Season Tickets on sale August 8, 2006

The Oak Ridge Boys

Theirs is one of the most distinctive and recognizable sounds in the music industry. The four-part harmonies and upbeat songs of the Oak Ridge Boys have spawned dozens of Country hits, a Number One Pop smash, earned them Grammy, Dove, CMA, and ACM awards and garnered a host of other industry and fan accolades. Every time they step before an audience, the Oaks bring three decades of charted singles, and 50 years of tradition, to bear on a stage show widely acknowledged as among the most exciting anywhere. And each remains as enthusiastic about the process as they have ever been.

“Indeed the mighty Oaks are still rockin’ — with a capital R.”
-Country Music Today Magazine

“The Oak Ridge Boys will flat knock you out of your seat.”
-Fayetteville Observer

Wednesday,

September 27, 2006

7:30 pm

Tickets:

$71
$61
$51
$41

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The Ten Tenors

The Ten Tenors features a cast of 10 young, energetic and talented singers who blend music and comedy to produce a unique concert experience that is a musical tour de force.  This one-of-a-kind performance will delight true opera fans as well as those who appreciate other genres of music.  The performers heroically stride through the classical tenor repertoire, sway through the ballads of the Neapolitan crooners and sing classic hits with imaginative flare. The Ten Tenors and their Australian charm have captured the hearts of countless fans worldwide.

"An exhilarating evening's entertainment…miss them at your peril!"
- Port Macquarie News

Sunday,

October 22, 2006

7:30 pm

Tickets:

$70
$57
$45
$40

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Natalie MacMaster

Natalie MacMaster first picked up a fiddle at the age of nine and has not looked back.  The niece of famed Cape Breton fiddler Buddy MacMaster, Natalie quickly became a major talent in her own right.  After winning numerous East Coast Music Awards for her early traditional recordings, she began taking Celtic music to new heights with albums like In My Hands, which featured elements of jazz and Latin music.  To her accomplishments, she has recorded and released seven albums in Canada and the US, received both a Grammy nomination and Juno Award for Best Instrumental Album for My Roots Are Showing, another Juno Award for Best Instrumental Album for In My Hands and several Canadian Country Music Awards for Fiddler of the year.  She has shared the live performance stage with acts such as Carlos Santana, The Chieftains, Paul Simon, Luciano Pavarotti, Alison Krauss, Mark O’Connor and dozens of distinguished symphony orchestras.

“MacMaster’s a ball of fire, performing jigs and reels with unstoppable, foot-tapping energy and ballads with irresistible, keening passion.”  
-Los Angeles Times

“…MacMaster displayed the verve and musicianship that has won over fans to both her traditional and her updated Celtic styles.”  
-The Washington Post

Saturday,

October 28, 2006

7:30 pm

Tickets:

$55
$43
$37
$31

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Howie Mandel

While Howie Mandel has remained a constant force in show business for over 30 years, he has been thrust back in the spotlight as the host of the national phenomenon “Deal or No Deal” on NBC. The show has become a huge hit and is consistently one of the most watched programs each week. This fall NBC will air the show on Mondays at 8:00 P.M. and Thursdays at 9:00 P.M. Deal or No Deal allows contestants to have a chance of becoming an instant millionaire combining nothing more then instinct with luck.

Howie Mandel’s versatile career has encompassed virtually all aspects of the entertainment spectrum, including television, film and stage. From his work on the Emmy-Award winning “St. Elsewhere,” to the international (and also Emmy nominated) “Bobby’s World,” Howie has become a mainstay of the American comedy scene.

Wednesday,

November 15 , 2006

7:30 pm

Tickets:

$76
$66
$56
$46

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A Celtic Christmas

"A Celtic Christmas" is an extravagant variety show that features performances by the best Irish and Celtic musicians in the region.  Along with an emphasis on the traditional music of Ireland there is a heavy dose of familiar Christmas songs, many of which are arranged as jigs and reels as you would find in a busy Irish pub.  In 2002, Nic Caciappo organized the first "A Celtic Christmas" performed in Sonora's historic Opera Hall. Since then it has become a traditional event for the Mother Lode town as well as other venues in the San Joaquin Valley, with every show being a sell-out.

Artists included in this performance are Andre Powell-Scottish Highland Bagpipes, the Mick Lucey Group, The Stepsisters, Joe & Maureen Murtagh, Nollaig, and the Black Irish Band.

Friday,

December 15 , 2006

7:30 pm

Tickets:

$36
$26
$21
$16

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Hungarian State Folk Ensemble

The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble - regarded as one of the best in Hungary, was established in 1951. Its aims were to collect and play authentic folk music and to preserve the folk dances and traditional costumes of Hungarian-inhabited areas by putting them on stage for the public.  During the more than five decades of its existence, the Ensemble has achieved this aim by revitalizing the culture of the Hungarian people. Their rich repertoire includes folk music which inspired Hungarian and international classical composers such as Liszt, Brahms, Kodály and Bartók, and has entitled the Ensemble to be regarded as one of the top touring groups in the world. It has performed in 44 countries across four continents and won the admiration of an audience of more than seven and a half million people.

"It is marvelous--crackling with dancing that snaps like a whip … unreservedly brilliant."
-The New York Times

Thursday,

January 11, 2007

7:00 pm

Tickets:

$51
$41
$35
$30

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Lindsey Buckingham
Under the Skin Tour

Rolling Stone says Lindsey Buckingham is one of rock’s most undervalued visionaries.” Why undervalued? Perhaps his versatility as a writer, singer, virtuoso guitarist and producer has made it difficult to assign him an easy label. As the musical architect behind Fleetwood Mac, one of the most popular bands of all time, Buckingham has played the key role in stoking the hit-making machinery, yet he is also a seeker, a chance taker willing to shake up the status quo for the sake of new ideas. And so an elusive quality has developed around his 30-year career to date, both as solo artist and as a member of Fleetwood Mac. “I’m a bit of a troublemaker, I guess,” says Buckingham. “I’m an aberrant force in whatever surrounding I’m in.” Trouble means the willingness to take his songs to the most surprising places, to push his material to beautiful extremes. On Under the Skin, his first solo album in 14 years, Buckingham has distilled his art to its essence: voice and guitar, with minimal percussive and production elements to create a work of unprecedented maturity, both virtuosic and intimate.

By any reckoning Buckingham, who was raised near Palo Alto California and first made a local name for himself along side Stevie Nicks in the bay area, has been incredibly successful. His tenure in Fleetwood Mac would be enough to secure his place in the annals of pop history. Yet there is a need to keep returning to the unfinished business of solo work, and that gives this album an urgency in creative purpose that one doesn’t associate with an artist who could legitimately rest on his prior achievements. As for the specific inspiration for Under The Skin Buckingham says, “You can take everything I’ve heard since I was 4 or 5. It’s all had a collective impact on my musical psyche. It’s all a ferment of stuff, and now I’m in a place where I have had the time and the perspective to understand it, contextualize it, and personalize it, and then put it back out.”

Friday,

January 12, 2007

7:30 pm

Tickets:

$61
$49
$39

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The Flying Karamazov Brothers
LIFE: A Guide for the Perplexed

The Flying Karamazov Brothers (comedians, musicians, jugglers and men about town) have concocted a Monty Pythonesque new evening of theatre and entertainment guaranteed to thrill, delight and even bring a tear to the eye.  It’s called “LIFE: A Guide for the Perplexed”. 

Story
The Brothers have received a mysterious box from the Man in Black.  When opened, it reveals an even more mysterious book called a “Guide for the Perplexed”, a source of rules, perplexing moments, parables and puzzle pieces to help the reader meet the challenges of his or her life.  The reader happens to be Dmitri Karamazov, (Paul Magid, a writer and one of the FKB founders), who, it appears, is in the midst of a mid-life crisis. During the course of the show the Guide helps Dmitri realize his place in the world and restore his faith in the cycle of life.

LIFE: A Guide for the Perplexed is a skill-filled romp through the stages of life. Don’t expect the unexpected, don’t even expect the expected, just don’t expect and we won’t have to clean up after you.

"The irresistible 'Ks' handle an audience as cleverly as the cleavers, clubs, knives and other imaginable and unimaginable objects they juggle."
-New York Times

"The Brothers ably juggle objects and jokes."
-The Boston Globe

Friday,

February 23, 2007

7:00 pm

Tickets:

$54
$44
$36
$30

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Forbidden Broadway

The side-splitting savagery known as “Forbidden Broadway” is on the road again with their newest edition, proving the enduring appeal of the show's wicked, wicked ways.

Every year the madly inventive Gerard Alessandrini updates his scathing homage to Broadway's biggest shows and brightest stars.  Now celebrating its record-breaking 24th year in New York, this year’s Special Victims include the puppets of “Avenue Q”, the witches of “Wicked”, Robert Goulet in "La Cage aux Folles", “Billy Joel’s Movin Out", and new looks at old favorites “Little Shop of Horrors” “Les Miz”, “Beauty and the Beast”, "The Lion King" and “Chicago”. Rounding out the laughs are Mel Brooks’ “The Producers”, Abba’s “Mamma Mia”, and “Thoroughly Modern Millie”; with lots more Broadway past and present.

Updated regularly, Forbidden Broadway has had eighteen editions, countless revisions, five New York City performance spaces, several national and international tours, and thousands of special performances.  It has remained one of the funniest evenings on or Off-Broadway.

"Gleeful, Malicious and Hilarious…murderous good fun!"
-Associated Press

"Gut-bustingly funny!"
-New York Post

"Consistently riotous!"

Friday,

March 16, 2007

7:30 pm

Tickets:
$53
$41
$35
$30

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Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart is perhaps the only man in the world who can talk to himself on the phone without people looking at him strangely. He of the world-famous one-way phone conversations is also a household name to generations, thanks to his two extremely
successful, long-running television series.  And he is picking up new fans every day, from youngsters to college students, who watch re-runs of his great TV hit series, and who attend his comedy concerts in large numbers.

Newhart still performs in comedy concerts, opting to continue live performances before sellout audiences all over the country and the world. With routines created by Newhart from today's newspapers in his unique style, and some of his early classic routines (which audiences demand he perform), he is garnering critical raves and pleasing audiences at the same time all over the world.

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
-Bob Newhart

“That’s close enough.”
-Bob Newhart – referring to his motto as an accountant... and why that did not last.

Friday,

May 18, 2007

7:30 pm

Tickets:
$76
$66
$56
$46

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