Richard Bennett News

One Deep River, the eagerly awaited tenth solo studio album from Mark Knopfler, has just debuted. The new LP offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond. Listen to the album here!

The record will feature 12 new songs, highlighting Knopfler's warm Geordie vocals, his poetic storytelling and richly melodic guitar playing. The first single from the album, “Ahead Of The Game,” is out now, a wistful story about a singer/songwriter struggling to make it, set to a distinctively Knopfler riff.

Northern Ballet's The Great Gatsby is returning to theatres across the UK in Spring 2023. The ballet will open at Leeds Grand Theatre on Wednesday 8 March before touring to Sheffield's Lyceum Theatre and London's Sadler's Wells. 

Northern Ballet's smash hit production of The Great Gatsby is returning to the stage for a new tour this spring. Bringing the glamour and seduction of the roaring twenties to life, The Great Gatsby performs at Milton Keynes from Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 May.

As the 2nd annual “Heal The Music Day” wraps for 2018, more than 170 members of the music community – songwriters, musicians, performers, artist managers, publishers, business managers, record labels, trade organizations and more – pledged a percentage of their single-day revenues to support their fellow musicians and peers in the industry in times of medical crisis. With $300,000 raised in support of Music Health Alliance, every dollar donated equals $30 in life-saving healthcare resources. Music Health Alliance's free services range from access to doctors and hospitals, medicine, health insurance and finding financial assistance during times of illness.

With just over a week until the 2nd annual “Heal The Music Day,” held Friday, October 19, 2018, the Country Music Association has teamed with Music Health Alliance to offer a matching contribution for donations raised within the music industry. CMA will match dollar for dollar donations in support of “Heal The Music Day,” up to $100,000. Every dollar donated equals $30 in life-saving healthcare resources to Heal The Music.

Composer Thea Musgrave is celebrating these days. It's not just that she's marking her 90th birthday on May 27 with a concert in New York, but that the concert is showcasing a gaggle of world premieres, US premieres and NY premieres (along with more familiar works), which highlight her rich musical vocabulary and keen sense of drama.

? Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Colvin & Earle-Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 8PM. Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030. 

One day in India, New York-based composer and jazz pianist Richard Bennett discovered he was playing ragas. He was improvising with his friend, light Hindustani classical singer Dhanashree Pandit-Rai at her apartment by the Arabian Sea, when the singer's mother walked in. She liked what she heard.

One day in India, New York-based composer and jazz pianist Richard Bennett discovered he was playing ragas. He was improvising with his friend, light Hindustani classical singer Dhanashree Pandit-Rai at her apartment by the Arabian Sea, when the singer's mother walked in. She liked what she heard.

Universal Music Group announced a worldwide deal with legendary musician and songwriter Mark Knopfler. Knopfler's new record Privateering will debut on UMG's Verve Records September 10 after a 35 year relationship with Warner Brother Records. Max Hole, Chairman and CEO UMG International comments, 'Mark has long been one of the most innovative and successful artists in music and we're thrilled he's decided to sign to Verve so that we are now working with him everywhere across the world.' The new music is Knopfler's first double album of new music in his entire recording career. 'The older I get, the more I want to write,' Knopfler notes. 'I'm enjoying the process more than ever, writing, recording and playing live, I enjoy all of it. I'm almost tripping over songs.'

Charles Dickens' classic story of how the miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed into a charitable soul by three different apparitions that appear to him one cold Christmas Eve, has become the most recognizable tale of the Christmas season. Academy and Grammy Award winning composer Leslie Bricusse has enlivened this tale with his musical magic and lyrical wit.

Charles Dickens' classic story of how the miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed into a charitable soul by three different apparitions that appear to him one cold Christmas Eve, has become the most recognizable tale of the Christmas season. Academy and Grammy Award winning composer Leslie Bricusse has enlivened this tale with his musical magic and lyrical wit.

Music this weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe includes: Fri Aug 27 9:00PM LATHANFLIN & ALI (Lathan Hardy, saxophone; Sean Ali, bass; Flin Van Hemmen, drums) LathanFlin&Ali is a trio that celebrates and explores the diverse patterns of improvised music. Lathan Hardy plays alto saxophone, Flin van Hemmen plays drums, and Sean Ali plays the contrabass. Together, they weave a tapestry that is the inheritor of 20th century music; joining lush lyricism with aching dissonance, stoic form with dense abstraction, and the serenity of timelessness with the urgency of the present moment. For improvised music par excellence, don't miss LathanFlin&Ali.

Music this weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe includes: Fri Aug 27 9:00PM LATHANFLIN & ALI (Lathan Hardy, saxophone; Sean Ali, bass; Flin Van Hemmen, drums) LathanFlin&Ali is a trio that celebrates and explores the diverse patterns of improvised music. Lathan Hardy plays alto saxophone, Flin van Hemmen plays drums, and Sean Ali plays the contrabass. Together, they weave a tapestry that is the inheritor of 20th century music; joining lush lyricism with aching dissonance, stoic form with dense abstraction, and the serenity of timelessness with the urgency of the present moment. For improvised music par excellence, don't miss LathanFlin&Ali.

This Week At Cornelia Street Cafe Mon Aug 23, 6:00PM SUMMER STORYTELLING FESTIVAL

Bluegrass great J.D. Crowe and the New South appear at Theater at Lime Kiln in Lexington on May 8th at 7:30pm. Crowe and the New South are among the most influential bluegrass bands of the past three decades, with a visionary sound that suggests both a rich past and a wide-open future.

Bluegrass great J.D. Crowe and the New South appear at Theater at Lime Kiln in Lexington on May 8th at 7:30pm. Crowe and the New South are among the most influential bluegrass bands of the past three decades, with a visionary sound that suggests both a rich past and a wide-open future.

For the first time in 50 years, the American Bluegrass Masters Tour unites Grammy Award winner J.D. Crowe and Grand Ole Opry legend Bobby Osborne with the hottest up-and-coming bluegrass singers and pickers on the planet. Think of it as 'bluegrass meets newgrass.'

For the first time in 50 years, the American Bluegrass Masters Tour unites Grammy Award winner J.D. Crowe and Grand Ole Opry legend Bobby Osborne with the hottest up-and-coming bluegrass singers and pickers on the planet. Think of it as 'bluegrass meets newgrass.'