ClickitTicket recently announced their Top 50 Jazz Clubs in America and Easton's own, Lafayette Bar made the list. The criteria used to choose the venues included the types of jazz and blues music performed, club ambiance and intimacy, choice of performers, reputation and more. The Lafayette Bar, located at 15 N 4th St, Easton, Pennsylvania [...]
Six Schools to Compete March 20 at the Musikfest Café to win Master Class with RiverJazz Headliner Jessy J Following three preliminary rounds of competition, six area high school jazz bands have advanced to the finals of the 2016 SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase presented by King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC. The [...]
Christina Colanduoni Luke Simons Parkland High School’s Christina Colanduoni, Southern Lehigh High School’s Luke Simons and Wilson Area High School’s Leah Kun were named the recipients of the Lehigh Valley Music Awards presented by Tri Outdoor’s 17 Youth Education Scholarships. Presenting the scholarships to the students March 6, at the ArtsQuest [...]
Twenty-time GRAMMY winner Pat Metheny, along with bassist Ron Carter; Billboard chart-topper Jessy J; and venerable songwriter Delbert McClinton are among the first acts announced for the 2016 edition of RiverJazz presented by Concannon Miller, the jazz series that takes place at SteelStacks each spring. Tickets for the shows, which take place at the ArtsQuest [...]
GRAMMY Award-winning folk rock artist Marc Cohn will perform in the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling April 21, 7:30 p.m. Cohn, an Ohio native, worked initially as a backup artist in New York recording studios before establishing The Supreme Court, a 14-piece cover band that played at Caroline Kennedy’s wedding in 1986. In [...]
Platinum selling pop-rock artist Eric Hutchinson will perform in the Fowler Blast Furnace Room of the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks March 5, 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale at the door; they’re also available at steelstacks.org and 610-332-3378. The Washington, DC-raised singer, pianist and guitarist Hutchinson has traveled the world over. From a converted garage [...]
ArtsQuest announces that Attorney Gregg M. Feinberg has been elected chair of the ArtsQuest Board of Trustees. Feinberg, a Salisbury Township resident, will serve a one-year term as chair of the 21-member board, which is responsible for the overall governance of the nonprofit community arts organization. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1980 [...]
Get ready to dance as the Greater Lehigh Valley Music Association and ArtsQuest announce the performers for this year’s Lehigh Valley Music Awards presented by Tri Outdoor. Performers for the awards ceremony, held March 6, 4 p.m., at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, include the Craig Thatcher Band, female-fronted power-metal group MindMaze, country powerhouse Erin [...]
SteelStacks will sound pretty smooth as the music of the region’s high school jazz bands fills the air during the fifth-annual SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase presented by King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC, set for Feb. 14-March 20 at the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café in Bethlehem. Tickets for the event’s preliminary rounds [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, hold on to your hats (and shades) because Blues Brothers tribute band The Blues Brotherhood, along with The Nerds and high-energy Celtic-folk band Burning Bridget Cleary, are coming to the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café presented by Yuengling this winter. Tickets for the performances are on sale at www.steelstacks.org and 610-332-3378. The Blues [...]
