Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Announces Additions to 2017–18 Lineup
By: A.A. Cristi Jul. 18, 2017
Today, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (The Center) announced the addition of several new performances to its 2017-2018 lineup continuing to showcase chart topping musicians, holiday performances, groundbreaking storytellers and authors. Tickets for all shows go on sale Friday, August 4 at noon and are available online at lutherburbankcenter.org, by calling 707-546-3600 or at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts ticket office (50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa).
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 at 1 - 7 P.M.
TICKETS: FREE
Celebrate Latino Heritage Month with a taste of Latin America in Sonoma County! Enjoy authentic food, music, games and activities for the entire family. ¡Celebren el mes de la Herencia Latino con un sabor de América Latina en el Condado de Sonoma! Disfruten de auténtica comida, música, juegos y actividades para toda la familia.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2017 at 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $89 - $149
With worldwide record sales in the millions, and dozens of platinum and gold albums to his credit, Tony Bennett is a musician who touches the hearts and souls of audiences with his legendary vocals and charming stage presence. Having celebrated his 90th birthday in 2016, Bennett is one of only a handful of artists to have new albums charting in each of the last seven decades. He has introduced a multitude of songs into the Great American Songbook that have since become standards, and has received 19 Grammy Awards, including for his signature song, "I Left My Heart In San Francisco." CREATING S-TOWN: A NEW WAY TO TELL A STORY
AN EVENING WITH BRIAN REED
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017 at 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $29 - $59
Host & Co-Creator of the groundbreaking podcast S-Town, Brian Reed, spent more than three years reporting and writing S-Town, which began when a man named John B. McLemore asked Reed to investigate an alleged murder in his small Alabama town. The series won widespread popular and critical acclaim for elevating audio storytelling into the realm of great literature. As senior producer of This American Life, Reed oversees the editorial direction of the program with host and executive producer Ira Glass. In his seven years with the show, Reed created some of its most ambitious stories. Reed has investigated multiple sketchy FBI operations, as well as produced stories about strange coincidences and car salesmen on Long Island and a turkey who terrorized a neighborhood before getting murdered by police. His journalism has helped an immigrant gain asylum in the U.S. and prompted a Senate Committee to grill the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Before joining This American Life as an intern in 2010, Reed reported and produced for NPR as one of their Kroc Fellows and their first Above the Fray Fellow. Reed has received the Dart Award for Reporting on Trauma, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Peabody Award. DWIGHT YOAKAM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2017 at 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $59-$79
Dwight Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, and he is a 21-time nominated, multiple GRAMMY Award winner. He has 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum albums, with five of those albums topping Billboard's Country Albums chart, and another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakam's singles have charted, with 14 peaking in the Top 10. He received the Artist of the Year award at the 2013 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony, the most prestigious award offered by the organization. In September of 2016, Yoakam released his first ever bluegrass album Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars...on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of bluegrass luminaries, this album reflects the love for bluegrass music that Yoakam developed at an early age in Kentucky, and that has inspired him for many years thereafter. In 2015, Yoakam released his album Second Hand Heart on Warner/Reprise records, the follow up to his critically acclaimed album 3 Pears. MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS BY Chip Davis
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2017 at 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $59 - $75
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis has been America's favorite holiday tradition for over 30 years! Grammy Award Winner Chip Davis created a show that features Mannheim Steamroller Christmas classics along with a selection of compositions from Chip's groundbreaking Fresh Aire series which introduced the distinctive Mannheim sound to all of America. The program celebrates the group's recent anniversary of 30 years since the first Christmas album and 40 years since the first Fresh Aire album and includes dazzling multimedia effects performed in an intimate setting. The magic of the season comes alive with the Signature Sound of Mannheim Steamroller, whose holiday CDs have become synonymous with Christmas and continue to occupy top spots on Billboard's Seasonal Charts every year!Rodney Strong VINYARDS DANCE SERIES
BALLET FOLKLÓRICO DE SACRAMENTO POSADA NAVIEÑA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017 at 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $5 - $10
Twenty-five dancers and musicians of Sacramento's Mexican Folk Dance Company, Ballet Folklórico de Sacramento will take audiences on a whirlwind journey through the regions of Mexico, as we all come together to celebrate this splendid time of year. With a traditional Christmas processional (posada), Mexican holiday songs (villancicos), a visit from the Three Wise Men, a festive piñata scene and captivating dance choreography, Posada Navideña is sure to leave you with that warm feeling inside that is inspired during this time of year. Kris Kristofferson
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 2018 at 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $45-$65
Heralded as an artist's artist, the three-time GRAMMY winner Kris Kristofferson has recorded 27 albums, including three with pals Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings as part of the Highwaymen. Kristofferson has spent three decades performing concerts all over the world, in most recent years in a solo acoustic setting, which puts the focus on the songs. "There's an honesty in the sparseness. It feels like direct communication to the listener," he says, "I still have more fun when I'm with the band, but being alone is freer, somehow. It's like being an old blues guy, just completely stripped away." WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 2018 AT 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $39-$59
Whose Live Anyway returns, after sold-out performances the past 4 years in a row! Whose Live Anyway is a 90-minute show of hilarious improvised comedy and song all based on audience suggestions. Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, and special guest Joel Murray from "Mad Men" will leave you gasping for breath with the very witty scenes and songs they invent before your eyes! Whose Live performs games made famous on the Emmy-nominated TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway"-and a few new ones, too! Rodney Strong VINYARDS DANCE SERIES
PILOBOLUS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2018 AT 8 P.M. PRESHOW DISCUSSION 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $35 - $50
In the more than four decades since, Pilobolus has performed on Broadway, at the Oscars, and the Olympic games, and has appeared on television, in movies, in advertisements, and in schools and businesses and created over 120 dance works. The company continues to propel the seeds of expression via human movement to every corner of the world, growing and changing each year while reaching new audiences and exploring new visual and musical planes. The group creates, performs, and preserve dances, applying the collaborative creative methods, and works to expand and diversify audiences through projects of all types and scales. In addition to their live performances, Pilobolus utilizes film, and digital media, characterized by the qualities of our namesake fungus-adventurous, adaptive, athletic, surprising and revealing of beauty in unexpected places. AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL POLLAN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018 at 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $35 - $49
Best-Selling Author and Sustainable Food Advocate, Michael Pollan's books about food, diet, and industrial agriculture have made him an influential voice in America's food fight over obesity, nutrition, and diabetes. Best known for 2006's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, he is revered by those who believe that something is fundamentally wrong with how we mass produce and prepare our meals. Pollan's new book, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, focuses on another aspect of American life we haven't thought enough about: the kitchen. In his hands, cooking is no longer a workaday chore: it's alchemy, it's revolutionary, and it's what makes us human. Though we've tried to shrink kitchen time with microwaves and minute rice, Pollan writes that cooking is "the single most important thing an ordinary person can do to reform the American food system"-and if history is any guide, we'll soon share his enthusiasm. Rodney Strong VINYARDS DANCE SERIES
VERSA-STYLE DANCE COMPANY
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018 at 8 P.M. PRESHOW DISCUSSION 7 P.M.
TICKETS: $25 - $40
Versa-Style Dance Company celebrates the most vibrant elements of hip-hop culture-the spirit of inclusion, innovation, reverence and authenticity. The live experience is similar to that of a live music video, pulsing and driving, quick cutting and dissolving. Versa-Style create highly energetic work that fuses dances that are culturally significant within the community. These forms include Hip-Hop styles such as 90s Hip-Hop, House, Popping, Locking, Whacking and Boogaloo, and Afro-Latin styles such as Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia and Afro-Cuban to name a few. In reaction to the widespread media misrepresentation of these dance forms, Versa-Style performs regularly for the youth of Los Angeles to instill the roots, history, and social and political issues surrounding the art of this generation. Hip-Hop breaks color lines by creating a forum where people come together for a common passion rather than grouping themselves by race or socio-economic backgrounds. Versa-Style demonstrates freedom of expression, freedom of individuality, hard work, self-discipline and dedication to the form. THE PRICE IS RIGHT LIVE
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2018 at 8 P.M.
TICKETS: $35 - $49
The hit interactive stage show The Price Is Right Live gives eligible individuals the chance to "Come On Down" to win. Prizes may include appliances, vacations and possibly a new car! Play classic games from television's longest running and most popular game show from Plinko, to Cliffhangers, to The Big Wheel, and even the fabulous Showcase. Playing to near sold-out audiences for more than ten years, The Price Is Right Live has given away more than 12 million dollars in cash and prizes. The possibilities at the live show are endless for those who enjoy the rush of emotions experienced while watching the show on television.
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