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Irene Michaels: From FIRE AID NYC to the Flame of Glamour

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2 years ago

February 5, 2025

House Music/EDM recording sensation Irene Michaels after performing for the Creative Vision benefit FIRE AID NYC produced by FENIX360 for the LA Fire victims she was off to rock the Grammy Awards. This year the Grammys also was in a fund-raising spirit in collaboration with Musicares Fire Relief.

While in LA Irene is set to record new music as a follow up to her multi-award winning hits “I Like Rain” & “My Heart.” The songs have collected honors from the Josie Music Awards, the Get Out Awards 2023 and this year’s BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards 2025.

The 79 year old jet setter travels endlessly and at a moments notice to enhance her career and to give fans what they want and expect. After a holiday performance in NYC at the Copacabana for “50 Shades of Gay: A Christmas Cabaret” and as a feature act at “Pause the World for Peace” at Times Square in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the United Nation’s International Peace Day she will again be coming to NY to perform at the Get Out Awards on March 3, 2025. On March 28 you can see Irene at the Epiphany Performing Arts Center in Chicago and then again April 4 as she opens for TV talk show host Mickey Burns @ Chelsea T&S in Manhattan.

A new version of “My Heart” will be released shortly featuring rapper Twizm Whyte Piece whose rhyme addition to the song will be an anthemic phenomena. The new version will be released by Tribeca Records. The song was originally written and produced by iconic DJ Joe Smooth and is working its way through the nation….

The official website for Irene Michaels may be found at https://www.irenemichaels.com

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Syd Brings the Beard Tour to the Tabernacle on November 24

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1 hour ago

November 4, 2026

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Syd performing live on stage, singing into a microphone under spotlights

Syd performing live on stage. Photo courtesy of Syd (official Instagram).

Syd’s Beard Tour plays the Tabernacle on Tuesday, November 24, a late November stop on the 22 date North American run behind her third solo album, with no opener announced and none needed.

Atlanta’s R&B fall gets its centerpiece on Tuesday, November 24, when Syd headlines the Tabernacle on the Beard Tour. The 22 date North American run opened in Vancouver on November 7 and closes at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on December 16, passing through Camp Flog Gnaw on the way, and it is built entirely around the strongest solo record of her career.

That record is Beard, her third solo album, released July 17 through Free Lunch and Warner Records, her first LP in four years and one she co-produced herself. The collaborator list reads like a roll call of modern soul: Raphael Saadiq, Big Sean, Rodney Jerkins, James Fauntleroy and Van Hunt all appear across its 12 tracks. The album folds in “GMFU,” first released as a standalone single in September 2025, produced by Jerkins with Saadiq on bass, here in a version featuring Big Sean, and it was led by “Callin,” featuring Blu June. Earlier single “Die For This,” from July 2025, was her first new song in over three years and started the whole campaign.

Syd’s standing in the culture is larger than any single billing: co-founder of The Internet, and a GRAMMY winning songwriter whose credits include Beyoncé’s “Plastic Off the Sofa.” But a Beard show is a different proposition from the résumé. No opener is announced for the Atlanta date, just Syd, the band and a room that has hosted every kind of music Atlanta loves. Tuesday night at the Tabernacle belongs to her alone.