Brooklyn-based Americana duo The Brother Brothers have released the second single from their forthcoming debut album, Some People I Know, out October 19 onCompass Records. Relix premiered 'Mary Ann' today, noting the band's 'natural harmonies and evocative lyricism that reflect a timeless sound and spirit.' Today's release follows 'Frankie,' which Billboard praised for its 'soulful folk' and Spotify selected to feature on its tastemaking playlists, Fresh Folk and New Music Friday.
On 8 September, La Monnaie/De Munt, the Belgian National Orchestra and BOZAR will join forces for the third iteration of United Music of Brussels. This year's theme is wonderment as a trigger for curiosity and creativity: the wonderment people will experience as they discover both new locations and enjoy unique musical experiences that challenge the boundaries of classical music. From 2 p.m. until 7 p.m., the public and passers-by can walk from Place de la Monnaie to the Centre for Fine Arts, with multiple different and unexpected stops along the way, in fifteen iconic locations in the city centre. These mini-concerts will combine classical music and dynamic DJ sets, or jazz beats and dance. They will turn a great opera into a light-hearted musical, and a historic concert hall into a film set. We like to present to you the complete festive program where performers and visitors can share their sense of wonderment, during this congenial musical end to the summer, which also kicks off another exciting musical season!
Blasting off the festival in its 14th year will be the U.S. Premiere of David Gordon Green's razor-sharp new contribution to the HALLOWEEN canon with legendary actor Jamie Lee Curtis—along with HALLOWEEN producers Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block in attendance! Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
A concert celebrating the 95th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning and Grammy Award-winning composer Ned Rorem (b. Oct. 23, 1923). The concert features the world premiere of the clarinet, violin and piano version of 'Pas de Trois' and a performance of 'Four Colors', composed for clarinetist Thomas Piercy, a long-time champion of Rorem's music. The concert also features three pieces composed for Thomas Piercy as Rorem birthday celebration music by former students of Rorem: Daron Hagen, Jennifer Higdon, and Troy Peters. Joining Piercy in the concert are violinist Eiko Kano and composer/pianist Chen Yihan.
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Super creative husband and wife team, Paul and Carol Slabolepszy, will both be at the Hilton Arts Festival this year - coming to Hilton from 14 - 16 September.
A gentle children's book with an apparent hidden message - a black rabbit marries a white rabbit! - stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and the no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama, just as the civil rights movement is flowering. Another story of childhood friends - an African-American man and a white woman, reunited in adulthood in Montgomery that same year - provides private counterpoint to the public events of the play.
The notably attractive, and extremely talented ensemble plays out every moment of this classic so well it will delight the eyes and the ears of those that have seen the piece before, as well as those who are experiencing it for the first time. This is true of the acting, singing, and the dancing.
On a crisp, sun-filled afternoon, Theo Krause gains speed as he drops into a ravine on a remote Colorado mountain biking trail. As he rounds a bend, he hits an awkward bump hidden in the shadows, catapulting him head first in to a lone aspen tree, splintering his neck, and leaving him paralyzed unable to move his arms or legs. Lying face up staring at the sky, he thinks, 'This is where I will die.' His parents are five hundred miles away.
Tickets go on sale October 1 for Atlanta's favorite holiday tradition, Garden Lights, Holiday Nights, featuring a new twist on last year's popular towering three-dimensional light curtain, all-new displays and a lounge in the Skyline Garden.The show, presented nightly November 17 - January 6, also will feature several of the giant topiary-like sculptures from this summer's popular mosaiculture exhibition, Imaginary Worlds: Once Upon a Time - all shown in a whole new light.
The San Diego Symphony's 2018 Bayside Jazz Series continued with 'Godfathers of Latin Jazz,' a concert inspired by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's merger of bebop and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Dizzy had wanted something new for a 1947 Carnegie Hall concert, 'One of those tom toms' he said, thinking of the different hand-struck drums played by Latin percussionist Machito and others. To get the effect he wanted he added Cuban conguero Chano Pozo.
Los Angeles-based Grateful Shred manage to channel that elusive Dead vibe: wide-open guitar tones, effortless three-part vocal harmonies, choogling beats, and yes, plenty of tripped out, Shredded solos. The look, the sound, the atmosphere. It's uncanny. "It's more of a 'take' on the Dead than a tribute band," says bassist Dan Horne. "We end up sounding almost more like the Dead because we approach it in this free-spirited way."
Comedy Dynamics announced today it will release the Spanish-language comedy album, Una Superestrella de la Comedia, from Madrid's Luis Álvaro, on August 17, 2018.
In 2017, Camden People's Theatre staged Come As You Are, a festival celebrating trans, non-binary and gender-queer identities: this year, for the first time ever, CPT will tour a host of artists, including some of the festival highlights, to venues across the UK with shows that explode and explore ideas around gender and sexuality, searching the rubble for answers, and passing the mic to the lesser heard voices of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
BroadwayWorld has a first look at Susan Egan reprising her Broadway performance of Belle in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at 5-Star Theatricals in California! Check out the video below!
Fringe festivals can be places where performances are to be endured, rather than enjoyed. Fortunately, they can also showcase absorbing and innovative work. As part of Playmill, the King's Head Theatre's exciting season of brand new work, two new productions demonstrate both great potential and thoughtful insight.
Israel Nash, Texas' Hill Country troubadour, today releases the reflective new song 'SpiritFalls' from his upcoming album, Lifted. Premiering the song in a spanning feature with Wide Open Country, the song is available on all digital platforms this Friday, with Lifted set for release on July 27th, 2018 via Desert Folklore Music/Thirty Tigers. Israel Nash and his band kick off an extensive album release tour on Lifted's release date at Austin's Scoot Inn, hitting 25+ markets across the country, including a stop at the at the inaugural Holler On the Hill Festival in Indianapolis, IN and the Americana Music Festival in Nashville this September. All announced dates and tickets are available now at www.israelnash.com.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center and Blanket Fort Entertainment have announced an extended run of the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival breakout hit Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Nominated for six HFF Awards including Best Comedy, winner of the 2CentsTheatre Award for Distinctive Voices, and winner of the SoHo Playhouse (NYC) Fringe Encore Series Award, this genre-bending thriller had its world premiere at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Davidson/Valentini Theatre and returns for 10 performances only, July 12 through July 29.
