Disco Groove All-Stars Mark the Resurgence of Boogie Fever 12/5 At OCPAC

It's catching and it feels great - boogie fever! And bringing it to the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Segerstrom Hall audience on Saturday, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. will be the Disco Groove All-Stars, including the legendary Thelma Houston, Cheryl Lynn, Tavares, Maxine Nightingale and A Taste of Honey featuring Janice-Marie, all sharing one band for a seamless evening of top disco hits.

They'll be singing such legendary tunes as "Don't Leave Me This Way," "Got to Be Real,"
"Heaven Must be Missing An Angel," "Right Back Where We Started From" and "Boogie Oogie Oogie."
Tickets to this very special evening of disco start at $45 and are available at OCPAC.org, at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling 714.556.2787. For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 15 or more, call the Group Services office at 714.755.0236. The TTY number is 714.556.2746.

The five icons of Disco Groove All-Stars are:
Grammy® winner Thelma Houston is a singer, songwriter, actress and international performer.
Houston's busy schedule has included a whirlwind of recording, film, television and song-writing activities, and constant performances literally around the globe. Her breakthrough into mainstream recognition and international acceptance came after she signed with Motown Records in the ‘70s. She hit the top of the pop, R&B and dance charts with her high-powered rendition of "Don't Leave Me This Way" (originally recorded by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes). A gold single, the now-classic song gave Houston the distinction of being the first solo female artist at Motown to win a Grammy for Best R&B Female Vocal Performance. A few of her other hits include: "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning," "I Can't Go On Living Without Your Love," "I'm Here Again" and "If You Feel It."
Cheryl Lynn is a disco, R&B and soul singer best known for her 1978 disco classic, "Got to Be Real." It was her first and biggest hit, peaking at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the R&B chart. The success of the single prompted a full scale debut album titled, Cheryl Lynn. The album sold more than a million copies and peaked at No. 5 on Billboard's R&B albums chart and No. 23 on Billboard's top 200 album charts. The follow-up single, "Star Love," also became a hit. In 1981, she released "Shake It Up Tonight," a major club R&B hit from Lynn's third album, In the Night. Luther Vandross produced Lynn's fourth album, Instant Love. The second single off the album, "If This World Were Mine," a 1982 duet with Vandross that covered a Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell song, has become an urban contemporary classic. "Encore" from her fifth album, Preppie, was a No. 1 R&B hit, becoming Lynn's second No. 1 single.

In 1989, Lynn released the top 10 single, "Every Time I Try To Say Goodbye," from her eighth album, Whatever It Takes. Tavares signed with Capitol Records in 1973, scoring their first R&B Top 10 (Pop Top 40) hit with "Check it Out" that same year, and soon began charting regularly on the R&B and pop charts. Their first album included their brother Victor, who sang lead on "Check it Out." In 1974, Tavares had a No. 1 R&B hit with "She's Gone," which became a hit for Hall & Oates as well the following year. Tavares followed up that success with "Remember What I Told You to Forget." The year 1975 turned out to be their most successful chart-wise, chalking up a Top 40 Pop album (In the City) and their biggest hit, the Top 10 Pop No. 1 R&B smash "It Only Takes a Minute." This was followed by a string of hits: "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" (1976), "Don't Take Away the Music" (1976) and "Whodunit" (1977, another No.1 R&B hit), among others. Many of their hits, however, underplayed their R&B background and gave the group the image of being a disco act. This perception was reinforced by their appearance on the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever in 1977. Tavares recorded The Bee Gees track "More Than a Woman," and their version reached the Pop Top 40 that year. The soundtrack became one of the most successful in history, winning Tavares a Grammy.

Maxine Nightingale stepped out of clubs and onto the stage with roles in Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair and Godspell, and then found herself with a Top 10 U.K. hit with "Right Back Where We Started From," which became No. 2 Pop Hit in the United States. Her debut album, Right Back Where We Started From, became a huge hit, thanks to the title track and "Gotta Be The One." Lead Me On followed and was No. 5 on the U.S. chart. Bittersweet and the compilation recording It's A Beautiful Thing both hit the charts. Nightingale has toured throughout the world and performed at many jazz festivals. Janice-Marie is the founder and principal songwriter, vocalist and bass player of the internationally acclaimed and Grammy Award-winning group A Taste of Honey. A Taste of Honey's self-titled debut release rocked the record industry. It featured the multi-platinum smash hit "Boogie Oogie Oogie," a Janice-Marie penned composition, which garnered the group a Grammy for Best New Artist of the Year, and nominations for Best R&B Single and Best Vocal Performance by a Group or Duo. Their second release, Another Taste, earned international acclaim with the coveted Gold Prize at the 8th Annual Tokyo Music Festival, with Janice-Marie also receiving the Gold Prize for songwriter. The Janice-Marie composition, "Do It Good," as well as the Another Taste album were both certified Gold in Japan. 

Orange County Performing Arts Center
The Orange County Performing Arts Center presents a wide variety of the most significant national and international productions of music, dance and theater to the people of Southern California. It is
committed to supporting artistic excellence on all of its stages and offering unsurpassed experiences, engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and an array of inspiring programs.

As Orange County's largest non-profit arts organization, the Center owns and operates the 3,000-seat Segerstrom Hall and intimate 250-seat Founders Hall, which opened in 1986, and the 2,000-seat Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, which opened in 2006 and also houses the 500-seat Samueli Theater, and the Lawrence and Kristina Dodge Education Center's studio performance space and Boeing Education Lab. These state-of-the-art facilities are united by a community arts plaza. The Center's Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and community plaza, along with facilities of the adjacent Tony® Award-winning South Coast Repertory and a site designated as the new home of the Orange County Museum of Art, are located at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

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