Ethan Hawke and More Slated for GE Smith's PORTRAITS Series This Fall at Bay Street

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce and launch the GE SMITH'S PORTRAITS SERIES, produced and curated by Taylor Barton. These concerts will be in high demand with some of the most dynamic and in demand musicians around.

Tickets start at $35 and available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500, open 11 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday.

GE SMITH played with Hall and Oates, Bob Dylan, Roger Waters and is most known as the leader of the Saturday Night Live (SNL) band for 10 years (1985 - 1995). It was arguably the best late-night band on television at the time and garnered GE an Emmy Award for his work. The SNL roster of guest musicians read like a Who's Who of contemporary music: Eddie Van Halen, Keith Richards, Rickie Lee Jones, Al Green, Bryan Ferry, et al. In fact, many of the best musical (surprise) moments came when GE invited guitar heroes to play with the band, unannounced. Eddie Van Halen was the first, followed by an amazing roster that included Eric Clapton, Lonnie Mack, Dave Edmonds, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, and others. The Buddy Guy visit eventually resulted in the GE's 1996 Grammy-nominated Buddy Guy -- Live CD, with GE and the SNL band.

PORTRAITS will pair GE and his crack band with legendary painters, actors and writers to showcase rare musical talents. PORTRAITS has recruited the band members of SNL, Ethan Hawke, Roger Waters, Carter Burwell, Dan Rizzie, and Ralph Gibson, and a few others to be announced, to join him for an intimate evening to play their favorite tunes on various nights this fall. GE, a supreme musicologist, and sideman to all, will explore his passion for R & B while highlighting his guests' musical ideology.

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October 17
GE Smith's
PORTRAITS
Check out world-renowned guitarist GE Smith with Dan Rizzie, Ralph Gibson and Carter Burwell.
Produced and curated by Taylor Barton.
Dan Rizzie, the skillful and inventive painter will be joined by photographer Ralph Gibson who is most recognized for overlaying elements of film narrative and mystery onto the Surrealist subject of the female body; as well as Carter Burwell, heir to the Carter Hall tobacco fortune eschewed the family business and left Virginia for the New York music scene in the 1980's. This evening is sponsored by Saunders & Associates.

October 30
GE Smith's
PORTRAITS
Check out world-renowned guitarist GE Smith with Roger Waters.
Produced and curated by Taylor Barton.
Roger Waters singer, songwriter, and bassist who masterminded (The Wall Live) will join GE Smith for the second show in the series. His movie ROGER WATERS THE WALL has just been released, and shows the highlights of the highest grossing tour.

November 7
GE Smith's
PORTRAITS
Check out world-renowned guitarist GE Smith with Ethan Hawk.
Produced and curated by Taylor Barton.

Ethan Hawke actor, writer and director. He stared in the critically acclaimed film Training Day (2001) with Denzel Washington, earning his first Oscar nomination. He later received Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay for the films Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013) and last year was recognized for his role in Oscar nominated, Boyhood (2014).

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Tickets are available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500, open 11 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. We serve as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists.

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