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The George Fulginiti Series:
Cabaret, Cocktails, & Conversation
Co-Sponsorship between Alliance for New Music-Theatre
and
The Arts Club of Washington
Awa Sal Secka
“Bi-Coastal Acoustic”
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
$55 Members - $65 Non-Members
What can you expect coming to our cabaret evenings? Sometimes familiar tunes, to be sure, but we specialize in original cabaret compositions, sometimes crossover genres, and we encourage artists to bend and push boundaries of the cabaret form and always speak to our current times, in the space and the place where we are. We come together for an intimate experience with artists who have something to say and engage in lively conversation with the artists following every performance.
The Arts Club of Washington venue is intimate, perfect for an optimal cabaret experience.
Includes a small bites buffet and a signature cocktail created for this performance. Following the show you will meet the artist and enjoy other fine company. For each performance, the bar opens at 6:30 pm, the show starts at 7:00 pm.
6:30 pm - Doors Open
7:00 pm - Program
8:30 pm - Reception with the Artists
Discounted parking is available after 5:30 pm (free for members with membership card)
About Awa Sal Secka
The Alliance for New Music-Theatre is excited to announce that our Featured Artist for our next cabaret is the phenomenal singer-actress Awa Sal Secka, who will curate and headline in her own program, “Bi-Coastal Acoustic.”
Awa is devising her special cabaret to feature acoustic/folk music from both her mother’s
homeland, The Gambia, and her own home in the U.S. Come, follow her journey with
acoustic/folk music as she traces themes of the struggle with assimilation in either country, the tug of similarities and differences in the music of both cultures, and how, through music, she found a way into a grounded identity straddling both “homes.”
Hers is quite a story. Born and raised in New York City, Awa Sal Secka is a first generation
Gambian-American who lives in the D.C. area and works all over the country. Awa is a multi-faceted, award-winning artist, with a large Washington-area following whose outstanding local performances include Sarah in Ragtime, for which she won a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Musical, and most recently, Lady Liv in Play On!, both at Signature Theatre. She has also performed off-Broadway (in Goddesses and After Midnight,) on tour, and in multiple regional theaters. Wherever she travels, she continues to forge a place for herself in the artistic space.
Along with performing, Awa is a writer, intent upon re-imagining what kind of art people of color can be a part of and adding to the canon of stories that people of color were always meant to tell.
You can bet the evening will be cohesive, comfortable and connected – yet full of delicious and cool surprises. Whatever Awa does, she is authentic and a very special artist.
As a company devoted to helping new voices develop cross-cultural stories through music-
theatre that need to be told and heard, Alliance for New Music-Theatre is excited to begin a
collaboration with such a talented creative world spirit. We look forward to more to come.
