Performances

Everyone is invited to play, sing or just listen to the Bluegrass and Gospel Jam fans every Tuesday night. Join the guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles, harmonicas, dobros and of course, the melodious voices. A 15 minute break is enjoyed by all for some pot luck cookies and/or cakes. No charge for playing or listening. Great fun for all.

For more information, contact A. Scott Krug at askrug@comcast.net

Chinese Orchestra Performing at Young Scholars Charter School on Tuesday, February 7 from 4 - 5:30 pm. Please make a reservation by calling 814-237-9727 or email Murawski@yscp.org. The school is located at 1530 Westerly Parkway, State College. More info at www.YSCP.org.

Since forming in the late '90s, the musically muscular and relentlessly inventive Umphrey's McGee has cultivated an impressive presence both live and in the studio.

$27.50 advance, $30 day of show

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 9pm

Adult $40 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $30


China’s first independent contemporary dance company is the creation of an acclaimed dancer and choreographer born in China to ethnic Korean parents. Jin Xing earned accolades as her country’s best dancer and by age 19 had moved to New York City to study with modern dance icons Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and José Limón. She then performed with ensembles in Italy and Belgium. Following six years in the West, she returned to China. Shanghai Tango features ten pieces that mix East and West in dance, music, and costumes. A Chinese folk tale about a mother divided between husband and lover inspired the title piece. Shanghai Tango’s sensual dance doesn’t include tango, but the use of music by Astor Piazzolla lends a tango influence. Shanghai Tango provides a glimpse at contemporary Shanghai, a cosmopolitan city that melds cultures and passions.


Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

Biscuit Jam with special guest Paul Amato on guitar!!

Live at The BAR in Boalsburg Friday, Feb. 10! Music starts at 10 PM.

Featuring songs by Bob Dylan, The Band, Tom Petty, John Prine, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Old Crow Medicine Show, Johnny Cash, CCR, The Beatles, Bob Seger, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Roger Miller, Woody Guthrie, REM, Little Feat, Cracker, Led Zeppelin, as well as traditional folk songs and originals.

"Pass the Hat"....NO COVER CHARGE

http://www.myspace.com/biscuitjam

Soul, funk, and blues outfit BLACK COFFEE will be returning to the Cafe 210 West stage SATURDAY 2/11!

EVENT DETAILS:
http://on.fb.me/AqITha

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
http://www.nocreamorsugar.net/

YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nocreamorsugar/


Lead by vocalist Caitlin Cuneo, Black Coffee is a rhythm and blues band from Pennsylvania whose style unearths a reminiscent vibe reviving the sound and passion of traditional blues, funk, & soul music. Her backing rhythm section includes Ryan Alford on guitar, Vincent Cuneo on guitar and vocal harmonies, Keith Kavanaugh on bass, and Jim DeVoss laying down the beats.

The band creates an energized show, spanning from slow blues/jazz numbers to all-out funk grooves. The rhythm section supports Miss Cuneo with their subtle hooks, pulsating rhythms and tasteful solos - and the band's passion for performing live is evident from their dynamic performances. Wrote one critic, "This band is definitely to be reckoned with in the blues jazz world."

In 2011, the band played over 80 shows all over the Northeast, spanning clubs to the regional festival scene. In 2012, the band plans to create their first album while traveling the country.

The Central Pennsylvania Youth Orchestra will present its second concert of the 2011-2012 season on Sunday, February 12 at 4:00 p.m. in Esber Recital Hall on the campus of Penn State University.

The Winter Concert program features Joanna Li (age 17), 2nd place winner of the Ann Keller Young Soloist Competition. Li will be performing Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto #2, Op. 19 in B Flat major, 1st Movement. Li is a junior at Hollidaysburg Area High School and has studied piano for 11 years. Currently studying with Timothy Shafer, Li will serve as accompanist for District VI Choir Festival this month. Li also plays violin and is her school’s concertmistress.

The CPYO Full Orchestra will be performing Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Gioachino Rossini’s Italian Girl in Algiers, and Antonin Dvorak’s Slavanic Dances. A prelude concert by CPYO’s Chamber Orchestra will also be enjoyed.

Led by Gregory Woodbridge, CPYO is the area’s premiere youth orchestra, with more than 65 students from Centre and surrounding counties participating in the Full and Chamber Orchestras. Penn State student mentors complete the orchestra rosters.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and children. Tickets are available at the door, beginning at 3:30 p.m. More information about CPYO can be found at www.pascp.org.

MEDIA OPPORTUNITY
We invite the media to attend a rehearsal and see the preparations for the upcoming Winter Concert performance by Central Pennsylvania Youth Orchestra. Speak with conductor, Gregory Woodbridge and students of CPYO. Rehearsals are held on Sundays from 2 – 4:30. To arrange for an interview, please contact Sarah Kopac at 814.234.4961 or at skopac@pascp.org

Principal Conductor Dr. Ned Deihl and 70 volunteer band members perform a variety of concerts for the community throughout the year. All concerts are held at the SC Area High School South Auditorium. Admission is FREE, but donations for the band are gratefully accepted at the door.
Valentine’s Day Concert: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, 3 PM

In many ways, this Tea Leaf Green quintet is the essence of rock’s adventurous, playfully outlaw spirit, all of which ultimately fuels songs that resonate with classic vibrations, open-ended possibilities and radio-ready charm.

$25

Wed, Feb 15 at 8pm

Beethoven: Overture to Edmont, Op. 84
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61 -- Max Zorin, Violin
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op.54

Biscuit Jam brings their distinctive mix of Americana-flavored Roots, Rock, and Blues back to the DARKHORSE in State College

9 - 11PM

Joined by Logan Kistler (Kentucky banjo and some vocals too!) and Stephen Mattes (drums)

Of course, Nate Cutshall (blues harp, melodica, bass), Uncle Dennis Hayes (vocals, guitar), and Mark Hill (vocals, cuatro, mandolin) will be there too.

Featuring songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, The Band, Tom Petty, John Prine, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Old Crow Medicine Show, Johnny Cash, CCR, Bob Seger, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Roger Miller, among others.

http://www.myspace.com/​biscuitjam

The Darkhorse is smoke free.

This is where you want to be Saturday Night!

One of the world’s top DJ’s, Sebastian Ingrosso, will be making a special appearance with Alesso at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center on Thursday, February 23. Ingrosso is best known for his work in the super group Swedish House Mafia and has produced “Leave the World Behind,” “One,” “Miami 2 Ibiza,” and most recently “Save the World.” Ingrosso’s solo career has been just as successful with collaborations with David Guetta, Dirty South, Laidback Luke, John Dahlback, and his special guest on this date, Alesso.


TICKET PRICES
$49.50 GA Floor, $39 GA Event Level

In honor of our 20th anniversary, Acoustic Brew is proud to host a free afternoon and evening of great local music. The afternoon will begin with a showcase of artists including Andy Tolins, Pure Cane Sugar, Chicken Tractor, Tussey Mountain Moonshiners, and many others. Stay tuned for more information and the final lineup.

Combining tradition with innovation, encompassing genres from Klezmer to Appalachian, Simple Gifts creates some of the finest arrangements in folk music today: swing fiddle creeps into a Romanian dance, spoons show up in an Irish reel, and the concertina ventures far beyond styles considered traditional for that instrument. Linda Littleton, Rachel Hall, and Karen Hirshon (this show will feature the duo of Karen and Linda) switch with ease among two violins, concertina, mandolin, banjolin, recorders, bowed psaltery, hammered dulcimer, baritone fiddle, guitar, piano, and percussion.

Tickets will be required for the evening show. Tickets are available online at http://acousticbrew.org or at Nature's Pantry in State College. All daytime concerts are open admission.

Adult $59, $53 | University Park Student $44, $38 | 18 and Younger $54, $48


Direct from Broadway, the smash-hit musical AMERICAN IDIOT tells the story of three lifelong friends forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia. Based on Green Day’s Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum album and featuring the hits “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “21 Guns,” “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” “Holiday,” and the blockbuster title track, AMERICAN IDIOT boldly takes the American musical where it’s never gone before. With direction by Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening), choreography by Steven Hoggett (Black Watch), and orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), the result is an experience Charles Isherwood of The New York Times declares “thrilling, emotionally charged, and as moving as any Broadway musical I’ve seen this year!”

The performance includes mature themes and language.

Adult $38 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $28



Spirit of Uganda’s performers, aged 8 to 18, share the music and dance of their lush and diverse East African homeland, while serving as ambassadors for Uganda’s 2.4 million orphans. The children personify the resilience and promise of Africa’s next generation as they promote awareness of Uganda’s dual crises of AIDS and civil war. Spirit of Uganda, with Artistic Director Peter Kasule as master of ceremonies, celebrates cultural roots and contemporary creations with standing drums, dramatic choreography, layered rhythms, and call-and-response vocals. “Whatever these performers do, in whatever different bright attire, they do with discipline, fervor, and joy,” writes a Village Voice reviewer. “The pounding feet and agile bodies, the drums and vibrant human voices all send a message — one of courage and hope.”


Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

Adult $55 | University Park Student $25 | 18 and Younger $48


The swinging Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, featuring fifteen of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players in America, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident ensemble since 1988. If one person embodies the past, present, and future of jazz, it’s orchestra leader Wynton Marsalis. The trumpeter, composer, artistic director, and educator has performed five times with the orchestra before large and enthusiastic Penn State audiences. Jazz at Lincoln Center, which Marsalis directs, has become the world’s foremost cultural and educational resource devoted to jazz. The versatile orchestra entertains in New York City, across the United States, and around the globe in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, and public parks. The big band also performs with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, jazz students, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists.

One of contemporary opera's most celebrated figures, José Carreras will be performing at the Bryce Jordan Center on Sunday, March 18 at 8pm.
Mr. Carreras has sold over 60 million records worldwide and has had a storied and legendary career that has transcended all music genres. Over the course of his career, Mr. Carreras recorded more than 50 complete operas and 40 classical and popular recitals.

TICKET PRICES
$89.50, $59.50, $29.50 (PSU students)

Adult $59, $53 | University Park Student $44, $38 | 18 and Younger $54, $48


There’s no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theatre than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of CATS. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become one of the longest-running shows in Broadway’s history. Winner of seven Tony Awards® including Best Musical, CATS features twenty of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless melodies, including the hit song, “Memory.”

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

Adult $40 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $32


The Brentano String Quartet — named for Antonie Brentano, whom some scholars think was Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved” — performs the second concert in a three-season Center for the Performing Arts program featuring all of Beethoven’s string quartets. The quartet’s playing is “passionate, uninhibited, and spellbinding,” raves a critic for The Independent of London. A Philadelphia Inquirer reviewer praises the ensemble’s “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture.” Violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin and violist Misha Amory founded the quartet in 1992. Cellist Nina Lee joined in 1998. Brentano has been ensemble-in-residence at Princeton University since 1999. The program includes the quartets in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1; B-flat Major, Op. 130; and B-flat Major, Op. 133, Grosse Fuge.


Complimentary round-trip shuttle service is provided between the Eisenhower Parking Deck and Schwab Auditorium.

Van Halen
With Kool & the Gang

TICKET PRICES
$49.50, $79.50, $149.50

Soul, funk, and blues outfit BLACK COFFEE will be returning to the Red Horse Tavern (Pleasant Gap) for a FREE all ages show on Friday 3/30!

EVENT DETAILS:
http://on.fb.me/Aqj1uJ

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
http://www.nocreamorsugar.net/

YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nocreamorsugar/


Lead by vocalist Caitlin Cuneo, Black Coffee is a rhythm and blues band from Pennsylvania whose style unearths a reminiscent vibe reviving the sound and passion of traditional blues, funk, & soul music. Her backing rhythm section includes Ryan Alford on guitar, Vincent Cuneo on guitar and vocal harmonies, Keith Kavanaugh on bass, and Jim DeVoss laying down the beats.

The band creates an energized show, spanning from slow blues/jazz numbers to all-out funk grooves. The rhythm section supports Miss Cuneo with their subtle hooks, pulsating rhythms and tasteful solos - and the band's passion for performing live is evident from their dynamic performances. Wrote one critic, "This band is definitely to be reckoned with in the blues jazz world."

In 2011, the band played over 80 shows all over the Northeast, spanning clubs to the regional festival scene. In 2012, the band plans to create their first album while traveling the country.

Hailing from southeastern Pennsylvania, The Stray Birds are a group of young musicians have crafted an original sound that draws upon the richness of American folk music traditions. Talented multi-instrumentalists who perform with captivating musicality, the signature power of their sound lies in outstanding songwriting that soars in three-part harmony.

Tickets are $16 and are available at http://acousticbrew.org, or at Nature's Pantry in State College.

Adult $21 | University Park Student $11 | 18 and Younger $14


Seatbelts everyone! The Magic School Bus™ celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with an all-new musical adventure produced by Maximum Entertainment in association with Bay Area Children’s Theatre and Oregon Children’s Theatre. Ms. Frizzle’s students are putting on a play about global warming, and they need some cold, hard facts. The Friz and her reptilian sidekick, Liz, know just where to find them. This is no ordinary field trip, as a hop on the Magic School Bus takes the class and the audience on a whirlwind tour. From the Arctic to the Equator, they see telltale signs of climate change and learn how conservation, recycling, and alternative energy can make a difference. Ms. Frizzle and her class are up for the climate challenge. Are you?


Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for the performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

The Macadelic Tour

SPECIAL GUESTS
The Cool Kids
The Come Up

TICKET PRICES
$37.50 public, $25 UPAC

Adult $36 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $26


Sitar superstar Anoushka Shankar unites the passionate and diverse music of Spain with the vibrant, ancient forms of the Indian classical tradition. Tracing the musical commonalities of the Romani people’s journey from Rajasthan through Iran, Iraq, and Armenia on the way to settling in Spain, Shankar re-forges the link, separated by a thousand years, between Spanish and Indian music. Immersing herself in flamenco, fandango, buleria, and tango, Shankar has collaborated with renowned flamenco producer Javier Limón and gifted Spanish musicians to develop a new sound that reinterprets Iberian genres within Indian ragas and rhythms. Using sitar, tabla, bansuri flute, percussion, Spanish guitar, and voice, Shankar and her band create a mesmerizing collection of new tunes.

Adult $59, $53 | University Park Student $44, $38 | 18 and Younger $54, $48



The classic Mel Brooks movie is ALIVE! Have a monstrously good time at this spectacular new production, winner of the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award and the Broadway.com Audience Award for Best Musical. Don’t miss the sensational cast delivering all your favorite moments from the classic film, plus brand-new, show-stopping numbers for the stage, including “Transylvania Mania,” “He Vas My Boyfriend,” and “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” This wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend follows bright young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to create a monster — but not without scary and hilarious complications. The brains behind the laughter is mad genius and three-time Tony-winner Brooks himself — who wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the book — along with his record-breaking team from The Producers, five-time Tony-winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman and three-time Tony-winning writer Thomas Meehan.

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

Adult $40 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $30


Diavolo company members are dancers, gymnasts, actors, and athletes. First and foremost, though, they’re teammates. Jacques Heim, the French-born artistic director who founded the Los Angeles troupe in 1992, guides his ten performers in collaboratively developing work on oversized surrealistic sets and everyday structures. Diavolo explores isolation, fear, destiny, survival, faith, modernization, and danger in the shadow of a technological world. The company’s appearance at Penn State features the world premiere of a work commissioned by the Center for the Performing Arts. The program also includes Fearful Symmetries, which starts and ends with a cube illuminating the parallel between mathematics and the human soul, and Trajectoire, a visceral journey set on a twenty-first-century galleon tossing on a sea of emotions.

Audio description, which is especially helpful to patrons with sight loss, is available for this performance at no extra charge to ticket holders.

Adult $40 | University Park Student $15 | 18 and Younger $32


The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet makes music without boundaries. For more than thirty years the Grammy-winning ensemble’s four virtuosos, each possessing musical strengths in particular genres, have enlivened concert stages with multicultural programs ranging from Bach to bluegrass. The Penn State program highlights the quartet’s signature mix of classical favorites and far-ranging explorations. Experience classical works by Luigi Boccherini, Manuel de Falla, and Claude Debussy; jazz tunes by Miles Davis, Bill Evans, and John Coltrane; and Spanish Renaissance music from the time of Miguel de Cervantes. “The world’s hottest classical ensemble or its tightest pop band? However it helps you to think about the LAGQ,” writes a Los Angeles Times critic, “keep the emphasis on superlatives for its unrivaled joy, technical élan, and questing spirits.”


Complimentary round-trip shuttle service is provided between the Eisenhower Parking Deck and Schwab Auditorium.

Tickets are $16 and are available at http://acousticbrew.org, or at Nature's Pantry in State College.

Steve James is a well known name among devotees of contemporary acoustic folk and blues; this notoriety based on numerous critically acclaimed recordings, a tireless international tour schedule and a sheaf of published work including articles, instructional books and videos. His instrumental versatility on guitar, slide guitar, mandolin, and other instruments, also makes him a favorite at music camps and workshop programs.

He has recorded with a diverse crew including Maria Muldaur, James McMurtry, Jesse "Babyface" Thomas, and Kevin Russell of the Gourds. He's played live with blues/roots luminaries including John Hammond, Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, and Howard Armstrong. His original songs have been covered by artists from folk phenom Ana Egge to folk/blues godfather Dave Van Ronk

Tish Hinojosa’s music crosses borders – between cultures, languages and musical genres. Moving with equal grace through folk, country, pop and Latino styles, her music reflects contemporary America’s multicultural richness.

Tickets are $16 and can be purchased online at http://acousticbrew.org, or at Nature's Pantry in State College.