The Jewish Museum will present Israeli-American pianist Daniel Gortler and Brazilian violinist Daniel Guedes performing the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, Edward Grieg, and contemporary Brazilian composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri on Thursday, May 16 at 8 pm. This is Mr. Gortler's fifth appearance at the Jewish Museum, and Mr. Guedes's first.
Now celebrating its 41st year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 11, 2019, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception. Festival attendees can walk the Mile on Fifth Avenue between 82nd Street and 105th Street while visiting seven of New York City's finest cultural institutions, which are open free to the public throughout the evening. The Museum Mile Festival's opening ceremony takes place at 5:45pm at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street. Traditionally, the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and other city and state dignitaries open the Festival.
San Diego Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce the lineup for the 26th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival (JFEST), which brings another fantastic year of Jewish music, theatre and art to the community. This year's festival will take place May 26 - July 11, 2019, and features a slate of 13 performances across multiple San Diego and North County venues celebrating San Diego's diverse performing arts community. The venues include San Diego REP/Lyceum Theatres, Encinitas Library, Leichtag Commons, New Village Arts Theatre, and The Museum of Making Music, Carlsbad.
The Segal Centre for Performing Arts announced today an exciting lineup of programming for its 2019-2020 season that is filled with new adventures, new stories, and new worlds to discover. Driven to bring Segal Centre audiences first-rate theatre that is both entertaining and transformative with the power to strengthen and connect communities, Artistic and Executive Director Lisa Rubin has planned a theatre season that features six must-see productions that will take audiences on astonishing and emotional inspiring journeys.
Comedian, poet and author Rick Shapiro is to appear in his own show 'Restless' tonight at the Slipper Room in the Lower East Side. Shapiro, one of the most innovative and surreal comedic talents and a staple of the NYC and LA Underground comedy scene, began his career in the early 1980's performing stand-up at Catch A Rising Star on Broadway.
Bistro and MAC Hanson Award winning vocalist, Lucille Carr-Kaffashan, returns to Don't Tell Mamathis spring with a new cabaret show, How The Light Gets In. This show features the work of male singer-songwriters who use their art to give voice to the feelings and experiences that men are typically discouraged from expressing in our society, including artists Billy Joel, John Legend, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Darius Rucker and others.
The Lumineers will release their new album III on September 13th through Dualtone (an Entertainment One Company) in the U.S. and Canada and Decca Records for the rest of the world. The two-time GRAMMY nominated band has also released 'Gloria,' the first single from the album, which is out today. Lead vocalist Wesley Schultz says the song 'is about love between an addict and her family.'
Singer Tiffany Bailey took time out of a busy rehearsal schedule to talk about her concert at Upstairs at Vitello's on April 17, the release party for her first cd Jazz with Pop.
The Slipper Room, the celebrated variety theatre in Manhattan's Lower East Side, has announced the line-up for their Spring season, presenting a full calendar of regular weekly in-house productions in addition to guest shows, concerts and one-nighters.
Born in Dublin and based in New York City, Gregory Harrington raises the bar for violinists in the 21st century. With his broad musical range, he has the unique ability to translate popular jazz, rock and pop music to violin virtuosity, juxtaposing Bach and Bob Dylan, Beethoven and Leonard Cohen, Ravel and Radiohead. Harrington's cross-cultural and wide-reaching appeal has brought him to perform for Presidents and Vice Presidents, celebrities, heads of state, the United Nations and millions of pop and jazz music fans around the globe
Following the rapturous reaction to the release of On The Line, Jenny Lewis is proud to unveil the star-studded video for “Red Bull & Hennessy,” available now for your viewing pleasure. Watch here!
Cork Opera House and PwC, Ireland's largest professional services organisation, are delighted to announce a new addition to the Cork Summer calendar, in association with Cork Midsummer Festival, the inaugural Cork Proms.
On March 22, 2019, gifted singer and multi-instrumentalist Jake Clemons will release the timely and important single “Democracy”, his interpretation of the Leonard Cohen classic that was originally released in 1992. The song (which is the first from Clemons' forthcoming May 2019 album), was co-produced by Jake Clemons and Jake Hull and mixed by legendary Grammy winning engineer and producer Eddie Kramer. “Democracy” will be distributed through The Orchard/Sony Music on BFD and Sea Lemons.
The Jewish Museum will present Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, a contemporary art exhibition devoted to the imagination and legacy of the influential singer/songwriter, man of letters, and global icon from Montreal, Canada. The exhibition will be on view from April 12 through September 8, 2019.
The Annenberg Center and NextMove Dance announce the 2019-20 dance season at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. The special retrospective season will celebrate the tradition of bringing the best in dance to Philadelphia while also looking to the future of the art form. Highlights include companies that have frequently graced the Annenberg Center stage, including MOMIX, Pilobolus, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, and a celebration of the life's work of dance icon Paul Taylor in a tribute to some of his greatest masterpieces.
Bang on a Can and the Jewish Museum's 2018-2019 concert season, pairing innovative music with the Museum's exhibitions and showcasing leading female performers and composers, continues today, February 28, 2019 at 7:30pm. The acclaimed string quartet ETHEL performs the complete string quartets of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe: Dig Deep, Early that Summer, Four Marys, and Blue Dress. This is the first performance of all of Wolfe's string quartets at one time, on one stage.
Carly Rae Jepsen today has dropped two brand new singles, called NOW THAT I FOUND YOU and NO DRUG LIKE ME. These tracks are a follow up to her late 2018 release of the single PARTY FOR ONE.
Tim Minchin has started a countdown to his upcoming tour on Twitter! For each day of the countdown, Minchin has shared a video of a past performance of his.