Jim White News

For Ben Markley's fourth recording, the fleet pianist/composer teams with New York tenor saxophone great Joel Frahm for a dynamic set of modern jazz originals. Though written specifically with the band of Frahm, drummer Jim White, and bassist Marty Kenny in mind, Markley continually finds inspiration from significant influences in his musical life, most notably Cedar Walton, Chick Corea and Bill Evans. With engaging and elevating support from Kenney and White, Markley and Frahm pop on the boogaloo ''Mon Back,' strike a Jazz Messengers-esque pose on the grooving 'Return of Catboy,' and strut on the half-time funk of the title tune. 'Frahm's playing bubbles over with ear-catching inventiveness and a robust, positive feeling.' - Ottawa Citizen

New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), is proud to continue its mission of educating and inspiring young musicians through its Orchestra, Jazz, Chamber Music, Composition, Musical Theater Composition, Apprenticeship Conducting, and First Music commissioning programs. This season includes seven world premieres of new works commissioned through the First Music program, composed for the Orchestra, Jazz, and Chamber Music ensembles. The season also features renowned and up-and-coming soloists including prodigy pianist Harmony Zhu, 2019 Sphinx Competition winner cellist Sterling Elliott, and leading young pianist Michelle Cann in the Carnegie Hall premiere of Florence Price's recently re-discovered Piano Concerto in One Movement with NYYS Orchestra, as well as in-demand drummer Matt Wilson, celebrated saxophonist Steve Wilson, and trombone virtuoso Wycliffe Gordon with NYYS Jazz. The complete NYYS 2019-2020 concert calendar follows at the end of this press release.

The Public Theater and Onassis USA today announced additional FREE programming and participants for the ONASSIS FESTIVAL 2019: DEMOCRACY IS COMING, running April 10-28 at The Public Theater and also La MaMa. Actors Phylicia Rashad and Andre Holland, performer/singer-songwriter Diana Oh, architect Elizabeth Diller, author Siri Hustvedt, and Kostis Velonis' art installation Life Without Tragedy join the Festival lineup.

The Public Theater and Onassis USA today announced the wide-ranging line-up for the ONASSIS FESTIVAL 2019: DEMOCRACY IS COMING running April 10-28, 2019 at The Public Theater and also La MaMa.

In celebration of National Jerky Day today, Beef. It's What's For Dinner. has partnered with fan favorite "American Ninja Warrior" competitor and cattle rancher Lance Pekus to share some of his favorite strength-building tips, including keeping beef jerky on hand as a strength-building food. Pekus' tips are all inspired by his unique workouts on his family's ranch in Salmon, Idaho.

The mid-afternoon crash affects many of us, and can prevent a healthy start to the new year. In fact, a study 1 conducted by GfK's KnowledgePanel found that one-third of Americans report feeling less productive and worn out in the afternoon, culminating at an average time of 2:58 pm.

In 1975, The Modern Lovers-founding cult icon Jonathan Richman played The Kitchen, for an event curated by yet another legendary songwriting figure Arthur Russell. 2017 marks a big return to The Kitchen for Richman, who honored The Velvet Underground's John Caleat the organization's gala in April, and who the Kitchen is pleased to announce will be performing from November 18 to November 22 at their Chelsea home.

The Kitchen, founded in 1971, has continued to serve as an important catalyst for a broad community of groundbreaking artists working across disciplines. In today's landscape, where contemporary artists and arts institutions are collaborating in new ways and generating new contexts for the continuing evolution of multi-disciplinary art, The Kitchen, as a nimble, smaller-scale organization, plays an especially vital role: it provides emerging and established artists a hot-house environment for the presentation and discussion of their work, supporting and seeking to foster a vibrant, living dialogue among artists from every field and area of culture.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre presents It Shoulda Been You.

On June 7th at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, Covenant House New Jersey will celebrate the lives of the homeless youth the organization has helped off the streets at A Night of Broadway Stars, a unique fundraising event that shines a light on the talent of homeless youth and features performances by some of Broadway's biggest stars.

The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre (DWYT), Canada's longest running and most important Yiddish-language theatre, is proud to be producing the Canadian and Yiddish world premiere of It Shoulda Been You. Presented in Yiddish with English and French supertitles by the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, this hilarious musical filled with crazy twists and turns will take the stage from June 4 to June 25, 2017.

A beautiful sunny afternoon greeted the excited crowd attending the 25th WOMADelaide.

Coal Creek Theater of Louisville presents 'And Then There Were None' by Agatha Christie, February 24 through March 11 at the Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue, Louisville, CO  80027. Performances are Todays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Discount night Monday, March 6 at 7:30 pm--all tickets $10.00. Tickets are $10-$18 and available at www.cctlouisville.org  Group discounts available by calling 303-665-0955. 

Coal Creek Theater of Louisville presents 'And Then There Were None' by Agatha Christie, February 24 through March 11 at the Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Avenue, Louisville, CO  80027. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Discount night Monday, March 6 at 7:30 pm--all tickets $10.00. Tickets are $10-$18 and available at www.cctlouisville.org  Group discounts available by calling 303-665-0955. 

The Burroughs, Mama Magnolia and Other Black will perform at the Fox Theatre on January 27th, 2017 at 8:30 pm. 

The Burroughs, Mama Magnolia and Other Black will perform at the Fox Theatre on January 27th, 2017 at 8:30 pm. 

Trinity Repertory Company continues season 53, Ghosts of the Past, Dreams of the Future with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' gripping play,  Appropriate, directed by Brian Mertes. Performances run October 6 - November 6, 2016 in Trinity Rep's Dowling Theater. Tickets are available at www.trinityrep.com, by calling (401) 351-4242 or at the theater's box office at 201 Washington St., Providence.

Trinity Repertory Company continues season 53, Ghosts of the Past, Dreams of the Future with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' gripping play,  Appropriate, directed by Brian Mertes. Performances run October 6 - November 6, 2016 in Trinity Rep's Dowling Theater. Tickets are available at www.trinityrep.com, by calling (401) 351-4242 or at the theater's box office at 201 Washington St., Providence.

It began as a radical idea to preserve a mysterious land of “boiling sulpher springs.” Now the National Park Service is 100 years old – with more than 400 places we've seen fit to save forever. Smithsonian Channel will celebrate the centennial with AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS AT 100 premiering Sunday, August 28 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.