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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center celebrates the 10th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival showcasing an all-star lineup of the country's best musicians, held Nov 5-21, including the award-winning Maria Schneider Orchestra, the New Jersey premiere of Christian McBride's The Movement Revisited, the Tony Award-winning Lillias White (currently on Broadway in Chicago), a special tribute concert to George Wein.

Tommy Faragher, a long-time denizen of the entertainment industry, will next be onstage playing live for JOHN LLOYD YOUNG: SOLID GOLD at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s October 22nd and 23rd. Had the chance to delve into Tommy’s storied resume as a producer, composer, songwriter, arranger, and musician.

Singer/Songwriter Tony Hightower is taking up the mantle to be a bridge that ushers R&B audiences into Jazz - Real Jazz. With years of experience as a singer, drummer, and actor (easily recognizable from his work in Tyler Perry movies/TV/stage productions), Atlanta-native Hightower is still just getting started.

godspeed is a project that highlights the feeling of goodbye. Whether it's through a relationship with a partner, friend, or past self, goodbyes are inevitable. Instead of the spiteful feeling usually associated with goodbyes, godspeed takes a different approach: a willingness to self-improvement and acceptance in the next phase of life.

'Mr. SOUL!” was also shortlisted at the 93rd Academy Awards in the category of Best Original Song, for “Show Me Your Soul” by Grammy Award-winning composer Robert Glasper and Grammy Award-winning singer Lalah Hathaway. 

NJPAC is welcoming live, in-person jazz back to its stage throughout 2021 beginning with Grammy Award-winning vocalist Gregory Porter (Sep 24). The TD Jazz Series continues in the Fall with 'Salsa Meets Jazz' (Sep 25), saxophonist Boney James (Oct 14), and vocal powerhouse duo Tierney Sutton and Ann Hampton Calloway (Oct 15).

The award-winning singing actor is getting up on the stage with his band for the first time in a long time and he has a brand new show filled with music to dance to, all in the name of celebration.

Sessions will present a very special concert stream by Grammy-winning multi platinum singer, songwriter, producer, actor, author, and R&B icon Anthony Hamilton.

It’s all about love in John Lloyd Young’s next concert from The Space in Las Vegas.  

Today (February 12) in live streaming: soap stars unite on Stars in the House, Laura Osnes visits Backstage Live, and more!

Themes of Black feminism and perseverance will take center stage in a new improvisational performance that will premiere as part of the University of Michigan's winter 2021 Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series season kick-off event on Jan. 22.

The Tony Award recipient seems to have mastered the art of online entertainment and he is at it for the fourth time in a concert that will stream from Las Vegas

The Kalamazoo State Theatre is offering paid, private tours for guests to get an up-close look at the historic concert venue.

Coming February 26, 2021, Los Angeles soul singer Chris Pierce’s new album, American Silence, has already gathered critical acclaim from NPR and Rolling Stone! 

Richard recently caught up with with Tony winner John Lloyd Young, who headlines a holiday concert at The Space tonight, December 4 (9pm ET). '[The Space] acts like a soundstage and these livestreams are as exciting as you can get, because it feels like you're doing a TV shoot in a live theatre space,' said Young 'I like both of those types of performance. I like it and I find it kind of challenging and fun to play the cameras and figure out which one I need to sing to.'

Walter C. Miller, award-winning television director and producer who served as an executive producer, producer and consulting producer for the CMA Awards for more than 40 years, passed away last night, Nov. 13, 2020. He was 94 years old. 

Gospel recording artist Shontelle Norman-Beatty is blessed with phenomenal talent. The new DARE Records artist shows off her vocals on her first single, a contemporary spin on the classic 'Jesus Will Fix It (Trouble in My Way),' available on digital and streaming platforms including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, and Tidal on Friday, November 20, 2020 (to listen to the single, click here).

Gold-selling, Dove Award-winning pop recording artist and songwriter Jordan Feliz lands his third No. 1 radio hit this week with “Glorify” topping the Billboard Christian Hot AC/CHR National Airplay chart.

After a series of impressive and buzzed-about singles and EPs, London by way of Australia’s Tempesst reveals Must Be a Dream via their own Pony Recordings.