Chris Botti News

Director Billy Porter and Grammy nominee Ledisi mark their debuts with Reprise Theatre Company in the 1990 musical 'Once on This Island,' opening the 2008-2009 season, September 2 to 14 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. The press opening is September 3.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is very pleased to welcome Broadway veteran RIC RYDER for a one night only concert event. The seasoned performer (Blood Brothers, The Music Man, Starmites, Grease, A New Brain), is joined by composer/musician Steve Marzullo (I Hid My Love, Somedays, Musical Director of Once on This Island, etc.) and musicians Mary Ann McSweeney (Avenue Q Swings) and Everett Bradley (Broadway's Swing!, tours with Darryl Hall, John Bon Jovi, Chris Botti, Cyndi Lauper), as well as vocalists Michelle Blakely (Broadway's Senator Joe, Grease and Annie Get Your Gun) and Holly Hylton (Hello, Dolly with Mimi Hinds).

North Shore Music Theatre (NSMT) will be sizzling as the hottest acts in pop, jazz and comedy take the stage this July.

2008 Delta Classic Chastain series performers include Melissa Etheridge, Soul Asylum, The Temptations and The Four Tops, Gipsy Kings, Hootie & the Blowfish and many more (see full lineup below). The latest performer additions to the 35th anniversary lineup are country music superstar Trace Adkins, Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, and the 'Kickin' Pickin' Bluegrass Party' featuring Marty Stuart and the Del McCoury Band.

Dr. Dan Wanner, Chair of the Music Department at Los Angeles City College (LACC), has announced The Harmony Project, a non-profit organization serving the cultural and artistic needs of underprivileged children in the Los Angeles area, with over 200 students taking music courses at the LACC Music Department, will present a free concert, 'FOR MOM, WITH LOVE,' in observance of Mother's Day, at Forest Lawn's Hall of Liberty; 6300 Forest Lawn Drive; Hollywood Hills, CA 90068 on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 2:00 p.m

Featured on the Grammy Award winning 'Jersey Boys' Cast Recording and Martin Scorsese's Acadamy Award winning film 'The Departed', guitarist Larry Saltzman joins Moonshine Martinis: A 60's and 70's Country Cabaret, featuring country music from the 60s and 70s.

Rob Marshall, director of the critically acclaimed NBC television special TARGET PRESENTS: TONY BENNETT/AN AMERICAN CLASSIC, won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety for 2006 at the 59th Annual DGA Awards ceremony held Saturday, February 3 in Los Angeles.

'Target Presents Tony Bennett: An American Classic,' a music special featuring the legendary singer that will air on NBC, will be produced and directed by Oscar-winning stage and screen director Rob Marshall

After dropping out of the line-up to tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, Botti is back on the bill for August 13, 2006

Broadway Veteran and Tap Sensation Savion Glover will perform at the 2006 JVC Newport Jazz Festival on August 13, 2006

On January 15th, Paige Price will appear alongside stars such as Gretchen Wilson in the Stars to the Rescue benefit in St. Louis

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SUMMER SHOWS SIZZLE ON THE GLEASON STAGE