Polka, Redbone, and a salute to the drinking life

Chester — Gennarose, a vocalist who has toured for the last three years with the award-winning Jimmy Sturr Orchestra, will perform at Bodles Opera House in Chester at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 20. Gennarose has been featured on the TV broadcast of “The Jimmy Sturr Show.” She appears on Sturr’s latest album, “Shake, Rattle and Polka.” Admission is $29.95 for dinner and the show; $15 for the show only. For more information about the artist, visit www.gennarose.com. Then on Thursday, July 21, HotFlash (formerly the Tulips) and the Hormones (Bodles All-Star Orchestra) will present “Whine, Women and Song,” a comedy-cabaret “about the drunken perspective on life.” The program features songs about alcohol, such as Dean Martin’s “Medley on Drinking,” “Scotch and Soda,” while the three women of HotFlash (Bodles owner-manager Patricia Mazo, Catherine Johnson, Maureen Morrissey) sit at a bar onstage. Admission is $35 for the dinner and show, which features special guest John Tobin. For more information visit www.davemyers.com/tulips/hotflash.htl On Friday, July 22, Leon Redbone, called “the most famous non-famous American musician,” will perform early 20th-century jazz and blues. Redbone was a semi-regular musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1970s and ‘80s. For more information visit www.leonredbone.com. The program begins at 7 p.m. Admission is $30. For reservations to any of these shows, call Bodles at 469-4595 or visit www.bodles.com.