Barbara Randall Performing at Chef Joseph's At The Connoisseur Room

Saturday, August 24 – Barbara Randall Performing
A Midwest native, Randall has performed in her native Detroit with such well -known and respected artists as Wilbert Pegler, Mel Ball, Robert Jones, Gwen Fox, Charles Green, and Tola Lewis. She has also headed Merging Traffic and New Romance bands. 

For ten years, Randall-Coleman was Coleman of the well-known Coleman-Rhoades duo. Randall grew up listening to the Motown sound, and today, listens to and performs all kinds of music, including jazz, R&B, pop, rock, blues, and adult contemporary. Her inspiration is drawn from such legends as Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Gladys knight, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle, influences which have helped Randall develop her own unique style, and added an extraordinary warmth and sincerity with which she communicates directly to the heart.
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Saturday, August 24 – Barbara Randall Performing
A Midwest native, Randall has performed in her native Detroit with such well -known and respected artists as Wilbert Pegler, Mel Ball, Robert Jones, Gwen Fox, Charles Green, and Tola Lewis. She has also headed Merging Traffic and New Romance bands. 

For ten years, Randall-Coleman was Coleman of the well-known Coleman-Rhoades duo. Randall grew up listening to the Motown sound, and today, listens to and performs all kinds of music, including jazz, R&B, pop, rock, blues, and adult contemporary. Her inspiration is drawn from such legends as Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Gladys knight, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle, influences which have helped Randall develop her own unique style, and added an extraordinary warmth and sincerity with which she communicates directly to the heart.


Among the highlights of her career, Randall lists opening in concert for Babyface in 1999. She appeared at the Birmingham Jazz Festival in 1995, 1996, and 1999.

In 1998 and 1999, Ms. Randall performed at the Detroit Jazz Festival. She performed as a Diana Ross impersonator for star theatres from 1997 through 2000, and appeared in the sounds of Motown review at the ShowTime lounge, (Casino Windsor) from December 1, 2001- 2004.


Randall has appeared at many popular live music venues throughout the Detroit area, such as:
The Rhino club (Detroit, Mi.)
Paparazzi’s Italian Restaurant (Birmingham Mi.)
Duets (Detroit, Mi.)
Brazil Coffee House (Royal Oak, Mi.)
O’Mara’s (Royal Oak, Mi.)
Como’s (Ferndale, Mi.)
Too chez (West Bloomfield, Mi.)
Norman’s Eton Street Station (Birmingham, Mi).


Since moving to Indiana in the year 2005, in addition to private parties, Randall has performed at Indianapolis live music venues: Rck's Cafe Boatyard, The Conrad, 
The Madame Walker, Bella Vita, The Savoy, Avalon, The Blue Martini, The Upper Room, The Chatterbox, The Grand, Wrights Restaurant and of course Chef Joseph’s at The Connoisseur Room.

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