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SEASON Letter from the Executive Director

These days it feels like we are living in a bad science fiction movie with an invisible enemy no one has found the means to destroy yet. No person, industry or area of daily life has been left Are You Ready For untouched by what’s happening. The pandemic has caused substantial financial repercussions for everyone and wreaked havoc on so many industries. Rosanne Cash Yet many businesses have shown resilience, fighting to stay alive through massive setbacks JAN 13, 2021 | 7pm by innovating ways to adapt. While we’re all working to adapt to the ‘new normal’, the real Opening question we’re asking is: When will live performing arts return to any semblance of what normal used to be? Our industry can’t easily pivot to make ends meet. We can’t offer curbside pickup. We don’t have the ability to just reopen for a smaller event. We can’t put on a concert. Night? Our normal isn’t everyone else’s normal. It won’t return when cities begin to reopen. There is a positive side to this – rediscovering our humanity, being grateful and practicing kindness. As we express gratitude for essential workers and government officials – as well as the heroic first responders and health care professionals who are focused on preserving life itself – we accept our responsibility to contribute to the quality of life that we enjoy in the Treasure Coast. Performing Contents arts are fundamental to our humanity. They inspire us, fostering creativity, goodness, and beauty. Performing arts bring us joy, and help us express our values. Performing arts are also an essential 3 Letter from the Executive Director component of a healthy community—strengthening us socially, educationally, and economically. 4 Board of Directors & Staff, Each of us lucky enough to experience live performing arts understands the power of its Season Sponsors connection. People need shared communal experiences. People need live entertainment. There Facial Rejuvenation by is a special kind of magic that lives in creating shared moments. There is no pandemic that 6 Singin’, Swingin’ & Six-Stringin’ will ever curb that desire. While social distancing is necessary, it is also temporary. In time, The John Fasano, M.D. Lyric will provide live performing arts and educational experiences again. 8 Historical Timeline What I can offer you is hope. If these past few months have taught us anything, it is that together, 10 Be a Lyric Star we can move mountains. I see our arts community as strong, resilient, creative, and deeply 12 Youth Arts Celebration 2020 Injectable Rebalancing needed. Each day we continue to witness an elevated sense of community and the boundless Skin Smoothing determination. Though The Lyric has been dark, there is a light at the end of this tunnel. 16 Signs of the Times Jaw Contouring We are excited to announce our 2020-2021 Season. It has truly been a labor of love and we will 20 Arts & Education be adding new performances, events and experiences as the performing arts industry comes out of 22 2020-21 Season Lineup Neck Lifting darkness. We miss seeing you at The Lyric. We miss the energy exchange between you and our artists.We miss the sounds of laughter and applause. We miss the raw emotions invoked by live performing arts. 24 2019-20 Director’s Circle Eye Brightening We remain dedicated to ensuring that our pathway in this crisis considers our new realities, & Contributors Cheek Lifting health and well-being. We are closely monitoring the pandemic as we look forward to the 28 Family FUN Series fall and beyond. As a trusted community organization, the health and comfort of our donors, patrons, artists, volunteers and staff remain our top priority. All current and future decisions 29 Volunteer Bartenders & Ushers will be based on the health of the entire community as well as the safety of travel, which is paramount to the success of our programming as we showcase the premier talent in the world. 32 Seating & General Information The arts matter now, more than ever. The arts are what helped us to stay present, grounded and uplifting 36 Lyric Legacy: A Society for our minds and spirits through this uncertain time. The Lyric is dependent on YOU - our patrons, members the Preservation of the Arts and donors who are the heart and soul of our mission to bring people together to experience the 37 Shout Out to Lyric Box Office magic of live performance. With this pause in revenue, your support plays an even bigger role. Your support will help us to keep the arts alive in our vibrant community. So, as you consider 40 Patron Privilege Perks philanthropy at this difficult time, we hope you can continue to count us among your priorities. 42 Group Sales We are a strong community; we are a resilient community; and we have the opportunity to support one another through the challenges that lie ahead. The Lyric will be a gathering place again, and with On the cover: your help, together we will be able to continue our mission to build community through the arts. Over the past two We will get through this. It might take longer than we hope for, but I know that someday we’ll decades, Keb’ Mo’ has be creating those magical moments again…because the show must always go on! 2O 21 cultivated a reputation SEASON as a modern master of John B. Fasano, M.D. We will see you soon, American roots music. See him January 20, The Art of Plastic Surgery The Lyric Theatre’s Mission 2021 at 6:00pm or 509 Riverside Drive, Suite 206, Stuart, FL “To provide the community with a home for the performing 8:30pm at the Lyric JohnFasanoMD.com 772-221-9111 Kia Fontaine arts that entertains, educates, and stimulates the growth Theatre. of artistic integrity and experience for everyone.” 3 Executive Director 2020-21 Kia Fontaine Board of Directors Season Sponsors President Todd Laycock 1st Vice President The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. would like to thank Paul Shirley 2nd Vice President these sponsors who have generously helped to underwrite Mary Laub Cowan the costs of our 2020-21 Season. Treasurer Harold W. Walsh Secretary Priscilla Baldwin Directors George F. Bellows Frank M. Byers, Jr. Patty Downing HOME RUN Stephen Fry Sharon Holt Diane M. Lawrence Joan McGowan IS WHERE DEEP Eileen D. Morris oots Elliot M. 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The LYRIC Magazine publishes four times a year. Written and produced by The Lyric Theatre. To advertise, go to lyrictheatre.com/advertise or contact [email protected]. 4 The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 5 that’s exactly what guitarist Albert Cummings does… playing a wooden piano from her sisters and singing Albert Cummings Cummings effortlessly shifts from chimney subdued in the church choir. That makes it truly fitting that (October 10, 2020 7:00pm) Albert Cummings stylings to raucous roadhouse raunch to soaring yet she portrayed gospel singer Dorinda Clark Cole in is the complete package. He’s not just the guitar stinging lead lines, driving his audience to frenzy in the 2020 Lifetime biopic, The Clark Sisters: The player or the bluesman or the singer or the all the right places.” First Ladies of Gospel. She has said that hearing songwriter. Though he is a master of all of that, Natalie Cole’s album, Unforgettable…with Love, was he is so much more. He is the complete package, Cummings recently signed with Provogue Records, the inspiration for her career as a singer and she first with an approach to blues and rock that has been joining the ranks of guitar virtuosos such as Joe began to think of music as a profession at Oakwood described as soulful and explosive. Bonamassa, Walter Trout and Eric Gales. He is University, from which she received a degree in music looking forward to bringing new music to his loyal with an emphasis on piano. She told singersroom. The Massachusetts native learned the necessary fans. With his mesmerizing extended guitar jams, com that her college experience set her on her path. three chords on the guitar from his father, but tight pristine tone and strong vocals to match, he “That was my first time being immersed in music switched to playing banjo at 12 when he became Singin’ has incorporated the influence of his idols while culture like that, with late nights in the studio, writing a fan of bluegrass. In his late teens, he heard the maintaining a distinct, genre-bending style and and producing,” she said. “That’s when I felt like, ‘I early recordings of Stevie Ray Vaughan and when sound that is all his own. His upcoming album will want to do this on my own.’” he saw Vaughan perform, he returned to the guitar, thrill his fans and make him an army of new ones. determined to master it. Don’t miss a chance to hear him up close and Sheléa started as a songwriter/vocalist with Swingin’ personal at The Lyric. producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. She wrote A master builder, Cummings did not make his first and produced for Chanté Moore’s album, Love the public performance on the guitar until he was 27. Woman, and recorded the soundtracks for Hotel Soon he was on the Northeast blues circuit with Rwanda, Akeelah and the Bee and Be Cool. In 2008, his band, Swamp Yankee. In 1998, he walked into she teamed up with the Grammy-winning group, a Northeast Blues Society open jam and won the Sheléa (November 8, 2020 7:00pm) & Six- Take 6, singing “Someone to Watch Over Me” for right to compete in the Blues Foundation’s 1999 Whitney. Cher. Adele. Aretha. There are those their Grammy-nominated album. Her debut album, International Blues Challenge. In 2000, his debut select few who only need one name to identify Love Fell on Me, not only featured Stevie Wonder, but recording, The Long Way was released to rave them. Singer, songwriter and pianist Sheléa seems had Brian McKnight and Narada Michael Walden on reviews, with Bluesprint magazine calling it “a poised to enter that rarified atmosphere. She has board, as well. It charted for more than 22 weeks on barrage of guitar pyrotechnics that call to mind a performed at the White House for the Obamas. Stringin’ Billboard’s R & B list. grand mix of the styles of past masters like Albert Stevie Wonder, a friend and mentor, plays the King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie harmonica on her hit song, “Love Fell on Me,” While Sheléa had considerable success Hendrix.” the theme song for the Angela Bassett film, Jumping the Broom. Quincy Jones asked in R & B, she was noticed in other arenas and genres. She was invited to Welcome to a brand new His success opened doors and he was able to work her to be the first vocalist at his jazz club the White House in 2012 to honor with Double Trouble, the late Vaughan’s rhythm at the Palazzo Versace Dubai. She Burt Bacharach and Hal David season, featuring many of section. Bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer has a sultry sound that blends traditional pop, Chris Layton were so taken with Cumming’s fire and continued on page 8 your favorite returning passion that they produced his first solo recording, jazz, R & B, and soul From the Heart. They performed on it, as well, with a contemporary artists and some new names marking the first recording either had done since edge to classics and Vaughan’s tragic death. Cummings, who originally a classic touch to you won’t want to miss. contemporary pop picked up the guitar when he heard Stevie Ray Albert Cummings This season is truly a labor Vaughan, had come full circle. standards. OCT 10, 2020 | 7pm of love. We’ve listened to your The guitar player caught the attention of Blind Pig Sheléa began records, which produced for Muddy Waters, Jimmy her musical input and designed a lineup Vivino and Elvin Bishop. His label debut, True to career as Yourself, established him as a singer and songwriter a child, that has a little bit of of note, as well as a great guitar player. Tours and shows with B.B. King, Johnny Winter something for everybody. and Buddy Guy brought him to a larger audience and his 2006 album, Working Man was said by Billboard to be “the calling card of a star who has arrived.”

Guitar Edge magazine summed up Cummings’ reach Eric Gales this way: “The blues is best served up live, with an NOV 18, 2020 | 7pm enthusiastic audience and a killin’ band and

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with the Gershwin Prize. She made her Carnegie Hall Orleans began in Woodstock, New York in 1972 are joined by Nashville veterans Brady Spencer on of the road, and then new management gave the debut in 2017 with a tribute to songwriter Jimmy with vocalist, guitarist and songwriter (and later drums and Chip Martin on guitar. band new life. They were signed for a Sail Rock Tour, Webb and performed at the Library of Congress Congressman) John Hall, vocalist, guitarist and playing their own hits and backing up Christopher for ASCAP’s “We Write the Songs.” She impressed keyboard player Larry Hoppen and drummer and When Hall left to pursue a solo career and enter Cross, Al Stewart, Firefall and others. They released legendary songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman percussionist Wells Kelly. Later that year, Larry’s politics, the group continued with the Hoppens another DVD and the double-disc compilation CD, during the rehearsals; they wrote many of Barbara younger brother, Lance, joined as the bass player and Kelly. When Kelly died in 1984, a memorial No More Than You Can Handle. Streisand’s hits, and her 2019 album, Pretty World: and in 1976 drummer Jerry Marotta signed on, gig reunited the Hoppens with Hall. “It was with Through the Eyes of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, completing the quintet. The group took its name that turning point and the perspective it brought Hall retired in 2019, but the core group of the two has songs picked for her by the duo and features from the eclectic music they played early on, some that we started to refer to our Orleans project as a Hoppens, Amero, and the newcomers, Spencer and Stevie Wonder and Kirk Whalum. Also in 2019, R &B seasoned with Cajun and second-line roots perpetual ‘work in progress,” Larry Hoppen said. Martin, continue to bring the great sound that fans Quincy Jones produced a PBS special, Quincy Jones from musicians from the Big Easy like Alan Toussaint of Orleans have expected for nearly 50 years. presents Sheléa. Her body of work knows only two and the Neville Brothers. By 1986, the reunited band had cut the Grownup imperatives: great songwriting and singing. Now 48 years later, the Children album under the direction of famed band has had some Nashville producer Tony Brown. In 1990, they Orleans NOV 12, 2020 | 7pm The artist believes in giving back. In 2012, she personnel changes, released a double CD anthology and toured Stephen Wright joined Herbie Hancock, Patti Austin, the South but co-founder Lance the U.S. and Japan and were on the (Rescheduled to April 24, 2021 7:00pm) Comedian Adrian Children’s Choir and others at the Kennedy Hoppen, Can’t Stop Rocking Tour with Fleetwood Stephen Wright, known for his distinct voice and Center for the UN International AIDS Conference. long-time Mac, REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar deadpan delivery, describes his life this way: “I was She is a staunch advocate for female empowerment mainstays Fly in 1995. born. When I was 23, I started telling jokes. Then I and as a member of The Recording Academy, has Amero and started going on television and doing films. That’s shared her insights with high school students on Lane Hoppen When Hall ran for Congress in 2005, they still what I am doing. The end.” the value of music, the craft of songwriting, vocal brought back Fly Amero, who had performed was asked to appear again the same week. His Don’t worry if you see Wright in person and bring up one of his jokes or paraprosdokians. He’s very happy technique and professional development. with them before. They continued recording Actually, there is a lot more. Wright was ranked 15th first album, I have a Pony, was released in 1985 you know who he is. Otherwise, he has said that he and touring and agreed that when it was Greatest Comedian by Rolling Stone in their 2017 and was nominated for a Grammy. That landed might be digging ditches. He’d probably manage to You may not yet know her name, but you will. A possible, Hall would join them. They list of the 50 Greatest Stand-Up Comics. He has an him an HBO special in the “On Location” series at find a mosaic there, too. chance to hear her perform live, in the intimate were headed for a 40th anniversary Academy Award for co-writing and producing the Wolfgang’s in San Francisco. The popularity of the setting of The Lyric, is a special treat you won’t when Larry Hoppen died short film The Appointment of Dennis Jennings, in special and of his laid-back delivery gained him a want to miss. suddenly. which he starred with Rowan Atkinson. He also has cult-like following and a place on the college circuit. two Emmy Award nominations as the producer of The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents The group went into Louie. He appeared in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born In a 2019 interview, for Las Vegas magazine, mourning but honored Killers and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Wright talked about his comedy. “When I think of National Geographic Orleans (November 12, 2020 their mate’s memory by where he mispronounced the word “behemoth” in a joke, the sentences come immediately, within 10 Live! View from 7:00pm) Long before hits like “Still the keeping on. With Hall back the opening of the film. He is known for one-liners, seconds,” he said. “My mind is like a factory that Above with NASA One,” “Dance with Me,” and “Love Takes in the group, they finished non sequiturs, irony and paraprosdokians, the latter only makes jokes one way. Jokes can only be made Time,” Rolling Stone called Orleans “the their 2012 tour, ending being when you start a sentence normally and end it one way in my head and that’s the fewest number Astronaut Terry of words to get the concept out. There’s not one best unrecorded band in the country.” That with a special tribute strangely. In an interview, Wright said that he never (November 17, 2020 7:00pm) wasted word, because an extra word will throw the Virts didn’t last long as their unique pop/rock concert to raise money knew it had a name. He made an appearance on the last Star Trek rhythm off. It’s almost musical, really where you’re sound brought them to the attention of for Hoppen’s family. Enterprise episode in 2005, which is fitting, as the like, ‘This should change. This should end right here.’ record companies and a contract from ABC It looked like the end Wright grew up in Massachusetts and got a original series is what sent him soaring into space. The world is like a giant mosaic painting. In these Dunhill records. With John Hall writing most degree from Emerson College in Boston. He began NASA astronaut Terry Virts has served as a pilot of little squares is the whole world. And sometimes of the songs and Larry Hoppen supplying performing stand-up the year after graduation at the space shuttle Endeavour, a crew member on I’ll see a square and think, ‘Oh, that has the same the lead vocals, just three of the Orleans’ the Comedy Connection in Boston. In 1982, an the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and most recently meaning as that over there, but it could be taken in classics have a certified combined radio Stephen Wright executive producer at The Tonight Show saw him as commander of the International Space Station a different way.’ That’s how it happens.” airplay of more than seven million and APR 24, 2021 | 7pm on a bill with other local comics and booked him. during 200 consecutive days in space, one of the counting. He impressed Johnny Carson so much that he continued on page 14

Spring of 1913 1917 1930 1936 1978 Construction for The The “first” Lyric was abandoned Newly equipped The Hancocks fell on hard times The Lyric was purchased “first” Lyric began on and moved to a little wooden with a RCA during the Great Depression and by the New Life in Christ Osceola Avenue near structure on Osceola Avenue. Photophone, sold The Lyric to the bank. Church and used for Belle Flora and opened Danger Lights weekly worship services. for its first performance June 1925 Judge JC Hancock began construction was screened as a year later. of the new Lyric Theatre. the first “talkie.” 1936-1978 The Lyric was rented out to community 1926 groups and was used to present The Lyric opened with the feature traveling vaudeville shows, news picture Skinner’s Dress Suit. Cost of weeklies, movies and eventually, construction was $100,000 and was a Performing Arts Auditorium. HISTORICALYRIC the largest building in Martin County. 8 A Brief History

1988 1989 1993 1996 1999 2001 2005 2014 Friends of Friends of the The Lyric Theatre was New Orchestra seating Vacant lot to The balcony of The Lyric expansion was completed, A Capital Campaign resulted in substantial the Lyric Lyric became listed on the National was installed and the north of the theater was enlarging the stage 14 feet and renovations to the lobby and box office, new purchased a 501(c)(3) Register of Historic administrative offices The Lyric was remodeled for the adding a backstage equipped with a exterior and interior entrances, new orchestra the historic not-for-profit Places. constructed. purchased installation of new restroom and office/storage areas. seating, new sound system and architectural theatre. organization. for a future balcony seating, elements added to the walls and columns. 1987 1991-1995 expansion. an elevator was installed and 2015-16 With talk of razing the theater, Friends With grant funding from the State of Florida, National refurbishment of The Lyric, a group of concerned Endowment for the Arts and local community funding The Lyric’s proscenium was ornamented in an Art of the lobby and Nouveau style. The elegant design, artistry and citizens, banded together to save and support, The Lyric underwent needed stabilization restrooms. the historic structure. and repair: new roof and air-conditioning systems, craftsmanship of the trompe l’oeil art technique were ADA Compliance alterations, Box Office construction, added throughout The Lyric including the balcony marquee improvements and remodeling of the lobby, parapet, doorway transoms and interior theatre walls. restrooms and dressing room. SHORE SMILES ALL AROUND. Florida Residents Save Up To 30%!

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1991. He released two more albums in the 1990s, more recently, for her impressive run on Dancing Picture of a Thousand Faces, and Left Hand Band A Swingin’ Little with the Stars. Other recent television appearances and then worked on a variety of projects including Christmas! Starring include, New Girl, American Housewife, Another performing as Lil E with hip hop collectives Prophet Jane Lynch Period, and Brooklyn Nine Nine. She continues Posse and Triple 6 Mafia. featuring Kate as Jane Lynch’s sidekick in See Jane Sing and still co-stars in their In the 2000s, the prolific Gales released albums Flannery, Tim Davis cabaret act, Two Lost almost yearly. In 2009, he spent time in jail for & The Tony Guerrero Souls. Her original possession of drugs and a weapon. It was a turning cult comedy Quintet (November 30, 2020 7:00pm) point. “While I was in there, all the officers and lounge act, The You may remember Jane Lynch as the Emmy and guards were like, ‘Bro, you know this isn’t where Lampshades, plays Golden Globe-winning coach Sue Sylvester on Glee. The Lyric’s Family Fun you’re supposed to be. When you get out of here, go comedy festivals in These days, you can see her as the Emmy-winning Series presents take the world by the horns and ride it all the way and around National Geographic host of NBC’s Hollywood Game Show Night or on Live! View from Above out.’ It took a couple of years after but I’m here.” Hollywood. with NASA Astronaut The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, with, you guessed it, Terry Virts her Emmy-winning performance as Sophia Lennon. NOV 17, 2020 Gales continued recording and touring, including a 7pm She also appeared in Christopher Guests, Best in turn as part of the Experience Hendrix Tour, holding Show. You may not have seen the uber-cool Ms. his own against some of the greatest guitarists in Lynch in her own holiday show, A Swingin’ the world. “The tours were a great experience, but Little Christmas. Known for her quick ultimately what they done for me is to help me get wit and improvisational skills, she brings myself back together so I can go out and pack out these talents to bear in a Christmas show longest continuous space missions of any NASA shares that perspective through his stunning photos the release of his 2019 album, The Bookends, Gales those venues myself, that other artists on the tour Tim Davis has that features traditional favorites and original astronaut. He helped install the outpost’s 360 and videos. acknowledged a challenge: “As a guitar player, it’s were packing out.” been singing songs with Kate Flannery, Tim Davis and the Tony degree observation module and made good use of been established that I can play a little bit, just a and touring Guerrero Quintet. Their holiday album, A Swingin’ it, taking hours of video and hundreds of thousands National Geographic has been making explorers little bit,” he said. His 2017 album Middle of the Road, reached Number in See Jane Little Christmas, hit Billboard’s Top 10 Adult of still images, including some featured in the of all of us for more than a century through 1 on the iTunes Blues chart and Number 4 on the Sing for the Contemporary chart. A Christmas single with Dick National Geographic book, View from Above. He’s groundbreaking storytelling from the world’s best For this album, he wanted more, to push himself Billboard Blues chart. As he tours with The Bookends, past three Van Dyke, “Winter’s Never Cold,” written by Tony a star of the breathtaking IMAX film, A Beautiful and brightest scientists, explorers, photographers as a musician and a vocalist. Joined by B. Slade, he proudly tells the story of several years of sobriety years. His Guerrero, also hit the charts. Planet, featuring his footage from space. and filmmakers. National Geographic Live! brings Doyle Bramhall II and Beth Hart, The Bookends and how it has affected his work. “I guess the songs music

their stories to the stage and enables audiences to topped the charts and Gales won the Blues Music would answer the question,” he said, “I definitely don’t producing Lynch is not new to the theater or singing. She has Now you have the opportunity to step back, some interact with the men and women who have gone Award for Blues Rock Artist of the Year. It was a, well, have anything clouding my view and it’s definitely a and a bachelor’s degree in theater from Illinois State 220 miles from earth, and experience our planet where few have gone before. “Bookend” to an amazing journey. much more pure place it’s coming from.” singing Spring of 1913 1917 University and a master of fine arts degree1936 from 1978 from a new perspective. With Terry Virts as your 1930 credits Construction for The The “first” Lyric was abandoned Newly equippedCornell. She spent 15 years in Chicago,The performing Hancocks fell on hard times The Lyric was purchased guide, you will gain a deeper understanding of our Fasten your“first” seat Lyric belts. began It’s going on to be a thrilling ride. andGales moved grew upto ina Memphislittle wooden in a religious household As for performing live, Gales gives it everything he’swith a RCA during the Great Depressioninclude and by the New Life in Christ structure on Osceola Avenue. with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Second planet’s beauty, climate and place in the universe. Osceola Avenue near and while his mother was at church, brothers got. “I try to push myself as hard as I can, especiallyPhotophone, sold The Lyric to the bank. Church and used for Belle Flora and opened Danger City.Lights Christopher Guest cast her in several of his weekly worship services. You have the opportunity to hear Terry Virts talk Proudly forsponsored its first by performance The Bauman Family Foundation. Eugene and Manuel, later known as LittleJune Jimmy 1925 Judge JC Hancock began construction live,” he said. “It’s like an extreme work out for was screened as continued on page 18 a year later. “mockumentaries” and she also appeared in The about his time in space and the new perspectives King, blasted out Hendrix, ofCream, the newMuddy Lyric Waters, Theatre. me. It’s like something else takes over. When I hit the first “talkie.” 1936-1978 40-Year-Old Virgin and Julie and JuliaThe. In Lyric2013, was rented out to community he gained about our world and then have the Albert King, John Lee Hooker, King’s X and Stevie the stage, some other person is on that stage for 1926 she made her Broadway debut as Missgroups Hannigan and was used to present opportunity to ask questions about everything Ray Vaughan. He was only 4, but he soaked up a some reason. I’m there physically as a witness,The but Lyric opened with the feature traveling vaudeville shows, news picture Skinner’sin Annie Dress. In 2015, Suit. sheCost debuted of See Janeweeklies, Sing, an movies and eventually, you’ve always wanted to know about space travel. (November 18, 2020 grounding in the blues, hard rock and psychedelia. A mentally, it’s another person.” Eric Gales construction“anti-cabaret” was $100,000 show, and and was in 2018, Lyncha Performing and Flannery Arts Auditorium. right-handed player, he learned his distinctive left- the largest building in Martin County. A Swingin’ Little Christmas! 7:00pm)HISTORICA Joe Bonamassa calls him “one of the best, LYRIC Starring Jane Lynch featuring premiered their cabaret show, Two Lost Souls, at New Terry Virts always wanted to be an astronaut, but it if not theA best Brief guitar History player in the world.” Carlos handed upside down style from his brothers. Gales is known as the guitarists’ favorite guitarist, Kate Flannery, Tim Davis & York City’s legendary venue, The Carlyle. The Tony Guerrero Quintet turns out that his favorite planet is Earth. It wasn’t Santana calls him “absolutely incredible.” Yet Eric and for one night, you can hear an artist at his peak. NOV 30, 2020 | 7pm until he was farthest from home that he came to Gales, who, as a child prodigy released his first At 16, Gales’ talent attracted Elektra Records, which Kate Flannery is best known for playing Meredith really appreciate the beauty of our world, and he album at 16, is more modest about himself. About released his debut album, The Eric Gales Band, in the Drunk for nine seasons on NBC’s The Office and

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all six seasons of Glee, ABC’s Boy Band, Lady Gaga’s Wings has original music and choreography music,” she said. “The only time we ventured into the difference between what’s real and not real, (January 13, Super Bowl 2017 half time show, A Pentatonic and is infused with world dance and musical Rosanne Cash each other’s realm was to complain. I was not very entertaining too much darkness. You know what 2021 7:00pm) She’s country music royalty, the Christmas, Barbra Streisand’s 2017 and 2019 influences that are meant to thrill audiences good in the real world until I met John. He’s very helps, if he and I go to buy a refrigerator or to the eldest daughter of Johnny Cash, but don’t try to concert tours, Josh Groban’s Stages and television’s with the transformative emotional energy and pragmatic, very rational. I still get into dangerous post office together; I really value those things now, put Rosanne Cash in a box. She lives in Manhattan The Americans and The Goldbergs. imaginative design. The vivid and illuminating places and he’s helpful about pulling me out. just creating normalcy.” and forges a path that is uniquely her own. Born in production depicts rich Irish heritage themes in My mind is like a cave sometimes. I can get too Memphis but raised in California, she has lived in The Tony Guerrero Quintet has been a staple of spectacular dance and musical performances by a obsessive in a dark way. I have a hard time telling Cash released her most recent album, She New York City for 30 years. She is known as one of the Southern California jazz scene for many years. gifted cast. Among the numbers are “Carrickfergus,” Remembers Everything, in 2018. In a review in the country’s preeminent singer/songwriters and Featuring Tony Guerrero on trumpet and piano, Matt “You Raise Me up,” “Eagle’s Flight,” “Zero Gravity,” Rolling Stone, Will Hermes said that it “reminds has released 15 albums that have earned four Johnson on drums, Mark Visher on sax and flute, and “Lover’s Embrace.” us why she is one of the most ambitious working Grammy awards and 12 more nominations. She Dave Siebels on keyboard and Devoid Miller on songwriters.” He noted that she remains hard to is the author of four books and a New York Times bass, they are touring the country with Jane Lynch The new work comes from the creative team of categorize, as befits a longtime resident of the essay about brain surgery to correct a congenital in all of her shows. The Tony Guerrero Quintet’s own melting pot that is New York. “The album’s dark problem that almost cost her a career. She called it, recordings have been a staple on jazz radio for lodestar is ‘This is My Least Favorite Life,’ a sweetly Well, Actually, it is Brain Surgery. She has partnered more than 30 years. grim waltz with an eastern European lilt, Brechtian or served as an artist in residence at Carnegie Hall, existentialism and a little Tom Waits-ian surrealism, Lincoln Center, San Francisco Jazz, the Minnesota Come See Jane (and her friends) Sing. It’s a nice Orchestra and the Library of Congress. In 2014, way to begin the holiday season. Alan Scariff, Eric Cunningham and Ciaran Connolly. she was the recipient of the Smithsonian Ingenuity Scariff, the choreographer, began dancing at 4 at Rosanne Cash Award for the Performing Arts and despite her JAN 13, 2021 | 7pm the O’Flaherty School of Irish Dancing in Galway. reluctance to call Tennessee home, was inducted He competed professionally and won first place at into the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame. the Connacts, All Irelands and World Irish Dance My Son the Waiter: Championships. He toured with “Riverdance” for 8 Cash has been married to guitarist/producer John A Jewish Tragedy years as the lead performer and in 2011 became a Leventhal for more than 20 years and her 2014 (January 6, 2021 7:00pm) No Jewish woman in qualified Irish Dance teacher. the throes of labor ever screamed, “He’s going to The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents album, The River and the Thread, a collaboration Dublin Irish Dance “Wings” conjuring an with her husband, is the result of a road trip the be a waiter!” That truism is the premise for Brad JAN 12, 2020 | 4pm & 7pm Eric Cunningham, the music director, is also a emotional dislocation that two took after Cash was asked to help Arkansas Zimmerman’s one-man show in which he uses Galway man. He has performed in concert across may feel right about now. But in her State University purchase and restore her father’s humor and pathos in equal measure to detail his 29 As a reviewer in Broadway World wrote, “Brad six continents from the Beijing Opera House to narrative hands, it’s comforting not to be boyhood home. The project spoke to her years of “temporarily” waiting on tables in New York Zimmerman is a people person. He knows how Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center and has traveling alone.” and she and Leventhal used the trip City while he waited to make it big as a comedic we tick and how we operate. He knows just what performed for three U.S. presidents at The White to travel Highway 61 and see the actor. to serve to get the laughs and the smiles and the House and the U.S. Capitol. As a producer, his Rosanne Cash’s birth could have been South. Cash describes tears. All those years of waiting tables has shaped acts have performed around the world. He holds her destiny, but she has taken from it the the album as “a If you ate in New York City, Zimmerman may have him into a connoisseur of satire. He has that a degree and first class honours Master in Music parts that make sense and added the life mini-travelogue of waited on you. For him, success was not a new house enchanting ability to deliver a punchline with one from University College, Cork, and was awarded the she’s lived. The result is an artist who can the South and the or expensive car. His mother got to tell her friends look, giving the audience a double laugh when he Seán Ó Riada Memorial Award from that university be autobiographical in one song, political soul.” The trip that he was able to buy a mattress or some other actually tells us the end of the joke.” for his knowledge of Irish music. in another and contemplative in the next. included visits non-luxury item. As with so many hopefuls, he took She is a songwriter for whom the writer is as to her father’s years of acting lessons and never gave up on his Those who have seen Brad Zimmerman have a Ciaran Connolly, the movement director, is originally important as the song. boyhood home in dream. In 2005, he began working on his show, which message for his mother. He may not be a doctor, from Dublin and has worked in London for the past Dyess, Arkansas; is part stand-up and part theater. He sends up his but he has kept us in stitches. Ba-da. 14 years as a commercial dancer and choreographer, her own childhood childhood, his family, his misbegotten love life and his working on shows such as Britain’s Got Talent and home in Memphis, career, which actually took a wonderful turn in 2006, Strictly Come Dancing. He’s worked with Robbie Tennessee; William Chris Hillman - when he opened for George Carlin. They became Williams, One Direction and Michael Bublé and has Faulkner’s house; friends until Carlin’s death in 2008 and the first time The Lyric’s Family Fun Series presents worked with a host of top choreographers on major Time Between: An Dockery Plantation, in Zimmerman opened for Carlin at the Paramount tours and events including Cliff Richard’s 2011 Dublin Irish Dance Cleveland, Mississippi, Evening of Stories Theatre outside of Chicago, Carlin came up to him “Soulicious” Tour and as dance captain and coordinator “Wings” (January 12, 2021 4:00pm where Howlin’ Wolf and and Songs featuring and said it was “really great.” Okay. Carlin used a for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic & 7:00pm) Dancers almost seem to fly. Their Charley Patton worked and sang; different word than “really,” but he did say “great.” Ceremonies. He also served as Assistant to the Herb Pederson & movements are so graceful and appear so effortless Natchez, Mississippi, the blues trail; Choreographer on One Direction’s World Stadium Tour. (January that it is hard to believe that they are not taking and the Tallahatchie Bridge. John Jorgenson Zimmerman went on to work with entertainers 14, 2021 7:00pm) Oh! The stories he’ll tell! Chris flight. Dublin Irish Dance, which presented Stepping The River and the Thread was the number one like Brad Garrett, Susie Essman, Julio Iglesias and You’ll want to see the dexterity and skill of the world Hillman has been described as the only one in Out in 2018, returns with a new production, album of 2014 on Americana radio and won Dennis Miller and was Joan Rivers’ opening act of championship dancers they have assembled in an the room who doesn’t think he’s a legend. The Wings, that is unlike any other show in its genre. three Grammy Awards. In a 2014 New York Times choice for more than seven years. She has said that awesome spectacle as they defy gravity and leave co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Band, The program features exquisite Irish and World interview, Cash made clear that this album was she had three great opening acts her lifetime: Billy you gasping. The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas Crystal, Gary Shandling and Brad Zimmerman. champion dancers together with Ireland’s finest a collaboration in every way. “I wrote 95 percent musical and vocal virtuosos. of the lyrics and John wrote 98 percent of the continued on page 30 Proudly sponsored by The Bauman Family Foundation. 18 The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization www.LyricTheatre.com 19 SUMMER CAMP DISCOVERY SERIES FAMILY PROGRAMMING ARTIST IN RESIDENCY Continuing to provide Treasure Coast families with the wonderfully unique and magical experience of live performing arts.

FREE TICKETS for Non-Profit Bringing the Community Students send thanks for the Sounds and Trash! Youth Organizations! Together with the Youth Arts The Trey McLaughlin and the Sounds of Zamar music workshop and educational outreach with the Reach-Up East Stuart Celebration Youth Initiative was an inspiring afternoon for the 1st – 12th Grade students and counselors on February 10, 2020! The The Lyric Theatre, along with the aid of Women youth learned the basics of music theory and musicology from oral and written music-making traditions, the genealogy and Supporting the Arts, is committed to strengthening history of music genres and sang along with the Sounds of Zamar through learning call and response. The Youth Arts Celebration our commitment to educate and inspire our leaders presented by The Lyric of tomorrow by providing access to all Lyric Theatre League, promises to be This year’s Discovery Series was a successful pairing of live performing arts and educational curriculum support for our area performances through our new Arts & Education an inspiring evening when educators. 1,882 students, teachers and chaperons attend the seven -show series. Program KidTix. KidTix provides FREE tickets to non- children from different profit organizations that serve low-income and/or at-risk backgrounds take to The Lyric stage to represent their passions and rich cultural heritage through various forms of performing arts. Beyond the appeal of the bright lights and thunderous applause, these talented performers benefit form the sharing and exchange of ideas with their new friends, exposure to different styles of artistic expression and a sense of camaraderie and support for one another bound by their love of the arts. Perhaps most impressive is not the immense talents of these kids, but their character. The impact of the Youth Arts Celebration extends far beyond the stage. We are helping to shape the lives our future leaders.

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and The Desert Rose Band, Hillman is considered albums like The Gilded Palace of Sin and Burrito of Country Music Awards before they disbanded an architect of country rock. It took a kid from Deluxe. Before the band broke up, Hillman joined in 1994. The band, which also included JayDee Southern California who had a love for old-time Stephen Still’s band, Manassas, where he stayed for Maness, John Jorgenson, Bill Bryson and Steve The Cab Calloway Orchestra music and bluegrass to set American music on a several years. Duncan, had a reunion concert in 2008. featuring Nicole Zuraitis different track. JAN 19, 2021 | 7pm By the 1980s, Hillman had returned to his bluegrass Hillman’s 2017 album, Bidin’ My Time, was Hillman grew up in California in the 1950s. His and country roots, recording two albums with produced by Tom Petty, with Herb Pedersen as sister, who he has described as “the bohemian in singer/guitarist, banjo player Herb Pedersen, executive producer. A masterwork of folk, rock and the family,” came home from college with recordings a former member of The Dillards. Hillman and roll, bluegrass, and the country-rock Hillman helped by Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Pedersen formed The Desert Rose Band and their to bring to life came together seamlessly, whether others. At 15, Hillman fell in love with folk music. self-titled album produced two Top Ten country the song was written 60 years ago or in the last few When he heard old-time music and bluegrass, his hits: “Love United” and “One Step Forward” and years. The album features appearances by Petty, world changed and so, later, did ours. the number one single, “He’s Back and I’m Blue.” Crosby, McGuinn, Jorgenson, Pedersen, Jay Dee The band recorded from 1987-1993 and had Maness, Mark Fain and others. While the album Hillman was at U.C.L.A when he got an invitation to 17 country music hits and won several Academy pays homage to the past, with songs like “Here She join Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark and Comes,” a song co-written by Hillman and McGuinn Michael Clarke in a new band, The Byrds. Hillman and only recorded on a live album in Australia, was recruited to play bass guitar, an instrument he’d and the Everly Brothers’ “Walk Right Back,” it also never played before. The group’s first single, “Mr. reminds his audience of what a great songwriter Tambourine Man” was an international hit and one Hillman still is. of the first folk rock tunes. With songs like “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” “Eight Miles High” and “So You The album was a true labor of love from a man Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star,” The Byrds were who is happy with his life and happy to be among the most popular groups of the 1960s doing what he loves with his friends. Others have and Hillman developed as a songwriter, bringing out praised the album, but Hillman is, as ever, more his bluegrass and country roots. They are on Rolling modest. “I did my very best,” he said. “That’s all any Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Artists;” their entry was of us can do. There’s nothing I want. I’ve had a great “Minnie the Moocher,” spawned his catch phrase, Music, the first major conservatory to offer a degree winning more awards. In 2019, 25 years after the written by Tom Petty, who has acknowledged a debt life and it’s not over - we’re not done.” “HI-DE-HO.” He reached the Billboard charts in five in Jazz Music. He studied with many luminaries, but release of his debut album under the name Keb’ to the seminal band. consecutive decades and he was in classic films considers the cornerstone of his musical education Mo’, he released Oklahoma, which won him a like Stormy Weather and Porgy and Bess. In 1980, the years of experience with his grandfather. 2020 Grammy for Best Americana album. Featuring When infighting left only Hillman and McGuinn and he even appeared in The Blues Brothers. He was cameos from Taj Mahal, with whom he released the Hillman’s cousin, Kevin Kelley in the band, they The Cab Calloway the first African-American musician to sell a million Appearing with the Cab Calloway Orchestra is 2018 Grammy winner, “TajMo”; Rosanne Cash and hired Gram Parsons to replace Crosby. With records from a single song and to have a nationally Grammy nominated vocalist and songwriter Nicole Robert Randolph. Jaci Velasquez and Keb’ Mo’s wife, the album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Orchestra syndicated radio show. “Minnie the Moocher” was Zuraitis. A fixture at Greenwich Village’s 55 Bar and Robbie Brooks Moore, the album addresses topics Hillman and Parsons changed featuring inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and he was Birdland Jazz Club, she charms audiences with her like immigration, depression, pollution, love and the group’s direction to Nicole inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame dazzling vocals, keyboard artistry and songwriting. female empowerment. country rock. Later, Hillman and the International Jazz Hall of Fame. He received She and her husband, Dan Pugach, were nominated teamed with Parsons again Zuraitis a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for a Grammy for their arrangement of the Dolly The inspiration for the title track, “Oklahoma” was to form The Flying Burrito (January 19, 2021 in 2008. Parton classic, “Jolene,” and her album, Hive Mind a visit Keb’ Mo’ made to the state in 2013 for a Brothers, continuing the 7:00pm) Cab Calloway won Best Jazz Album for the 2018 International benefit show after a destructive tornado. “I thought move toward a country was the King of HI- Today, the baton of the Cab Calloway Orchestra Music and Entertainment Awards. Her latest album, about what it must be like to live in Oklahoma rock sound with DE-HO. The jazz is carried by the Prince of HI-DE-HO, Calloway’s All Wandering Hearts, was released in May 2020. and all the great people that have come from singer, dancer and grandson, Calloway Brooks. Based at the historic Jazz Inside Magazine said that she had a voice Oklahoma,” he said. bandleader was a jazz club, “Birdland,” in New York and at venues that’s “hard to ignore, with a remarkable range regular performer across the country, the Cab Calloway Orchestra where you can’t help but stop and take notice.” He had a melody in his head but no song until he met at the Cotton Club melds the sound of a jazz orchestra and a snazzy Oklahoma native and songwriter Dara Tucker. They set in Harlem and was stage style that proves that “swing is king and jive is You’ve got the best of swing and the best of song. Keb’ Mo’ out to portray the history of America as it played out JAN 20, 2021 one of the most alive.” The original vintage records of Cab Calloway HI-DE-HO! in her home state, with Native American connections 6pm & 8:30pm popular vocalists are the starting off point, but the Cab Calloway and tragedy, natural and man-made disasters, of the swing era. Orchestra of today brings the modern jazz orchestra incredible music, the Tulsa sound, ruggedness’ and In a career that into full flight. In a review of the show, the band was perseverance. They also mention the destruction of spanned 65 years, called, “crisp, loud, brassy and classy.” Keb’ Mo’ (January 20, 2021 6:00 & the ”Black Wall Street” in Tulsa in 1921, a devastating he found a niche 8:30pm) At a time when a multiple Grammy Award part of race relations in the country. for mixing jazz Brooks got his first guitar when he was 7, won his winner might be doing victory laps with concerts and vaudeville first musical awards at 9 and went on to graduate of their greatest hits, blues artist Kevin Roosevelt The artist is proud of what he and others have and his song, from the prestigious New England Conservatory of Moore, better known as Keb’ Mo’, has been busy created. “I’d been working on a lot of records for continued on page 34 30 The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 31 Seating and General Information It might not STAGE It might not STAGE 7531 AA 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 AA 2468 be too late 9 7 531 BB 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 BB 2468 10 be too late 9 7 531 CC 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 CC 2468 10 If you missed the December 7 11 9 7 531 DD 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 DD 2468 10 12 If you missed the December 7 13 11 9 7 531 EE 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 EE 2468 10 12 14 Upper Balcony Medicare Annual Election Period 13 11 9 7 531 2468 10 12 14 Medicare Annual Election Period FF 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 FF Lower Balcony deadline, we have good news: 13 11 9 7 531 GG 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 GG 2468 10 12 14 Orchestra deadline, we have good news: 2468 10 12 14 13 11 9 7 531 HH 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 HH Wheelchair You may still be able to enroll! 13 11 9 7 531 JJ 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 JJ 2468 10 12 14 Accessible You may still be able to enroll! 2468 10 12 14 13 11 9 7 531 KK 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 KK Patrons with disabilities: There are several reasons why 13 11 9 7 531 LL 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 LL 2468 10 12 14 There are several reasons why Special seating arrangements you may be eligible to enroll in a 13 11 9 7 531 MM MM 2468 10 12 14 can be made with the Box you may be eligible to enroll in a Office at the time you purchase Humana Medicare Advantage plan: 13 11 9 7 531 A 112 111 110 109 108 107 106 105 104 103 102 101 A 2468 10 12 14 tickets, based on availability. 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other people, so I worried it might be a weak record unexplored areas of the Mosquitia jungle where You’ll hold your breath and cheer out loud as this for presidents and for Prince William, Duke of Fullerton, he performed in the New York production because I didn’t have my eye on the ball and was Lost City of the Elkins thought the ruins might be. Their efforts paid intrepid modern-day Indiana Jones follows his Cambridge, at the esteemed Arts Club in London. of Altar Boyz, and has appeared alongside Josh spreading myself too thin,” he said. “But when all was Monkey God off, but it took three more years of planning before dream and helps preserve a part of history for They were featured on a PBS special, “Doo Wop Groban, Roger Daltrey and Eric Benet. He has been said and done, we found the songs and we got the Screening with a multidisciplinary team was able to verify the future generations. Generations” and have appeared as headliners in with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons since 2003. feeling right and now I feel really, really proud of it.” Steve Elkins, discoveries. With the support of the president of Las Vegas and at their own residence in Atlantic City. Honduras and the Honduran military, the team’s small Proceeds to benefit The Lost City Fund supporting If you love four-part harmony without limits, Keb’Mo’s career began with his playing steel drums Cinematographer A-Star helicopter with British Special Forces soldiers the Kaha Kamasa Foundation in Honduras. The Modern Gentlemen features vocalist and presented by a dapper quartet who know how to and bass in a calypso band, he went on to play and Explorer (January 28, 2021 flew into a clearing and began setting up camp. California native Brian Brigham, whose roles include work it, come see The Modern Gentlemen. It’s style backup for a variety of bands and started recording 7:00pm) A lost city on the mountains of Honduras! Honduran soldiers set up a second camp close by. a recurring spot on General Hospital as well as with a little bit of ‘tude and you’ll love it. in the 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa An intrepid explorer determined to find it! A million- appearances on The Voice and America’s Got Talent. John Creach. His first gold record was for a song dollar machine, capable of mapping terrain using A team of archaeologists, anthropologists, scientists The Modern Theater credits include Grease, Saturday Night called “Git Fiddler” that he co-wrote with Creach for sensors! Special Forces! Poisonous snakes, deadly and journalists followed; machete –wielding soldiers Fever, and Jesus Christ Superstar. As a Los Angeles Gentlemen (February 8, 2021 the Jefferson Starship. He adopted the name Keb’ parasites and torrential rains! Brushes with death! clearing the way from the landing zone to the site. studio singer, you can hear his voice on television Béla Fleck and Mo’ in 1994 as his career took off. His albums have 7:00pm) For the past decade, The Modern and film projects. He has been performing with won five GRAMMY Awards with 12 nominations, in Gentlemen have been the voices behind the legendary Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons since 2003. Abigail Washburn total. The talented artist has also been awarded 14 Frankie Valli. Landon Beard, Todd Fournier and brothers (February 9, 2021 7:00pm) He is a 16-time Blues Foundation Awards and six BMI Awards for his Brian and Brandon Brigham have performed with the Brother Brandon Brigham began singing at 8 and Grammy winning banjo player named after three work in TV and film. He has performed at The White famed singer on some of the world’s biggest stages, has been seen on The Voice, The Sing Off, and classical musicians. She plays the claw hammer House for President Obama. from the Royal Albert Hall to “A Capitol Fourth.” The Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has opened for Joan Rivers banjo and almost became a lawyer in China. They quartet, long unsung heroes of the music industry, has and Jay Leno and has appeared on stage with met at a square dance where he was playing and Over the last two decades, Keb’ Mo’ has fashioned now stepped into the spotlight, taking on the sounds of Tony Bennett, the Beach Boys, Melissa Manchester, she was dancing. They’re husband and wife and the a reputation as a modern master of American roots Motown, pop, rock and doo-wop. Pat Benatar and the Manhattan Transfer. He has parents of two young sons. They’re Béla Fleck and music. Artists from B.B. King to Buddy Guy, the performed with Frankie Valli since 2006. Abigail Washburn and a visit from them is a visit Dixie Chicks to Melissa Manchester have recorded Frankie Valli brought the group together and the from musical royalty. his songs and he has collaborated with a who’s gentlemen have taken years of experience to create Todd Fournier began his career as an entertainer who of the music industry, including Bonnie Raitt, their own, new sound influenced by musicians like on Norwegian Cruise Lines. He worked for Universal New Yorker Béla Fleck was named after Béla Bartok, Taj Mahal, Vince Gill, Jackson Browne, Natalie Michael Bublé, the Four Freshmen and the Hi-Lo’s. Studios and Disney and has appeared in Jesus Christ Anton Webern and Leos Janacek, but he took up Cole, India Arie, Lyle Lovett and Marcus Miller. His Lost City of the Monkey God The Modern Gentlemen have performed in “Frankie Superstar, Aida, Grease, Chess, Miss Saigon and the banjo after hearing Earl Scruggs and the theme Screening with Steve Elkins, Cinematographer and Explorer Valli and the Four Seasons: Tribute on Ice” with from Deliverance. His grandfather gave him his first guitar prowess has garnered him three invites to JAN 28, 2021 | 7pm Oklahoma. He is a veteran of several soap operas and Eric Clapton’s acclaimed Crossroads Festival and Brian Boitano and in “A Capitol Fourth,” where has performed with Frankie Valli since 2002. banjo when he was 15 and he taught himself to they joined singers Michael McDonald and Patti play, using an instructional book by Pete Seeger. has inspired Gibson Brands to issue the Keb’ Mo’ It sounds like the next installment of Indiana Jones, Three days into the expedition, they discovered a LaBelle. They have also appeared on stage with He attended the prestigious High School of Music Signature Bluesmaster and Bluesmaster Royale but this is not fiction. This is the true story of how cache of 52 carved stone artifacts peeking out from Landon Beard got his start in entertainment early the Beach Boys, Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson & Arts in New York City. After high school, he went acoustic guitars and Martin Guitars to issue the HD- adventurer Steve Elkins became captivated by the beneath the ground. It would be guarded round-the- when he appeared as soloist in a Kodak commercial and Manhattan Transfer. They have performed to Boston and became a street performer. He was 28KM Keb’ Mo’ Limited Edition Signature Model. legend of La Ciudad, the White City, a great ruin clock by the Honduran military until months later, at the age of 3. After receiving a BFA from Cal State rumored to exist in the interior mountains of the when an archeological team commissioned by the continued on page 38 An artist who recognizes the role of music in social Mosquitia region of Honduras. He spent 20 years government and National Geographic excavated The Modern Gentlemen change, he is a long-time supporter of the Playing trying to find it and his exploits were detailed in the 509 artifacts. Today, the goal is preserving the sites FEB 8, 2021 | 7pm for Change Foundation, a non-profit that creates best-selling book by Douglas Preston, The Lost City and the surrounding jungle. It is indeed astonishing positive change through music in nine countries, of the Monkey God, and in a film of the same name that in the 21st century, a large-unknown city He is also a celebrity mentor with the Kennedy by Bill Benenson. could still be found in the rainforest. The Honduran Center’s Turnaround Arts Program, which focuses government has created the Mosquitia Patrimonial on elementary and middle schools throughout the In a thrilling evening, the audience will see the Heritage Preserve to protect the cultural site in the United States. Keb’ Mo’ is a mentor at the Johnson film and hear Elkins recount his experience as face of deforestation. School of Excellence in Chicago. expedition leader as he and a group of scientists, filmmakers, journalists and Special Forces soldiers Joining Elkins is chocolate maker Denise Castronovo “I’m more interested in pleasing myself and making overcome torrential rains, poisonous snakes, and of the Castronovo Chocolate Factory. She brings records that make me feel proud and feel like I’ve deadly parasites on an expedition to one of the last her “The Lost City, Honduras,” chocolate bar, a done my best,” Keb’ Mo’ said about Oklahoma. unexplored places on Earth. winner of numerous awards and a tribute to the “If other people like it, that is gravy.” He has Lost City. The indigenous people living nearby in the consistently made music that reflects his passions Elkins worked in television for 30 years as a Gracias a Dios region protect the forest and make and interests and earned a reputation for his ability cinematographer, editor and producer. In 2012, his a sustainable living as harvesters of wild cacao. to draw upon his extensive roots music knowledge fascination with tales of the Honduran Mosquitia The cacao is processed in their village and put to make deeply expressive, personal music. led him to form the company UTL (Under the on hollowed-out tree logs, called pipantes, for a LiDAR.) with adventure-loving partners. Using two-day voyage to the nearest road. Castronovo is He’ll be up close and very personal at The Lyric. LiDAR, a form of laser terrain mapping, Elkins and the first American craft chocolate maker to make a Don’t miss it. Benenson organized an airborne expedition to scan single-origin chocolate from these remote beans. continued on page 44

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asked to join New Grass Revival, where he played with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Fleck has For Fleck, Echo in the Valley is reflective of where In 2020, Metheny released a new album, From This for nine years and recorded a solo album, Drive, also recorded with traditional African musicians, the two are right now. “Some of the most interesting Place, which features 10 compositions by him. It Popa Chubby which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best co-written a documentary, Bring it Home, about things in the world come together in strange and is, he said, a work for which he has waited a long MAR 5, 2021 | 7pm Bluegrass Album. the Flecktones, co-produced Song of the Traveling unique ways and show our diversity,” he said. time. “From This Place is one of the records I have Daughter, his wife’s debut album, and recorded “The banjo is just one of those things. It’s a great been waiting to make my whole life,” he said. “It In 1988, Fleck and Victor Wooten formed Béla as member of the Sparrow Quartet, featuring example of how the world can combine things and is kind of a musical culmination, reflecting a wide Fleck and the Flecktones and Fleck, who has been Washburn, Ben Sollee and Casey Driessen. create surprising hybrids. We’re expressing different range of expressions that have interested me over nominated for Grammy awards in more categories emotions through past techniques and going to the years, scaled across a large canvas, presented than any other musician, continued to collaborate Abigail Washburn is a singing, songwriting Illinois- deeper places.” in a way that offers the kind of opportunities for with a wide array of artists from many genres. He bred, Nashville-based claw hammer banjo player. communication that can only be earned with a worked with Edgar Meyer on Perpetual Motion, an When she was offered a recording contract at a group of musicians who have spent hundreds of album of classical music played on the banjo, which bluegrass convention, she decided to become nights together on the bandstand. Add to that the also featured Lyric favorite Joshua Bell as well as a traveling folk musician instead of the lawyer Pat Metheny(February 18, 2021 challenge of all new music and the spontaneous Evelyn Glennie and Gary Hoffman. It won Grammy she had planned to be. Washburn, who speaks 7:00pm) It’s rare for a musician to win response it generated, channel it through the prism Awards for Best Arrangement and Best Classical Chinese, has traveled widely in Asia and tours and one GRAMMY Award in a career. of large-scale orchestration and unexpectedly, From Crossover Album. He and Meyer composed a double performs their regularly. She was named a TED To have won 20 spread over This Place becomes something that advances many concert for banjo and bass, which they debuted fellow and gave a talk in 2012 about building US- Best Rock Instrumental, of my central aspirations as a musician.” China relations through music. Two songs on her Best Contemporary Jazz album with the Sparrow Quartet were recorded in Recording, Best Instrumental Now Metheny is launching a new playing Mandarin. The New York Times praised her 2011 Solo, and Best Instrumental environment called “Side-Eye.” release, City of Refuge, written with collaborator Composition is amazing. If you’ve somewhere along the way, Ted Horowitz became believe this has all manifested for a reason. I shine Kai Welch, saying the songs “mingle Appalachia won seven consecutive GRAMMY “From my earliest days in Kansas City, I was the Popa Chubby. as an example of the human spirit. What does not and folk pop with tinges of Asia and Bruce Awards for seven consecutive albums, beneficiary of so many older musicians giving me kill us surely makes us stronger and the art and Springsteen.” Her most recent release, in 2017, you’re guitarist Pat Metheny, only the fourth a platform to develop my thing through the prism For more than 30 years, Popa Chubby has been music we make bares the power of an uphill climb. Echo in the Valley, was recorded with Béla guitarist to be included in the Downbeat Hall of their experience and the particular demands of hard rocking the blues in his fierce, soulful way. No matter who you are, no matter what you do, not Fleck and is a follow-up to their self-titled of Fame. what their music implied. I have been feeling like I An imposing figure with a shaven head, tattooed matter what you believe, we are all the same and… album that earned the 2016 Grammy for wanted to have a specific platform to focus on some arm, and a goatee, he describes his performance it’s a Mighty Hard Road.” Best Folk Album. Metheny comes from Lee’s Summit, Missouri and of the younger musicians I have enjoyed recently style as “The Stooges meets Buddy Guy, Motorhead started playing the trumpet at 8. He switched to who I have felt some kind of a kinship with. I wanted meets Muddy Waters and Jimi Hendrix meets Robert Come take the trip with him. the guitar as a teen and by 15 was working with the to create an ongoing setting to feature a rotating Johnson.” He is an endearing character and one of best Jazz musicians in Kansas City. He burst onto cast of new and upcoming musicians who have the genre’s most popular figures and his career has the international jazz scene in 1974 and spent particularly caught my interest along the way.” always been about moving and carving a place for three years with vibraphone great Gary Burton. himself in the imposing terrain of the music business. An Evening with Even as a young man, he had already shown his Metheny said that he draws as much inspiration He has overcome the odds and obstacles to continue (March 12, 2021 trademark playing style, a way of playing and from younger musicians as they do from him. “I find growing and maturing as a creative force. Matt Nokoa 7:00pm) He’s been described as “Jerry Lee Lewis improvising that was modern and yet grounded myself inspired by how they deal with the musical meets Beethoven.” He’s been called “a hot-handed in the jazz tradition of melody, swing and the challenges that come with the territory of some While Popa Chubby’s first gigs were in the New phenom who can go from Chopin to beer-drenched blues. With the release of his first album, Bright of these older tunes and at the same time I find York City punk scene, the blues were the foundation honky-tonk in one set.” Born on a small goat Size Life, Metheny reinvented the traditional jazz myself intrigued with the possibilities of what might of his playing style. “Since I’d grown up on Hendrix, farm in upstate New York, he trained as a concert guitar sound for a new generation. Throughout his be possible in writing new music just for them. This Cream and Led Zeppelin, when I started playing pianist before accepting a scholarship to the career, he has continued to redefine the genre by band setting is what it will be all about.” blues in New York clubs, I understood that the blues Berklee College of Music as a vocalist. He’s a multi- utilizing new technology and working to evolve could be dangerous, too. It wasn’t just from playing instrumental composer with powerhouse vocals. the improvisational and sonic potential of his Come listen to Metheny and friends. You’ll be punk bands. Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters were He’s Matt Nokoa and he’s a young man with a instrument. inspired, too. dangerous men. They’d cut or shoot you if they thought it was necessary and Little Walter packed a brilliant future. Metheny is known for his versatility. Over the years, gun and wouldn’t hesitate to use it. That danger is a Nokoa didn’t start playing the piano until he was a he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve real part of the blues and I keep it alive in my music.” teen and he toured the Adirondacks and Catskills Reich, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, Popa Chubby with his music. Then he set his sights on the Berklee Milton Nascimento and David Bowie. His body of (March 5, 2021 7:00pm) Theodore Joseph “Ted” In March 2020, Popa Chubby released his 30th College of Music in Boston, where he started an art work includes compositions for solo guitar, small Horowitz was born in the Bronx in 1960. At 13, he anniversary album, Mighty Hard Road. Featuring rock band, The Fens. His piano skills and incredible ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large began playing the drums, but, influenced by Jimi 13 original tracks and covers of Freddie King and vocals led to performances with Grammy-winning orchestras, ballet and the robotic instruments of his Hendrix and Cream, he soon switched to the guitar. Prince, the artist sees it as the result of 30 years singer Kathy Mattea and Grammy-winning jazz Orchestrion project, always sidestepping the limits The young man played the blues and came to the of learning his craft. “Thirty years is a lifetime or a composer and Rolling Stones tour saxophone player of any one genre. public’s attention after winning a national blues blink of the eye, depends on how you look at it,” he Tim Ries. talent search sponsored by a Long Beach, California said. “For me, every day, every show, every flight, every story, every hug has been sheer joy. I truly continued on page 42 Pat Metheny: Side-Eye radio station. 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After college, Nokoa moved to New York City, be a professional baseball player and starred on his Welcome Back, Kotter ran from 1975-1979 playing the all-night piano bars. In 2012 and team at New Utrecht High School in Bensonhurst, and introduced John Travolta, who played Vinnie 2014, he released solo albums, garnering multiple Brooklyn, a place that would figure prominently in Barbarino, and the catch phrase, “Up your nose with songwriting awards including a win at the Kerrville his career. When he didn’t make the roster of a a rubber hose” to the world. Even the theme song, Folk Festival’s New Folk Competition. His newest minor league team, he took a job as a bellboy at written by John Sebastian, made the charts. album, Casting Shadows, is a mesmerizing blend of a New Jersey hotel where many stand-up comics pop, soul and classical influences that tells a story appeared. Kaplan started working with them, After Kotter, Kaplan continued doing stand-up and of a young man whose childhood dreams and adult learning the trade, and began performing in clubs appeared in Lewis and Clark and the movie Fast reality sometimes crash into each other. A modern around New York City. Break. He did a one-man show portraying Groucho troubadour, Nokoa tells stories in song with a Marx, whom he often impersonated on Kotter. He also musicianship that belies how young he is. After several years touring the country with funny discovered poker and became a professional poker tales of his childhood, he landed appearances on player and announcer. He appeared in the World Series This year, Nokoa has been touring with singer/ The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Producer Alan of Poker for the first time in 1978 and won the main songwriter Tom Rush, who sees great things for the Sacks, who was working as a producer of Chico and event at Amarillo Slim’s “Super Bowl of Poker” and in young artist. “He’s my accompanist, but he’s so the Man, went to see Kaplan at the Comedy Store the next five years, made it to the finish of the main much more than that,” Rush said. “He’s a monster in Los Angeles at the urging of Freddie Prinze. event twice. He provided coverage on ESPN for the talent. He steals the show and I don’t know why I let They came up with a show that hearkened back 2002 World Series of Poker and was a broadcaster him do it. It’s fun for the audience. He’s definitely to Kaplan’s less-then-stellar academic career for the only outdoor World Series of Poker in 1997 on on his way up. I’m hoping he’ll let me open for him at New Utrecht, even using the actual school as ESPN. On television, he hosted poker shows, including when he’s doing stadiums.” the backdrop for the opening credits of the show High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network, the the two created, Welcome Back, Kotter. Kaplan Intercontinental Poker Championship on CBS and the played Gabe Kotter, who returns to his high National Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC. school as a teacher of the remedial class, called Gabe Kaplan – the Sweathogs. Each of the misfits was someone Kaplan never strayed far from his roots and his love Kaplan had used in his stand-up as he brought to for stand-up continued even as he succeeded as a (March 16, Welcome Back life real classmates. poker player. He brings his comedy to The Lyric and 2021 7:00pm) Comedian Gabe Kaplan wanted to all we can say is, “Welcome Back, Kaplan!”

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