Singing Stars at the Bar

Former chanteuse Libby Aubrey-Porter and her husband childcare pioneer Rick held a Celebration of Life bash at the Rosewood Miramar’s Manor Bar.

The dynamic duo, both regulars at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club with their immaculately groomed West Highland terrier, invited 50 guests to help mark the occasion after 10 years of marriage after meeting at the Concours d’Elegance in Pebble Beach.

Libby was first discovered while working with the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where I would weekend on occasion on the estate of Mickey Byers, whose brother was the son-in-law of CBS founder Bill Paley.

She sang a sassy song list of popular and rare music from the ‘20s to the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s, including “Mambo Italiano,” “I’ll Be Seeing You,” and “Luck Be a Lady” wrapping, appropriately enough, with “The Best is Yet to Come” with a pianist accompaniment by Steve Rawlings.

L.A.’s Pink Mozart Quartet added to the entertainment as guests quaffed champagne and noshed on canapés from Caruso’s chef Massimo Falsini before the tony twosome cut a velvet and buttercream birthday cake.

Among the handsome horde were Nolan Nicholson and Kathy Nawroth, Mindy Denson, songwriter Tom Snow and wife Mary Belle, Emily Roos, Don and Wendy Gragg, and Jerrard and Jeanie Burford.

A helluva sunset soirée….