Harry Mayronne
Pianist, composer, marionette artist, and performer
Harry Mayronne
MUSICIAN:
Harry Mayronne's recent appearances include the 2025 French Quarter Festival and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with vocalist Chloe Marie, as well as the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival with film legend Mink Stole.
He serves as Musical Director/Pianist for various shows and special events at the National World War II Museum.
Harry frequently accompanies his friend, jazz singer Anaïs St. John. For their livestreamed 2020-21 Porch Fests
the two received a New Orleans City Council Proclamation.
For the past fourteen years, Harry has accompanied Caroling in Jackson Square (presented by Patio Planters).
His restaurant musical comedy Waiting Around--the Restaurant Musical, for which he composed the score, with book and lyrics by Ricky Graham, ran for three years in New Orleans at le chat noir. Harry was co-producer of an off-Broadway production, which played at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. The show also had two special performances at the Greenbrier.
He was Musical Director for the Pfister Sisters’ Bar Jeder Vernunft engagement in Berlin. On May 31, Harry will appear with Rebecca Leigh and Kelley Dixson at The Gardenia in West Hollywood in their cabaret show Gumbo Cabaret.
Harry Mayronne
Marionette Artist
Harry operated the skeleton marionette seen on video in the Final Tour of Dead and Company's July 3, 2023 Boulder, CO concert. (Skeleton appears at 1:52). He has been seen at the Provincetown Tennessee
and the Tennessee Williams New Orleans and Literary Festivals, New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival, and with Nina Hagen at Berlin’s Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm, home of the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble, which was created by German playwright/poet Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. Harry is co-presenter, along with founder David C. Symons, of the annual New Orleans Brechtfest.
Harry’s marionettes are available at Creason's Fine Art, 829 Chartres St. in the French Quarter.
He recently appeared in a meet & greet/performance at Creason's Fine Art Gallery as part of the New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival.
Music
New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans Dance Hall Quartet Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.
Featuring Norbert Susemihl (Trumpet/Leader), Chloe Feoranzo (Clarinet), Barnaby Gold Drums), and Harry Mayronne (Piano).
Link to purchase and hear excerpts:
Cabaret
Gumbo Cabaret Vol. 1
(American Songbook, Film, and Theatre Songs)
Featuring Rebecca Leigh and Kelley Dixson with Harry Mayronne on piano
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