The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) will honor four Chicago artists and arts advocates and one iconic cultural institution at the 3rd annual Fifth Star Awards presented by Allstate Insurance Company on Wednesday, September 14 at 7pm-at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.
One of the biggest names in rock and folk music, Al Stewart, will be performing at the intimate Scherr Forum on Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 7:30 pm.
?Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Toad The Wet Sprocket and Rusted Root presented by Westfield Garden State Plaza - Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 8PMn presented by Westfield Garden State Plaza. Purchase tickets at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030.
Buddy Guy will be taking the stage at the Morrison Center Monday, August 22nd at 7:30 pm. Buddy Guy is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago's fabled West Side sound, and a living link to the city's halcyon days of electric blues. Buddy Guy has received 7 GRAMMY Awards, a 2015 Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, 34 Blues Music Awards (the most any artist has received), the Billboard Magazine Century Award for distinguished artistic achievement, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the Presidential National Medal of Arts. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #23 in its '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.'
New York City Center today announced the cast of the Encores! Off-Center production of Runaways, Elizabeth Swados' landmark musical about the stories, fears, and fantasies of runaway children. Cast largely from an open call attended by over 300 teenagers of 'all ethnicities, body types, gender identification, and ability levels,' the 'wolfpack' of 25, as director Sam Pinkleton affectionately calls them, embody the ferocious kinetic energy of today's New York-just as the original cast reflected the New York of 1978.
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Steve Vai's Modern Primitive / Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition, a celebratory 2CD collection of classic tracks and previously unreleased music, on Friday, June 24.
?New shows on sale this week at bergenPAC: Toad The Wet Sprocket and Rusted Root presented by Westfield Garden State Plaza-Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 8PM and 38 Special presented by Westfield Garden State Plaza-Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 8PM. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 20, 2016 at 11AM at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling bergenPAC's Box Office at 201.227.1030.
The Blossom Music Festival announces that The Music of Led Zeppelin: A Rock Symphony will be presented at Blossom Music Center on August 20, 2016. Brent Havens will conduct the Blossom Festival Orchestra in the performance, which features vocalist Randy Jackson. Both artists will be making their Blossom Music Festival debut. The touring production of The Who's Classic Quadrophenia, previously scheduled for August 20, has been cancelled.
Berkshire Theatre Group is pleased announce additions to the 2016 Colonial Theatre line-up: Las Vegas's 'Comedian of The Year' nine years in a row, Rita Rudner; singing tunes from the '20s to the present, On The Stage Series: Miss B. Haven; and 'Send Me On My Way' Platinum-selling, rock/jam band, Rusted Root. Tickets are on sale now.
Berklee President Roger H. Brown will present Rita Moreno, Ronald and Ernie Isley, Lucian Grainge, and Milton Nascimento with honorary doctor of music degrees at Berklee's commencement ceremony, Saturday, May 7
Berklee President Roger H. Brown will present Rita Moreno, Ronald and Ernie Isley, Lucian Grainge, and Milton Nascimento with honorary doctor of music degrees at Berklee's commencement ceremony, Saturday, May 7, at the 7,000-seat Agganis Arena at Boston University. Moreno, this year's commencement speaker, will address more than 900 Berklee graduates and their parents and invited guests.
(Le) Poisson Rouge and WORD Bookstore are proud to announce the launch event for Bob Boilen's upcoming book, YOUR SONG CHANGED MY LIFE: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music that Inspired It. The event will take place at (Le) Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street tonight, April 12th, at 6:00pm.
(Le) Poisson Rouge and WORD Bookstore are proud to announce the launch event for Bob Boilen's upcoming book, YOUR SONG CHANGED MY LIFE: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music that Inspired It. The event will take place at (Le) Poisson Rouge at 158 Bleecker Street on Tuesday, April 12th, at 6:00pm.
As they prepare to re-launch the North American leg of 'The Who Hits 50! Tour' Saturday, February 27 at Joe Louis Arena, The Who returned to the stage Saturday, February 13 at SSE Arena, Wembley for their first show since the tour was postponed in September (2015).
Guitar Center is proud to announce the upcoming induction of Grammy Award-winning country music legend Vince Gill into the retailer's historic RockWalk.
LONDON, Oct. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Ginger Gilmourmarried on a bright sunny day in England during the recordings of 'Wish You Were Here'. This book, published by Angelscript, is a collection of stories told by Ginger Gilmour in her own words titled 'Memoirs of the Bright Side of the Moon'.
Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) announced today that they have acquired US theatrical, VOD and DVD rights to the gritty and soul music-packed NORTHERN SOUL.