Bela Fleck performs his Banjo Concerto in his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Severance Hall tonight, December 6, 7, and 8. Giancarlo Guerrero leads all-American program, including Gershwin's An American in Paris. The December 7 concert continues KeyBank Fridays@7 series, and the concerts continue tonight, December 6, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, December 8, at 8 p.m.
Bela Fleck performs his Banjo Concerto in his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Severance Hall on December 6, 7, and 8. Giancarlo Guerrero leads all-American program, including Gershwin's An American in Paris.
Described as a "sometimes pensive, often poetic, and continually progressive folk-pop ensemble," the Cincinnati-based, husband-and-wife team of Over the Rhine has been making music for more than 20 years. Fronted by Karin Bergquist's torchy, devil-may-care voice brimming with Midwestern soul, the band is led by brilliant keyboardist and songwriter Linford Detweiler who can seamlessly move from avant garde jazz to whisper-quiet folk subtleties to flat out rock.
This November, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem continues to offer a wide range of top quality free programming and affordable concerts from jazz's most celebrated musicians, educators and historians.
Beki Baker directs and 2011 First Night Award-winning Justin Boccitto will choreograph as Lipscomb University's Department of Theatre brings the Richard Adler-Jerry Ross Tony Award-winning musical The Pajama Game to the stage of Collins Alumni Auditorium tonight, November 1-4.
Lipscomb University Theatre presents the trailer for its upcoming production of Pajama Game. Beki Baker directs and 2011 First Night Award-winning Justin Boccitto will choreograph as Lipscomb University's Department of Theatre brings the Richard Adler-Jerry Ross Tony Award-winning musical The Pajama Game to the stage of Collins Alumni Auditorium November 1-4.
Beki Baker directs and 2011 First Night Award-winning Justin Boccitto will choreograph as Lipscomb University's Department of Theatre brings the Richard Adler-Jerry Ross Tony Award-winning musical The Pajama Game to the stage of Collins Alumni Auditorium November 1-4.
Noted Spanish multi-instrumentalist Nacho Arimany brings his Nacho Arimany Trio to La MaMa from tonight, October 19-21, with 'Landscapes of the Soul,' an evening of crosscultural sounds, jazz and multimedia.
Noted Spanish multi-instrumentalist Nacho Arimany brings his Nacho Arimany Trio to La MaMa from October 19-21, with 'Landscapes of the Soul,' an evening of crosscultural sounds, jazz and multimedia.
Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Sandi Thom, best known for her 2006 No. 1 hit single I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair), announces today's (August 27th) release of her fourth studio album Flesh and Blood.
In fact, director Kate Adams and musical director Ginger Newman have crafted Nashville's own lovely and, I daresay, star-studded version of the musical which simply proves once again that Into the Woods is one of the most enchanting, most entertaining and most moving examples of contemporary musical theater at its best
Nashville Shakespeare Festival will perform Much Ado About Nothing, an enduring audience favorite among the playwright's comedies, from August 16 through September 16 at Centennial Park. Noted Nashville photographer Jeff Frazier recently captured the spirit of the production in his quartet of promotional photos for the production.
Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Sandi Thom, best known for her 2006 No.1 hit single I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair), today confirmed the August 27th release of her fourth studio album Flesh and Blood. Produced by the Black Crowes' Rich Robinson, and featuring a duet with Buffy Sainte-Marie, the album and was recorded at 16 Tons studio, Nashville, Tennessee. Sandi will embark on a nationwide UK tour in support of the new album, which begins at the London Islington Academy on Thursday November 1st 2012.
Paul Simon may be 70 years old, but he's still marvelous after all these years. One of America's greatest troubadours once again displayed his timeless artistry at last week's three-concert benefit run at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, which featured the great Wynton Marsalis and his 14-piece JLC Orchestra joining Simon's eight-piece band for a jazzy and sometimes swinging interpretation of 14 songs from the massive Paul Simon songbook.
On Monday, March 26, the Broadway at Birdland concert series was proud to present jazz vocalist Jane Monheit in 'Jane Monheit Swings Cole Porter's Anything Goes.' The evening was the creation of arranger/bass player MaryAnn McSweeney, who also brought the wildly popular 'Avenue Q Swings' to the Birdland stage several years ago.
The Broadway at Birdland concert series announced that jazz vocalist Jane Monheit will be performing new Mary Ann McSweeney arrangements of the Cole Porter classic, Anything Goes on Monday, March 26 at 7pm. Robert Creighton will be Jane's special guest.
Despite their best efforts, director Lauren Shouse and her amazingly talented cast just can't give Tracy Lett's Superior Donuts the emotional heft-the literary gravitas-that the playwright so mightily struggles for in his sitcomesque script which pales in comparison to his supposed masterpiece, August: Osage County. Clearly, it's the success of that earlier, heavily-decorated and awarded, Pulitzer Prize-winning play that most theatre companies are invoking as they attempt to sell tickets to this decidedly lesser work, hoping to capitalize on its success in hoodwinking an unsuspecting audience.
The Broadway at Birdland concert series today announced that jazz vocalist Jane Monheit will be performing new Mary Ann McSweeney arrangements of the Cole Porter classic, Anything Goes on Monday, March 26 at 7pm. Robert Creighton will be Jane's special guest.
If there is an onstage moment more breathtaking, more purely theatrical, than the one during Nashville's Nutcracker when the green upstage curtain falls at the end of the exquisitely danced "Waltz of the Flowers," I simply cannot recall it nor would I want to-for it is during that brief respite from an evening filled with stunning artistry and the revelatory staging of this time-honored holiday classic that you find yourself thoroughly done in, overwhelmed by the riches of the production that once again proves Nashville Ballet the city's leading arts entity.
Described as a 'sometimes pensive, often poetic, and continually progressive folk-pop ensemble,' the Cincinnati-based, husband-and-wife team of Over the Rhine has been making music for more than 20 years.
