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The British Legends of Rock is a standout and unique musical experience! These talented musicians faithfully and meticulously reproduce the golden age of British rock note for note just like the original recordings. Performing at the Brook Arts Center on March 5, 2022. This powerful rock show celebrates the two undisputed greatest decades (1960 & 70) of British rock music. They dig deep into the British catalog A-Z from the Animals to Led Zeppelin and everything in between. Wings, Stones, Bowie, Queen, Spencer Davis, Joe Cocker, Cream, The Kinks, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Deep Purple, The Who, Peter Frampton, and many more. The best of British rock in one unpredictable, fast-moving, power-packed exciting musical performance! Discounted Presale Tickets: www.brookarts.org or call 732-469-7700. Box Office Opens at 6 pm for walk-ups. Reserved Socially Distancing Seating. Concessions, Bar, and free parking. The Brook Arts Center is located in the historic downtown Bound Brook, NJ, one block from the Bound Brook Train station and a few short miles from Rt 22, 287, and 78.

Two great NJ tributes band live on one stage on March 12, 2022 at the Brook Arts Center - Almost U2 and Pure McCartney. Born from the Asbury Park-based band Misfit Johnny comes Almost U2, a tribute to the live experience of the iconic band U2. The band pays homage to U2 with spot-on accuracy and attention to detail. With music spanning U2’s entire music catalog, their renditions of legendary U2 live performances honor the band and equally the experience of a real U2 concert! Pure McCartney is a 6-piece tribute band from New Jersey that celebrates the music of Paul McCartney. The repertoire includes selections from Sir Paul’s works with The Beatles and Wings, as well as his solo recordings. The band faithfully recreates the selected songs, whether they are studio or live versions, of Sir Paul’s catalog. This is one night of music you don’t want to miss! Advance discount tickets at www.brookarts.org or 732-469-7700. Box Office Opens at 6 pm for regular price walk-up sales. All seats are reserved socially distanced seating. Concessions, Bar, and Free Parking are available. The Brook Arts Center is in Bound Brook, NJ, one block from the Bound Brook Train station and a few short miles from Rt 22, 287, and 78.

Danny Aiello’s The Italian Chicks Comedy show is the newest, hottest comedy tour on the scene today. part meatball, part cannoli. these women are sure to leave you wanting more… and were not just talking about the meatballs! You'll laugh harder than if you we're drunk at an Italian opera. This comedy/variety show will have you hugging your Italian aunt for the first time since she paid you a quarter to rub her bunions! All four women are accomplished stand-up comedians with National TV appearances. Appearing at the Brook Arts Center on July 16 2022, the Italian Chicks is a passionate blend of comedy, characters, music, song parodies, and Italian-American culture. When these four dynamic, talented women come on stage, they will make you remember things that you paid your shrink to forget. The show premiered at the Laugh Factory in NYC, NY in January 2010, to a sold-out house. Now, after nine years, the Italian Chicks are growing their family! The show makes for a ladies or guys night out, or bring the entire family for an evening of nonstop laughs! $30 pre-sale tickets, $35 VIP Meet and Greet tickets available on www.brookarts.org or call the ticket office at 732-469-7700. Door tickets are $35/ $40. Box Office Opens at 6 pm for walk-ups. Reserved Socially Distancing Seating. Concessions, Bar, and free parking. The Brook Arts Center is located in the historic downtown Bound Brook, NJ, one block from the Bound Brook Train station and a few short miles from Rt 22, 287, and 78.

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Born August 26, 1995, Sal was raised in the small town of Bethpage, New York where he still resides today. From a very young age Sal was influenced by his grandmother to love the musical genius of the classic crooner sounds of Dean Martin, Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra. At the young age of fifteen Sal realized the hidden talent he possessed and began performing his flawless tribute to the great Frank Sinatra across New York. In 2016, Sal made his debut on Season 11 of the NBC hit show "America's Got Talent." That night, The 20-year-old college student went from delivering Pizzas for his cousin's restaurant, to delivering what's considered one of the best performances in AGT history. Before long, the world would come to know and admire him as "Sal the Voice". Since racking up over 350 million views worldwide with his captivating AGT audition, the celebrated charismatic crooner has been invited to appear in hundreds of sold out solo performances on stages around the world. From Madison Square Garden in NYC, to opening for Jay Leno in Las Vegas, to selling out the legendary NYCB Theater at Westbury like all of the greats before him; it's safe to say that Sal is only getting started.

Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), a non-profit organization that transforms lives through jazz music education and performing arts, is opening its doors to new students, with a series of free OPEN STUDIO classes in voice, dance and theatre arts on Thursdays, January 20, February 17 and March 10 from 4:30pm-7pm at United Palace located at 4140 Broadway and 175th Street in Washington Heights. There is no charge to attend but parent/guardians must register their young person age 10-17 at jazzpower.org/youth. Our OPEN STUDIO classes will be led by the community-oriented jazz pianist, composer and educator Eli Yamin, along with acclaimed jazz vocalist Antoinette Montague and veteran theater director and choreographer Mickey Davidson, introducing young performers ages 10-17 to blues and jazz, to activate their imagination and creative self-expression through song and dance. Students who complete one or more Open Studio classes are eligible to participate in Jazz Power’s 12-week after-school training program starting in late March. Classes are offered at no charge to families in need through our Youth Education programs, funded in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support from the New York State Legislature. Registration and attendance are open to all students at no charge. Guardians can register their youth by contacting arlene@jazzpower.org or registering at jazzpower.org/youth. “Jazz Power Youth Online is a ‘creative life-line’ connecting students and families, to lift our spirits and resilience, especially over this very challenging past two years,” notes Jazz Power Initiative’s Managing and Artistic Director, Eli Yamin. “We are thrilled to be able to welcome new students to join us for our OPEN STUDIO classes, so they can stay active, singing, and dancing in the community-oriented, artistic tradition of jazz and blues music.” Jazz Power Initiative’s Managing and Artistic Director, Eli Yamin, is a pianist, composer, singer, author and educator who has been spreading the joy of jazz through his work for 30 years, including 10 years as founding director of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Middle School Jazz Academy and 18 years directing Jazz Power Initiative. Eli tours with his jazz quartet, and has published three musicals for young performers and released eight CD’s. He has performed at The White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and in over 20 countries as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. Eli sincerely believes learning about jazz should feel as creative as playing jazz, and consistently shares this experience with students of all ages. He holds a Master's Degree in Music Education from Lehman College and is working towards his doctorate at Stony Brook University (SUNY). Eli is also the author of “So You Want To Sing The Blues: A Guide For Performers,” published by Rowman and Littlefield in collaboration with the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). Senior Dance Teaching Artist Mickey Davidson won an Audelco award for choreography of “For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” directed by Ntozake Shange. She joined Dianne McIntyre’s groundbreaking “Sounds In Motion” in 1975 and danced with the company for eight years. She has worked closely with jazz artists Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, the World Saxophone Quartet and was mentored by original Savoy Ballroom dancers Frankie Manning and Norma Miller. A beloved New York veteran of arts education, Ms. Davidson has an extensive background in African American dance styles and led the African American Dance program at Wesleyan University for 17 years. In addition to teaching with Jazz Power Initiative, she teaches at the Louis Armstrong Jazz Camp in New Orleans, and is a passionate advocate for making the authentic jazz dance traditions available to the next generation. Senior Voice Teaching Artist Antoinette Montague, “Jazz Woman to the Rescue,” is an esteemed award-winning jazz and blues singer and entertainer who has performed internationally as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Department of State. Ms. Montague is a Level III Certified Teacher of Somatic Voicework, the LoVetri Method(tm). She teaches at Jazz Power Institute for artists and educators and led Jazz Power Initiative’s first residency at Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). She is also a WHCR radio host and educator teaching at The New School, Marymount College Manhattan, Newark School of the Arts, Music on the Inside and Jazzmobile. Ms. Montague is the co-producer and host of the Zoom series “Music While We’re Inside;” in the process of developing Jazz Woman to the Rescue Radio Station; host on Heat FM radio, and a member of the WBGO Community Advisory Board. She has mentored dozens of young jazz musicians and vocalists over the past twenty years, passing on the knowledge of her experience and what she learned from her mentors Carrie Smith and Etta Jones. Her latest CD is “World Peace in the Key of Jazz,” with Danny Mixon, Paul Beaudry, Winard Harper, Jay Hoggard, and King Solomon Hicks.

Live jazz performance featuring drummer/leader Wayne Henderson, Marco Panascia on bass, John Colianni on piano, Tony Gorusso on trumpet, Anthony Ware on sax and Clint Sharman on trombone.

In the final weeks of Franz Schubert's tragically short life, he wrote one of the great masterworks in all of chamber music — his Quintet in C Major. In this new five-part course, Jonathan Coopersmith, Chair of Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, explores the work in depth, as well as the creative burst that spawned it. Benjamin Britten called Schubert's last year and a half "the richest and most productive 18 months in our music history," producing not only the Quintet, but Winterreise, the C-Major Symphony, the B-Flat and E-Flat Piano Trios, the Mass in E-Flat, and the final three piano sonatas. Coopersmith looks at the genius of the Quintet, what made Schubert a musical groundbreaker, and his unique place in bridging the Classical and Romantic eras. Two days after the course's final class, a Curtis on Tour ensemble performs the Quintet on the stage of Kaufmann Concert Hall, in a program also including the New York premiere of Richard Danielpour's A Shattered Vessel. We explore this work composed 190 years later for the same instrumentation of two violins, viola and two cellos, analyzing it as a standalone composition, and informed by the insights of a living composer. ** Online Class ** SCHUBERT'S QUINTET IN C MAJOR: A MASTERPIECE EXAMINED WEDNESDAYS, JAN 19-FEB 16, 7-8:15 PM ET. All patrons registering for this course will receive a special discount code for Curtis on Tour appearances on 92Y's concert series. This discount code will be provided in a separate email upon registration. Register for the class here: https://www.92y.org/class/schubert-s-quintet-in-c-major?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=&mcSID=528535. **IN PERSON AND ONLINE** LIVE CONCERT MUSICIANS FROM THE CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC PLAY SCHUBERT'S QUINTET AND MORE FRIDAY, FEB 18, 7:30 PM ET, FROM $20 In this first concert in a new alliance between 92Y and the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music, an ensemble comprising esteemed faculty — including Ida Kavafian on violin and Peter Wiley on cello — and recent alumni of Curtis perform one of the greatest masterworks in chamber music, Schubert's sublimely beautiful C-Major Quintet. The quintet is followed by the New York premiere of a new work by another member of Curtis' faculty, with Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour's A Shattered Vessel. Written 190 years after the Schubert work for the same instrumentation of two violins, viola and two cellos, A Shattered Vessel contemplates crisis and struggle, loss and healing, renewal and gratitude. A splendid and soulful program from some of the finest chamber musicians performing today. Lun Li, violin Ida Kavafian, violin Cara Pogossian, viola Francis Carr, cello Peter Wiley, cello Danielpour, A Shattered Vessel (NY premiere) Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 About the Curtis Institute of Music The Curtis Institute of Music educates and trains exceptionally gifted young musicians to engage a local and global community through the highest level of artistry. For nearly a century Curtis has provided each member of its small student body with an unparalleled education alongside musical peers, distinguished by a "learn by doing" philosophy and personalized attention from a faculty that includes a high proportion of actively performing musicians. With admissions based solely on artistic promise, no student is turned away due to financial need. Curtis invests in each admitted student, ensuring no tuition is charged for their studies and they enter the profession free from educational debt. In a typical year, Curtis students hone their craft through more than 200 orchestra, opera, and solo and chamber music offerings in Philadelphia and around the world. For more information, visit Curtis.edu.  About 92Y The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit 92Y.org. 

Directed by Prof Abraham Burton. In honor and celebration of Women's History Month, this concert will feature music written and arranged by such luminaries as Mary Lou Williams, Melba Liston, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Maria Schneider.

Zoom Tunes- January 30, 2022 session presented by the Vermont Jazz Center Last Sunday of each month, 7:00-8:30 pm EST ON-LINE; $15 per session https://vtjazz.org/zoom-tunes-2/ Because indoor jam sessions with horn players and vocalists are unfeasible at this time, the Jazz Center will utilize Zoom Tunes, an online version of a jam session that is as inclusive as possible. The format was devised and is run by VJC’s junior faculty. Zoom Tunes will take place on the last Sunday of each month. For each session, participants will individually play the “tune of the month” using an inexpensive app (iReal Pro) as a source of accompaniment. The app is a digital, play-along system with an enormous library of jazz tunes that gives musicians access to backing tracks with easy adjustments in tempo, key and feel. The Zoom Tune for January 30, 2022 My Little boat (Barquino) by Roberto Menescal https://vtjazz.org/my-little-boat-barquinho-1-30-22-lead-sheets-backing-tracks/ During the Zoom Tunes jam, participants will divide into breakout rooms supervised by one of the coaches. Each participant will play their own version of the given tune, either solo or along with a backing track. After playing their interpretation of the tune, players will receive guidance and support from the other attendees and Zoom Tunes coaches, Malik McLaurine (bass), Ben Barnett (trombone) and Franz Robert (piano). Playing the same composition and hearing the well-considered advice of friends and coaches creates a bonding experience amongst the participants. Listening to others playing the same repertoire can be inspiring and fun and leads to a fruitful learning experience. Singers are more than welcomed and are encouraged to use iReal Pro’s transpose feature to adjust the song’s key to suit their vocal range.