Brandi Carlile
Since her heralded, genre-defying 2005 Columbia debut, Carlile and her indispensable collaborators, Tim and Phil Hanseroth, aka The Twins, have always offered listeners both control and abandon, often within a single song.
Since her heralded, genre-defying 2005 Columbia debut, Carlile and her indispensable collaborators, Tim and Phil Hanseroth, aka The Twins, have always offered listeners both control and abandon, often within a single song.
Mid-Ohio Valley native, Anthony Mossburg, is returning home this summer to launch his new album, Crazy.
In 2014 Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the South African a cappella group formed by Joseph Shabalala during the 1960’s, was awarded their fourth Grammy Award for the CD Singing For Peace Around The World. Not just a CD title but a statement of the group’s career mission. It was Nelson Mandela who designated Ladysmith Black Mambazo “South Africa’s Cultural Ambassadors to the world.”
Our occasional series of intimate cabaret shows continues with a solo concert by composer and pianist Grisha Krivchenia. Enjoy an evening of hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar, with seating on the stage of the historic Peoples Bank Theatre.
With special guest Jess Baldwin. Since 1991 Bob Thompson has been the pianist, and a regularly featured artist on West Virginia’s NPR syndicated radio show, Mountain Stage. For the past twenty-three years he has also been co-producer and host of joy to the world, a holiday jazz show, broadcast on public radio stations nationwide, and heard internationally on the voice of America. In October 2015, Bob Thompson was inducted into the West Virginia music hall of fame.
Get ready for an evening of Pink Floyd, with Ohio's own Dark Side of the Moon. Many groups call themselves cover bands, but few reach the distinction of being a tribute band. That designation means more than just playing songs that another band made famous — it means performing those songs in a way that would make the original band proud.
On September 16, 1986, country music legend Randy Travis performed at the Colony Theatre in Marietta, Ohio, just as his career was taking off. Almost 30 years later on Thursday September 15, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., Travis will return to the stage of the present-day Peoples Bank Theatre. Travis will not be performing, due to a stroke he suffered three years ago, but he will make an appearance to be honored and enjoy the show.
A concert celebrating the album release for You and the World Outside by JD Hutchison on Howdy Skies Records, produced by Tim O'Brien.
Esbenshade Series events are FREE, but seat reservations are recommended. Limit ten (10) tickets per person. Join us for a special, free Marietta College Esbenshade Series concert with Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn. A banjo duo might seem like a musical concept beset by limitations. But when the banjo players are Béla Fleck and Abigail […]
Grammy Nominee & Mountain Stage host Larry Groce and his wife Sandra Groce, violist with the West Virginia Symphony, have made a new studio recording called “Live Forever.” (Produced by Don Dixon) It includes three of Larry’s original songs and eight covers, mostly songs connected to Mountain Stage over the years. This very well received recording is Groce’s first album in over two decades.
Maestro Turizziani has stirred up a great program of holiday-themed music, starting with The Noon Witch, Op. 108, by Antonin Dvorak, and including the Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) by Franz Schubert, and Violin Concerto No. 1 by Max Bruch. The RCSO will also feature the talents of Christina Bouey as violin soloist.
Rick Michel, who has performed and headlined in Las Vegas since 1981, presents "Sinatra Forever," focusing totally on the music of Frank Sinatra. Michel salutes and interprets the Ol’ Blue Eyes standards. Michel has been called: "The closest thing to Sinatra we have ever heard" by "Variety." Michel, a master impressionist for more than 40 years, has been touring his “Sinatra Forever” show around the country as well as internationally with performances in Canada, Mexico and Chile.
The Marietta College Fall Band Concert entitled Music of Heaven and Earth will feature music representing different locations on earth and will feature The Divine Comedy by Robert W. Smith. The variety of music will include Circus Days Galop by Karl L. King; Men of Ohio March by Henry Filmore; Selections from Les Misérables; Metroplex; Three Postcards for Manhattan,and Kilimanjaro-An African Portrait. The concert will conclude will the Carmen Dragon arrangement, America the Beautiful.
This new and unique show brings the material, the music and the artists together on stage in a magical, mystery-filled creation combining visual theater, dance, and humor into an exciting, multi-sensory experience, the likes of which audiences have never before seen. This is the story of one man's incredible journey to a parallel universe - a futuristic planet made entirely of aluminum. Aluminum pipes come to life right before the audience's very eyes, transforming into imaginary, mysterious, and playful characters.
Esbenshade Series events are FREE, but seat reservations are recommended. Limit ten (10) tickets per person. Join us for a special, free Marietta College Esbenshade Series concert with piano prodigy Gavin George. Gavin Michael George is a 13 year-old student of Antonio Pompa-Baldi who began playing piano at the age of 3½. By 11, he […]
A benefit concert for the Boys & Girls Club of Washington County Despite growing up in the small country town of Coshocton, Ohio, Allen carries an eclectic variety of musical influences like Def Leppard, Garth Brooks, Justin Timberlake, Goo Goo Dolls and Neal McCoy but truly has his family’s musical history to thank for his […]
Join us for a special hometown holiday celebration at Peoples Bank Theatre, featuring heartwarming music and dance performances by Marietta area youth ensembles including PACE, Stacey’s Dance Studio, the Marietta High School Marquettes, the Marietta Middle School Handbell Ensemble, Marietta Middle School Choir, High Schools that Rock, as well as the Marietta High School Wall of Sound Marching Band, Cantabile and Vocal Point.
Country music icon Tanya Tucker's sultry voice and vivacious stage presence makes her one of the most admired and respected female vocalists in the country music genre. Tanya’s reign includes 23 Top 40 albums and a string of 56 Top 40 singles, 10 of which reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. Along the way, she has provided some of the biggest country music hits of each decade, including, "Delta Dawn," "Soon," “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane,” “It’s a Little Too Late,” "Trouble" and “Texas (When I Die),” just to name a few.