Kupferberg Center Hosts BeBe & CeCe Winans in Concert 2/18

Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College has announced that BeBe & CeCe Winans will perform in concert on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm in the Colden Auditorium at Queens College. Tickets are $44 - $48.

After two decades of hits, BeBe & CeCe Winans’ first album together in 15 years – Still – is nominated for two Grammy Awards and 11 Stellar Awards and is approaching Gold sales status. The album features the Billboard chart topping single “Close To You” as well as the Grammy-nominated “Grace”.

This year, BeBe & CeCe have appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In October, BeBe & CeCe Winans were awarded their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“The music of BeBe & CeCe Winans represents a rich cultural heritage that is alive and well in Queens as well as the metropolitan area” stated Vivian Charlop, Director of Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College. “ We are thrilled to present this concert,” she added.

To order tickets call the Kupferberg Center Box Office at 718.793.8080 or order online at www.KupferbergCenter.org. Discount Tickets are available for students, seniors and Queens College staff and faculty. Special group rates are available for groups 10+.

Kupferberg Center for the Arts is located on the Queens College campus between exits 23 & 24 on the eastbound service road for the Long Island Expressway in Flushing. Free Parking and Wheelchair Accessible

About Kupferberg Center for the Arts:
Kupferberg Center for the Arts is the leading non-academic arts institution at Queens College whose 77-acre campus features a beautiful grassy quad with stunning views of Manhattan surrounded by both historic Spanish-style and modern buildings with state-of-the art technology.

The arts are a central part of academic programs at Queens College, where all undergraduates are required to take at least one course in the visual or performing arts. Queens College, through the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, is a driving force in the culturally rich community of Queens.

The Kupferberg Center for the Arts houses three performance spaces including the acoustically perfect LeFrak Concert Hall, the Colden Auditorium and the Goldstein Theater. Also housed on the Queens College Campus is the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, home to the most comprehensive art collection in Queens, and the Queens College Art Center, which is a separate gallery for contemporary installations. The world-renowned Louis Armstrong House Museum, located in Corona, is also part of the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College. Once the private home of Louis and Lucille Armstrong, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is a National Historic and New York City Landmark celebrating the life and work of Louis Armstrong. The museum and its archives house the largest publicly held archival collection in the world devoted to a jazz musician.

The Kupferberg Center for the Arts is funded by Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Council for Cultural Affairs - Taiwan, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Music for Youth Fund of UJA Federation, the Max and Selma Kupferberg Family Foundation, New York Community Bank, The Kupferberg Foundation, The Natalie Bailey & Herbert J. Kirshner Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Turkish Airlines and Taipei Cultural Center of TEDCO in New York. Additional funding is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Public funds are also provided by the Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall and New York City Council Members Elizabeth Crowley, Julissa Ferreras, Jim Gennaro, Daniel Halloran and Peter Koo.

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