Experience the thrilling music of John Williams performed live with a showing of the full-length epic film on the big screen. Live the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, and the Rebel Alliance as they battle the Galactic Empire. This is the full 1977 George Lucas film that started it all!
If you’re still piqued by the buzz that has surrounded The Book of Mormon since its first staging in 2011, you have just five more performances before the excellent production now at The Kentucky Center moves on down the road.
The cast features Louisville native and YPAS graduate Kayla Pecchioni as the female lead, Nabulungi, an imperiled member of a Uganda tribe whose world is changed by the arrival of a pair of missionaries from Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City. Among an excellent cast of principals, her performance of the sweetly vulnerable young woman who comes to fall in love with the Lord and the man who makes the introduction completely beguiled me.
And whatever cost of the ticket, you’ll get your money’s worth from the over-the-top “Man Up” and the devilish “Spooky Mormon Hell.” (more…)
The ‘Sad Clown with the Golden Voice’ is here with his heartfelt anthems and a suitcase full of Kleenex! This Pity Party is not all sadness and longing. The show is peppered with a brilliant sense of the absurd, mixing lots of humor with the awkward, tender moments.
A veritable “Pagliacci by way of Pee-Wee Herman and David Lynch” (The AJC), Puddles Pity Party has 286k fans on Facebook and over 76 million views on YouTube for indelible interpretations of classics by ABBA, Bowie, Cheap Trick and Queen and his unforgettable mash-up of “Pinball Wizard/Folsom Prison Blues”. You may recognize him from his recent appearances on America’s Got Talent and video collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox. Puddles has toured extensively in the US at legendary venues like the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, the Kennedy Center in D.C. and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
Pictures at an Exhibition was written as a reaction to artwork. We turn the tables and ask artists to create new works of art with music as their inspiration. We promise a multi-sensory arts experience as we collaborate with artists at the Kentucky College of Art + Design.
On Friday, Concert Talk begins at 10:00 AM in Whitney Hall hosted by Classical 90.5 WUOL. On Saturday, Concert Talk begins at 6:45 PM in Whitney Hall hosted by Classical 90.5 WUOL. Also on Saturday, the Bluegrass Motorsport Donor Lounge is open in the Mary Anderson Room before the concert and at intermission. (more…)
Stoner metal heroes SLEEP are touring in support of their most recent recording, THE SCIENCES, their first album in two decades. SPIN raves “Sleep’s Crushing Comeback The Sciences Is a 4/20 Miracle” and PITCHFORK confirms “these 40-something dudes have managed to grow up without growing old…these riffs, rhythms, and the mantra-like singing of Al Cisneros are a drug unto themselves.”
Quintron has been making genre-defying noise, soundscape, and house rocking dance music in New Orleans for over 20 years, much of it in collaboration with artist / puppeteer Panacea Theriac aka “Miss Pussycat.” Quintron’s current focus is on a weather controlled analog drone synthesizer called Weather Warlock and a website devoted to streaming its music called Weather For The Blind. (more…)
