Student Recital: Devon Loihle
Lauren K. Woods TheatreDevon Loihle, Music major, will be performing her Senior Recital. She will be featured on voice and piano. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.
Devon Loihle, Music major, will be performing her Senior Recital. She will be featured on voice and piano. Admission is free; light refreshments will be served.
The concert will feature the Chamber Orchestra (which is comprised of students, faculty, and staff), and some smaller ensembles and soloists. The musical bill of fare will include works by Bizet, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, deFalla, Bach, Respighi and other important composers of different eras
Kelly Marie Thomas, Music major, will be performing her Senior Recital. She will be featured on voice and will be presenting works by Franz Schubert, Georg Friderich Handel, Gabriel Fauré, Eric Satie, Thomas Arne and many other. Also featured will be selections from several musical theatre shows such as Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd and The Music Man. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.
A free performance by Monmouth University’s Jazz Band
Guitar, multi instrumental and vocal virtuoso NILS LOFGREN joined Neil Young’s band at the age of 17. He used that credential to land his own band Grin, a record deal in 1971. His solo career began in 1975 which spawned a string of mid-70’s rock radio hits, “Back It Up”, “Keith Don’t Go” and his biggest, “I Came to Dance”. In 1984 he joined Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the massive Born in the USA tour and has been with them ever since.
Bravo Amici’s mix of powerful tenors and glorious sopranos perform an uplifting collection of well-known classical and contemporary arias. Combining the essential elements of pop, Broadway and opera with classical overtones, their powerful performance is a tribute to the emerging musical genre of “Contemporary Classical Crossover” taking the world by storm.
Joined by multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bird, the core Cowboy quartet returns to Monmouth for a retrospective of their three decades playing (and listening to) all manifestations of popular music. Expect an evening that runs the gamut from the folky intimacy of the band’s earliest efforts, to an always surprising selection of covers — although simply delivering “the expected” has never been part of the Cowboy Junkies playbook.
Tickets on sale Friday July 17 at 10 AM. The Weeklings
With A Little Help From Our Friends
After performing on Broadway as a member of both Beatlemania & Rain, Glen Burtnik and bandmates Bob Burger, John Merjave & Dave Anthony have created a new theater production. The evening promises to be a night of all things Beatles & beyond. The Weeklings will be joined by their friends The Barefoot Strings, Maxximum Horns with a special appearance by Max Weinberg. Together, they will perform the best and greatest songs of The Beatles, as well as The Weeklings performing their own Beatle-inspired songs.
New Jersey’s favorite entertainers take the stage to share the music of Van Morrison with their friends. Legendary front man Rob Paparozzi (Original Blues Brothers Band, Blood Sweat ‘n Tears) and Master Song Stylist Pat Guadagno (BobFest, The Candle
Brothers) will lead an all-star band on a musical journey through the lifework of one of
the most influential and unusual artists of our time. Last year’s capacity crowd was mesmerized by an eclectic selection of Morrison’s mystical compositions, performed by an ensemble of Jersey musical nobility that included Pam McCoy, Steven Delopoulos (Burlap to Cashmere) Irish Tenor Steve Reilly, Michael Ghegan (Michael Jackson Cirque de Soleil), John Korba, (Hall & Oates, Phoebe Snow, Roseanne Cash) Tom Labella, Joe Bellia & Jillian Reyes McCoy (Jon Bon Jovi’s Kings of Suburbia). The memorable evening was highlighted by a surprise visit from ‘the worlds most recorded drummer’ Bernard “Pretty” Purdie. The whole crew is back for a transcendental evening of genre defying music presented by Charles Moran and Christopher Neary to benefit Autism Speaks on what is sure to be A Marvelous Night ….You will be healed!
Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell have been singing together for 25 years. And they’ve talked about making a record together for just as long. In summer 2014 an extraordinarily successful Kickstarter campaign raised the initial goal of $40,000 in 24 hours, going on to ultimately reach over $85,000, to bring that desire to fruition under the band name “The Pine Hill Project.” “Tomorrow You’re Going,” an Americana masterwork of great songs, gorgeous harmonies, and stunning production was released in 2015. The album is at turns meditative, joyful, rollicking, and deeply moving, and a one of a kind musical event. You don’t want to miss the opportunity to see and hear Richard and Lucy perform as “The Pine Hill Project” live in the perfect setting of Pollak Theatre.