What powerful dream would compel you to travel by wagon and foot across the entire country? Across the Great Plains and deserts, through the Rocky Mountain passes facing starvation, predators, disease and the elements? Whether on long, perilous journeys or wherever one calls home, music has communicated joy and provided a means for survival. Folk […]

Garrison Keillor at 83 with special guests Heather Masse & Rich Dworsky is a show of music, stories, and stand-up on the theme of cheerfulness — happiness depends on circumstance, but cheerfulness is a choice. The show includes Keillor’s sung sonnets and duets with Masse on songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Tom Waits, Greg […]

At 86 years old, two-time Grammy winner Bob James has enjoyed a tremendously varied career. To some, he’s a hip hop icon because of the samples of his music that played a pivotal role in the foundation of rap; to others, he’s the godfather of smooth jazz. Since the early 1970s, when he famously ignited […]

In a “breakout performance” (The New York Times) opening the Met’s 21-22 season, Liverman headlined the widely celebrated Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Terence Blanchard, which won the 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. He has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, New […]

The Temptations and The Four Tops will be coheadlining and bringing the grooves to Mesa Arts Center on January 20! With a collection of hits that are the virtual history of American soul music – reminisce to classics like “My Girl,” “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie […]

Get ready for a nostalgic night of charm and charisma with teen idol legend Frankie Avalon! From chart-topping hits like “Venus” and “Why” to his iconic roles in the Beach Party films, Avalon brings the golden era of rock ’n’ roll back to life with timeless style and energy. With stories from his celebrated career […]

With a telepathic on-stage rapport and playful exuberance, vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater and pianist Bill Charlap bring new life to American Songbook classics and jazz standards. Bridgewater’s bold, story-driven vocals dance around Charlap’s harmonically rich, deeply rooted piano, fusing spontaneous charm, warmth, and technical mastery. Touring behind their new duo album, Elemental, this is a […]

Bandolim master Hamilton de Holanda is one of Brazil’s most celebrated musicians—a global ambassador, virtuoso performer, and groundbreaking improviser. He began his professional career as a six-year-old mandolin prodigy on a national Brazilian TV show. Today, as a composer, improviser, bandleader, and educator, his music transcends genre, and his improvisational genius dazzles. His career is […]

Debussy’s impressionistic symphonic tone poems, La mer and Ibéria, take center stage in this all-French–Iberian-peninsula program. Mezzo-soprano Angela Brower is the soloist for Berlioz’s cantata Cléopâtre, on the first of her two weeks with the TSO, and Maestro Gomez introduces the music of Olivier Messiaen with the grief-stricken Le tombeau resplendissant. For his depiction of […]

In celebration of John Coltrane and Miles Davis, both born in 1926, pianist Emmet Cohen brings together an all-star quintet for a bold, reimagined experience featuring Coltrane’s and Davis’s genre-changing music. Together, Cohen and the quintet explore the fundamental questions that shaped Coltrane’s and Davis’s artistry: Why are we here? What are we reaching for? […]

Step Afrika!’s signature work The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence is based on Lawrence’s iconic painting series that chart the story of African Americans moving from the South to the North in the early 1900s. Each piece uses the images, color palette, and motifs in the painting series to tell this astonishing story through pulsating […]

November 8-23, 2025. Saturdays at 7pm, Sundays at 2pm Origina story and music by Jonathan Heras Pase con cuidado al enchanted world of Lotería, donde magic meets tradition! A world where a simple board game transforms everyday life into an aventura inolvidable. When three brave kids from Temperatura County stumble upon el misterioso game de […]

A sweeping choral-orchestral journey through lush contemporary landscapes in a distinguished venue. With a much-anticipated return to Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, bask in the warmth of Phoenix Chorale’s world-class sound, described by Gramophone as “expertly blended.” Journey through lush contemporary landscapes as music, visuals, and place converge in a performance on a grand […]