Welcome to Our 27TH SEASON We are thrilled to welcome you back to live events at the Bologna Performing Arts Center! We missed having patrons in our seats and artists on our stage. Inside, you will find the lineup for our2021-2022 Season. The Bologna Performing Arts Center continues to serve as a place of CONNECTION - connecting students with their first experience with the arts, connecting artists and audiences, connecting friends from across the Delta, the list goes on and on. Thanks for the ways in which YOU help to keep the Bologna Performing Arts Center going strong. Please join us! Buy a ticket to a performance, become a member, or join us as a volunteer. We’d love to include you in our mission. Sincerely, Laura Howell, Executive Director Bologna Performing Arts Center Delta State University 2021-2022 Season Ticketing Information & Important Dates August 9-18 ANNUAL MEMBER PRESALE August 9-12 –Same Seating Renewals (Director Level and above) August 16-18 – All Annual Member levels Renew or join the Annual Membership Program for the 2021-2022 Season AND place your ticket order to receive priority seating ahead of the general public. Please note: • Ticket orders must be submitted in person or by phone ONLY with a credit card • Ticket orders will be processed in the order received, within donor category. • Annual Members at the Director level and above receive Same Seating benefits – please submit orders no later than August 12, 2021. August 19 – MAIN STAGE SEASON PACKAGES ON SALE Purchase a Main Stage Season Package and receive preferred seating ahead of Custom Package and Individual ticket buyers. August 25 - CUSTOM PACKAGES ON SALE Purchase a custom package of tickets to three or more performances and receive preferred seating ahead of individual ticket buyers. August 30 – INDIVIDUAL TICKETS ON SALE All tickets to Main Stage performances will be on sale Monday, August 30. BPAC 2021 / 2022 SEASON CALENDAR of events SEPTEMBER 2021 JANUARY 2022 9.16.2021 1.25.2022 DIONNE WARWICK SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL 9.30.2021 SHAKE & HOLLA featuring FEBRUARY 2022 NORTH MISSISSIPPI 2.4.2022 school time matinee ALLSTARS and REBIRTH THE ADVENTURES OF BRASS BAND with special guest TORTOISE AND HARE: CEDRIC BURNSIDE NEXT GEN OCTOBER 2021 2.15.2022 THE BRITISH INVASION 10.14.2021 MARTINA MCBRIDE 2.28.2022 THE TEN TENORS 10.22.2021 school time matinee SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE! MARCH 2022 10.28.2021 DON FELDER formerly 3.7.2022 of THE EAGLES BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL NOVEMBER 2021 3.23.2022 school time matinee PADDINGTON GETS IN A JAM 11.4.2021 LONESTAR 3.31.2022 school time matinee 11.18.2021 SHAUN BOOTHE: EPHRAT ASHERIE DANCE THE UNAUTHORIZED main stage & school time matinee BIOGRAPHY SERIES APRIL 2022 DECEMBER 2021 4.7.2022 12.7.2021 LEANNE MORGAN MOUNTAIN HOLIDAY with CHLOË AGNEW of CELTIC WOMAN, JOHN DRISKELL MAY 2022 HOPKINS of ZAC BROWN 5.3.2022 BAND, ibma entertainer of the WAITRESS year BALSAM RANGE and ATLANTA POPS ORCHESTRA For more information and to purchase tickets call 662.846.4626 or visit www.bolognapac.com September 16, 2021 Thursday / 8:00 p.m. TICKETS $80 / $70 / $55 AN EVENING WITH DIONNE WARWICK SEASON Sponsored by EXTRA Join the Bologna Performing Arts Center to kick- off the upcoming season! Tickets for the evening include admission to the concert and heavy hors d’oeuvres during a reception beginning at 6:00 pm. Cash bars will be available, and Dionne Warwick will take the stage at 8:00 pm. Scintillating, soothing and sensual best describe the familiar and legendary voice of six- time GRAMMY® Award winning music legend, Dionne Warwick, who has become a cornerstone of American pop music and culture. Warwick’s career, which currently celebrates over 50 years, has established her as an international music icon and concert act. Over that time, she has earned 75 charted hit songs and sold over 100 million records. Warwick also received the 2019 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. September 30, 2021 Thursday / 7:30 p.m. TICKETS $40 / $32 / $25 SHAKE AND HOLLA featuring NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS and REBIRTH BRASS BAND with special guest CEDRIC BURNSIDE Sponsored by Shake & Holla is a brand-new tour that showcases foot-stomping Mississippi “hill country” blues and the funky, syncopated sounds of New Orleans brass. Touring together for the first time ever, the Grammy-nominated and Blues Music Award- winning North Mississippi Allstars will be joined by the legendary Rebirth Brass Band in a musical celebration of two great southern musical traditions. Steeped deeply in their own traditions, both artists also are part of the vanguard of blues and soul music. Appearing with them on this tour is blues guitarist, vocalist, and drummer Cedric Burnside, a Grammy- nominated artist in his own right, as well as the grandson of legendary Fat Possum recording artist RL Burnside. For one special night, these three artists will be playing their own favorite selections as well as collaborating throughout the show on an array of great songs, exploring the musical connection between the Mississippi Delta and Bourbon Street... right down Highway 61. October 14, 2021 TICKETS $89 / $79 / $69 Thursday / 7:30 p.m. Limited amount of $99 tickets in the Orchestra Pit MARTINA MCBRIDE Sponsored by Multiple Grammy® nominee Martina McBride has sold over 20 million albums to date, which includes 20 Top 10 singles and six #1 hits. Martina McBride has earned more than 15 major music awards, including four wins for Female Vocalist of the Year from the Country Music Association and won three Academy of Country Music for Top Female Vocalist. Martina has been awarded 14 Gold Records. Nine Platinum honors, three Double Platinum Records, and two Triple Platinum Awards. Martina was awarded the Covenant House Beacon of Hope Award and Music Business Association’s prestigious 2015 Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award for her philanthropic efforts on behalf of domestic violence. Martina has released two cookbooks – the first, Around the Table, a full-color illustrated collection of her favorite recipes, hosting tips, practical menu planning advice, and themed décor inspiration. She released Martina was honored with the Cliffie Stone Icon her second book, Martina’s Kitchen Mix: My Recipe Award at the ACM Honors event for her impactful Playlist for Real Life, in October 2018. Most recently, contributions to country music. October 28, 2021 Thursday / 7:30 p.m. TICKETS $65 / $55 / $45 DON FELDER, formerly of THE EAGLES Sponsored by Don Felder is a legendary singer-songwriter, a 1998 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Eagles, a New York Times best-selling author, and a true American rock and roll guitar hero. Felder spent 27 years with the Eagles who own the fine distinction of recording the top-selling album of all time - Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) - which has sold over 38 million copies (and counting). He co-wrote some of the band’s biggest hits, including “Hotel California” and “Victim of Love,” and became a New York Times Best Selling author with his autobiography Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles (1974-2001). His iconic double necked guitar was featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Play it Loud the same name. He was inaugurated into the exhibit in May 2019 - the first major exhibition in Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville in an art museum dedicated entirely to the iconic 2016, and the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2017. instruments of rock and roll - and is currently on His most recent solo album American Rock ‘N’ Roll display in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s exhibit of (BMG) was released on April 5, 2019. November 4, 2021 Thursday / 7:30 p.m. TICKETS $60 / $50 / $40 LONESTAR Sponsored by Not every musician has the opportunity to revisit and even potentially improve upon their biggest hits. But on the forthcoming TEN to 1 record, the award-winning band Lonestar— Dean Sams (keyboards, acoustic guitar, background vocals), Michael Britt (lead guitarist, background vocals ), Keech Rainwater (drums) and were mindful of striking a balance between Drew Womack (lead vocals, guitar)—are taking a preserving the sonic elements fans were familiar fresh look at all 10 of their chart-topping country with—and not repeating them. Fittingly, TEN to songs. 1 record reflects the ways Lonestar’s hits have This streak started in 1996 with the band’s evolved over the years during the band’s rousing, second single, the rock-edged “No News,” and high-energy concerts. Such talent has contributed continued with the following year’s “Come Cryin’ to the band winning many of music’s top honors, to Me” and “Everything’s Changed.” The band’s including Academy of Country Music awards for quadruple-platinum 1999 album Lonely Grill New Vocal Group in 1996, Single and Song Of The spawned four No. 1 hits (including the beloved Year in 2000, along with Humanitarian Of The Year global smash “Amazed”) and established Lonestar in 2002. They also won Country Music Association’s as music’s preeminent pop-country band—a Vocal Group of the Year and International Artist status they’d maintain through the 2000s and Achievement award in 2001. All told, Lonestar beyond. have sold more than 10.5 million records since With these re-recordings, the band members their formation. November 18, 2021 Thursday / 7:30 p.m. TICKETS $40 / $32 / $25 EPHRAT ASHERIE DANCE Funded in part in partnership with the National by a grant from Endowment for the Arts and the Mississippi Arts Commission. Odeon, an original dance work for six dancers and four musicians, is the second collaboration between sister and brother team Ephrat and Ehud Asherie (choreographer and musical director, respectively).