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Kaatsbaan Cultural Park continues its mission to be a home for artists across disciplines with their Annual Summer and Fall Festivals. From June 3 to 19, rising stars from American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and Live Arts Global, and the critical darling of the New York scene Taylor Mac will present both classic and new works. On September 16, the Fall Festival opens with a celebration of Philip Glass's 85th birthday as dancers, musicians, poets, visual artists and more perform, interpret, and discuss the composer's Glass Etudesthroughout Kaatsbaan's lush 153-acres in the Hudson Valley. Over the course of both Festivals, sculptures from local Hudson Valley artists will inhabit the landscape, creating a true cultural park, featuring the site-specific work, In Plain Sitefrom Trisha Brown Dance Company during the fall. https://kaatsbaan.org/ "Kaatsbaan's 2022 Festivals represent our commitment to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence as a cultural park and to presenting multidisciplinary works. As such, we are proud to continue contributing to the Hudson Valley's vast cultural landscape as well as the economic health of our Dutchess County community. Through innovative partnerships, we continue to present unparalleled artists from dance, music, culinary, poetry, and visual art, providing our audiences opportunities to engage with today's leading artists. - Sonja Kostich, Chief Executive & Artistic Officer "We are thrilled to once again convene such notable artists for our upcoming 2022 Festivals. Staying true to our mission of being a year-round dance sanctuary, we also look to support a diverse range of artists both as performers and creators and we strive to ensure that our programming accurately reflects today's society by supporting performers who advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts. - Stella Abrera, Artistic Director Full programming details and ticket availability will be announced in 2022. Please see below for highlights and dates of the Summer and Fall Festivals. Summer Festival Week 1 June 3: Gala dinner by celebrity author and caterer Mary Giuliani and special music concert curated by Kaatsbaan festival music curator, Oliver Ray. June 4 & 5: World Premiere by Live Arts Global This new work will be created in part during a Kaatsbaan residency and will feature live musical accompaniment.  Directors & Creators: Joanna DeFelice and Melanie Hamrick Choreographers: Danielle Agami, Nicholas Palmquist, and Kristin Sudeikis set to the music of The Rolling Stones, Amy Winehouse, Alabama Shakes and more. Music Director: Gabe McDonough Producers: Joanna DeFelice, Melanie Hamrick, Lauren Marrus, and Christine Shevchenko Week 2 June 11 & 12: Featuring rising stars including Elisabeth Beyer and Aleisha Walker from American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Juilliard wunderkind Kayla Mak, and others performing classic and contemporary works plus a new Kaatsbaan commissioned group work from a choreographer selected by Kaatsbaan via an open application for ballet choreographers. Live music from local Woodstock favorite, Maverick Concerts, will feature the Neave Trio. Week 3 June 18: Sugar in the Tank, an evening of new songs created by Taylor Mac and Matt Ray Taylor Mac and friends pay homage to queer icons of the past and present in this work-in-progress concert. Mac describes the piece as a performance in the genre of "parade trance" featuring a selection of all-new original songs co-written with composer/music director Matt Ray. Taylor Mac is reunited with longtime collaborators co-director Niegel Smith, choreographer Faye Driscoll and costume designer Machine Dazzle and creative producers Pomegranate Arts. Mac, who is a 2017 MacArthur "genius grant" recipient, and collaborators will create the work during a month-long Kaatsbaan residency, culminating in this performance celebrating Pride month in the Hudson Valley.   June 19: Community Event Commemorating Juneteenth  Saxophonist and composer Tyrone Birkett and his ensemble Emancipation, perform his Postmodern Spirituals and a new composition in collaboration with New York City-based dancer and choreographer Robert Rubama. The weekend includes a specially curated culinary and poetry lineup and is sponsored by the award-winning Sorel Liqueur, the original red drink from Jackie Summers. Fall Festival Week 1 September 16: Gala dinner honoring Philip Glass. Kaatsbaan festival culinary curator, Jeff Gordinier, will moderate a conversation about Philip Glass's work, and its impact, with a panel of esteemed guests. September 17 & 18: The Glass Etudes at Kaatsbaan – celebrating Philip Glass's 85th birthday Glass's complete Etudes for Piano are some of the most personal and popular works of Philip Glass's storied career. The twenty etudes will be performed across the property featuring world premieres of newly commissioned works by choreographers spanning generations and genres accompanied by live interpretations on piano. The weekend will also feature film, poetry, and visual and culinary arts. Presented by Kaatsbaan and produced in collaboration with Pomegranate Arts. Week 2 September 24 & 25: Site specific dance performance of Trisha Brown: In Plain Site and music concert curated by Kaatsbaan festival music curator, Oliver Ray. Week 3  October 1 & 2: Programming to be announced in early 2022 *All programming subject to change Summer Festival presale tickets for members begin March 1, 2022 Summer Festival general ticket sales begin March 15, 2021 Fall Festival presale tickets for members begin June 16, 2022 Fall Festival general ticket sales begin June 30, 2022 About Kaatsbaan Cultural Park The mission of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence. As both an incubator for creativity and presenter for diverse world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film, poetry, culinary, media, and visual arts, Kaatsbaan provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, accommodations, an indoor theater, and two outdoor stages. Sitting on 153 Hudson River-adjacent acres, Kaatsbaan is free of urban facilities' space and time constraints, allowing for exciting levels of artistic exploration, creative action, and achievement – just two hours north of New York City. Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts as we aim to present, promote, and embrace programming that accurately reflects our society. We encourage a broadly diverse group of individuals to participate in our programs and join our Board and Staff and insist on being inclusive of all peoples regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, physical or mental ability.

The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance presents EDEN by Joyce DiDonato on the HTP Mainstage on Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 7:30PM. Tickets are $35 - $140 and are available at harristheaterchicago.org/performance/joyce-didonato-eden. Following her ground-breaking and award-winning global project In War & Peace: Harmony Through Music which reached over 3 million viewers worldwide, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato turns her creative vision and artistry to her next great passion: EDEN. EDEN is DiDonato's latest multi-faceted initiative uniting music, drama, and education to challenge and galvanize audiences, transcending the physical concert hall. By examining our relationship to the natural world and our unique place within it,  EDEN invites the listener to explore and search for answers about belonging, purpose, and healing. The program ranges from the 17th to the 21st century, embracing such composers as Handel, Gluck, Wagner, Mahler, Ives, and Copland, and featuring a new work from Academy Award-winner Rachel Portman commissioned specially for this project. Longtime collaborators Il Pomo d'Oro and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev join DiDonato in this expansive performance coming to the Harris stage for one night only. The evening is executive produced by Joyce DiDonato, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev, stage directed by Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, with lighting design by John Torres.  The Harris Theater Box Office is open for phone support 12–5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and on performance days. To reach the Box Office, call 312.334.7777 or email info@harristheaterchicago.org. About Joyce DiDonato Multiple Grammy Award-winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed "perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation" (The New Yorker). With a voice "nothing less than 24-carat gold" (The New York Times), DiDonato has soared to the top of the industry both as a performer and a fierce advocate for the arts, gaining international prominence in operas by Handel and Mozart, as well as through her wide-ranging, acclaimed discography. She is also widely acclaimed for the bel canto roles of Rossini and Donizetti. Much in demand on the concert and recital circuit, she has recently held residencies at Carnegie Hall and at London's Barbican Centre, toured extensively in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and appeared as guest soloist at the BBC's Last Night of the Proms. Recent concert highlights include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Ricardo Muti, the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique under Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the Accademia Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra USA under Sir Antonio Pappano. In opera, DiDonato's recent roles include Didon Les Troyens at the Vienna State Opera; Sesto, Cendrillon and Adalgisa Norma at the Metropolitan Opera, Agrippina in concert with Il Pomo d'Oro under Maxim Emelyanchev; Sister Helen Dead Man Walking at the Teatro Real Madrid and London's Barbican Centre; Semiramide at the Bavarian State Opera and Royal Opera House, and Charlotte Werther at the Royal Opera. DiDonato's 2019–20 season sees her staged debut as Agrippina in a new production at the Royal Opera House, returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Agrippina and Charlotte Werther, and performances as Semiramide at the Liceu Barcelona. She is Carnegie Hall's 2019–20 Perspectives Artist with appearances including the Chicago Symphony Orchesrta under Muti, with Nezet-Séguin in recital performing Schubert's Winterreise, a Joyce & Friends chamber music concert joined by the Brentano Quartet and pianist Byran Wagorn, a baroque inspired program My Favourite Things with Il Pomo d'Oro, and live-streamed master classes. Also with Il Pomo d'Oro, the season holds the final tour of her album In War and Peace to South America culminating in Washington DC, as well as a European and US tour of My Favourite Things. Other highlights include a tour with the Orchestre Métropolitain under Nézet-Séguin; touring her latest album release Songplay in Europe and recorded concerts of Berlioz Roméo & Juliette with John Nelson and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg. An exclusive recording artist with Erato/Warner Classics, DiDonato's award-winning discography includes Les Troyens which in 2018 won the Recording (Complete Opera) category at the International Opera Awards, the Opera Award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards and Gramophone's Recording of the Year. An extensive recording artist, other recent albums include Songplay, In War and Peace which won the 2017 Best Recital Gramophone Award, Stella di Napoli, her Grammy-Award-winning Diva Divo and Drama Queens. Other honors include the Gramophone Artist of the Year and Recital of the Year awards, and an induction into the Gramophone Hall of Fame.   About the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater The Harris Theater is Chicago's home for music and dance, connecting diverse audiences with artists from across the city, the nation, and the world. Opened in 2003 in Millennium Park, the Theater was the first multi-use performance venue built in downtown Chicago since 1929, and fulfilled the city's need for a shared home for mid-size performing arts organizations. Today, the Harris features some of the most diverse arts and culture offerings of any venue in the city, and is a distinctive model for artistic quality, collaboration, and making the performing arts relevant and accessible to the widest possible audience. Founded on the principle of serving Chicago's vibrant creative community, the Theater is the home venue of more than 25 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations. The Harris Theater Presents series has featured world-renowned artists and ensembles including Laurie Anderson, Batsheva Dance, English National Ballet, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, Angélique Kidjo, and Paris Opéra Ballet. The Theater's community engagement initiatives build bridges between artists and community members, providing master classes, artist talks, and free tickets for more than 35 partner organizations throughout Chicago. To learn more about the Harris Theater, Chicago's state-of-the-art 1,500-seat performance venue in Millennium Park, visit harristheaterchicago.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

“...one of the greatest living jazz pianists.” — LOS ANGELES TIMES

Don’t miss your chance to experience the enchanting music of two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Alan Broadbent and his trio! On Tuesday, March 28, the trio will be performing live at the Zinc Bar, featuring bassist Harvie S and drummer Billy Mintz.

An unsung hero of the acoustic piano, Alan Broadbent is a highly lyrical and melodic bebopper/post-bopper who has cited Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Tommy Flanagan, Nat “King” Cole, and Red Garland as some of his favorite pianists. Raised in New Zealand, he moved to Boston in 1966 to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. After staying on the road with Woody Herman (for whom he was a writer, arranger, and soloist) from 1969 to 1972, he settled in Los Angeles. Broadbent went on to work as a sideman for Chet Baker, tenor saxmen Warne Marsh and Gary Foster, and the late singer Irene Kral in the ’70s, and with Bud Shank and arranger Nelson Riddle in the ’80s.

The 1990s found him writing arrangements for Natalie Cole, Marian McPartland, Scott Hamilton, and others and playing alongside bassist Charlie Haden, tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, and drummer Larance Marable in Haden’s Quartet West – a unique and conceptual L.A.-based group that is known for including bits of dialogue from film-noir movies between bop performances.

Showtimes are at 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Get your tickets now, available for $30 in advance or $35 at the door. Don’t miss out on this magical evening of jazz piano! For more info, visit https://www.zincjazz.com.

In the event of a cancellation, you will be issued a full refund. If the event takes place as scheduled, ticket purchases are non-refundable. Please plan to arrive on time for your reservation. If you are running late, please let us know in advance. We can hold your reservation for 15 minutes after the scheduled time, but after that, we will need to cancel the booking. Thank you for your cooperation.

“Pianist Jihee Heo has a beautiful legato touch that builds on sturdy lyricism and lustrous harmonies but her work also is filled with delicate, detailed figures.” — Downbeat

Don't miss your chance to experience the enchanting music of acclaimed jazz pianist Jihee Heo and her trio! On Tuesday, May 23, the trio will be performing live at the Zinc Bar, featuring bassist Jason Maximo Clotter and drummer Joe Farnsworth.

New York-based jazz pianist and composer Jihee Heo hails from Incheon, South Korea, and has taken the jazz scene by storm.

Jihee has graced the stages of some of the most prestigious festivals and venues, including The Washington D.C. Jazz Festival, Leverkusen Jazz Festival, and National Sawdust, among many others. Her performances have left audiences breathless with her dynamic playing and innovative compositions.

In 2015, Jihee released her nonet album "Passion", which showcased her unique artistic voice in a large ensemble format. Critics raved about the soaring compositions and bold arrangements, with The New York City Jazz Record, MM Jazz Korea, and Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum all offering critical acclaim.

And if that wasn't impressive enough, Jihee released her first trio album "Are You Ready?" in November 2020, featuring drummer Rodney Green and bass player Marty Kenney. This incredible album has been featured in numerous magazines, including Downbeat Magazine, All About Jazz, and Jazz at Lincoln Center's monthly jazz album roundup.

Jihee's musical prowess is no accident - she holds a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a bachelor's degree from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. With her impressive background and incredible talent, it's no wonder Jihee Heo is making waves in the jazz world!

Showtimes are at 7:00 pm & 8:30 pm. Get your tickets now, available for $30 in advance or $35 at the door. Don't miss out on this magical evening of jazz piano! For more info, visit https://www.zincjazz.com.

“Miki Hayama is an amazing young pianist with great chops, a great harmonic concept and a great imagination!” — Kenny Barron

Don't miss your chance to experience the enchanting music of GRAMMY-nominated jazz pianist Miki Hayama and her trio! On Tuesday, May 16, the trio will be performing live at the Zinc Bar.

Pianist, keyboard player, arranger, and musical director, Miki Hayama hails from Kyoto, Japan, but has made New York City her home.

With a degree in classical piano from the Osaka College of Music and jazz training from the renowned Sadayasu Fujii in Kyoto, Miki's love for jazz led her to work at numerous jazz clubs in the Kansai area after graduation. But that was only the beginning of her journey.

In 2003, Miki set her sights on the Big Apple and has been wowing audiences with her amazing talent ever since. She has had the honor of sharing the stage and recordings with some of the greatest names in the jazz world, including Kenny Garrett, Aretha Franklin, and Christian McBride, just to name a few.

Miki's own albums have also garnered much-deserved acclaim, with her 2006 release "Prelude to a Kiss" receiving a five-star rating in Swing Journal, and her 3rd studio album "Wide Angle" winning Swing Journal's Gold Disc Award in March 2009.

Not content to rest on her laurels, Miki has also lent her musical expertise as a side person on various recordings, including Tia Fuller's "Pillar of Strength" and Michael Dease Big Band's "Relentless". And if that wasn't impressive enough, she also served as musical director, arranger, and keyboardist on Nnenna Freelon's new studio album, "Time Traveler," which received a GRAMMY nomination and was released in May 2021.

It's no wonder Miki Hayama is such a respected name on the jazz scene—her talent knows no bounds!

Showtimes are at 7:00 pm & 8:30 pm. Get your tickets now, available for $30 in advance or $35 at the door. Don't miss out on this magical evening of jazz piano! For more info, visit https://www.zincjazz.com.

Calling all eco-enthusiasts! Secaucus is gearing up for its highly anticipated 13th Annual Green Festival, set to take place at the Xchange at Secaucus Junction (4000 Riverside Station Blvd) on May 4th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. And don't fret about the weather—we've got you covered with a rain date of May 5th, ensuring that nothing stands in the way of our celebration of sustainability.

Here's Why You Should Be There:
Environmental Education: Prepare to be amazed by diverse exhibits and workshops designed to educate and inspire. Whether you're interested in renewable energy, composting techniques, eco-friendly lifestyle tips, or energy-saving hacks, there's something for everyone. Our lineup of experts has you covered. Discover practical ways to reduce your carbon footprint and positively impact the planet.

Engaging Activities for All Ages: Bring the whole family for a day filled with live music, interactive games, hands-on activities, and delicious food truck vendors. Kids can get their hands dirty with planting workshops, while adults can explore the latest innovations in sustainable living. It's a day of fun and learning that the whole family can enjoy!

Support Local Sustainability Initiatives: By attending the Green Festival, you're not just participating in a community event – you're actively supporting local businesses and organizations dedicated to sustainability. Discover how you can contribute to building a greener, more vibrant Secaucus, from eco-friendly products to green initiatives.

Community Engagement: Connect with like-minded individuals, local businesses, and organizations committed to positively impacting our environment. Share ideas, collaborate on initiatives, and join forces to create lasting change within our community.

Be Eco-Conscious: As you prepare for the festival, remember to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Opt for eco-friendly transportation methods, bring reusable water bottles and utensils, and minimize waste wherever possible. Let's lead by example and demonstrate our commitment to environmental stewardship.

For more information and updates, visit green.secaucusnj.gov/green-festival or follow us on Instagram @GreenSecaucus. Let's make this year's festival the greenest and most impactful yet!