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This Week at The Cornelia Street Cafe - January 18-24
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (doors open @ 5:45 PM-early shows, & @ 8:30 PM-late shows) Admission: Sun-Thurs-$20 includes a drink, Fri & Sat $25 includes a drink Tuesday, January 18, 8:30 PM BLUE TUESDAYS: JALALA Janis Siegel, vocals; Lauren Kinhan, vocals; Laurel Massé, vocals; Yaron Gershovsky, piano; Steve LaSpina, bass Julie Hardy, Host Wednesday, January 19, 8:30 PM THE BRAZILIAN ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE ...
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Idina Menzel On Stage with North Carolina Symphony, March 31; Tickets On Sale Jan. 24
Source:
Arthur Ryel-Lindsey
Superstar vocalist Idina Menzel, star of Wicked, Rent and Fox's hit television show Glee, lends her powerhouse talents to the North Carolina Symphony for her first-ever Raleigh concert. Bringing a diverse repertoire of pop and musical theater favorites and songs from her solo album I Stand, she takes center stage alongside Symphony Resident Conductor William Henry Curry. The one-night-only performance will be held in Meymandi Concert Hall in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, March 31, at ...
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Jazz Arts Group of Columbus Welcomes Dave Douglas & Keystone for "Spark of Being" Multimedia Event
Source:
Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group's Inside Track series welcomes two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas and his electric sextet Keystone to the Lincoln Theatre stage Saturday, February 5 to present their latest multimedia project, Spark of Being. Dave Douglas is arguably the most prolific and original trumpeter-composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he has lived since the mid-1980s, Mr. Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including prizes from such organizations as the New ...
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Bob Dylan: Australian Tour
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JamBase
TICKETS GO ON SALE MONDAY, JANUARY 31 AT 9 AM Bob Dylan is returning after close to four years for a tour taking in Australian capital cities and festival appearances in Byron Bay for Bluesfest and Fremantle for West Coast Blues & Roots. Included in these headline shows will be a very special return to the WIN Entertainment Centre in Wollongong, Southern NSW, the venue that he opened thirteen years in 1998, and a concert at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre ...
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Tierney Sutton Band at New Jersey's SOPAC this Sunday
Source:
AMT Public Relations
Tierney Sutton Band at South Orange Performing Arts Center (One SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ, 07079) Sun, Jan 23 at 4pm Tickets: $42, $32 SOPACnow.org or call 973.313.ARTS “Here and throughout the performance, Ms. Sutton conveyed a sense of jazz singing as an extension of spiritual meditation in which adherence to an ideal of balance and consistency and, yes, humility took precedence over any technical or emotional grandstanding."—The New York Times The Tierney Sutton Band is a force to be ...
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Columbus Jazz Orchestra Takes a Walk Down the Great White Way with Bill Charlap and Bethany Moore
Source:
Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group's 2010-2011 Swingin' at the Southern series continues February 16-20 with Broadway: From Oklahoma! to West Side Story under the direction of Artistic Director Byron Stripling at the historic Southern Theatre. The classic hits of Broadway come to life through the magic of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra in a spectacular evening of music from the Great White Way featuring pianist Bill Charlap and vocalist Bethany Moore. Whether you're a Shark or a Jet, you'll be sure to ...
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Brad Shepik's February 9 Show at the 55 Bar To Coincide With Release of "Across The Way"
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GoMedia PR
New Songlines CD Introduces Guitarist's First Jazz Quartet Guitarist Brad Shepik, whose 2009 Songlines release, Human Activity Suite, was lauded as “absorbingly eclectic" by the New York Times, and ..."as beautiful and architecturally impressive as the continental movements..." by Jazz Times, will celebrate the release of a new CD, Across the Way, with a show at the 55 Bar on February 9. Across the Way is the guitarist's sixth release for Songlines and, for the first time, features Shepik performing ...
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From the Abyss to the Astral
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Ars Nova Workshop
Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to welcome the Jemeel Moondoc Trio, featuring bassist Hilliard Greene and drummer Chad Taylor, to West Philadelphia for a free concert at The Rotunda on Thursday, January 20. Saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc was a co-founder of Ensemble Muntu, one of the most daring and innovative Loft Era groups, which included dynamic musicians such as William Parker, Rashid Bakr, and Roy Campbell. Muntu Ensemble’s music was nearly impossible to track down until last year, when Lithuanian label ...
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