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The South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) today announced the ambitious performance schedule for January - May 2014. From Grammy Award- winners such as Paula Cole to guitar legends including Johnny Winter to a night of comedy with Jay Mohr, SOPAC's 2014 season sates every artistic appetite. With a nod to sounds of Americana, SOPAC serves a heaping of national folk treasures in a robust singer/songwriter concert series. As always, SOPAC welcomes its ongoing Juilliard @ SOPAC classical concert series as well as the Jazz in the LOFT and the Blues in the LOFT series.

On Saturday, Sept. 21, ESPN launched a new campaign in support of its flagship program, SportsCenter.

The Napa Valley Opera House yesterday announced the following schedule of performances taking place throughout the month of June.

The eighth annual Mission Creek Festival returns April 2-7, 2013. The six-day event takes over music venues and art spaces in downtown Iowa City, creating a community-wide celebration of music, literature, and food.

A vital part of New York City's choral and new music communities, the Manhattan Choral Ensemble (MCE) enters into its 13th season with an ambitious series of programs that span the 16th century to the present day. In each of its four programs, the MCE will focus on works written by New York City-based artists.

The Englert Theatre has announced the release of the Iowa City Song Project. The exclusive collection of songs inspired by Iowa City will be released via Maximum Ames Records today, November 6.

Following last season's reinterpretation of Federico Garcia Lorca's classic The House of Bernarda Alba, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and the University of Miami's Department of Theatre Arts are partnering once again to present a fresh rock musical, GIRLS VS. BOYS, written by the creators of The Sparrow and Death and Harry Houdini - Chris Mathews, Jake Minton, Kevin O'Donnell and Nathan Allen of the renowned House Theatre of Chicago. Playing November 1 - 18, 2012 in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater (Ziff Ballet Opera House), GIRLS VS. BOYS is a captivating, dramatic story about the struggles of teen life set to a rocking, soul-bearing score. The musical is part of the Arsht Center's Theater Up Close series in the Carnival Studio Theater which features artistic collaborations from stellar local theater ensembles and nationally acclaimed theater companies.

The Englert Theatre has announced the release of the Iowa City Song Project. The exclusive collection of songs inspired by Iowa City will be released via Maximum Ames Records on November 6.

Adding more to their lineup of events - including Janis Ian, Judy Collins, Steve Earle, and The Miles Davis Experience - the Englert Theatre is happy to announce three additional shows for the Fall Season.

Adding more to their lineup of events - including Janis Ian, Judy Collins, Steve Earle, and The Miles Davis Experience - the Englert Theatre is happy to announce three additional shows for the Fall Season.

Things are different at Canada's outdoor summer music festivals. Blues legend Taj Mahal hobnobs with local fishermen. Baby boomers in Birkenstocks have rap conversion experiences thanks to Shad or K'Naan. The Arcade Fire lead mass sing-a-longs, and bands jam all night under a midnight sun.

Things are different at Canada's outdoor summer music festivals. Blues legend Taj Mahal hobnobs with local fishermen. Baby boomers in Birkenstocks have rap conversion experiences thanks to Shad or K'Naan. The Arcade Fire lead mass sing-a-longs, and bands jam all night under a midnight sun.

Two River Theater Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director John Dias, announces the full company and creative team for its production of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced preliminary casting and final music directors for its 22nd Annual Festival of New Musicals taking place on Thursday, October 21 and Friday, October 22, 2010 at New World Stages in New York City.

On Saturday evening, August 21, Middlebury's Bridge School will celebrate 30 years of pedagogical success, when three of their most prominent alumnae return to perform a benefit concert at Town Hall Theater.

On Saturday evening, August 21, Middlebury's Bridge School will celebrate 30 years of pedagogical success, when three of their most prominent alumnae return to perform a benefit concert at Town Hall Theater.

This is the 31st annual Calgary Folk Music Festival held July 22-25, 2010 on Prince's Island, whose dreamlike balance of urban and bucolic, friendly and far-out, superfly and earthy reflects Calgary, Canada's cowboy can-do and progressive DIY aesthetic. It's Annie Oakley meets Ani DiFranco.

After weeks of artist leaks, we're announcing the full line up for the 31st Calgary Folk Festival. July 22 - 25, 2010 at Prince's Island Park in downtown Calgary, AB.