Wailin' Al Walker Hits #1 With New Album BLUESMAN
Vancouver bluesman Al Walker's eighth self-produced album BLUESMAN reaches #1 on the Roots Music Report Canada chart and debuts at #13 on the Canadian Big Blues Chart.
Vancouver bluesman Al Walker's eighth self-produced album BLUESMAN reaches #1 on the Roots Music Report Canada chart and debuts at #13 on the Canadian Big Blues Chart.
Janis Siegel, 10x Grammy-winning founder of THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER, released her new album THE ART OF VOCALESE on Origin Records, featuring jazz musicians including pianist John Di Martino, bassist Lonnie Plaxico, and vocalists Lea DeLaria and Raul Midón.
The Harlem Jazz Series will feature weekly performances by CRAIG HARRIS & THE HARLEM NIGHTSONGS BIG BAND alongside guest artists Melissa Slocum, Carla Cook, Mala Waldron, and Ricardo Strobert at Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian Church.
Pianist and composer Steve Rawlins will release WORD ON THE STREET, an album of original compositions featuring Southern California musicians and members of his own family.
What happens when 1880 Western bandits are brought back to life in Azusa, CA by a space alien? Sam Shepard's The Unseen Hand joins Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's 50th Anniversary “Circa '69” Season of significant and adventurous plays that premiered around the time of the company's inception, coupled with Shepard's gritty and audacious Killer's Head. Longtime Shepard collaborator Darrell Larson directs both plays for a Jan. 25 opening at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A., where performances will continue through March 8.
I cannot even think of enough accolades to share about the current production being staged by Greenway Arts Alliance (Whitney Weston and Pierson Blaetz, Co-Founders and Co-Artistic Directors) at the Greenway Court Theatre (544 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles) through December 9. The totally entertaining and artistically brilliant production, directed and choreographed by NAACP Theater Award-winner Jeffrey Polk, pulled me in from the moment it started until the end, given the amazingly talented cast who bring the characters so realistically to life that you can actually feel all the emotions each is going through from moment to moment. You will laugh, be fearful, cry and celebrate with all of them by the time the show ends.
The Theatre Group at SBCC opens the 17/18 season with Cole Porter's sparkling musical, HIGH SOCIETY, July 12-29 in the Garvin Theatre.