Centenary Stage Company’s Winter Thaw Music Festival melts away the blues featuring concert performances by Good Co., January 11 at 8 p.m., Judy Carmichael, January 19 at 2 p.m., TAKE3: Where Rock Meets Bach, January 26 at 2 p.m., and Gangstagrass, February 1 at 8 p.m.
Seattle’s own Good Co. is the United States first Electro Swing band, combining the sounds of 1920's and ‘30s jazz with the electronic music of today using live horns, vintage samples, and funky beats to create a new type of dance party. Since 2013, this band has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe for music festivals, conventions and burlesque performances.
Grammy nominated pianist, vocalist, radio host and humorist Judy Carmichael is one of the world’s leading interpreters of stride piano and swing. Count Basie nicknamed her “Stride," acknowledging the command with which she plays this technically and physically demanding jazz piano style. Judy has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion, NPR’s Morning Edition, Entertainment Tonight, CBS' Sunday Morning, CNN’s Business Unusual, Mornings With Margaret Throsby for the Australia Broadcast Corporation, Jo Soares in Brazil and the BBC’s Loose Ends, In Tune, Up All Night, Woman’s Hour and numerous other shows. Judy created, produces, and hosts the Judy Carmichael’s Jazz Inspired now in its 25th year on NPR stations across the country and podcasting on all platforms.
TAKE3: Where Rock Meets Bach brings the refinement of a rigorous classical music background and infuses it with rock-star charisma. After training at the world’s top conservatories, TAKE3, created by violinist/vocalist Lindsay Deutsch (Yanni’s featured violin soloist), alongside cello and piano, are creating pop, rock and classical fusion music for their show. They’ve performed for audiences at venues and events including Music in the Mountains, Redlands Bowl, OK Mozart Festival, Festival Mozaic, Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Grill, and Bear Valley Music Festival playing the hits of The Beatles, Justin Bieber and Coldplay.
Closing out the Winter Thaw Festival will be Gangstagrass, a multi-racial collective of musicians who demolish every preconception about country and hip-hop music. These string pickers create a shared cultural space for dialogue and connection between genres that rarely intersect. Integrating banjo and fiddle with hip-hop beats and rapping may be something Gangstagrass does for the love of the music and has led them to face a history of racialized genres and deeply ingrained sense of cultural incompatibility.
All Winter Thaw Music Festival performances will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center located on the campus of Centenary University at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown, NJ.
Ticket prices for the three concerts in January are $29.50 for adults and $15 for students of any age & children under 12. Gangstagrass tickets are $30 for all seats.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at 908- 979-0900. The Centenary Stage Company box office is open Monday through Friday from 1-5 p.m. and two hours prior to performances.
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The 2024-25 Season of Performing Arts events at the Centenary Stage Company is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors and grantors like the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Shubert Foundation, the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, the Sandra Kupperman Foundation, the John and Margaret Post Foundation, the CSC corporate sponsors, including Explore Warren, the House of the Good Shepherd, Hackettstown Medical Center Atlantic Health System, Heath Village, Visions Federal Credit Union, and Fulton Bank, and Centenary Stage Company members and supporters.
Winter Thaw Music Festival @ CSC
Centenary Stage Company’s Winter Thaw Music Festival melts away the blues featuring their first concert performance by Good Co. January 11. Other shows include Judy Carmichael, TAKE3: Where Rock Meets Bach, and Gangstagrass. All Winter Thaw Music Festival performances will take place in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center located on the campus of Centenary University