Pianist and composer Chucho Valdes will embark on a U.S. tour with the Afro-Cuban Messengers in January and February 2012, featuring performances from the Grammy Award-winning album, Chucho's Steps.
Pianist and composer Chucho Valdés will perform in Storrs, CT with the Afro-Cuban Messengers on Jan 27 & 28, 2012, featuring performances from the Grammy Award winning album, Chucho's Steps.
Each Thursday and Friday night in February, SHOWTIME(R) will honor Black History Month with its annual month-long programming initiative featuring revealing documentaries and stand-up specials spotlighting the Black experience. Highlights include a new documentary from noted historian Nelson George and a stand-up special from the legendary Paul Mooney.
Theatre Aspen is holding a private reading of the new musical Cross That River on Thursday, January 26th, in New York City. The musical is subtitled "a new musical about the black west" with a book by Allan & Pat Harris and Andrew Carl Wilk and music and lyrics by Allan Harris (based on an original story by Allan & Pat Harris).
The Kimmel Center kicks off Jazz Appreciation Month with a special program, The Ballad of the American Arts, featuring Wynton Marsalis with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Verizon Hall on April 3, 2012 at 7:30pm.
The New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), the largest multi-arts festival in North America, will present the 16th Annual Festival from August 10th - 26th, 2012. Each year the festival presents programming by nearly 200 of the world's best emerging theatre troupes and dance companies. General FringeNYC applications are being accepted for participants in all genres (theatre, dance, puppetry, performance art, multi-media, etc.), and separate FringeAL FRESCO (free outdoor events) and FringeJR (children's programming) applications are also available. Applications are now available online at www.fringenyc.organd completed applications are due February 14, 2012.
Paula West, San Francisco's favorite jazz singer returns to the Herbst Theatre for one performance only on Saturday February 11, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. Performing with the George Mesterhazy Quartet, she will perform songs from her new CD, "Live at the Jazz Standard." The CD features many of Paula's best loved tunes never before recorded by her.
Jumaane Smith, Michael Buble's lead trumpeter, will perform on January 21 at The Palace Danbury Theater.
Pianist and composer Chucho Valdés will perform in Storrs, CT with the Afro-Cuban Messengers on Jan 27 & 28, 2012, featuring performances from the Grammy Award winning album, Chucho's Steps.
These two incredibly talented sisters are longtime friends of the Royal Room. This will be Ann Hampton Callaway's seventh visit since 2002 and Liz Callaway's third engagement since 2005 - but the FIRST TIME that the two have appeared here together. They have recently been performing together in BOOM!, celebrating songs from the 60s and 70s.
The American Museum of Natural History celebrates African-American History Month with Global Weekends: The African-American Musical Mosaic on Saturday, February 18, from noon to 6 pm.
Miller Theatre At Columbia University School of the Arts 'turns up the heat' on its Jazz series with the Miller debut of Anat Cohen Quartet Saturday, February 11, 8:00 p.m.
These two incredibly talented sisters are longtime friends of the Royal Room. This will be Ann Hampton Callaway's seventh visit since 2002 and Liz Callaway's third engagement since 2005 - but the FIRST TIME that the two have appeared here together. They have recently been performing together in BOOM!, celebrating songs from the 60s and 70s.
Pianist and composer Chucho Valdes will embark on a U.S. tour with the Afro-Cuban Messengers in January and February 2012, featuring performances from the Grammy Award-winning album, Chucho's Steps.
Emmy Award®-winning TV, film and stage actor and arts advocate Alec Baldwin will deliver The Americans for the Arts 25th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy on April 16 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The lecture is presented by Americans for the Arts, the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education, and in partnership with Ovation, the only television network dedicated to all forms of artistic expression.
Jumaane Smith, Michael Buble's lead trumpeter, will perform on January 21 at The Palace Danbury Theater.
NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Ownes will appear at Dizzy's Coca Cola from January 3-8th, 2012, and will perform music from his newest album, The Monk Project. On January 5th, 2012 NEA Jazz Master and recipient of the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy discusses his career, the NEA, and his just released tribute to Monk CD -- Jimmy Owens: The Monk Project. After the discussion, Jimmy will also be available for questions and to sign copies of his new CD.
In Sing the Truth, a New York/New Jersey metro-area exclusive that comes to NJPAC's Prudential Hall on December 18, 2011 at 3pm, three great women of contemporary song - multilingual singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo, Grammy-winning jazz legend Dianne Reeves and jazz/gospel-inspired diva Lizz Wright - pay tribute to three recently departed legends: Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, and Odetta.
The Thurnauer Chamber Music Society, the ensemble in residence at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music since 1992, will open its 19th season with The Viennese Tradition: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Fritz Kreisler's Death.
The SHIRAH Community Chorus on the Palisades, led by Matthew Lazar, founding director and conductor, will perform its 2011 Chanukah Concert on Sunday, December 11 at 3 p.m. in the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades' (411 East Clinton Avenue) Taub Auditorium.
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