Right after Clair Brothers moved into its new but not quite finished Manheim building, a delivery truck driver pulled in. Company executive David Deibler was surprised the driver found the business, since Clair Brothers had yet to place its name on the building.
Grand opera -- complete with staging, sympathetic characters and great tunes -- was back Friday night before a sold-out house at Shaftman Performance Hall in Jefferson Center. After several concert productions minus the bling, Opera Roanoke revived colorful sets and costumes, not to mention acting, for its spring production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly." There'll be one more performance Sunday at 2:30 p.m., although it, too, is sold out.
A native of Harlem, [Jim Harrison] started a fan club for Jackie McLean in 1961. McLean had been stripped of his cabaret card and couldn't perform in clubs. Harrison's fan club held "listening parties" with McLean music only. He decided to promote McLean in non-traditional jazz settings where a cabaret card was not needed. He promoted a McLean concert at Judson Hall (originally across the street from Carnegie Hall). After being fired from his job in Queens (in 1962), Harrison realized promotion was his ideal job and moved back to Manhattan to become a full-time promoter. For [Benny Powell]'s Ben G Enterprises, Harrison also did concert productions at Club Ruby in Queens. "Jim has done a lot for musicians," said Powell. He's the greatest underground publicist Fve ever met. He would go ou...
WLF Productions, a Washington, D.C., area production company that produces rythym and blues, blues and doo-wop shows, will sponsor a show with a special tribute to Carr's Beach with a "Legends of Motown" show from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the Anne Arundel County Fair pavilion. The gates will open at 1 p.m. The program will be held rain or shine.
Scarborough Downs will be a venue for country music shows next year if all goes well for a New Hampshire-based concert promoter. Good Music Productions of Newton, N.H., expects to put on as many as five shows from June 1 to Oct. 1. The performers and dates have not been confirmed.
The Metropolitan Opera will present the husband-and-wife team of Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu in concert at Brooklyn's Prospect Park on June 20 and will scrap its traditional series of outdoor performances of full operas. The Met expects to draw up to 150,000 people when the tenor and soprano sing arias and duets by Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti and Massenet. Ion Martin will conduct the concert, which will be streamed on the Internet and broadcast on radio.
Wybron Inc. did little or no marketing during most of its first 30 years. But a sharp drop in sales that triggered a layoff of nearly half of its staff prompted the Colorado Springs-based theatrical lighting equipment manufacturer to change its tune. The company has spent at least $300,000 on a 48-foot mobile showroom to demonstrate its five product lines; it's the centerpiece of a major marketing push by founder and president Keny Whitright to double Wybron's sales this year. The showroom will hit the road Sunday to visit the 200 or so lighting dealers who sell or rent Wybron's products for use in theatrical productions, concert tours and church services.
Like Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams, Shannon McNally is a Southern chanteuse who freely combines country, soul, and swamp pop into an enticing mix that is equal parts raw Americana and pop-friendly blues. Her backing band, Hot Sauce, lent a rough-hewn texture to Coldwater, her recently released album. Together, they play a free concert on the Plaza, starting at 6 p.m. Monday, July 5. It's the kickoff concert of Outside-In Productions' 2010 Santa Fe Bandstand concert series. You can also catch McNally at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 6, at Cowgirl BBQ (319 S. Guadalupe St., 982-2565); admission is $5.
To say this has been a tough year for arts organizations would be a gross understatement. Almost all are reporting that contributions are down, ticket sales are down and, for those lucky enough to have it, investment income is way down.
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