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January 8 – January 14, 2014
Soulful Singer/Songwriter Martha A World Premiere in Redbone Comes to the Annenberg Ardmore on January 12 Native American heritage with blues, funk and mountain music to create a wholly unique musical vibe. This performance will feature selections from Redbone’s latest album “Garden of Love – The Songs of William Blake,” a tribute to the English romance poet’s writing. These new tracks combine Redbone’s soaring vocals, Blake’s immortal words and a blend of roots music—including folk, country, piedmont blues, gospel, honkytonk, bluegrass, soul and traditional Native American sounds. Redbone currently tours with the Martha Redbone Roots Project and has also performed at a number of World and Traditional Music Festivals including California WorldFest, Martha Redbone takes the Annenberg Center stage for a Vancouver Folk Festiperformance filled with the soaring sounds of blues and soul on val and New Orleans February 14 at 8 p.m. Photo/Courtesy SRO Artists Jazz and Heritage Fesartha Redbone takes the ti val. Never forgetting her roots, Redbone Annenberg Center stage for continually performs at tribal powwows and a performance filled with the Native American events. Most recently, Redsoaring sounds of blues and bone was a part of the 2013 Smithsonian soul. Redbone is an Indepen- National Museum of the American Indian's dent Music Award-winning Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. musician who pays passionate homage to her Tickets are $20-$45 (prices are subject to Cherokee, Choctaw, Shawnee and African- change). For tickets or more information, American cultural roots. This performance will visit www.AnnenbergCenter.org or call 215take place on Friday, February 14 at 8 p.m. 898-3900. Tickets can also be purchased in “Poised to be Americana’s next superstar” person at the Annenberg Center Box Office. (Village Voice), Redbone daringly fuses her
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“Three Walden Miniatures,” new work of composer, author and scholar Christopher Shultis, will be performed by the Haverford High School Chamber Singers during annual winter choral concert
Composer Chris Shultis and his stepson Christopher Lee, both of Ardmore, after climbing the mountain Youngjangsan in Korea this past summer. he world premiere of the work of composer, author, scholar and Ardmore resident Christopher Shultis will be performed during the annual winter choral concert at Ardmore Presbyterian Church. The piece, “Three Walden Miniatures,” will be performed by the Haverford High School Chamber Singers on Sunday, January 12 at 3:00 p.m. and the public is invited to attend the free concert. Ardmore Presbyterian Church is located at 5 W. Montgomery Avenue in Ardmore. Inspired by the writing of Henry David Thoreau, “Three Walden Miniatures” includes three movements, “The Light,” “Awake,” and “Morning Star.” Shultis, who for many years lived in New Mexico and was a Regents’ professor of music at the University of New Mexico, began reading the works of Thoreau while writing the internationally recognized
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Storybook Musical Theatre’s “Princess & the Pea” at St. Joseph’s University torybook Musical Theatre, the Abington, PA-based professional Equity children’s theatre company will present the Hans Christian Andersen tale of a disheveled girl, who must prove she is a real princess by taking a very strange test involving twenty mattresses and a tiny pea. The musical concludes its run from January 14 to January 18 at the Bluett Theater or St. Joseph’s University, 56th & Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia. Tickets are $12 for children and $14 for adults. For reservations or more information call: 215-659-8550 or www.storybookmusical.org. The adaptation is by Storybook’s Artistic Director, Patricia Goldberg with original music by composer, Kevin Arruda. “Princess and the Pea” opens with the Prince complaining about being lonely. The Queen tells him she has already sent for a princess to be his bride. The only problem is that the Prince and the newly arrived Princess Jerseylee have nothing in common.
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The Prince is still as lonely as before. Then, in the middle of the night, a disheveled girl, Georgiana, knocks on the castle doors. She claims to be a princess who was thrown from her horse and needs someplace to spend the night. The Prince is immediately smitten with the new arrival but the Queen has her doubts that she is a
The Princess, played by Emily Cheney, discovered what has been keeping her awake all night in Stor ybook Musical Theatre’s “Princess and the Pea.” Photo/Mike Levin real princess. She devises a test to prove she is a princess by placing a small pea under twenty mattresses. If she cannot sleep then she will pass and can marry the Prince. Will the princess pass, even after the Queen slips her a sleeping potion? Playing the role of the lonely prince is Brian Bateman, of Philadelphia. Emily Cheney, of Columbus, New See “Princess & the Pea” on page 6