Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro Attend First Family Dinner for Tony Bennett’s Exploring the Arts Foundation
On Thursday night, Exploring the Arts hosted its first Family Dinner fundraiser, a tribute to founder Tony Bennett’s legacy and fundraiser for the organization that provides arts education to underserved schools in New York. The evening, hosted at the Angel Orensanz Foundation on the Lower East Side, kicked off with a lively performance by bandleader and trumpeter Brian Newman as guests congregated on the venue’s balcony level for cocktail hour. Photographs of musical icons, many of them Bennett collaborators, lined the walls as part of a silent auction to benefit ETA programming. Guests included Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Marisa Tomei, Jeremy O. Harris, Sophia Lillis, Janicza Bravo and more, who heeded the dress code “dress to express” to varying degrees. Jillian Hervey, of musical duo Lion Babe, donned a short silver sequin minidress and feathery shrug. “Our job is to turn the party up after the whole gala,” Hervey said during cocktail hour. She and partner Lucas Goodman were tapped to perform at the offsite after party by Bennett’s granddaughter Kelsey Bennett. ”I love jazz; I love Tony’s voice. We actually got to perform for him when he was still with us not too long ago for another art gala,” Hervey said. “We
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