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July 13, 2017 · 8:32 am

BLACK VIOLIN | Tue., Oct. 17, 2017 | Aronoff Center

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October 17 – Aronoff Center
Tickets on sale Friday, July 14 at 10:00 AM

 

(Cincinnati, OH) – Hip-hop meets classical violin when the nationally-acclaimed band, BLACK VIOLIN, plays the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 7:30 PM.

Tickets go on sale Friday, July 14 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office. A student ticket price of $15 is available in select locations. Group discount tickets for 10 or more are available by calling (513) 977-4157.

BLACK VIOLIN is composed of classically trained violist and violinist Wil B. and Kev Marcus, who blend classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass music to create a unique and high energy style they call “Classical Boom.” Accompanied by drummer Nat Stokes and DJ SPS, Black Violin has spent the last several years performing for sold-out crowds across the country. In addition to playing an average of 175 shows per year that have spanned 49 states and 36 countries, founders Wil and Kev have composed the score for the FOX-TV series Pitch and have been featured musicians on programs hosted by ESPN, HBO, and more.

The band released their major label debut Stereotypes (featuring Black Thought of The Roots and MC Pharoahe Monch) on Universal Music which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart and #4 on the Billboard R&B Chart. Black Violin has shared stages with top names including Kayne West, Aerosmith, and Tom Petty, and has creatively collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Wu-Tang Clan, Wyclef Jean, and Alicia Keys.

Wil and Kev place heavy emphasis on educational outreach, and have performed for more than 100,000 students in North America and Europe in the past twelve months. Black Violin was the featured musical act for the Blue Ribbon Festival at the Music Center in Los Angeles, CA where they performed for 19,000 fifth grade students from the Greater Los Angeles area over a three-day period. The band is endorsed by Yamaha Music, and has partnered with the National Association for Music Manufacturers (NAMM) to continue their advocacy for accessible music education.

CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION SPONSORS

SEASON SPONSORS:  AMERITAS (Founding Season Sponsor), FIFTH THIRD BANK (Lifetime Endowment Partner), FURNITURE FAIR, LOCAL12 WKRC, THE P&G FUND of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS:  21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati Herald, CityBeat, Heidelberg Distributing, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Macy’s, Pepsi, Skyline Chili, TriHealth, Ultimate Air Shuttle, Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.

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CALENDAR INFORMATION

WHAT:                 BLACK VIOLIN

WHEN:                 Tuesday, October 17, 2017 – 7:30 PM

WHERE:               Aronoff Center for the Arts – Procter & Gamble Hall

PRICE:                   $45 • $35 • $25 • $15 (Students).  Additional service fees may apply.

INFO:                   BLACK VIOLIN is composed of classically trained violist and violinist Wil B. and Kev Marcus, who blend classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B, and bluegrass music to create a unique and high energy style they call “Classical Boom.” Accompanied by drummer Nat Stokes and DJ SPS, BLACK VIOLIN has spent the last several years performing for sold-out crowds across the country.

TICKET INFORMATION – on sale Friday, July 14 at 10:00 AM

  • www.CincinnatiArts.org
  • (513) 621-ARTS [2787]
  • Aronoff Center Ticket Office
  • Group sales (10 or more): (513) 977-4157

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June 27, 2017 · 1:15 pm

Travis Wall’s SHAPING SOUND: After The Curtain | Fri., Nov. 3 | Aronoff Center

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TRAVIS WALL AND BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS
ANNOUNCE NEW FALL AND WINTER TOUR DATES FOR
SHAPING SOUND’S GROUNDBREAKING NEW ‘AFTER THE CURTAIN’
TO PLAY CINCINNATI’S ARONOFF CENTER ON NOVEMBER 3, 2017

TRAVIS WALL and BREAK THE FLOOR PRODUCTIONS are pleased to announce additional dates in the 2017 – 2018 national tour of After The Curtain — the new show by America’s hottest dance company,Travis Wall’s SHAPING SOUND.  After The Curtain will play the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Friday, November 3, 2017 at 8:00 PM.

Tickets go on sale Monday, July 10 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office at 650 Walnut Street, downtown. 

SHAPING SOUND was established in Los Angeles in 2012 with a focus on contemporary dance and choreographic artistry.  Created by the 2015 Emmy Award-winner (and six-time Emmy Award-nominee) for Outstanding Choreography, TRAVIS WALL, along with partners NICK LAZZARINI, TEDDY FORANCE, and KYLE ROBINSON, the company is an evocative collaboration by diverse artists who describe themselves as ‘visual musicians’, i.e. their dance gives shape and form to sound. 

 SHAPING SOUND has impacted audiences with a unique fusion of jazz, modern, and hip-hop choreography.  The four young dancers broke into public awareness with the debut of their reality television seriesAll The Right Moves on the Oxygen channel which followed them in their quest to launch the dance company.  Since that time they have been showcased on all of America’s popular prime time dance, awards, entertainment, and music shows, including:  So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, Glee, and The 2013 Prime Time Emmy Awards.  They were featured in Carrie Underwood’s Grammy Award-winning music video Something In The Water, and they are frequent guests on The Ellen Show.

After The Curtain is the second show for the eclectic dance company, following on the heels of the spell-binding Dance Reimagined, which toured North America for four years.  Conceived and choreographed by TRAVIS WALL, After The Curtain tells the story of a man fighting to find his creative voice after the death of his one true love. Heart-wrenching, breath-taking, and ultimately uplifting, this is one dance show that audiences will remember forever. TRAVIS WALL will be dancing in the show throughout the tour schedule, and he will be joined by his SHAPING SOUND co-founder NICK LAZZARINI.  The remaining company of twelve dancers will be announced at a later date.

TRAVIS WALL, Artistic Director, is the winner of the 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography. He was the runner-up for the Fox reality show So You Think You Can Dance Season 2, and is currently a resident choreographer for the national dance competition show. He is a five-time Emmy-nominated choreographer for his work on So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars.  He choreographed the music video for Carrie Underwood’s “Something In The Water,”which won the CMT Video of the Year, as well as stage shows for Justin Bieber and Demi Lovato. Additional TV credits include choreographing the 82nd Academy Awards, Disneyland’s 60th Anniversary Special on ABC, the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and an episode of Pretty Little Liars featuring Maddie Ziegler. Feature film credits include choreography for The Wedding Ringer starring Kevin Hart and the contemporary numbers for the feature film Step Up Revolution. He had the privilege of working with First Lady, Michelle Obama on her Let’s Move Campaign, where he created the GimmeFive routine that was performed on The Ellen Show and at The White House. Travis teaches with NUVO Dance Convention. @TravisWall.

For more information visit www.SHAPINGSOUNDCO.COM.

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June 27, 2017 · 1:10 pm

John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous Tour | Fri., Oct. 20 | Aronoff Center

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Popular Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian John Mulaney brings his “Kid Gorgeous” tour to the Aronoff Centers’ Procter & Gamble Hall on Friday,  October 20 at 7:00 PM.

Tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 21 at 10:00 AM at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office at 650 Walnut Street, downtown.

John Mulaney most recently starred in the Broadway hit, Oh, Hello on Broadway alongside Nick Kroll. In 2015, Mulaney released his third hour-stand-up special a Netflix Original titled The Comeback Kid, which the AV Club called “his best hour of his career.” He began his career in New York’s East Village and has since toured around the world. In 2008, he began writing at Saturday Night Live, where he appeared as a “Weekend Update” correspondent and co-created characters such as “Stefon” with Bill Hader. He currently writes for IFC’s Documentary Now and for Netflix’s Big Mouth, on which he voices the character of Andrew.  Mulaney’s first comedy album, “The Top Part,” was released in 2009. He released his second Comedy Central special and album “New In Town” in 2012, and upon review Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly hailed Mulaney as “one of the best stand-up comics alive.”

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June 12, 2017 · 12:14 pm

The Beach Boys | Sat., Oct. 28 | Aronoff Center

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ARONOFF CENTER
Saturday, October 28, 2017

(Cincinnati, OH – 6/6/17) – You can capsulize most pop music acts by reciting how many hits they’ve had and how many millions of albums they’ve sold.  But these conventional measurements fall short when you’re assessing the impact of The Beach Boys.  To be sure, this band has birthed a torrent of hit singles and sold albums by the tens of millions.  But its greater significance lies in the fact that it changed the musical landscape so profoundly that every pop act since has been in its debt. Don’t miss The Beach Boys at the Aronoff Center for the Arts on October 28.

Reserved tickets, $64.50, $52.50 & $38.50 (plus applicable fees), go on sale Friday, June 9, 2017, at 11am at www.cincinnatiarts.org, or the Aronoff Center ticket office.  Charge by phone at 513.621.ARTS (2787).

Captained by Mike Love, The Beach Boys play an astoundingly busy schedule of concerts, averaging 150 shows a year, ranging from sundrenched summer festivals to gala New Year’s celebrations and special events worldwide.   In 1974 Mike Love’s concept album Endless Summer ignited a second generation of Beach Boys fans and stirred a tempest that rocked the music world.

Grammy-winning songwriter Bruce Johnston, [Barry Manilow’s “I Write the Songs”], joined The Beach Boys in 1965, replacing Glenn Campbell, who filled-in for Brian Wilson, on vocals/bass, when he retired from touring.  Highly regarded as a singer-songwriter, Johnston’s vocal work with such legendary artists as Elton John and Pink Floyd firmly established him among rock’s elite artists.

Had this remarkable band been less committed to its art and its fans, it could have retired from the field with honor at dozens of points along the way, confident that it had made a lasting contribution to world culture.   It could have rested on the success of the epoch-shifting Pet Sounds masterpiece in 1966 . . . or after recording Love’s co-written Golden Globe nominated “Kokomo” in 1988 and seeing it become its best selling single ever . . . or after being inducted that same year into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame . . . or after watching its worldwide album sales blow past l00 million . . . or after winning the NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 [along with The Who, Bob Marley, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr. and Les Paul].  And still, The Beach Boys continue to have fun, fun, fun, with no end in sight. In 2012, The Beach Boys scheduled a 74 concert date limited 50th Anniversary Reunion Tour which was scheduled as a limited run reunion tour and ended in the U.S. July 15 and internationally on Sept 28th in which the original members reunited and released “That’s Why God Made the Radio,” the album debuted at # 3 on the Billboard charts, their highest chart position in 37 years and an unprecedented milestone.

The Beach Boys are led by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, who along with Jeffrey Foskett, Brian Eichenburger, Tim Bonhomme, John Cowsill and Scott Totten continue the legacy of the iconic American band. This tour will not feature Brian Wilson, Al Jardine or David Marks.

Few, if any, acts can match The Beach Boys’ concert presence, spirit and performance.  They were center-stage at Live Aid, multiple Farm Aids, the Statue of Liberty’s 100th Anniversary Salute, the Super Bowl and the White House. On one day alone—July 4, 1985—they played to nearly 2 million fans at shows in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.

Love’s role as the band’s front man sometimes overshadows his stature as one of rock’s foremost songwriters.  “Surfin’,” The Beach Boys’ first hit came from his pen.  With his cousin, Brian Wilson, Love wrote the classics “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get Around,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “California Girls” and the Grammy nominated “Good Vibrations.”  Years later, he showed he still had the lyrical chops by co-writing the irresistible and chart-topping “Kokomo.”

On The Beach Boys’ near horizon is another national/world tour and continued charity activities through Mike Love’s Love Foundation, which supports national environmental and educational initiatives.  Love and The Beach Boys’ recent efforts raised over a quarter of a million dollars for the Red Cross to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina and made additional contributions to the disaster relief in Haiti.

The band appeared on countless worldwide TV shows throughout the years including: The Ed Sullivan Show, Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and The Tonight Show.  Other television appearances include performances on Don Imus’ MSNBC show Imus In The Morning, TNT’s NBA All-Star Game, NBC’s Macy’s Day Parade, The Today Show, PBS’ A Capitol Fourth, Good Morning America, Weekend Today, The O’Reilly Factor. 

In addition to founding Beach Boy Mike Love (lead vocals) and Beach Boy-vet Bruce Johnston (vocals/keyboards)—Jeffrey Foskett (guitar/vocals), Brian Eichenburger (bass/vocals), Tim Bonhomme (keyboards/vocals), John Cowsill of The Cowsills (percussion /vocals) and Scott Totten (guitar/vocals) round out the band.

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May 18, 2017 · 10:52 am

MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS by Chip Davis | Sun., December 17 | Aronoff Center

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MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS
BY CHIP DAVIS 

ARONOFF CENTER – PROCTER & GAMBLE HALL
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17 

On Sale Friday, July 21 at 10:00 AM

[Cincinnati, OH] – Mannheim Steamroller will present the best the holiday has to offer this season. The group will perform live for one performance only in Cincinnati at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 7:00 PM.

Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, July 21 at  10:00 AM and will be available at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office.

This year marks the 33rd Anniversary of the Christmas Tour and release of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, an album that revolutionized the Holiday Season music category.

Grammy Award® winner Chip Davis will direct and co-produce Tour performances with MagicSpace Entertainment. The show features Mannheim Steamroller classics, along with dazzling multimedia effects in an intimate setting.  The spirit of the season comes alive with the signature sound of Mannheim Steamroller.

In addition to being a holiday tradition for many families, the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Tour regularly attracts repeat attendance from multi-generational guests and is one of the longest-running tours in the music industry.

PBS stations nationwide will be broadcasting “Mannheim Steamroller 30/40 Live” this year. The milestone special was filmed two years ago to mark the group’s 30-year anniversary of musical holiday magic and 40 years of groundbreaking Fresh Aire compositions.  This year’s tour includes many of the performances in the PBS special broadcast.

Mannheim Steamroller has sold more than 40 million albums, 28 million in the Christmas genre.  Their holiday albums have become synonymous with Christmas and consistently occupy top spots on Billboard’s Seasonal Charts every year. 

With 19 gold, 8 multi-platinum, and 4 platinum-certified records, Chip Davis is among an elite group of artists that include U2, Jay-Z, and The Beach Boys with such certifications. 

About Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller
From his longtime home in Omaha, Neb., Mannheim Steamroller creator Chip Davis makes innovative music inspired by the sounds of another age.  This former teacher and jingle writer founded the music industry’s largest independent recording label, American Gramaphone, in 1974 when industry executives said Davis’ innovative 18th century instrumental rock sound would never sell.  In addition to a Grammy Award, Davis is largely credited with establishing the New Age music category. He went on to revolutionize the making and marketing of holiday music. His first Christmas album was released in 1984; the album’s success made Christmas records a “must do” for all music artists.  With more than 40 million total records sold including 28 million Christmas albums, Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis is the #1-selling Christmas music artist of all time.  Davis, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the music industry, offers a rich array of lifestyle products on www.mannheimsteamroller.com including hot chocolate, food, apparel and novelty items.  His latest achievement is creating a cutting edge psychoacoustic technology that is being used in major medical institutions such as Mayo Clinic.

About MagicSpace Entertainment
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis is produced by MagicSpace Entertainment. The company is headed by Lee D. Marshall, Joe Marsh, John Ballard, Steve Boulay and Bruce Granath and has been producing and presenting national tours, Broadway shows, concerts and museum exhibits worldwide for over 30 years. Consistently one of the top promoters in North America, MagicSpace Entertainment typically produces and presents more than 250 events in 75 cities per year.  They have offices in Park City and Salt Lake City, UT.  www.magicspace.net

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