Anne Murray News

Bay Area Cabaret brings back two of today's most celebrated songwriting divas, together for the first time in the Venetian Room-cabaret star and Golden Globe-winner Amanda McBroom ("The Rose") and jazz great Ann Hampton Callaway ("At The Same Time").

One word most wonderfully describes this extraordinary evening featuring two of the cabaret world's leading singers and songwriters: Divalicious. Segerstrom Center welcomes music divas Amanda McBroom and Ann Hampton Callaway as they help kick off the 2017-18 Cabaret Series celebrating classics from the Great American Songbook and also entertaining audiences with their own works. Pianist and acclaimed songwriter Michele Brourman accompanies the duo in these stunning nights of song and storytelling, October 5 - 7 in Samueli Theater.

Tantrum Theater's reimagined Equity production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's masterpiece Caroline, or Change, has performed to standing ovations and sold out audiences. Directed by the brilliant director Robert Barry Fleming, the production opened last week at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ohio.

Musical theatre company Angelwalk Theatre celebrates Canada's 150th with the world premiere of Everybody's Got A Story: A Celebration of Canadian Women in Music. A tribute to the nation's strong history of women in music, this must-see concert runs Thursday June 15 to Saturday June 17 at 8pm nightly in the brand-new Lyric Theatre at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.

                Music, dance and special events fill the Lackland Performing Arts Center as Centenary Stage Company announces its 2017 - 18 full season line up of events.  In addition to CSC's theatrical events the 2017 - 18 season will see the return of audience favorite series, such as, the January Thaw Music Festival and the annual Dance Fest all while hosting an array of exciting guest artists.

Gecko Records is announcing the May 5th release of VOICES, the new recording from singer-songwriter-actress, Amanda McBroom.

Musical theatre company Angelwalk Theatre celebrates Canada's 150th with the world premiere of Everybody's Got A Story: A Celebration of Canadian Women in Music.

The 2017 Schwabacher Debut Recitals series concludes on Sunday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m., with a recital by a trio of San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows featured with collaborative pianist Warren Jones in a program of Italian and French repertoire.

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is pleased to announce that multi-platinum, award-winning singer and songwriter Sarah McLachlan will be the 2017 inductee into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

Grammy Award winning DIONNE WARWICK and her peers have inspired the BOOMERoom® Music Network (www.BOOMERoom.com) to create and launch the first “ NEWdies® ” Radio Station

Award-winning composer, Steve Dorff, will perform many of his hits songs tonight, December 22nd, at 8pm at the Hamilton Stage.

Award winning composer, Steve Dorff, will perform many of his hits songs on Thursday, December 22nd, at 8pm at the Hamilton Stage.

San Francisco Opera Center Director Sheri Greenawald today announced the thirteen recipients of the 2017 Adler Fellowship. Nine singers, three pianist/apprentice coaches and one director will take part in the program-a multi-year performance-oriented residency offering advanced young artists intensive individual training, coaching and professional seminars, as well as a wide range of performance opportunities. Adler Fellows are selected from the young artists who have participated in the Merola Opera Program. The prestigious fellowship has nurtured the development of more than 175 young artists since its inception.

The incomparable Kristine W will headline Halloween Palm Springs, Saturday, October 29 from 6:00-10:00 p.m. Kristine W has scored 16 potent #1 dance hits and a record-setting string of nine consecutive #1s on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart over the past 16 years, earning Kristine third place on Billboard's Best of 2000s Dance Club Play Artists rankings and landing this highly-musical and multitalented independent entertainer squarely within a pantheon of legends and major stars. I had a chance to catch up with Kristine W as she was beginning to prepare for her upcoming Palm Springs appearance, to talk about both the Halloween Concert and all things Kristine W.

Legendary folk artist Gordon Lightfoot performs at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 8 pm. Tickets are $39 - $79.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT  is coming to the Victoria Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 8 @ 8pm.  Tickets go on sale Friday, July 22 @ 10am at TicketCenterStage.com or by calling 937-228-3630. Ticket prices range from $30.00 to $85.00 plus applicable fees.

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents: Gordon Lightfoot in Concert: The Legend Lives On…, Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8PM. Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030. 

After 50+ years of hit song making and international album sales well into the multi-millions, esteemed musician, Gordon Lightfoot brings his "50 Years of Highway Tour" to the Mary W. Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion on June 26 at 8p.m.

After 50 active years of hit song making and international album sales well into the multi-millions, it's safe to say that esteemed singer-songwriter and musician Gordon Lightfoot resides with some very exclusive company atop the list of all-time greats. His song catalog is incredibly vast and includes such immortals as "Early Morning Rain," "If You Could Read My Mind," "Carefree Highway," "Sundown," "(That's What You Get) For Lovin Me," "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald,' 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy,' 'Ribbon Of Darkness,' 'Beautiful,' 'Song For A Winter's Night' and 'Rainy Day People' to name a few.

Bugsy Malone re-opened the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2015 following a multi-million pound redevelopment and the creation of the Reuben Foundation Wing. It was the UK's first professional stage production of Bugsy Malone in over a decade.