Following the release in 2016 of their highly acclaimed album Come Together - Barb Jungr and John McDaniel Perform The Beatles, the ferociously talented, award-winning duo have two collaborations arriving imminently on both sides of the pond.
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, now in its 40th season, presents Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal: Leonard Cohen's Dance Me, a sweeping homage to Leonard Cohen's songs. Originally commissioned before Leonard Cohen's death and with his blessing, Dance Me 'is a grandly executed hodgepodge of performance art that pushes the entertainment value of contemporary dance closer to the level of a rock concert or big-budget musical' (Ottawa Citizen). Choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Ihsan Rustem, the work debuted in Canada to great acclaim last year and the full piece will have its American premiere in this free performance at the Prospect Park Bandshell (Prospect Park West & 9th Street).
Brooklyn Music School (BMS) presents a new play by Pianist/Composer Alon Nechushtan, Survival Codes, on Thursday, June 28, 2018, at 8pm at The Playhouse Theatre at Brooklyn Music School, 126 Felix Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are $20 ($10 for Students and Seniors)
Peyroux moves between music genres and styles with absolute certainty.
Australian music collective, ali & the thieves tour their critically acclaimed narrative concert, LEONARD COHEN KOANS, across the USA and Canada this summer. The tour reaches New York City on Sunday July 1st at The Duplex Cabaret Theater with Ali Hughes singing lead vocals supported by MD Daryl Wallis, Adam Armstrong on bass and Greg Joseph on drums.
Christine Jones has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO.
Brooklyn Music School (BMS) presents a new play by Pianist/Composer Alon Nechushtan, Survival Codes, on Thursday, June 28, 2018, at 8pm at The Playhouse Theatre at Brooklyn Music School, 126 Felix Street, Brooklyn, NY
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association today announced the following updates to the 2018/19 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
ANN WILSON of HEART, one of rock's most distinctive and powerful vocalists, will release her new solo album September 14 on BMG, marking her debut for the label. Fittingly titled IMMORTAL, the album features 10 musically diverse tracks that pay homage to some of the singer's favorite songs and artists, all of whom have passed away in recent years and whose music poignantly lives on (the full track listing is below).
At long last, Kinky Friedman's second musical act begins. With the proclamation that here “is what music was, before it came homogenized, trivialized and sanitized,” Kinky is dropping his first all-new CD of original tunes in four decades. Called Circus of Life, it presents a side of Kinky that few would have suspected in the halcyon days of his Texas Jewboys, laying perhaps legit claim to the title “The Leonard Cohen of Texas.” On July 3, 2018, he will release it on his own terms and on his own Echo Hill Records.
Delivering bold interpretations of music from one of the most influential artists of the age, composer and musical director Stewart D'Arrietta takes his acclaimed celebration of Leonard Cohen on a tour of UK theatres in summer 2018.
Today, Jill Barber released the video for 'Mercy,' the second single from her upcoming album Metaphora. It premiered at Billboard, and was shot by Juno Award-winning director Christopher Mills, whose work includes videos for Modest Mouse, Leonard Cohen, and Broken Social Scene.
On May 25th, Calgary theatregoers will get a sneak peek at The Happiness Equation, a new comedy written by Peter Fenton (Bemused, The Giant's Garden) and Scott White (Bosco & Jones, Top Gun! The Musical). This reading is part of the Suncor Stage One Festival of New Canadian Work at Lunchbox Theatre.
During summer most theatres are closed in Sweden but instead the open air theatres opens. In Stockholm the communal theatre brings musicals, plays and music events to different stages around Stockholm as Parkteatern, and it is for free! It is very popular so be there on time in order to get a seat. People bring hampers or buy something to eat from the food truck while they wait for the show to start.
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their acclaimed album Boxer, The National performed the record from beginning to end at a very special show in Brussels, Belgium on November 9th, 2017. The vinyl was released exclusively on Record Store Day, which sold out immediately. Now, on Friday, July 13th, the live LP will be released digitally and on CD. Listen to 'Fake Empire' HERE.
Toronto's own Juno nominated reggae master and soulful singer Jay Douglas has officially released his new album 'Lovers Paradise' via Slammin Media. The album is a best of collection of Jay Douglas' classic tracks, as well as some unreleased material that fans have been clamoring for. The album has been performing well at Campus Radio in the United States and continues to gain traction with reggae lovers across North America.
Nana Mouskouri attracts legions of admirers wherever she performs. With an estimated four hundred million albums sold, Nana Mouskouri is among the top 25 recording artists of all time.
Christine Jones has won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play for HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD, PARTS ONE AND TWO.
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in a co-presentation with Pomegranate Arts, is thrilled to announce the special guest artists who will perform in Taylor Mac's ambitious, internationally acclaimed work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Local Philadelphia performance artists and musicians will join Mac in these final U.S. performances of the full, 24-hour-long pop odyssey, June 2 & 9 at the Kimmel Center's Merriam Theater, as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA). Mac will perform A 24-Decade History of Popular Music as two distinct 12-hour concerts, Saturday, June 2 (1776-1896) and Saturday, June 9 (1896-present day) - Mac's longest continuous performances since the work premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn in 2016.
San Diego Repertory Theatre presents The 25th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival,May 27-June 27, 2018. The slate of 10 performances will take place at four different San Diego and North County venues celebrating San Diego's varied and diverse performing arts community. These include San Diego REP/Lyceum Theatres, Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Encinitas Library and Congregation Adat Yeshurin in La Jolla.
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