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SUMMARY:An Evening with Crystal Gayle
DESCRIPTION:She was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2017 by her sister\, Loretta Lynn. The Academy of Country Music recognized her with a 2016 Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award for her lifetime achievements in country music. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Indeed\, Crystal Gayle has been honored by country music and loved by fans for decades. Best known for her signature song\, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue\,” she’s also had hits with “You’ve Been Talking in Your Sleep\,” “When I Dream\,” “Half the Way\,” and her duet with Eddie Rabbit\, “Just You and I.” She has released more than 20 Number One hits and has been honored by the Grammys\, the Country Music Association\, the Academy of Country Music\, and the American Music Awards. \nBrenda Gail Webb’s sister\, Loretta Lynn\, suggested the name Crystal for her younger sister. Brenda Lee was a star with Decca Records\, and to avoid confusion\, Webb took the name Crystal Gayle when she signed with the label. Gayle grew up the youngest of eight children\, and sister Loretta has said that Crystal was also “a coal miner’s daughter” before she was a star. While she was still in school\, she signed her first recording contract. Her debut single\, “I’ve Cried the Blue Right Out of My Eyes\,” was written by Lynn and reached the Top 25 on national charts. Three more singles were released over the next three years. Her warm\, resonant song styling\, unique as a fingerprint\, captured audiences not usually tuned in to country music. \nGayle’s first album began a roll out of smash singles to come. Wrong Road Again became her debut Top 10 record and “I’ll Get Over You” her first Number One single. By her fourth album\, We Must Believe in Magic\, she became the first female artist in country music history to achieve platinum album sales. Driving the engine was the song that became her signature\, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.” That song introduced Crystal Gayle to the world. She became a household name\, and her glamour and mystique made her an “in demand” artist. From symphony halls to Carnegie Hall to the London Palladium\, the Crystal phenomenon swept on. There were CBS and HBO specials\, and she appeared in Bob Hope’s special\, “On the Road to China.” She has hosted the American Music Awards and the Academy of Country Music Awards. \nBreaking through the usual genre barriers has allowed Crystal Gayle to do projects close to her heart. One of the most meaningful was Crystal Gayle Sings the Heart and Soul of Hoagy Carmichael\,” a critically acclaimed collection of 15 of the great composer’s favorite classics\, including “Stardust” and “Two Sleepy People.” She has said that meeting Carmichael and getting to sing with him was a personal high in her career. \nShe has not neglected the youngest audiences\, either\, with In My Arms\, a collection of lullabies. She appeared on Sesame Street and sang with Big Bird\, and she contributed to Songs from the Neighborhood\, a tribute album to Mr. Rogers that won a Grammy in 2006. \nCrystal Gayle lives in Nashville when she is not touring\, and spends time with her husband\, two children\, and two grandsons. Like a fine wine\, time has been kind to her. \nDon’t miss the show. You don’t want to make your brown eyes blue.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/an-evening-with-crystal-gayle/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:Elton Dan and The Rocket Band
DESCRIPTION:Dan Gasser\, the lead singer and pianist of Elton Dan and The Rocket Band\, first saw Elton John at Caesars Palace. Since then\, he has seen him 26 more times\, including seven times during his final “Yellow Brick Road” tour. Gasser has been a fan of John’s music and his humanitarian work for many years\, and in 2015\, to honor John\, he formed The Rocket Band. \n“Elton John is my all-time favorite artist\, and it was my destiny to lead a project that pays homage to his music\,” he said. “Our shows are a heartfelt tribute to the greatest musical artist ever\, and I want the audience to feel that. I want to immerse them in a memorable musical experience.” \nThe band performs songs from the seven iconic Elton John albums of the 1970s and 1980s. There are so many wonderful songs to choose from\, and you may well hear “I’m Still Standing\,” “Philadelphia Freedom\,” “Crocodile Rock\,” and “Rocket Man.” There might well be duets\, deeper cuts and band favorites like “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart\, “Madman Across the Water\,” “Levon\,” “Tiny Dancer\,” and “Pinball Wizard.” Through it all\, Gasser’s stage presence and rapport with the audience\, the great piano playing\, over-the-top costumes\, and fabulous energy convince you that you are seeing Sir Elton up close and personal. \nSince its inception in 2015\, the band has performed more than 400 shows in 38 states. During the 2024 season\, they played at Kool Deadwood Nights in South Dakota to an estimated crowd of 18\,000. Internationally\, they have played sold-out shows at the famed Wynn Palace Resort in Macau\, and tour dates for Canada\, South America\, and Europe are in the works. \nThe family-friendly band believes in giving back\, inspired by Elton John‘s philanthropy. Based in the Kansas City area\, they have raised more than $170\,000 for Children’s Mercy Hospital and more than $300\,000 for The Dream Factory\, an organization that raises money to grant wishes to children with life-limiting illnesses. \nIn addition to Gasser\, the band includes Dean Christopher on keyboard\, Wes Faulconer on percussion\, Paul Greenlease on bass\, Bill Graham on drums\, Ben Eisiminger on keyboard\, and Deb Cordero on vocals. \nDean Christopher performed for a Led Zeppelin tribute band before coming to Elton Dan. A fan of Elton John’s music\, when there was an opening in the band for a keyboard player\, he jumped at the opportunity. This season he will move to lead guitar\, where his emotional\, animated personality will bring electricity to the stage. \nWes Faulconer has had an impressive career as a drummer and percussionist\, deeply rooted in the Kansas City music scene. A fan of motorcycles and fast cars\, he brings the same high energy to Elton Dan and The Rocket Band. He has an extraordinary ability to create the many diverse sounds and background enhancements for which Elton John is known. \nPaul Greenlease honed his skills at The Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles and toured with a number of bands\, including as part of the Armed Forces Entertainment Tour in 2010\, supporting troops in Kuwait and Iraq. He is a tremendous bass player who moves from rock to reggae and jazz to pop. \nBill Graham is in his fourth year with Elton Dan. He studied music at Missouri Western State University and completed a music performance degree in percussion. He is a fan of writing drum music and is working on a drum set book\, with backing charts\, for musicians of all ages and abilities. \nDeb Cordero thrives in the role of backup vocalist\, which requires integrating and supporting Dan and the band on every song. She is also featured on two Kiki Dee songs\, as lead singer\, and in a duet. Deb has performed in Las Vegas and has done extensive jingle work for accounts like Pizza Hut and the Kansas City Royals. \nIf you love Elton John\, they’ll be singing Your Song. Don’t Go Breaking Your Heart and miss it.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/elton-dan-and-the-rocket-band/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:John Németh
DESCRIPTION:Growing up in the early 1990s in the muddy potato fields of Boise\, Idaho\, John Nemeth was drawn to the hard-edged hip-hop sound and rock bands of the day. Boise\, Idaho is not usually thought of as a home of the blues\, but it was where Nemeth grew up\, the youngest son of a miner who fled the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and married a local girl. His mother took him to concerts when he was two\, his third-grade teacher taught him to sing\, and his elder siblings were into rock and country. As a teen\, he played in a band called Fat John and the 3 Slims with his friend\, Tom Moore\, who sat behind him in algebra class. That band is still legendary in the Boise area. Moore introduced him to the Junior Wells and Buddy Guy classic\, “Hoodoo Man Blues.“ “That was it\,” Nemeth said. “I started singing along with him. I was 14.” \nIn a 2022 interview with Robin Caudell\, Nemeth explained how he found the blues after Moore gave him “the greatest mixtape of all time.” “He started with Charley Patton and moved into Robert Johnson\, Blind Lemon Jefferson\, Blind Willie McTell\, Blind Boy Fuller\, BB King\, Albert Collins\, and Lightning Hopkins\,” he said. “It was fantastic. I really loved it.” \nBy 2000\, Nemeth was supplying backup to Junior Watson and fronting his own band\, The Jacks. He self-published two albums and in 2004 relocated to the San Francisco Bay area. He signed a contract with Blind Pig Records and his national debut album\, Magic Touch\, in 2007\, caused Living Blues Magazine to say that it gave hope “that the blues will survive.” In 2008\, he was recruited by Elvin Bishop to perform and contribute vocal tracks to Bishop’s Grammy-nominated album\, The Blues Roll On. \nNemeth released two more albums with Blind Pig\, and both hit No. 6 on the Billboard Blues Chart. He began his long string of Blues Music Award nominations\, with 20 at last count. He won two Blues Blast Music Awards: Best New Artist Debut Recording and the Sean Costello Rising Star Award. He followed up with two independently released albums in 2012\, Blues Live and Soul Live. At Electraphonic Studio\, along with producer Scott Bomar and his classic Memphis Soul band\, the Bo-Keys\, Nemeth created an album of revisited Soul classics\, Memphis Grease\, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Blues Chart. He won the 2014 BMA for Best Soul Blues Male Artist and Memphis Grease won Best Soul Blues Album in 2015. \nIn 2017\, Nemeth released Feelin’ Freaky on his own Memphis Grease label. The album crushed all barriers of style and genre with all original songs that defied pigeon-holing and drew from his strong influence in blues and R & B\, as well as contemporary sounds in hip-hop and rock and roll. In 2019\, he and his band of young players\, The Blue Dreamers\, with guitar phenom John Hay\, drummer Danny Banks and bass player Matt Wilson\, released Nemeth’s 10th album\, 2020’s Stronger Than Strong. Again\, he showed his ability to blend retro and modern blues and soul into compelling music that is simultaneously old and new. \nIn 2021\, Nemeth was nominated for the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award by the Blues Music Association and in 2023\, he won the ”Instrumentalist – Harmonica” category at the Blues Music Awards. May Be the Last Time was also named “Traditional Blues Album of the Year.” \nJohn Nemeth has said that his career and life has been a wild trip and he’s having a good time. You can bet the blues that you will\, too.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/john-nemeth/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
DESCRIPTION:There is a wealth of history behind The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. In 1977\, The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans began showcasing a traditional Crescent City brass band. It was a joining of two proud\, but antiquated\, traditions. Social aid and pleasure clubs dated back more than a century\, to a time when black southerners could rarely afford life insurance. The clubs would provide proper funeral arrangements\, and brass bands\, early predecessors of the jazz we know\, would often follow the funeral processions\, playing somber dirges until the family of the deceased was out of earshot. Then they let loose\, playing jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers danced in the streets. \nBy the late 1970s\, the tradition had largely died out. In 1977\, The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club assembled a group as the house band and early on\, it adopted the name The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Now\, more than 45 years since its founding\, the Grammy-winning group has taken the traditional foundations of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres including bebop\, jazz\, funk\, and R&B/soul. This unique sound\, described by the band as a “musical gumbo\,” has allowed the Dirty Dozen Band to become a world-famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performance. They have toured five continents\, played in more than 30 countries\, and collaborated with a wide range of artists from Modest Mouse to Norah Jones.\nThe seven-member ensemble consists of Roger Lewis on baritone sax and vocals\, Gregory Davis on trumpet and vocals\, Kirk Joseph on Sousaphone\, Trevarri Huff-Boone on tenor sax and vocals\, Stephen Walker on trombone and vocals\, Julian Addison on drums\, and Takeshi Shimmura on guitar. \nOffbeat magazine called the Dirty Dozen Brass Band “arguably the most influential ensemble to emerge in New Orleans over the last 25 years. Its sway on the brass scene has been staggering\, spawning bands like the ReBirth\, New Birth\, Hot 8\, Li’l Rascals\, Soul Rebels\, and just about every other young brass ensemble presently performing.” \nThe Dirty Dozen Brass Band won a 2023 Grammy for Best American Roots Performance. Whatever your roots\, don’t miss this toe-tapping\, line-dancing\, arms-waving rollicking good time. They call it musical gumbo. Bon appetit!
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/the-dirty-dozen-brass-band/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:Broadway with Heart
DESCRIPTION:She’s the great-granddaughter of Teddy Roosevelt. He’s the great-grandson of Russian Cantor Yacov Sanzofsky. Lovingly known as M & M\, husband and wife Melinda Jackson and Michael Kessler have been working together for more than 30 years as producers\, directors\, writers\, composers\, choreographers\, and\, oh yes\, performers who have appeared on Broadway\, in Las Vegas\, at Radio City Music Hall\, and in theaters around the world. Their show\, Broadway with Heart\, is a tribute to the best Broadway has had to offer\, from Kiss Me Kate\, to Chicago\, to Fiddler on the Roof\, to Phantom of the Opera. Along the way\, they share stories of working with people like Bob Fosse\, Joe Layton\, and Jim Rado. \nThe two met in a ballet class in New York City in the 1980s. In an interview with Marvin Glassman in Miamiartzine magazine\, Kessler said they always knew they would make a great team. “Part of our joy of dancing is not just the talent\, but the commitment to rehearse\, observe\, and care about each other\, both on and off the stage\, to be our best as performers and people.” \nFor Broadway with Heart\, the two will act\, dance\, and sing with five other cast members as they portray aging performers who travel back in time to recreate their favorite moments on Broadway and films. If it touches on their own lives\, it’s no accident. \nThe two share anecdotes from their many years in the theater while recreating memorable scenes and songs from Broadway. You’ll be humming along to “America\,” “Jesus Christ Superstar\,” “Life is a Cabaret\,” “Oh\, What a Beautiful Morning\,” and “Tonight.” The choreography is by Kessler and the costumes by Jackson. They are a full-service team. \nM & M have not only toured with their own original shows. The two performed in Tommy Tune’s Broadway show\, Grand Hotel\, choreographed a Winter Olympics and the U.S. Pro Gymnastics tour and directed and choreographed the 30th anniversary tour of Hair\, in which both appeared earlier. \nAgain\, in an interview with Marvin Glassman\, Kessler explained their goal for this production. “We wanted to create on stage a history of great Broadway and film musicals from an era before we were born to more contemporary shows like Hamilton. We never worked with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly\, so by becoming this imaginary veteran show business couple\, we could share the thrilling scenes and songs that were created by so many legendary choreographers\, dancers\, and directors.” \nIt’s a festival of Broadway. Come hear the music of the night.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/broadway-with-heart/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:All Night Long - The Hits of Lionel Richie
DESCRIPTION:Jassen Allen began singing at church in Iowa. A music teacher took him under her wing\, hoping the young Black man would become another Simon Estes\, Iowa’s famed African American bass-baritone. The teacher convinced Allen to enter talent shows at the Iowa State Fair. \n“I never won the talent shows\, but I got better and better and learned how to be an individual performer\,” Allen said. The young artist realized that performing as a solo act was what he wanted to do\, and he found his first performing jobs at theme parks in Florida and Texas. From there\, he was a production singer on a variety of cruise ship lines. He spent 10 years seeing the world and honing his craft. Then it was time to settle down on dry land. He moved to Los Angeles. \nAllen became “a very good waiter” and also found work as a performer. He was cast in the Civic Light Opera’s award-winning production of Dream Girls and became a popular singer for special events from Los Angeles to Europe. In 2006\, Allen moved to Las Vegas\, where again\, he was “a very good waiter.” After several rough years\, he established himself as a Las Vegas entertainer and wrote a tribute show to Luther Vandross and Whitney Houston. The show\, a hit\, was held at Ron DeCar’s Event Center. “I finally had my name in lights on the Strip\,” Allen said. “Well\, it was down the Strip a ways\, but it was there.” \nNow\, the Vegas headliner has put together a tribute to the legendary Lionel Richie\, called All Night Long. Richie\, the songwriter and co-founder of the Commodores\, wrote hits like “Easy\,” “Three Times a Lady\,” and “Still\,” as well as Billboard Hot 100 single for Kenny Rogers\, “Lady.” He recorded “Endless Love” with Diana Ross\, and it is still among the top 20 best-selling singles of all time. Richie has won four Grammy Awards\, including Song of the Year for “We Are the World\,” which he co-wrote with Michael Jackson\, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022. \nAllen considers his show not only a tribute\, but a celebration. It’s a party that will last “All Night Long.” You may be “Dancing on the Ceiling\,” but you won’t be taking it “Easy.”
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/all-night-long-the-hits-of-lionel-richie/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials
DESCRIPTION:Chicago is home to the blues. So many great artists have come from the Windy City\, among them Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials\, a group that has been standing tall among Chicago blues greats for more than 30 years. The band’s big sound\, fueled by Lil’ Ed’s rollicking slide work and deep blues string bending\, along with his soulful vocals\, is as real and hard-hitting as Chicago blues gets. The Chicago Sun-Times says\, “Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials are the hottest purveyors of bottleneck boogie to come out of Chicago since Hound Dog Taylor.” \nLil’ Ed Williams comes to the blues naturally. Born in Chicago in 1955\, in the heart of the city’s tough West Side\, Ed grew up surrounded by music. His uncle\, Chicago slide guitar king and master songwriter J.B. Hutto taught him how to feel\, not just play the blues. He was playing the guitar\, and then the drums and bass\, by the time he was 12. Both he and his half-brother\, Pookie Young\, the band’s bassist\, learned from their uncle. “J.B. taught me everything I know\,” Lil’ Ed said. “I wouldn’t be where I am today without him.” \nEd and Pookie spent their teen years making music together\, and in 1975\, formed their first incarnation of The Blues Imperials. They earned $6 for their first gig and split it four ways. They played in clubs at night; during the day\, Ed worked at a car wash and Pookie drove a school bus. Eventually\, Alligator Records president Bruce Iglauer heard of them\, just as he was looking for some of Chicago’s younger blues musicians. “Ed and his band had a real good reputation\,” he said. “I knew Ed was a hot slide player\, but I had no idea what he and the band were really capable of. I asked them to come down to the studio and cut a couple of songs. I never expected what happened.” \nWhat happened was that a band that had never been inside a recording studio treated it like a club. They recorded their two songs and kept playing. After 10 songs\, Iglauer offered them a full album contract. Twelve of the songs that were eventually recorded became their debut album\, Roughhousin’. The Village Voice said it might be “the blues album of the year.” \nSoon after\, guitarist Mike Garrett and drummer Kelly Littleton joined the band and things took off. Garret’s risk-taking rhythm guitar work and Littleton’s unpredictable\, old-school drumming were the perfect complements to Lil’ Ed’s and Pookie’s rambunctious playing. With their album\, Chicken\, Gravy\, & Biscuits\, doors opened. The band toured relentlessly and coalesced as a unit. Their spontaneous and unpredictable live shows were legendary. \nLil’s Ed & The Blues Imperials have played the Chicago Blues Festival multiple times\, and have appeared at jazz festivals in New Orleans\, Portland\, Tampa Bay\, San Diego and worldwide. Their fan base\, known as “Ed Heads\,” appreciated each of the eight Alligator records released between 1986 and 2012\, and with each one\, the band’s stature grew. They took home the Living Blues Award for Best Live Performer three years in a row and won the prestigious Blues Music Award for Band of the Year twice. \nFor Ed Williams and his merry band\, it’s about the music and the family. “We’re family\, and families stay together\,” he said. \nNight after night\, gig after gig\, the musical family called Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials brings their big\, dynamic Chicago blues sounds to fans around the country and around the world. \nWelcome to the family.
URL:https://discovermartin.com/event/lil-ed-the-blues-imperials/
LOCATION:The Lyric Theatre\, 59 SW Flagler Ave\, Stuart\, FL\, 34994\, United States
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