This wonderful big band returns to Alvas with a program of Traditional and Contemporary Jazz & Swing Instrumentals & Vocals
Dan Baker: Music Director, Drummer.
Marvin Bonds: Band Leader, Lead Alto Sax
Peter Marshal: Stand-Up Bass
Doug Richmond: Piano
Rosie Friedland: Vocal
Dr. David Frishberg: 2nd Alto Sax
David Swerdlove: Lead Tenor Sax
David Jacques: 2nd Tenor Sax
David Conrad: Baritone Sax
John Cather: Lead Trumpet
Craig ‘Pete’ Peterson: 2nd Trumpet
Jay Epelman: 3rd Trumpet
Russ Mullen: 4th Trumpet
Daniel Chandler: Lead Trombone
Ben Al-Mateen: 2nd Trombone
Jeanine Peterson: 3rd Trombone
Greg Robinson: Bass Trombone
Eli Furie: Percussionist
Snacks and Non-Alcoholic beverages are welcome in the venue.
Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, this musical tapestry depicts an African-American family, a Jewish immigrant family, and a wealthy white suburban family in turn-of-the-century America, who collide in pursuit of the American Dream. Nominated for 13 Tony Awards® including “Best Musical,” and winning for “Best Original Score” and “Best Book of a Musical,” Ragtime is a powerful portrait of life during the turn-of-the-century, exploring America’s timeless contradictions of freedom and prejudice, wealth and poverty, hope and despair.
Written by Terrence McNally. Directed by Larry Eisenberg. Produced by David Hunt Stafford for Theatre 40.
It's the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the reviews. The group includes the excitable playwright; the possibly unstable wunderkind director; the pill-popping leading lady, treading the boards after becoming infamous in Hollywood; and the playwright's best friend, for whom the play was written but who passed up this production for a television series. Add to this a drama critic who's panned the playwright in the past and a new-in-town aspiring singer, and you have a prime recipe for the narcissism, ambition, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre—and for comedy. But don't worry: This play is sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.
Join Nevenka East European Folk Ensemble and special guests on March 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm for a joyful musical celebration of bravery and kindness in the face of persecution and war. The concert will commemorate the Bulgarian citizens who stood up to hatred and saved 48,000 people from deportation to concentration camps during World War II.
Nevenka will be joined by special guests the Yuval Ron Ensemble and celebrated Bulgarian singers Tzvetanka and Ivan Varimezovi in presenting a dazzling array of Bulgarian and Sephardic music and song. Performances will feature the gripping vocal harmonies and rhythms of Bulgarian women's choral music, along with Ladino & Sephardic instrumental and vocal traditions.
Advance ticket sales only. No tickets sold at the door.
FEMcore, a new initiative launched for March which highlights some of the LA area's brightest female-fronted talent each weekend. Patrial proceeds from the events are going to RAINN, which is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization.
SATURDAY- March 25th @ HOTEL ZIGGY: