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For the Costa-Jackson sisters, singing isn't just a passion, it's a family business. Ginger, Marina, and Miriam Costa-Jacksona?"all recent or upcoming performers with Seattle Operaa?"are offering a special, one-night-only concert at McCaw Hall on Nov. 2. Audiences can expect an entertaining mix of opera, Broadway, and Neapolitan hits from these glamorous Sicilian-Americans. Each a rising star in her own right, the singers are especially memorable when performing together.   

If you start with a talented singer, back him up with a skilled pianist/arranger and secure a Director who can weave it all together, you have the team in place to create a great show.

Diana Huey is a dynamic singer of power tunes: power ballads, power rock, and power pop songs. The surprise though is that she is equally adept at the introspective monologue and the quirky character song. She has a wry sense of humor which is most often aimed at herself. And most importantly, Diana Huey has heart, lots and lots of heart. Most of her stories dealt with finding your own empowerment through kindness to others. She feels this duty especially when it comes to children. She had wonderful stories about the young girls who came to the stage door to meet her when she played Ariel in The Little Mermaid on tour. Her platform as an Asian woman playing a Disney princess has made her a powerful advocate for these young girls. It is a job she takes very seriously.

Any time Dorian Woodruff sets out to make a new show, he leaves no stone unturned in his effort to get it right, which is why he sometime takes an entire year to put everything in place. More than two years after his hit 'Welcome Home' show, Dorian comes home to Pangea with a new show set the the music of a legendary singer/songwriter.

Joe Hanson releases “Head Over Wheels,” a quintessential youthfully-nostalgic track for anyone longing for their teenage years.

Song stylist Jonathan Karrant takes the stage in the Chrome Showroom at the Santa Fe Casino today, October 20th to pay tribute to the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald 'Jonathan Karrant is one hip jazz vocalists, born to sing and swing with style.'

Cloran’s production cleverly unites Shakespeare’s text and the Beatles’ music to come together (pun intended) in a lively and original version of AS YOU LIKE IT.

Song stylist Jonathan Karrant takes the stage in the Chrome Showroom at the Santa Fe Casino on Friday, October 20th to pay tribute to the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald 'Jonathan Karrant is one hip jazz vocalists, born to sing and swing with style.'

Against The Grain Theatre, Toronto's visionary chamber opera company, is known for electric performances that act as 'a bracing wake-up call to the spirit' (The Globe and Mail). That daring candor is now being channeled via its new in-house recording label, which launches with a live recording ofOsvaldo Golijov's 'ecstatically beautiful...radical and disorienting' song cycle Ayre this December (The New Yorker).

Award-winning jazz singer Jonathan Karrant will light up the stage at Dino's Backstage and The Celebrity Room in Glenside, PA on Friday, November 10 and Saturday, November 11 at 8:30 p.m.

As a popular Singer/Songwriter, YouTube star and Actress, the multi-talented Bree Taylor is back with her newest single and music video What You're Looking For !

I’m not sure if Farah Alvin intended it, but her show is not only about the music of the ’70s. It is also about all kinds of out-of-control love. The sort of obsessive passion that fueled the cynical Watergate decade. The music was theatrical. This makes it a perfect fit for Farah Alvin’s considerable acting skills.

Brandi Burkhardt is ready to tell her own stories, and what better place to do it than on the solo concert stage?

a?oeHow to Get to Hadestown:... Ain't no compass, brother- ain't no map. Just a telephone wire and a railroad track. Keep on walking and don't look back 'til you get to the bottomland.a?? Huh. This sounds a lot like the treacherous journey that is the college application process! 

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) is proud to present for the first time Richard Nader's 27th Annual Summer Doo Wop Concert. The Doo Wop stellar line up includes Charlie Thomas' DRIFTERS 'Save the Last Dance for Me' 'Under the Boardwalk', THE DUPREES 'You Belong To Me' 'Have You Heard', LOU CHRISTIE 'Lightnin' Strikes' 'Two Faces Have', SHIRLEY ALSTON REEVES, The original lead of THE SHIRELLES 'Soldier Boy' 'Mama Said', Jay Siegel's TOKENS'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' 'Portrait of My Love', Tommy Mara and THE CRESTS '16 Candles' 'The Angels Listened In' and special Guest LADD VANCE son of KENNY VANCE. This will be an afternoon of classic Doo Wop and 1950s rock 'n' roll at it's very best on Sunday, June 5th, 2016 at 3PM. Be sure to reserve your tickets at NJPAC.org or 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722).

Nadine Sierra’s childhood intuition – that she was born to sing opera – has proved correct in every way and is reflected in the title of her second solo album, Made for Opera, out today on Deutsche Grammophon. The dramatic presence, searing passion and technical brilliance for which the American lyric soprano regularly scores rave reviews are captured in this new album, which trains the spotlight on three of the most demanding roles in the repertoire.

Jonathan Karrant has announced upcoming April shows from New York to Las Vegas. Check out the full lineup of where you can see him:

'I done messed around and found a real one!' Saluting the magic of real love, Chanté Moore's new single 'Real One' now has beautiful visual accompaniment.

The Tristano Project, Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn, JayCee Driesen 'Born To Sing', and more head to Birdland the week of March 26!

Harlem Stage has announced the 2023 cohort for its WaterWorks Emerging Artists program.

The album boasts seven original songs that Lea co-wrote with collaborator and guitarist Cruse, aided and abetted by veteran musicians Myron Dove on bass, drummer Deszon Claiborne, keyboardist Eamonn Flynn and Andy Just on harmonica.

Strong women are in the spotlight as Opera Theater of Pittsburgh announces its 2016 SummerFest season of opera, musical theater, concerts and cabarets, June 22-July 24.

On this day we're celebrating the birthday of Broadway legend, Colm Wilkinson!

The Riverside Opera Company presents an evening of divas with music from operas, Broadway and films featuring three popular ROC sopranos accompanied by a 52-piece live orchestra with the performance of Divas to Die For Saturday, June 11.

This year's edition features the return of live music, with a diverse assemblage of world-class and emerging jazz musicians, performing in spacious, nine-acre Waryas Park, located in downtown Poughkeepsie, in New York's historic Hudson River Valley, just 90 miles north of New York City.

Song stylist Jonathan Karrant returns to the Purple Room & Martinis Above Fourth to pay tribute to the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald 'Jonathan Karrant is one hip jazz vocalists, born to sing and swing with style.' 

The Riverside Opera Company presents A FREE family fun concert in the park Saturday, June 18th, 3 p.m. at Conference House Park, 7455 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island. 

Six-year-old jazz singer Sophie Fatu charmed the nation singing Frank Sinatra classics on national television and her videos have amassed over 150 million views. She cheekily called “Mr. Simon” (Cowell) her favorite judge when she became the youngest contestant ever on “America's Got Talent”; she told Ellen DeGeneres secrets on the host's top-rated daytime show before crooning “Fly Me To The Moon”; and she teasingly asked Steve Harvey what happened to his hair on “Little Big Shots” prior to belting out “My Way.” Now the bubbly chanteuse is working on her debut recording, a six-song set of selections from the Great American Songbook sung by her biggest influences: Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nina Simone and Michael Bublé. Sophie's “Love is…” EP is slated for September release. 

Former New York Times music critic wears multiple chapeaus as conductor, musicologist, and educator

Berkshire Theatre Group has announced another event for the community, Bobbie's Summer Series, where on select weekends in August, Berkshire County's talented musicians and dancers will provide diverse entertainment for adults and children alike.

When she went into the studio to record her award-winning cabaret show, Elizabeth Ward Land documented her own genius as an artists, along with Linda Ronstadt's.

If you were trying to find a stage that presented some of the most treasured American popular music, performed by probably the best vocalists born to sing it, you were at The Kravis Center in Palm Beach last night. The Kravis Center Pops Orchestra under the baton of Michael Feinstein, one of the most beloved entertainers of our generation honored another legend......Jack Jones. Jack Jones, the vocalist who created a sound track of love ballads and swinging hit songs for most of the Kravis audience's ( and the worlds) musical life walked out on it's stage and there was no doubt that the look, sound, and magnetism of Mr. Jones was in full force and undiminished at this juncture in his career. Palm Beach gave him a standing ovation after his thrilling rendition of Man of La Mancha, one of Jack's signature songs.

Who Could Ask For Anything More? Ms. Laura Hodos pays tribute to the iconic Ethel Merman and premieres her newest solo cabaret in The Winter Park Playhouse Spotlight Cabaret Series, February 23 and 24, 2022. Playhouse Musical Director Christopher Leavy will accompany on piano. 

The 40th Anniversary production of Mama, I Want To Sing! will play El Museo's El Teatro for a special Black History Month limited engagement, it was announced by Vy Higginsen, founder and executive director and producer of The Mama Foundation for the Arts.

The Hippodrome London, Club 11 London and Cole Kitchenn are excited to announce that Stacy Francis will be performing her first UK concert at the Hippodrome Casino, Leicester Square on 9th March 2017, 8pm.

Pélleas et Mélisande last night was hands down the best thing the Met has done this season. No arias, no duets, no trios, no choruses, just ravishing melodies bathed in some of the most complex web-like, ethereal harmonies.

Austin-based Award winning singer/songwriter Bonnie Montgomery presents her most vulnerable collection of songs in a new musical experience that takes listeners through a 19-day voyage on a freight ship across the Pacific.

Rare is the wedding, Bar Mitzvah, office holiday party or Sweet 16 that does not at some point feature a rousing rendition of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine's 'Conga.' Particularly for those of us in Generation X - for whom the pop music of the 1980s, in all its glorious forms, remains a source of unbridled nostalgic celebration - 'Conga' is such a staple that any gathering involving a dance floor just seems incomplete without it. As it turns out, the 2018-2019 season at Memphis's Orpheum also needed a fresh injection of the Conga, and the immensely talented and attractive touring cast of On Your Feet!, the Emilio and Gloria Estefan Broadway Musical, delivered all that and more. Quite literally and as advertised, Memphians in the audience at the run's premiere leapt to their feet to celebrate Gloria and Emilio Estefan, a couple whose success story remains as relevant today as ever in today's political climate, not to mention their remarkably prolific song catalog. Broadway has seen its fair share of jukebox musicals in recent years, but there is something unique and special about On Your Feet!, not only in the time period it evokes, but also in the indomitable spirit of its core subjects, portrayed with incredible heart by Christie Prades and Eddie Noel.

It's never too late to follow your passion in life. At 74, Josephine is returning to the stage after a long hiatus, touring in support of her recently released album Prime Time (link to her music), a tribute to the Great American Songbook.

One of the longest-running and most successful musicals of all time, the trio playing the iconic leads will be Melbourne-born Joshua Robson as The Phantom, Brisbane performer Georgina Hopson as Christine and acclaimed West End and Broadway musical theatre performer Callum Francis as Raoul Vicomte de Chagny.

Award-winning singer/songwriter Bonnie Montgomery is widely lauded as enthusiastically for her polished parlor songs as she is for her lawless country barnburners.

Celebrities including Harry Enfield, Alexander Armstrong, Louise Dearman, have been so entranced by the music of the new, award-winning musical The Grinning Man, that they have recorded unique versions of their favourite tracks from the show. Opening at Trafalgar Studios from 6 December, and powered by an outstanding score (Sunday Times), the soundtrack of this fantastical musical has inspired an unprecedented range of stars to make The Grinning Man their own.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. That's a sentiment that has been expressed for many years, sometimes merely through the utterance of the sentence, but usually through the singing of the popular song written by Meredith Wilson in 1951. While many attribute the song to the 1963 Broadway musical Here's Love, it was actually written simply as a Christmas song and singers have been crooning the tune ever since.

Broadway leading man Perry Ojeda finally comes home in his new one man show JUST IN TIME: THE SONGS OF COMDEN AND GREEN

Marina Costa-Jackson was born to sing. She will demonstrate that in her role debut as Tatyana in Seattle Opera's upcoming production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. The casting is appropriate, as she has performed in Russia with her sisters, as well as with the late Russian superstar baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

This Variety Show plays New York City once every week at Birdland and, with an impressive roster of guest artists and the inimitable Suse Mosher, The Lineup is where it's at.

Lucia di Lammermoor and Nabucco are now playing at Dorset Opera Festival! What did the critics think? Read all the reviews!

Lost, forgotten, and  unknown Irving Berlin songs are the focus of  Chip Deffaa's new album, 'The Irving Berlin Songbook,'  being released today.  

'I done messed around and found a real one!' Saluting the magic of real love, Chanté Moore's new single 'Real One' now has beautiful visual accompaniment.