Category: Archive
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Yemen Blues
Ravid Kahalani leads this roaring group of improvising brass, string, and percussion players. Yemen Blues’ intoxicating music merges West African rhythms and ancient Jewish Yemeni melodies with mambo and funk to help you feel a connection to places you may have never visited. The group paints a musical canvas printed with deep laments and jubilations.…
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Noa
Achinoam Nini, known internationally as Noa, makes a rare concert appearance on the Luckman stage showcasing her most popular songs from her 26-year recording career, spanning 15 international albums, and several domestic Israeli releases, including her latest recording, Love Medicine. The selections will be sung in English, Hebrew, and Arabic. Noa is one of Israel’s leading…
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Macbeth
Filmed live on stage at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada as part of the Stratford Festival HD Series. Surrender to a haunting story of ambition and its dark consequences as Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by…
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Peking Acrobats
The talented ensemble is world-renowned for their daring maneuvers, trick-cycling, precision tumbling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They defy gravity with amazing displays of flexibility, contortion, and control. They push the envelope of human possibility with astonishing juggling dexterity and incredible balancing feats. Records of these acrobatic acts can be found as early as the Ch’in Dynasty…
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dance film fest
A celebration of the best in recent cinematic triumphs that focus on the art of dance. Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM Pina Germany, 2011, 1 hour 43 minutes Directed by Wim Wenders A tribute to the late German choreographer, Pina Bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations. First Position USA, 2011, 1…
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Aaron Neville Duo
One of the most inspirational and distinctive voices in music today, Aaron Neville is a master of many styles. The audience can expect to hear doo-wop and gospel from his recent albums, as well as blues, jazz, soul, pop, country, and even reggae. It is a playlist that reprises and celebrates one of the greatest…
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Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Orchestra
Celebrating his 80th year, 10-time Grammy Award-winner and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri hosts a party for the ages featuring some of the finest musicians around. With an exceptionally accomplished and prolific body of work, Palmieri remains an engaging innovator and a joyful unifier whose ideas explode from the stage with…
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Hamlet
Filmed live on stage at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada as part of the Stratford Festival HD Series. A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel, and the most famous question in all of drama: Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound. Jonathan Goad is witty and…
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Rodriguez & Arum Rae
Rodriguez began his career in the 60s, but without any enthusiastic response, he was ultimately let go by his label and forced to work outside the music industry. Unbeknownst to him, and to the rest of the world, his songs became the inspiration for millions struggling against apartheid in South Africa, where he was regarded…
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Idan Raichel: Piano Songs
After 15 years as leader of The Idan Raichel Project, international music icon Idan Raichel is focusing on the basic essence of his songs with the solo piano concert entitled Idan Raichel – Piano – Songs. Raichel will be presenting his melodies, lyrics and the stories behind them in their pure, stripped down form, as they were originally written at…
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Joe Lovano classic quartet
From his Grammy-nominated symphonic work to his role as Gary Burton Chair of Jazz Performance at Berklee College of Music, Joe Lovano fearlessly challenges and pushes his conceptual and thematic ventures in a quest for new modes of artistic expression and new ways to define the jazz idiom. In 2014, he won Multi-reeds Player and…
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Rickie Lee Jones and Madeleine Peyroux
This show’s giving a whole new meaning to the term “girl power.” Madeleine Peyroux’s warm and sultry voice is a perfect blend of melancholy and carefree. With hits such as Careless Love and Don’t Wait Too Long, Peyroux has earned her spot among jazz & blues divas. Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has ben…
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Dobet Gnahore
Photo Credit: Nicholas Baret Ivory Coast vocalist and dancer Dobet Gnahoré has garnered a reputation as one of the most vibrant performers in world music today. As a child, Gnahoré was trained in the music and dance traditions of the Bété people by her father, a well-known performer in West Africa. Hailed by critics as Africa’s leading…
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ODC Dance
Photo Credit: RJ Muna ODC/Dance was formed by Brenda Way in 1971 as a collective of artists at Oberlin College in Ohio where their name (Oberlin Dance Collective) originated. Adventure, a certain irreverence, and the joy of moving were key ingredients to the core philosophy of their founding members. In 1976, the sixteen dancers, painters,…
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Diego El Cigala
photo credit: Jordi Socias Diego El Cigala is regarded as the most exciting and innovative flamenco singer in the world today. Passionate, profound, and immensely proud of his Spanish gypsy heritage, El Cigala has found success in his interpretations of this distinctly Spanish art form. Diego El Cigala has been called “the Sinatra of flamenco.” With…
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Rockin’ Road to Dublin
Inspired by epic spectacles like Riverdance, Rockin’ Road To Dublin’s renowned ensemble is reviving the classic art form to create a new Irish show with a contemporary feel and a broad appeal. Choreographer and lead male Scott Doherty (Riverdance & Lord of the Dance) has teamed up with veteran Celtic rocker Chris Smith to produce…
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Jazz 100
JAZZ 100: The Music of Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Mongo Santamaria, Thelonious Monk This year marks the centennial celebration for four visionary icons of music all born in the same glorious year: Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Mongo Santamaria and Thelonious Monk. Jazz 100 showcases both the dynamic individual artistry of each icon and the powerful unifying thread between…
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Colvin & Earle
More than two decades ago, American folk singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin recorded a cover of Steve Earle’s Someday. Years later, following her rise to success that included a Grammy Award and the release of her number one single Sunny Came Home, and his rock, country and folk singer-songwriter career, the two folk stars reveal an unparalleled…
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Fanfare Ciocărlia
photo credit: Arne Reinhardt Fanfare Ciocărlia, the Romanian kings of Balkan brass, are best known for high-energy performances with complex rhythms and their uniquely Eastern European tone. Making their Luckman stage debut, the admired ensemble will play selections from their greatest hits and mark their 20th year of making music. “This tour is supported in part…
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Globalfest on the road: Creole Carnival
photo credit: El Onore Coyette photo credit: DIVULGAÇÃO globalFEST, one of the most dynamic global music platforms in North America, takes their showcase on the road for the first time with Creole Carnival! This ensemble celebrates the crossroads of African musical currents and their intersection with the sounds of the Caribbean and Latin America revolving around…