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This Friday night, multiple GRAMMY® Award winner Jason Mraz will bring his signature sound to AT&T AUDIENCE Network for a special, one-hour concert. Watch a "First Look" as Mraz performs "Let's See What The Night Can Do" off his new album Know. (out August 10 via Atlantic Records) on PARADE magazine today, HERE.

According to a new audition notice, casting is currently underway for a musical based on the behemoth pop catalogue of producer Max Martin.

The Music Institute of Chicago, long recognized for teaching classical and jazz music, is offering new classes exploring rock, folk, blues, and the entire spectrum of American roots music beginning September 4. Classes are available for children, teens, and adults at Music Institute locations in Chicago, Evanston, Winnetka, and Lake Forest. Registration is now open at microcks.org or 847.905.1500.

Singer/songwriter/director Hayley Kiyoko has today announced that she will be embarking on her first ever UK & European tour in October 2018. Tickets on sale at 9amon Friday 3rd August at LiveNation.co.uk.

Glass Handel is one of two innovative and thought-provoking world premiere productions that highlight O18, the second edition of Opera Philadelphia's annual season-opening festival. Staged on September 22, 23 and 30 in the expansive Annenberg Court of Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, home to O17's The Wake World, the new work is an immersive, multidisciplinary operatic installation headlined and created by American countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo – “a bona-fide star” (New Yorker) – in collaboration with producer Cath Brittan and avant-garde fashion/art company Visionaire. Under their curation, music by Baroque master George Frederic Handel and living legend Philip Glass meets the worlds of art, fashion, dance, and film through collaboration with a host of luminaries: fine artist George Condo; designer Raf Simons from fashion house Calvin Klein; choreographer Justin Peck; ballet dancers David Hallberg and Patricia Delgado; performance artist Ryan McNamara; and filmmakers including James Ivory, Maurizio Cattelan, Mickalene Thomas and Mark Romanek. Opera Philadelphia's world premiere production also marks the official launch of ARC, Costanzo's solo album debut, a collection of Glass and Handel arias due for September 21 release on Decca Gold.

Award-winning Artemisia's Intent makes its Rhode Island debut this July, bringing to life the work of Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi at the 5th Annual Providence Fringe Festival. FRINGEPVD brings independent performers from around the world to Providence to share original work from artists on the 'fringe.'  Performances will take place on July 31 (8:30PM) andAugust 1 (7PM) at the Wilbury Theatre Group (40 Sonoma Ct, Providence, RI). Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. More information at http://www.fringepvd.org/artemisias-intent.html.

Following a sold out 25th Anniversary World Tour and Greatest Hits release, Grammy nominated multi-platinum pop-rock trio HANSON is beginning their next 25 years with a musical project unmatched in their history, String Theory symphonic tour and album set to launch this summer and continue through Spring 2019.

Today Columbus, OH rock band Beartooth are pleased to announce the details of their third studio album's release. Entitled Disease, the band's third effort is a stark look inward and the next installment chronicling frontman Caleb Shomo's battle with his own demons. Disease will be released globally on September 28th but today fans can preorder the album and receive instant downloads of album tracks 'Bad Listener' and 'Disease.' Preorders at the band's website BeartoothBand.com include limited and exclusive Diseasevinyl and merch bundles.

Countertenor ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO announces ARC, an album of works by Philip Glass and Handel, set for release on September 21 on DECCA GOLD (click here to pre-order).

Tenille Arts signed with Reviver Records this past spring and immediately hit the road meeting Country radio programmers and listeners. Today, Reviver is releasing her first single, “I Hate This,” and it will hit all streaming and online retail outlets on Friday, July 27.

Following a sold out 25th Anniversary World Tour and Greatest Hits release, Grammy nominated multi-platinum pop-rock trio HANSON is beginning their next 25 years with a musical project unmatched in their history, String Theory symphonic tour and album set to launch this summer and continue through Spring 2019.

According to The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson has signed on to portray the iconic role of 'Grizabella' in the upcoming film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS!

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Pretty Woman begins previews on Broadway tonight, and more!

Multi-platinum-certified rapper, artist, and visionary 21 SAVAGE remains downright unstoppable. Recently, he teamed up with Post Malone for the platinum-certified mega-smash “rockstar,” achieving his first Billboard Hot 100 #1 in the process. Meanwhile, his full-length debut, Issa Album, stands out as one of the year's biggest success stories. It clinched #2 on the Billboard Top 200 upon arrival, moving over 77,000 copies first-week. It also went #1 on the Apple Music Hip-Hop/Rap Chart. The lead single“Bank Account” earned an RIAA platinum certification and also peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100. To date, Spotify streams exceed 216 million and YouTube/VEVO views surpass 64 million-plus.

Well-Strung, the innovative and eclectic New York City-based string quartet that derives their unique blend of vocals and strings by fusing classical music with the pop music of today, has announced that their latest album, Under the Covers will be released September 14, 2018. Their third album, Under the Covers will feature a collection of covers that combine everyone from Lady Gaga and Vivaldi to Queen and Rossini.  The quartet, who have quickly gained international attention, playing in London, Rome and Vienna and selling out venues all across the United States, features Edmund Bagnell (first violin), Christopher Marchant (second violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello) and Trevor Wadleigh (viola). A follow-up to their chart-topping sophomore album POPssical (released in 2015), Under the Covers is now available for pre-order at this link, on iTunes, Amazon, and wherever music is sold.

MTV today announced nominations across all gender neutral categories for the 2018 “VMAs.” The list includes dozens of artists whose reach and influence have elevated music's relevancy within the cultural conversation.  Cardi B received nods in 10 categories, including “Video,” “Song” and “Artist of the Year,” and The Carters secured eight, including “Video of the Year,” “Best Collaboration” and “Best Hip Hop” for their recent hit single “APES**T.” Other top contenders include Childish Gambino, Drake and Bruno Mars.  The “VMAs” will air live from Radio City Music Hall on Monday, August 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, and across MTV's global network of channels in more than 180 countries and territories, reaching more than half a billion households around the world.

A brand-new family festival, FamFest, comes to Warrington next month featuring a jam-packed programme on Sat 11 and Sun 12 August to keep the whole family entertained!

Tune in Friday, July 13 at 9:00 pm ET/PT to watch the broadcast premiere of the concert special "Jacob Banks" on AT&T* AUDIENCE Network via DIRECTV Ch 239, AT&T U-verse Ch 1114. The show will also be available streaming on-demand through DIRECTV NOW.   

Sony/ATV Music Publishing has come on board as a co-producer and investor of brand new Elvis Presley stage musical HEARTBREAK HOTEL.

Breakthrough artist Anne-Marie released a fun-loving backstage video for her song “2002” shot with co-writer and long-time friend, Ed Sheeran, who trades vocals with Anne-Marie and plays acoustic guitar in the clip. Rolling Stone put “2002” – a song Anne-Marie wrote with Ed Sheeran - on their “The Playlist,” praising it as “peak, perfect early-Aughts nostalgia.” Peopleconcurred, hailing the song as “a nostalgia-fueled millennial dream.”  Check out the video below!