Category: Performing Arts

  • UW’s Live Edge Trio Hosts Trumpet Player John Lake Nov. 6

    UW’s Live Edge Trio Hosts Trumpet Player John Lake Nov. 6

    Fresh off its debut record release, the University of Wyoming’s Live Edge Trio will host New York City trumpet player and composer John Lake Monday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital hall. Tickets are $3. A nominal processing fee will be charged for each ticket. To purchase…

  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings Big Easy vibe to Mercyhurst

    Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings Big Easy vibe to Mercyhurst

    Celebrate the holidays New Orleans-style when the world-famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings its “Creole Christmas” tour to Mercyhurst University’s Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m.  Better yet, enhance your concert-going experience with a pre-show dinner featuring traditional New Orleans cuisine. (See details below.) “Creole Christmas,” features a gumbo…

  • Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival returns to Downtown Pensacola

    Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival returns to Downtown Pensacola

    PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival returns to Downtown Pensacola this week! It runs from Friday through Sunday at Seville Square. There will be artists from across the nation, including eight local artists there. They’ll be showing off their work, and there’s different styles for everyone. “We have the fine arts section,…

  • John Mellencamp Coming to Tanger Center April 14

    ONE NIGHT ONLY IN 27-CITIES, STARTING ON MARCH 8 TICKETS ON-SALE NOVEMBER 3 NEW ALBUM ORPHEUS DESCENDING OUT NOW Photo credit: Myrna Suarez   READ HIS RECENT CONVERSATIONS WITH:  Praise for the “Live and In Person Tour 2023”: “..it doesn’t appear that Mellencamp has any intention of slowing down or abandoning his trademark feistiness.” —Forbes…

  • New IPR partnership brings music and art to northern Michigan students

    New IPR partnership brings music and art to northern Michigan students

    On Monday, Oct. 30, hundreds of students from Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan and Emmet counties experienced “Mussorgsky in Miniature: Pictures at an Exhibition – A Masterpiece in Narrative Style.” The program was the first of the 2023-24 school year for Great Lakes Center for the Arts’ Next Gen, which provides educational experiences in the performing arts…

  • Broadway musical ‘Wicked’ celebrates 20th anniversary with special performance

    Broadway musical ‘Wicked’ celebrates 20th anniversary with special performance

    Monday, October 30, 2023 3:48PM MIDTOWN, Manhattan — A hit Broadway musical is “defying gravity” once again when it takes to the stage on Monday night. “Wicked” is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Broadway! In honor of its two-decade milestone, the musical will hold a special anniversary performance for fans and show alumni at 6:30…

  • Revival of Cultural Arts celebrates Dia de los Muertos

    Revival of Cultural Arts celebrates Dia de los Muertos

    HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The non-profit organization called Revival of Cultural Arts (R.O.C.A) is celebrating 10 years. The Brownsville-based non-profit’s mission is to create opportunities that will engage the community to experience art, music, dance, film, community theater, and cultural events with an emphasis on music education for everyone. R.O.C.A is also excited for this…

  • In the Los Osos Core Area project, a performing arts group finds a temporary home

    In the Los Osos Core Area project, a performing arts group finds a temporary home

    The Bravo Players Guild, a local theater company, is now occupying the 3,000-square-foot former Stein Mart building at the Los Osos Core Area Project in Mission Viejo. The performance company has been in collaboration with the city since May, said Tiffney Beckloff, executive director of Bravo Players Guild. And in September, the City Council unanimously…

  • John Mellencamp to begin 2024 tour in Rochester

    John Mellencamp to begin 2024 tour in Rochester

    John Mellencamp has announced the “Live and In Person 2024” tour, which will kick off on March 8 in Rochester at the West Herr Auditorium Theatre. The new tour will feature the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer performing for one night only in 27 new cities. The new tour will bring Mellencamp to Newark, NJ, Hartford, CT, Birmingham,…

  • Blues, rock, stripping comedians, and opera at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in November

    Blues, rock, stripping comedians, and opera at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre in November

    The Cowichan Performing Arts Centre delivers an eclectic mix of events this November with music sensations Colin James, Tom Cochrane, a tribute to CCR along with hilarious plays, moving musicals, comical strippers, a morning at the opera and for movie buffs, Real Alternatives with the Celine Song film Past Lives. Whether the changing seasons make…