Jack McDonald

CONCH REPUBLIC - THE MUSICAL: A DECADE OF MUSIC & MAYHEM will celebrate its tenth anniversary during April's Conch Republic Days in Key West!

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) today announced its 2020 lineup of narrative and documentary features, shorts, and opening night gala event. The festival will be held from April 1st – 5th 2020.

After announcing their upcoming mixtape The Deathbed Sessions and unleashing their brutal track 'Fear' last month, Cursed Earth have backed it up with their new single 'Torch' which premiered on triple j's The Racket on Tuesday. Where 'Fear' featured Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan) delivering vocals, 'Torch' pins The Amity Affliction's Joel Birch at the helm of vocal duties. Spitting guttural lyrics dipped in Cursed Earth's scathing brand of metal, 'Torch' is The Deathbed Sessions most blistering track of all. 

From the nightmare depths Cursed Earth return, faceless and fuelled by hate. Their forthcoming mixtape The Deathbed Sessions features guest appearances from Larissa Stupar (Venom Prison), Matt Honeycutt (Kublai Khan), Joel Birch (The Amity Affliction), Booka Nile & Sean Harmanis (Make Them Suffer), Nick Adams (Justice For The Damned), Mark Poida (Aversions Crown) and Jack McDonald (Cast Down), and today the band release the opening track and video 'Fear.'

ZACH Theatre is proud to announce the cast for the worldwide smash hit musical, Disney's Beauty and the Beast featuring the animated film's Academy Award-winning score with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by the late Howard Ashman, with additional songs composed by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. Disney's Beauty and the Beast plays ZACH's Topfer Stage from July 11-September 2, 2018 under the direction of Associate Artistic Director Abe Reybold with musical direction by Allen Robertson and choreography by Sara Burke.

Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announces the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation that took the highest honors tonight at the prestigious 23rd Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ When Jack McDonald elected to have Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery after more than a decade of watching his tremors and other symptoms get progressively worse, he saw it as a teachable moment for his grandchildren. Their reactions to his brain surgery experience were the inspiration for Poppo's Electric Brain, an educational new children's book that makes Parkinson's disease and DBS more understandable for young people. More information about the book, including a video trailer, is available at http://popposelectricbrain.com/. Poppo's Electric Brain is currently for sale on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.