Avishai Cohen Trio

Friday, Feb. 8, 2008

Called a jazz visionary of global proportions by Downbeat Magazine, Avishai Cohen is a notable and powerful bassist and accomplished composer. His virtuoso double-bass playing and gorgeously projected sound (he switches to electric bass guitar for their funkier encore) lay at the heart of the music. Each one of them alone, and all of them together, create distinctive music of color and atmosphere, melody and improvisation, with Avishai beaming over the entire ensemble, using his bass as a leading instrument, but wonderfully open and communicating.

“There’s no way to reduce bassist Avishai Cohen’s music into tidy categories. Seamlessly blending Middle Eastern, folk, funk, fusion, and straight-ahead jazz – often on the same song – Cohen has fashioned a singular vision, and it’s a joy to experience.” Jazziz

www.avishaimusic.com

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Rebel

Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008

Named after the innovative French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), this five-member Baroque ensemble was originally formed in The Netherlands in l99l. Hailed by the New York Times as “sophisticated and beguiling” and praised by the Los Angeles Times for their “astonishingly vital music-making”, the New York-based Baroque ensemble has earned an impressive international reputation, enchanting diverse audiences by their unique style and their virtuosic, highly expressive and provocative approach to the Rococo and Baroque repertoire. REBEL will offer a program entitled Beyond the Horizons featuring the works of late baroque and gallant music of J.S. Bach, Telemann, Gluck and Quantz.

For more information: www.rebelbaroque.com

Adult: $20.00 Senior/Student/PC: $17.50 Youth: $10.00 MC Student: $5.00

Tommy Flemming

Friday, March 14, 2008

Red-haired Irish tenor Tommy Fleming rose to fame and success in storybook fashion. The County Sligo native began singing in local talent competitions, formed his own rock band, packed in pub and club fans throughout Ireland, and was fortuitously discovered in the 1990s by a record producer. Since then, he’s sung twice in Carnegie Hall. Despite breaking his neck in an auto accident in the late 90s, he’s become known as “the Voice of Ireland” and is Ireland’s biggest-selling Irish artist. Because of his full schedule of UK engagements, it’s a genuine coup to have booked him for the D’Angelo Center — three days before St. Patrick’s Day!

For more information: www.tommyfleming.net

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Saturday, March 29 , 2008

If any group of performing artists has earned the right to be called “global,” it’s the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Over the past 53 years its members have danced in more than 500 cities in 62 countries. Their choreography bridges the once-distant camps of ballet and modern dance, leading the San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner to write that “Paul Taylor is without question the greatest living American choreographer.” We can think of no better way to dazzle your eyes and lighten your heart than to bring them to our stage.
For more information: www.ptdc.org

Eric Bibb & the Campbell Brothers

Friday, April 4, 2008

Saturday, April 5, 2008

The Campbell Brothers grew up playing for the fiery services conducted by their father, Bishop Charles Campbell and have since brought their “sacred steel” music to international audiences—including an acclaimed performance at the famed Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee. Their African-American Holiness-Pentecostal repertoire is seasoned with funk, blues, R&B and jazz. Opening for then will be Grammy nominee Eric Bibb, who grew up during the 60s with Odetta, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez as family friends. His guitar fuses many genres to become a New World Blues. Joining both groups for the finale will be Erie’s Martin Luther King Choir. To prepare for this show, we’ve re-nailed the PAC roof down.
For more information: www.campbellbrothers.com

Angèle Dubeau & La Pieta

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Beginning in the 14th century, needy young women were offered shelter and musical instruction at the La Pieta charitable hospice in Venice, where Vivaldi later taught for 35 years. So it is that Angele Dubeau and La Pieta in 1997 formed as a string ensemble for piano—uniquely composed of women who are among Canada’s finest musicians. Dubeau, the group’s leader, plays a 1733 Stradivarius with what one critic called “a flashy, bold style” and showmanship that guarantees an exciting evening.
“La Pieta’s string ensemble’s precision never failed. Like Vivaldi’s ensemble, Dubeau’s all-women group last night triumphed over an all-male repertoire.” Toronto Star

For more information: www.angeledubeau.com

See Angèle Dubeau on YouTube.com