harvey's background
Harvey performs at many supper clubs, resorts and cultural venues including his very popular American Composer Series at the 92nd Street Y, his American Songbook Series at Florida Atlantic University, Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts, McCallum Theater in Palm Springs, multiple engagements at Feinstein’s at the Regency, The Metropolitan Room in NY, Birdland and Canyon Ranch Resort where he appears every other week and has done over 300 shows. He has performed at private functions including at The Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami and several of the largest libraries and synagogues in the New York area.
His shows are unique in that they typically focus on a composer and/or lyricist, combining his singing of their songs with fascinating “inside” stories of their lives, films and shows. Many of these stories come from his collection of original letters written by these greats of American music including Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Rodgers, Kern and Cahn among others.
The highlight of his collection is the original manuscript of Gershwin’s “THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME” from the 1937 Astaire/Rogers film… Shall We Dance. It was through this manuscript, and their shared love of Gershwin, that he met Michael Feinstein who became a source of encouragement to his performing. This manuscript and many other important Gershwin items now reside at The Library of Congress as “THE HARVEY GRANAT GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN COLLECTION”.
Granat co-produced 4-time Academy Award winning songwriter, Sammy Cahn, on Broadway in WORDS AND MUSIC, which had a very successful Broadway run and toured throughout the US and abroad. His friendship with Cahn led to his serving on the board of The Songwriters Hall of Fame where he had the opportunity to befriend many talented contributors to the American songbook.
Granat recorded a CD of his favorite love songs, LOOK TO YOUR HEART, which is available below.