to the East Coast when you touch ground in the US!!! (NYC is a great town for both jazz and cabaret, hint, hint..and Gina has family just next door in NJ...and.....and...and... xox) Ellie
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