If you are a singer looking to get discovered these days, you would probably head to a karaoke club, try out for one of those televised singing competitions or make a TikTok. April Varner who makes her Cleveland debut at BOP STOP Sunday, took a different path.
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In the popular imagination, an evening of torch songs inevitably takes place in a smoky basement club where a singer in a velvet gown purrs songbook standards while perched on a stool as her cigarette smolders in a nearby ashtray. A half-filled rocks glass is not far away.
It’s an appealingly nostalgic image, but don’t expect anything like that Friday at Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project‘s (CUSP) Torch Songs program.
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