After experiencing some initial success in the world of cabaret last year, Jeffrey Wright has returned to the Kranzberg Arts Center for a weekend of sold out performances. With the encouragement of mentors Lina Koutrakos and Rick Jensen, Wright has fashioned a show centered around the theme of 'The Dance', featuring an eclectic mix of standards, show tunes, classic rock and country. But, Wright breaks down these genre classifications by investing each song with the same sense of genuine warmth and sensitivity that characterizes his own personality.
Irish-American Celtic music sensations Cherish the Ladies return to the Byham Theater for one performance! Cherish the Ladies blends virtuosic instrumental talents, beautiful vocals, captivating original arrangements and stunning step dancing in an entertaining, humorous and lively celebration of traditional Irish culture.
Today, Friday, February 19, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops announced details of the orchestra's 125th anniversary season, May 4-June 20, 2010, outlining programs that celebrate the orchestra's rich tradition of performing the great music of this country's past and present, for which the Boston Pops is so well known.
While the Northern East Coast of the U.S. was hammered with blizzard-like conditions last week, Broadway vet Kevin Kern was busy with the launch of THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, the concert revue he co-stars in, which compiles many of the prolific composer's musical hits that are in turn interpreted by six talented, well-known performers of the Broadway stage. Luckily, he and the extraordinary cast will get the chance to thaw out a little bit when the show pays a visit to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for a limited, one-week engagement on February 16 through 21. Kern-whose theater credits include Broadway's Wicked, The Wedding Singer, and Les Miserables, as well as the pre-Broadway runs of 9 to 5: The Musical and Next to Normal-recently took some time in between performances to talk with BroadwayWorld/Costa Mesa to discuss the concert, as well as his early work in the original casts of Altar Boyz and 9 to 5 (in the latter, he divulges his early star-struck shyness towards a certain Ms. Parton). He also breaks the exclusive news (to us first!) about his upcoming involvement in a hit Broadway musical that's about to cross the pond over to London!
Grammy Award winning saxophonist David Sanborn returns to the Blue Note with a new quartet in support of his upcoming CD, Only Everything (Jan. 26, Decca), the 25th recording of his career. Only Everything features special guests such as Joss Stone and James Taylor alongside jazz veterans like organist Joey DeFrancesco, who will be featured in Sanborn's band at the Blue Note from Feb. 9 - 14. Says Sanborn of DeFrancesco, "Joey knows how to get that sound that's so soulful and yet still has a jazz feel." Joining Sanborn and DeFrancesco will be keyboardist Ricky Peterson and drummer Gene Lake.
Do you dance? Have you ever danced around? A decision? With a lover, around an issue or a job? When it comes time to pay the band, is the dancing always done? In his show, THE DANCE, Jeff Wright dances with you and around you, and for seventy-five minutes he won't let you go. With songs from Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, Sammy Cahn, James Taylor, Jule Styne, Craig Carnelia, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Elton John.
Grammy Award winning saxophonist David Sanborn returns to the Blue Note with a new quartet in support of his upcoming CD, Only Everything (Jan. 26, Decca), the 25th recording of his career. Only Everything features special guests such as Joss Stone and James Taylor alongside jazz veterans like organist Joey DeFrancesco, who will be featured in Sanborn's band at the Blue Note from Feb. 9 - 14. Says Sanborn of DeFrancesco, "Joey knows how to get that sound that's so soulful and yet still has a jazz feel." Joining Sanborn and DeFrancesco will be keyboardist Ricky Peterson and drummer Gene Lake.
Clive Gillinson, Executive and Artistic Director, today announced Carnegie Hall's 2010-2011 season, consisting of 180 performances and extensive educational programs, featuring collaborations with many of the world's greatest musicians and ensembles from the worlds of classical, pop, jazz, and world music, with concerts presented on Carnegie Hall's three stages and throughout New York City. A major highlight of Carnegie Hall's new season will be JapanNYC, an ambitious two-part citywide festival, led by Artistic Director Seiji Ozawa, exploring the incredible diversity of Japan's arts and culture with more than 40 events at Carnegie Hall and New York partner institutions in December 2010 and spring 2011.
James Taylor is set to perform a benefit concert for Haiti on Friday, January 22 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. All proceeds will benefit Partners in Health and Taylor will match proceeds from all ticket sales.
Grammy Award winning saxophonist David Sanborn returns to the Blue Note with a new quartet in support of his upcoming CD, Only Everything (Jan. 26, Decca), the 25th recording of his career. Only Everything features special guests such as Joss Stone and James Taylor alongside jazz veterans like organist Joey DeFrancesco, who will be featured in Sanborn's band at the Blue Note from Feb. 9 - 14. Says Sanborn of DeFrancesco, "Joey knows how to get that sound that's so soulful and yet still has a jazz feel." Joining Sanborn and DeFrancesco will be keyboardist Ricky Peterson and drummer Gene Lake.
James Taylor is set to perform a benefit concert for Haiti on Friday, January 22 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. All proceeds will benefit Partners in Health and Taylor will match proceeds from all ticket sales.
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its Winter 2010 season with Broadway star, MAUREEN MCGOVERN for two shows on January 8. For her show at Feinstein's, Ms. McGovern will give an encore presentation of 'A Long and Winding Road - The Concert.' Her critically acclaimed tribute to iconic singer/songwriters Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, James Taylor, Carole King, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell and more, includes 60's classics such as 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix', 'And When I Die', 'Fire and Rain' and 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?' Both shows, which feature Musical Director Jeffrey Harris and bassist Jay Leonhart, will take place at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).
FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, has updated their Winter/Spring 2010 schedule.
The Napa Valley Opera House is pleased to present an evening with Elvis Costello solo. In one of the most intimate stops on his Spring 2010 tour, Costello will songs from his vast 30-year musical career. This show is generously sponsored in part by Jonesy's Steak House in Napa.
Metropolitan favorite Liz Callaway returns to the Metropolitan Room on December 31 with two shows. Her first show, beginning at 8pm, is to celebrate the release of her newest CD Passage of Time. The album -her first in 8 years- includes music by Stephen Sondheim, James Taylor, Rogers and Hammerstein, Maltby and Shire, Ahrens and Flaherty, Stephen Schwartz, and Carly Simon.
