Carrie
Newcomer
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In Concert at Hall-Moser Theatre |
Saturday,
November 3, 2007
Performance Time: 7:30 pm |
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Carrie Newcomer has been telling stories and
blending diverse musical styles for nearly two
decades, influenced by “singing poets” as well as by
the R&B and rock ‘n’ roll she heard growing up
within the range of Chicago’s radio waves. Described
as one of the definitive voices of the Heartland,
the Indiana native sings of the small joys and pains
in life, emphasizing the little moments that are
often taken for granted.
Newcomer has developed a loyal following from
touring over the years. She has shared the stage
with a variety of other performers including Alison
Krauss, Bonnie Raitt, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. The
string band Nickel Creek covered her song, “I
Should’ve Known Better” on their 2003 Grammy
Award-winning and Gold CD “This Side,” produced by
Krauss. More information on the artist is available
at
www.carrienewcomer.com
“Carrie is a touchstone of
authenticity in an image-driven, media-defined
musical world. She is a beautiful singer and
songwriter, and deeply refreshing.”
- Roseanne Cash
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Dance
Kaleidoscope
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In Concert at Hall-Moser Theatre |
Friday, November 30, 2007
Performance Time: 7:30pm |
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Since 1972, Dance
Kaleidoscope has been Indiana’s premier
professional contemporary dance company.
Under the leadership of Artistic
Director David Hochoy, Dance
Kaleidoscope is rapidly building a
national reputation. The company spends
the summer months as dance
artist-in-residence at the prestigious
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the largest
regional theater company in America.
Dance Kaleidoscope will
perform the three works the company
presented this past summer in its final
season at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival’s “The Green Show” in Ashland,
Oregon. In ten seasons at the Festival,
Dance Kaleidoscope has entertained
almost one million visitors from around
the world. More information about the
company can be found at
www.dancekal.org
“Like (Martha) Graham, Hochoy
searches for the inner motivations of
individuals…the best visiting company to
hit town (New York City) was Dance
Kaleidoscope.”
- Ballet Review
“…high wattage…lively....”
- San Francisco Chronicle
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Dave Bennett’s
Benny Goodman Tribute
Sponsored by Cardinal
Health
 System,
Inc.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Performance Time: 7:30 pm |
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Dave Bennett is a
23-year-old clarinet prodigy who has
been acclaimed for bringing life to
the music of “The King of Swing”
through incredible technique,
expression, and sensitivity. Dave
Bennett has created numerous written
arrangements of Goodman hits and
swing jazz classics, including
Moonglow, I’ve Got Rhythm, Body and
Soul, and many others.
Bennett has a
reputation for a mature stage
presence, knowledge of the dates and
details of Goodman recordings, and a
penchant for wire-rim glasses, spats
and double-breasted suits of the
time of Benny Goodman’s swing era.
Find out more about the artist at
www.davebennett.com.
“…the closest to
Goodman’s style and sound of all the
major clarinetists of the past forty
years.” Peter Appleyard
(Benny Goodman’s vibraphonist 1972
to 1980)
“Dave Bennett is
the next Eddie Daniels…if Benny had
heard this guy he would have had him
over to play duets.”
-Bucky Pizzarelli (guitar legend of
the NBC Tonight Show Orchestra and
Goodman Band member 1966 to 1986)
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Christine
Lavin
Sponsored by First Merchants
Bank
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
Performance Time: 7:30pm |
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 Christine
Lavin’s award-winning songs are the
sound tracks of American life nailing a
goodly number of the absurdities,
reversals and neuroses that jam up our
daily lives. With her liquid-silver
voice and comic genius Lavin threads her
wonderfully skewed songs into a smart
and witty theatre-concert.
Her songs cover a great deal of
territory – relationships, the joys of
touring, political soul bearing, social
posturing, mid life inventory, and
more.!
From pre-show knitting circle to the
final baton twirl – it’s a concert with
a full service entertainer!
“Lavin keeps her audience
thinking, laughing and guessing at the
same time.”
- The Washington Post
“Lavin is as captivating an artist
in solo performance as there is today.”
- Billboard
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Tommy Sands
and his Irish Band
Concert in the
Hall-Moser Theatre
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Friday, February 29, 2008
Performance Time: 7:30pm |
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Tommy Sands has a reputation as a folk
performer of Ireland’s greatest musical
traditions that is never clearer than
with his Irish Band. This ensemble takes
the spirit of Tommy Sands’ solo work and
adds to it a fuller and even more
dynamic sound. Featuring Moya and
Fionán Sands, and accomplished uilleann
pipe player Bruce Foley, the quartet
will have audiences singing and clapping
along to the music’s natural energy and
liveliness.
With the true flavor and warmth of a
stomping Irish gathering, the Irish Band
recalls crackling firesides and down
home songs that have been passed on
through generations.
 “Every
note is a celebration of man’s power of
creation.” – Hot Press
“Tommy Sands has achieved that
difficult but wonderful balance between
knowing and loving the traditions of his
home and being concerned with the future
of the whole world.” - Pete
Seeger
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The
Baltimore Consort
Sponsored by Bank of Geneva
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Saturday, April 8, 2008
Performance Time: 7:30pm |
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A virtuoso
ensemble, The Baltimore Consort
specializes in the courtly and
popular music of the 16th to
18th centuries, as well as
traditional music rooted in
earlier times. The Baltimore
Consort has delighted audiences
on both sides of the Atlantic
and earned their CDs a place on
the Billboard Magazine Top-Ten
list.
The Baltimore
Consort performs arrangements of
early music from England,
Scotland, France, Italy, and
Spain speak to the heart as well
as the mind, and their love for
the early music of
English/Scottish heritage has
led them to delve into the rich
trove of traditional balladry
and dance tunes preserved in the
Appalachian mountains and Nova
Scotia. More information about
the artists is available at
www.baltcons.com .
“The Baltimore Consort is
perhaps the best balancing act
of period authenticity,
instrumental precision and sheer
fun in the early music community
today.”
-Times-Dispatch, Richmond, VA
“…superb
musicianship…achieved with the
ease, fluidity and flawless
skill long taken for granted for
string quartets and other
“modern” chamber ensembles.” -Houston
Chronicle
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Major funding for activities of Arts
Place, Inc. is provided by The Portland
Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission,
a state agency, and the National
Endowment for the Arts, a federal
agency, with funds from the Indiana
General Assembly. The Ohio Arts Council
helped fund this organization with state
tax dollars to encourage economic
growth, educational excellence and
cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
Sponsorship for Dave Bennett’s Benny
Goodman Tribute is provided by Cardinal
Health System, Inc. Sponsorship for
Christine Lavin is provided by First
Merchants Bank. Sponsorship for The
Baltimore Consort is provided by Bank of
Geneva. Support for the 2007-08
Performance Series is provided by
Indiana Public Radio and the George and
Frances Ball Foundation.
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