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SUMMARY:Eugene Onegin
DESCRIPTION:Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide on May 2. Baritone Iurii Samoilov is the urbane Onegin, who realizes his affection for her all too late. The Met’s evocative production, directed by Tony Award–winner Deborah Warner, “offers a beautifully detailed reading of … Tchaikovsky’s lyrical romance” (The Telegraph). This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.\nEnglish StreamText captioning is available for the Met’s transmission of Eugene Onegin here ( https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MET_Opera_Live_in_HD ). A transcript of the transmission will also be available to view after the live performance.\nPre-Show Performance & Lecture\nPresented by Penn State Opera Theatre\nJoin us at 12:30pm for a pre-show performance and lecture by the Penn State Opera Theatre program.\nSpeaker: Aiden Phillips, M.A. Musicology candidate & Abigail Conklin, M.A. Musicology candidate\nPianist: Carolyn Barr\nPerformances:\nКуда, куда вы удалились from Eugene OneginNic Stark\nThe Lark, Glinka, and Dark EyesSasha Guerra\nOlga’s aria from Eugene OneginDawn Pierce\n
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SUMMARY:Our Amazing Planet
DESCRIPTION:See the students of the Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop (CPDW) in “Our Amazing Planet” at 7:30 PM, Saturday, May 2nd, at the State Theatre in downtown State College. Please join us as we explore the many wonders that can be seen on and around our planet. From birds (Robins and Mourning Doves) and bugs (Fireflies and Lanternflies) to natural phenomena (Geysers and Volcanos) and the elements (Fire and Water), selections include a variety of ages and dance styles.\nChildren from the creative movement, preballet, ballet, jazz, modern, lyrical, tap, and musical theatre dance classes will participate, along with adult ballet, pointe, lyrical/jazz, tap, and hip hop classes. The production will be choreographed by the CPDW faculty, Jill A. Brighton, Director, Loie Cristali, Christina Ford, Emma Gould, Ruth Packard, and Karen Stoner.\nAbout Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop\nThe Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop (CPDW) is located at 101 South Fraser Street in downtown State College, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1969 by LaRue Allen, the Central Pennsylvania Dance Workshop has provided the highest caliber dance training to our students in a broad range of classes for over 50 years.\nAt CPDW, our goal is to provide our students with a well-rounded dance education. Students take classes, perform in a variety of venues, and may choose to develop new skills in dance instruction and choreography.\n
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SUMMARY:Lucy Kaplansky
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nShe started out singing in Chicago folk music clubs as a teenager. Then, barely out of high school, Lucy Kaplansky took off for New York City. There she found a fertile community of songwriters and performers—Suzanne Vega, Steve Forbert, The Roches, and others. With a beautiful flair for harmony, Lucy was everyone’s favorite singing partner, but most often she found herself singing as a duo with Shawn Colvin. People envisioned big things for them; in fact, The New York Times said it was “easy to predict stardom for her.” But then Lucy dropped it all.\nConvinced that her calling was in another direction, Lucy left the musical fast track to pursue a doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Upon completing her degree, Dr. Kaplansky took a job at a New York hospital working with chronically mentally ill adults, and also started a private practice. Yet she continued to sing. Lucy was often pulled back into the studio by her friends, (who now had contracts with record labels) wanting her to sing on their albums. She harmonized on Colvin’s Grammy-winning “Steady On,” and on Nanci Griffith’s “Lone Star State of Mind” and “Little Love Affairs.” She also landed soundtrack credits, singing with Suzanne Vega on “Pretty in Pink” and with Griffith on “The Firm,” and several commercial credits as well—including “The Heartbeat of America” for Chevrolet.\nThen Shawn Colvin—who was itching to produce a record—hooked up with Lucy, her ex-singing partner. They went into the studio, and when Lucy’s solo tapes got into the hands of Bob Feldman, president of Red House Records, he was blown away. Suddenly, Lucy was back in the music business. She signed with Red House Records and started playing gigs. Red House released The Tide in 1994 to rave reviews, and within six months Lucy signed with a major booking agency—Fleming Artists—and began touring so much it required leaving her two psychologist positions behind.\nLucy’s second album, Flesh and Bone (1996), emphasized her development as a gifted songsmith. Then Lucy’s success took flight with back-to-back hit albums Ten Year Night (1999) and Every Single Day (2001). Both received the AFIM award (Association For Independent Music) for Best Pop Album of the year. Lucy also contributed her story to a unique book, SOLO: Women Singer- Songwriters in Their Own Words, which includes some of the best known women on the music scene today: Ani DiFranco, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Sarah McLachlan and others. She was also featured in Lipshtick, a collection of essays by NPR commentator Gwen Macsai, published in the fall of 1999.\nIn 1998 Lucy teamed with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form supergroup Cry Cry Cry, and recorded some of their favorite songs written by other artists. The resulting album, Cry Cry Cry (which The New Yorker dubbed “a collection of lovely harmonizing and pure emotion,” and to which Entertainment Weekly gave an “A” rating), was an astonishing success in stores and on radio. A national tour of sold-out concerts by the trio served to introduce Lucy’s luminous voice to a new audience. In 2017 and 2018, the trio celebrated their 20th anniversary with a sold out national tour and the release of their first recording in 20 years, a single of Jump Little Children’s “Cathedrals.”\nThe Red Thread followed the commercial and critical hit Every Single Day, weaving together themes of motherhood, home and the family with stunning production. Lucy’s 2007 release Over the Hills as well as her 2012 release Reunion explored universal themes of love, joy, loss, and dreams for the future, through reflections on family.\nIn 2009 and 2010 Lucy had two songs commissioned by the international cosmetics company La Prairie to help launch their new fragrance line “Life Threads.” As part of that marketing campaign, Lucy was featured in a music video, as well in as in a variety of marketing appearances and materials, including a feature story in “Women’s Wear Daily.”\nIn 2010 Lucy joined up with acclaimed singer-songwriters John Gorka and Eliza Gilkyson to record an album as part of new folk super-group Red Horse. Awash in gorgeous harmonies and stripped down production, the album features the singers performing each other’s songs. Red Horse received rave reviews and was the number one album on Folk Radio for several months in 2010. Since the album’s release, the trio were interviewed on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” with Liane Hansen and appeared on NPR’s “Mountain Stage.”\nIn 2011 Lucy released an EP, Kaplansky Sings Kaplansky, featuring songs written by her father, famed University of Chicago mathematician Irving Kaplansky, including live performances of the two of them performing together in California. This is Lucy’s first venture into 1940’s style swing, reminiscent of the work of Kaplansky’s former student Tom Lehrer.\nLucy’s September 2018 release, Everyday Street, was somewhat of a departure sonically: stripped down, spontaneous, acoustic, with the feel of one of her concerts. The songs were recorded over four days with her long-time collaborator Duke Levine. These are genuine performances, many were captured in one take.\nLucy’s ninth solo album, Last Days of Summer, was released in 2022. Ranging from folk to rock to bluegrass, the album features a stellar band: Duke Levine (Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter), on acoustic and electric guitars, National guitar, mandolin and mandola; Mike Rivard (Shawn Colvin, Aimee Mann) on bass; and Lucy’s longtime producer and drummer Ben Wittman (Sting, Paula Cole) on drums and percussion. John Gorka and Richard Shindell add gorgeous harmonies.\nThe songs on Last Days of Summer, co-written with Lucy’s husband Rick Litvin, weave themes of family, community, and loss, as well as reflections on our times as reflected in the evolving story of New York City. Most of the songs were penned during the pandemic when their family left their home in New York City for many months. Scott Simon of National Public Radio described the album as “Utterly beautiful and affecting” and added “Lucy sings songs from her life that resonance in ours.”\nIn January 2025 Lucy released her tenth album, “The Lucy Story,” a collection of mostly unreleased tracks that form a kind of retrospective/history of her musical life, from her bedroom at age 16, all the way to major venues, clubs and recording studios across the U.S. and Europe. When she moved to New York at age 18, she suddenly became part of an incredible, unique community of singers, songwriters and musicians centered around Folk City in Greenwich Village. The collection of songs on “The Lucy Story” grew out of Lucy’s life in that world and reflects the combustion of music and energy of those times, as well as showcasing the astonishing breadth of Lucy’s vocal artistry, in songs that range from jazz to bluegrass, from traditional and contemporary folk to country and pop. The album includes songs by Richard Shindell, Robbie Robertson, Townes Van Zandt, John Lennon, Lyle Lovett and Jack Hardy, and features live recordings with some of Lucy’s favorite collaborators, including Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, and Shawn Colvin. “The Lucy Stor”y also features demos and album outtakes with stellar musicians including Larry Campbell, Andy Statman, Tony Trischka, Matt Glaser, and Duke Levine.\nLucy’s version of Roxy Music’s “More than This” was featured on a Spotify playlist, “Your Favorite Coffeehouse,” and to date her recording has over 12 million streams. She has appeared on the CBS Morning Show, NPR’s Weekend and Morning Editions and All Things Considered, Mountain Stage, and West Coast Live. Her voice has remained in high demand by her peers. Lucy’s song “Guilty as Sin” was featured in the NBC television show Ed. In addition, she can be heard on releases by Bryan Ferry and Nanci Griffith, and on the Greg Brown tribute album Going Driftless (also featuring Ani Difranco, Iris Dement, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams and others).\nLucy continues to tour and receive airplay both nationally and internationally. Her CD Ten Year Night is the #1 selling album of all time at Red House Records.\n
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SUMMARY:The Steel Wheels
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nTiktok\n\n\nLink\n\n20 years is a long time to spend doing anything at all. It’s an age for any group of people to sustain a collective effort. For a band on the road, 20 years can be more than a lifetime. Yet, after 2 decades of making music together in living rooms, listening rooms, clubs, theaters, and festival stages, The Steel Wheels are still growing, still pushing, still at it, and they’re marking the occasion with the release of their 9th studio album, “The Steel Wheels”.\nFollowing the release of “Sideways” in 2024, their 3rd record with producer Sam Kassirer at his Great North Sound Society studio in interior Maine, the band felt it was time for a change of scene. As the group began to select songs for a new album, they also had to find an answer to the question of where they would get down to the work of record-making. They didn’t know that answer was going to knock on their back door.\nAt the band’s 2024 Red Wing Roots festival, held each summer near the group’s home base of Harrisonburg, VA, banjo player and songwriter Trent Wagler spied producer and engineer D. James Goodwin (Goose, Bonny Light Horseman, I’m With Her) in the crowd and later reached out to learn what he was doing so far from his home turf of New York. It happened that Goodwin, who mixed the band’s 2019 album “Over The Trees”, had just pulled up stakes for the Shenandoah Valley and was setting up a new studio on the band’s doorstep. Several months and one video call later, Wagler, fiddler Eric Brubaker, multi-instrumentalist Jay Lapp, drummer/percussionist Kevin Garcia, and bass player Jeremy Darrow gathered in the new space, The Isokon, snug against the snowy Virginia winter, to begin recording their next album.\nThe process that Goodwin cultivated was fluid and swift. Demo listening in the morning flowed into tracking the whole band live in one room. The session was punctuated by peals of laughter and occasional tears as the group kept themselves in the moment, leaning in to every emotion and embracing that vulnerability. As they worked, the music took shape in the moment, right in front of the microphones, each participant listening and responding as the songs flickered to life. By dinner time the songs of the day were complete and talk moved to the next day’s work.\nThe album that resulted from this process captures the multifaceted band in full-flight, pivoting effortlessly between the folk rock band they’ve grown into over 20 years, and the harmony-centric acoustic ensemble that they’ve been since the beginning.The band puts their impressive range on display throughout “The Steel Wheels”; energy, insight, and humor, balance with tender, highly personal moments of masterful restraint and expression as the album unfolds. As ever, the band challenges themselves to find new ways through the music, using space and, at moments, reinventing their approach to the string band format.\nAs usual, Wagler’s keen lyrics provide insight by posing big questions. At first blush “Easy” sounds like the song of the summer, but a deeper listen asks the audience to consider whether it’s worth the cost to have the world waiting for us on the other side of our screens. “Everything is easy”, but is it really?\nBeyond our glowing devices “Go Back” studies the complexity of our relationships and the time we spend with those close to us. It’s easy to say that we must take the bad with the good, it’s a challenge to seek to understand how our joy and sadness are entwined; that they are not opposing feelings, but sibling emotions.\n“Keep On Dancing” offers the listener a greater challenge; to take a step back from distraction and our self-imposed tasks, to look beyond the static of the day, and to see the beauty all around us. The song gently implores us to take a breath and be still so that we can glimpse the things that are actually important.\nThe Steel Wheels have kept their stride for longer than most bands survive. After 20 years hard at work “The Steel Wheels” is an album of creative maturity with a restless sense of adventure. Here’s to 20 more.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/the-steel-wheels-2026/
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SUMMARY:Star Wars: A New Hope
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SUMMARY:American Pie
DESCRIPTION:“In addition to being extremely funny, the film has a warm spirit and respect for the characters.”\n―San Francisco Chronicle\nA riotous and raunchy exploration of the most eagerly anticipated — and most humiliating — rite of adulthood, known as losing one’s virginity. In this hilarious lesson in life, love and libido, a group of friends, fed up with their well-deserved reputations as sexual no-hitters, decide to take action.\n
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SUMMARY:Alice Howe & Freebo
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nTiktok\n\n\nLink\n\nAlice Howe & Freebo have undeniable chemistry. Rock bass legend Freebo weaves his fretless stylings into Alice’s soulful, impeccably-tuned vocals for a harmony-driven performance showcasing two uniquely compelling songwriters.\nFreebo is a genuine folk, rock, and blues icon who has toured and recorded with some of the greatest artists of his generation, and is best known for his ten years as bassist with Bonnie Raitt. His fretless bass can be heard on records by John Mayall, Ringo Starr, Crosby Stills & Nash, Maria Muldaur, Joe Walsh, Dr. John, and many more. Freebo is also a multi award-winner and finalist in numerous songwriting contests, was recognized as Best Folk Artist by the Los Angeles Music Awards, and has appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Muppet Show, The Midnight Special, and in concert with the Legendary Spinal Tap.\nAlice Howe had the honor of being named Best Female Artist at the International Acoustic Music Awards. To hear her sing is to be enraptured by the natural, unaffected beauty of her voice. There’s no artifice, no histrionics — just honest, authentic, emotionally resonant singing in the tradition of the roots music that shaped her. Her poetic lyrics and melodic sensibilities take center stage on her latest solo album Circumstance, produced by Freebo and recorded at legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, AL. Americana Highways writes of Circumstance: “One of 2023’s best albums. This isn’t just a singer – this is an artist.”\nAlice & Freebo have been working as a duo since 2017, and together they tour relentlessly, playing over 85 shows annually in both 2024 and 2025 across US and Europe. “A beguiling blend of folk, rock, blues, and soul,” their collaboration reveals a deep musical kinship that transcends their generational divide. Their latest album Alice Howe & Freebo Live debuted as the #1 Most Played Album on the Folk Radio Charts, and also landed on its Top Ten Albums of 2025.\n
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SUMMARY:Jurassic Park
DESCRIPTION:“As a flight of fantasy, Jurassic Park lacks the emotional unity of Spielberg’s classics (“Jaws,” “Close Encounters,” “E.T.”), yet it has enough of his innocent, playful virtuosity to send you out of the theater grinning with delight.”\n														―Entertainment Weekly\nIn Steven Spielberg’s massive blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park’s mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.\n
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LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Crazy Stupid Love
DESCRIPTION:“Nothing more (or less) than an enchanting light comedy of romantic confusion… It’s a movie that understands love because it understands pain.”\n														―Entertainment Weekly\nWhen a middle-aged man is dumped by his wife, a ladies’ man offers to help him brush up on his dating skills. Will the womanising man change his own ways when he meets a sweet law student?\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/crazy-stupid-love/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Best In Show
DESCRIPTION:“The real pedigree doesn’t even arrive until halfway through. Fred Willard’s unforgettable dim-bulb commentator takes aim at TV’s injection of “sports drama” into competitions where, quite simply, there is none.”\n														―Midwest Film Journal\nThe tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across America prepare to take part in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest events of their lives — the Mayflower Dog Show. The canine contestants and their owners are as wondrously diverse as the great country that has bred them.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/best-in-show/
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SUMMARY:Code: Blue
DESCRIPTION:Code: Blue is a homegrown 8-piece roots blues/soul/R&B band whose members – Jerry Zolten, Richard Sleigh, Terri Parker, Rene Oakman, John Raiser, Chris Younken, Harry Werner, and Barb Neumuller – have a long and distinguished track record of making music, each in his or her own right and in various combinations making an indelible mark on the regional music scene.\nCode: Blue made their first local splash in 1993 with Stages/Then and Now, an album that showcased the band’s exceptional musicianship and originality. In the wake of that release, their fanbase exploded and doors opened to engagements statewide. Code: Blue would tour the entire Penn State Commonwealth Campus system, share stages with Mark Ross’s Queen Bee and the Blue Hornet Band at The Chameleon in Lancaster and with the great Otis Clay and Billy Price at The Decade in Pittsburgh, and perform alongside national touring acts at prestigious festivals including Philadelphia’s Penn’s Landing Jambalaya Jam, Harrisburg’s Riverfront Arts Festival, and the Johnstown Flood City Music Festival.\nCode: Blue reunited in 2023 and since then has been performing their unique blend of R&B, soul, blues, and a touch of gospel at top line venues, festivals, and community events throughout the region.\nFacebook >> ( https://www.facebook.com/p/CODE-BLUE-61558499099639/ )\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/code-blue/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:A Fish Called Wanda
DESCRIPTION:“Low comedy at high speed, it pretends to be a caper movie about a smooth London jewel heist and its infinitely complex aftermath. Actually, it’s a smart farce about ingrained cultural differences.”\n														―Los Angeles Times ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-15-ca-6950-story.html )\nBritish gangster George Thomason (Tom Georgeson) and his hapless aide, Ken Pile (Michael Palin), draft a pair of arrogant Americans, grifter Wanda Gerschwitz (Jamie Lee Curtis) and weapons expert Otto West (Kevin Kline), for a massive diamond heist. When the job goes badly, Wanda attempts to seduce George’s stuffy lawyer, Archie Leach (John Cleese), to find out where George hid the diamonds. Meanwhile, Ken repeatedly attempts to kill an elderly woman (Patricia Hayes) who witnessed the robbery.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/a-fish-called-wanda/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Willie Nile
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nThe New York Times called Buffalo, NY born Willie Nile “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters to emerge from the New York scene in years.” Uncut Magazine called him “A one-man Clash” and “the unofficial poet laureate of New York City”. His album Streets Of New York was hailed as “a platter for the ages” by Uncut. Rolling Stone listed The Innocent Ones as one of the “Top Ten Best Under-The-Radar Albums of 2011” and BBC Radio called it “THE rock ‘n’ roll album of the year.” His single from that album, “One Guitar,” was the “Top Pick of the Week” in USA Today.\nBono, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Jim Jarmusch, and Little Steven are among those who have sung his praises.\nHis album, American Ride, won “Best Rock Album of the Year” at the Independent Music Awards. It appeared on dozens of year-end Top Ten lists for 2013 and was voted “Album Of The Year” by Twangville Magazine. Bono called it, “One of the great guides to unraveling the mystery that is the troubled beauty of America.”\nIn November 2014 he released an album of piano-based songs, If I Was A River, to great critical acclaim.\nMOJO wrote about his 2016 album World War Willie, “Four Stars! The real thing…stomp-‘til-ready rock’n’roll…timeless fare.” It won Album of the Year Reader’s Poll from Twangville Magazine and made numerous top ten lists for Album of the Year.\nHis album Positively Bob: Willie Nile Sings Bob Dylan from 2017 was hailed as “one of the best Dylan tribute albums ever made.” Powerpop Magazine wrote: “Astoundingly great…must be heard to be believed. If this doesn’t get your blood flowing, seek medical help.” And the Associated Press said his 2018 album Children Of Paradise, which also won Twangville’s Album of the Year Reader’s Poll, “Might be the best album of his career!”\nWillie has toured across the U.S. with The Who and has sung with Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr. As the induction program from the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame says: “His live performances are legendary.” His 2020 album New York At Night got rave reviews, with The Associated Press calling it: “As sharp and guitar-driven as ever…the fire within Nile, once a peer of The Replacements and The Clash, continues to light a similar torch…anthemic…custom made for these times.” Downbeat Magazine calling it a “sonic love letter to Gotham.”\nHis recent studio album The Day The Earth Stood Still features a duet with Steve Earle on the song “Blood On Your Hands.” The London Times called him “A man who embodies the true spirit of rock n’ roll.” The New Yorker wrote that Willie Nile is “One of the most brilliant singer-songwriters of the past 30 years.”\nIn the fall of 2022 Willie released a single, “Wake Up America”, a duet with Steve Earle. It’s a call for the better angels of the country to stand up and be counted.\nHis live album “Willie Nile – Live At Daryl’s House Club” released in April 2024 was listed as one the “Best Rock Albums of the Year’ in Classic Rock Magazine. PowerPop magazine wrote: “A life-changer — recorded at a moment when Willie & Company happened to be the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world!”\nWillie is currently working on a new studio album for a June 2025 release. He will be touring in Europe and in North America this year and lives in New York City.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/willie-nile-2026/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T222000
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SUMMARY:Shutter Island
DESCRIPTION:“Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie in the best noir tradition with its smarter than you’d think cops, their tougher than you’d imagine cases to crack and enough nods to the classic genre for an all-night parlor game.”\n―Los Angeles Times\nThe implausible escape of a brilliant murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum located on a remote, windswept island. The woman appears to have vanished from a locked room, and there are hints of terrible deeds committed within the hospital walls. As the investigation deepens, Teddy realizes he will have to confront his own dark fears if he hopes to make it off the island alive.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/shutter-island/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T150000
DTSTAMP:20260113T095552Z
CREATED:20260113
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SUMMARY:The Pout-Pout Fish
DESCRIPTION:\nTurn the poutiest of frowns upside down in this musical featuring whimsical puppets and live performers in a sweeping oceanic adventure. When Mr. Fish sets out on a quest to find Miss Clam’s missing pearl, he discovers there is more to him than his permanently plastered pout.\nThis colorful adaptation of The New York Times bestseller is co-conceived, directed, and designed by the acclaimed puppeteers of AchesonWalsh Studios, whose work was featured in Broadway’s The King And I, On the Town, and Radio City’s New York Spectacular. Writing team includes New Victory LabWorks Residency recipients Christopher Anselmo, Jared Corak, Matt Acheson, and Fergus Walsh.\nApproximate Running Time: 50 Minutes\nRecommended Grades: PreK-2\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/the-pout-pout-fish/
CATEGORIES:Family Friendly,Theatre
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T165524Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260414
PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:The Birds
DESCRIPTION:“As emblems of sexual tension, divine retribution, meaningless chaos, metaphysical inversion, and aching human guilt, his attacking birds acquire a metaphorical complexity and slipperiness worthy of Melville. Tippi Hedren’s lead performance is still open to controversy, but her evident stage fright is put to sublimely Hitchcockian uses.”\n―Chicago Reader\nMelanie Daniels meets Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco pet store and decides to follow him home. She brings with her the gift of two love birds, and they strike up a romance. One day birds start attacking children at Mitch’s sister’s party. A huge assault starts on the town by attacking birds.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/the-birds/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T220000
DTSTAMP:20260410T091932Z
CREATED:20260410
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414
PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Cris Jacobs
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nFrom Baltimore comes Cris Jacobs — an unexpectedly gritty soul-blues singer and guitarist with outlaw country ethos. Blending a variety of musical traditions, Jacobs creates a distinctive voice and sound of his own punctuated by emotive songwriting and explosive guitar playing. Equally at home playing heartfelt Americana ballads or funky blues rockers, Jacobs is known for his mesmerizing live shows, where his improvisational guitar playing, powerhouse band, and deep reservoir of songs make each night a unique experience.\nNamed one of Rolling Stone’s “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know” in 2017, Jacobs has collaborated with the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh and Dumpstaphunk’s Ivan Neville, and earned opening slots on tours with Sturgill Simpson and Steve Winwood.\nIn his early days coming up in Baltimore, Jacobs spent 10 years as a member of eclectic rock band The Bridge before making his debut as bandleader and sole songwriter with 2012’s Songs for Cats and Dogs, emerging with renewed focus and a refined sound.\nWith three solo albums to his name, a collaborative record with Ivan Neville aptly titled “Neville Jacobs”, songwriting credits that include bluegrass artists Audie Blaylock and Frank Solivan, New Orleans funksters Dumpstaphunk, and gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama, Jacobs continues to evolve and display his wide range of writing and performing prowess. “No matter the song”, he says, “I just like to keep it soulful and let the music speak for itself”.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/cris-jacobs/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T213000
DTSTAMP:20250409T165549Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260414
PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Princess Mononoke
DESCRIPTION:“Its breadth, profundity, and stunningly rendered vision make idealism seem renewed and breathtaking again.”\n														―Boston Globe\nInflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there. Featuring the voice talents of Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Billy Bob Thornton.\nThis screening will be a subtitled presentation.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/princess-mononoke/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260517T220000
DTSTAMP:20260310T115542Z
CREATED:20260310
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331
PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:May Erlewine
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nMay Erlewine has dedicated her life to writing songs for the human heart’s existence.These songs have the relentless ability to find the tender places within us. Her body of work stands as a reminder that our greatest strengths come from allowing ourselves to be courageously vulnerable.\nIt’s evident that her career in the music industry has been service-oriented. She uses her platform to fight for positive change. Stressing the important, necessary work of advocacy, justice and empowerment in our world. This community building message has touched people all across the globe.\nHer new album, What It Takes, culminates decades of hard work and perseverance. Produced by Theo Katzman and recorded in the north woods of Michigan, the record offers a fresh and electric sound supporting May’s soulfully familiar songs.\nHer calling is to share this music. Her words have held solace for weary hearts. They offer a light in the darkness and leave space for the pain and joy of being alive. When she starts to sing, everyone is invited, come as you are.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/may-erlewine/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T214000
DTSTAMP:20260421T100847Z
CREATED:20260421
LAST-MODIFIED:20260421
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SUMMARY:Knives Out
DESCRIPTION:“One of the consistent pleasures of Knives Out is that, while its style evokes an earlier era, the script is very much a witty response to today’s world.”\n―San Francisco Chronicle\nAcclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fresh, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan’s dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan’s untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell, KNIVES OUT is a fun, witty and stylish whodunit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing until the very end.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/knives-out/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260520T220000
DTSTAMP:20260224T095501Z
CREATED:20260224
LAST-MODIFIED:20260415
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Samantha Fish
DESCRIPTION:\n					\n						Spotify\n											\n					\n						Music\n											\n					\n						Youtube\n											\n					\n						Facebook\n											\n					\n						Instagram\n											\n					\n						Tiktok\n											\n					\n						Link\n											\nWith an esteemed career that includes and sharing stages with giants like The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, SLASH, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Eric Johnson on the legendary Experience Hendrix Tour, Samantha Fish offers a concert experience unlike any other.\nPrepare to be captivated by one of the most formidable guitarists of her generation as Samantha Fish embarks on her 2025 Paper Doll Tour. Samantha and her all-star band bring a relentless energy and emotional depth to every stage they grace.\nFollowing her multi-award-winning success and a Grammy-nominated album, *Death Wish Blues*, in collaboration with rocker Jesse Dayton, which soared to #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart, Samantha Fish is back with her new album, *Paper Doll*. The album’s nine powerful tracks that come alive on the Paper Doll Tour along with fan favorites.\nJoin Samantha Fish on the Paper Doll Tour for an electrifying night of masterful guitar work, raw soul, and songs that resonate deep within. Whether you’re a lifelong fan or new to her music, Samantha Fish is sure to leave you awestruck with her passionate performance and undeniable talent. Get your tickets fast!\n		\n					\n						Spotify\n											\n					\n						Music\n											\n					\n						Youtube\n											\n					\n						Facebook\n											\n					\n						Instagram\n											\n					\n						Link\n											\n“I want to shock people,” says Solomon Hicks with a megawatt smile. And whether you were there at his barely legal teenage club shows, caught on for 2020’s breakout debut Harlem – or hearing him for the first time on his new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue? – the rebel energy of this acclaimed New York singer-songwriter always moves the needle.\nHicks is a thrilling paradox, a sonic contradiction. He’s an old-soul roots scholar who salutes ancient musical forms – blues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel – but also a renegade gunslinger here to bend, stretch and scratch them for the modern world. His songs race from earworm originals, past pop covers torn up with electronica and punky riffs, to reignited blues standards that prove how potent this genre still is in the right hands.\n“It’s great to be alive in a time period where I can reach back to the past, but also be inspired by the now and the future,” says Hicks, whose accolades include the 2021 Blues Music Award for Best Emerging Artist Album. “With this new record, I wanted to showcase where my ear, my head and my guitar playing is at right now.” Released 23 January 2026 on Artone/Provogue, How Did I Ever Get This Blue is no linear statement, pulling both its creator and its listeners all over the map. Tracking in Austin, Texas, with producer Kirk Yano, Hicks assembled a crack-squad studio band that spans from US roots icons like Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble to seminal Bronx turntablist DJ Logic. “Y’know, the usual suspects,” he smiles of an all-star cast that also includes Kevin McCormick (bass), French vocalist Bénabar, Joanna Connor (slide guitar), Tommy Mandel (keys), Keith Shocklee from Public Enemy (drum programming), John Nemeth (harmonica), Les Warner (of The Cult on drums) and Frank Amato (vocals). “It’s like building this car,” reflects the bandleader, “that goes at 200mph.”\nThe album they created together races from transformations of Further On Up The Road and Feels Like Rain to untamed reworkings of Adele’s Rumour Has It and Bruno Mars’ When I Was Your Man (not to mention Hicks’ originals, How Did I Ever Get This Blue? and I’m Burnin’ Up). Far from a ‘covers album’, each song unfolds as you’ve never heard it before. “I’m not looking to copy or recreate sounds from the past,” he nods. That alchemist ethos and melting-pot mentality to genre, reflects Hicks, is the product of his New York childhood. Born in Harlem on 8 February 1995, he soaked up the sonic kaleidoscope that flowed through city life. “I remember my mom would play music in the car: hip-hop with heavy 808s. But then she was also into vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, Barbra Streisand, Nancy Wilson, George Benson. She even showed me Neil Diamond. At first, I was like, ‘I like a harder guitar. Give me Thin Lizzy or Rory Gallagher’. Then it was, like, ‘Actually, I like this’. So my ear went so many different ways. And it came to shape my own sound.”\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/samantha-fish/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T220000
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SUMMARY:Hot 8 Brass Band
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nThe New Orleans-based Hot 8 Brass Band draw on the traditional jazz heritage of their hometown, alongside more modern styles, including elements of funk, hip hop, rap, and its local variation, “bounce.” The collective earned a win in the 64th Annual Grammy Awards 2022 for their feature on John Batiste’s ‘Album of The Year’, following the nomination of ‘The Life & Times Of…’ for ‘Best Regional Roots Album’ in 2013.\nTranscending genres and trends, Hot 8 have performed and collaborated with the likes of Jon Batiste, Blind Boys of Alabama, Basement Jaxx and Alice Russell, and provided live support for Mos Def, Lauryn Hill and Mary J Blige. Since forming they have established a decade-long affiliation with actor/BBC 6Music DJ Craig Charles, among other tastemakers, DJs and journalists worldwide. After a festive appearance Live at Maida Vale for Lauren Laverne (BBC 6 Music), the Hot 8 Brass Band performed for Jools Holland’s annual Hootenanny on BBC Two to welcome in 2019. Later that year, after taking to the stage at the BRIT awards in February, Hot 8 Brass Band were invited on the European leg of George Ezra’s tour.\nWith multiple sell-out shows at London’s Roundhouse and Brighton’s Dome, Hot 8 continues to share their acclaimed releases. Albums such as ‘Vicennial…’, ‘On The Spot’ and ‘Take Cover’, are brought to the stage, honoring their city’s musical traditions, while forging their own powerful legacy. Mixing an old-school street brass approach with funkier currents and hip hop vocals, Hot 8’s magnificent originals are juxtaposed with fresh versions of Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder, The Specials and of course their anthemic take on Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”.\nThe recent passing of Bennie Pete, the beloved co-founder and sousaphone player for the outfit, was honored in true New Orleans fashion with ‘The Bossman Tour 2023’, paying tribute to his “galvanizing force” as a “leader, teacher, and mentor”. Fellow bandmates added that “Bennie was an inspiration to [the] band and to many other musicians, and the entire musical and cultural community.” The dates celebrated the late Bennie’s “greatest wish… that New Orleans culture lives on for future generations”. This parade followed the success of the Mardi Gras 2020 and ‘Take Cover’ 2019 tours. In 2024, the band hit the road again for the “Big Tuba Tour,” featuring dates across the West Coast of the United States.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/hot-8-brass-band/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T223000
DTSTAMP:20260414T102334Z
CREATED:20260414
LAST-MODIFIED:20260414
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SUMMARY:Inglourious Basterds
DESCRIPTION:“With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since “Pulp Fiction.” He has also made what could arguably be considered the most audacious World War II movie of all-time.”\n―Reel Views\nIt is the first year of Germany’s occupation of France. Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to commit violent acts of retribution against the Nazis, including the taking of their scalps. He and his men join forces with Bridget von Hammersmark, a German actress and undercover agent, to bring down the leaders of the Third Reich. Their fates converge with theatre owner Shosanna Dreyfus, who seeks to avenge the Nazis’ execution of her family.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/inglourious-basterds/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T105126Z
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SUMMARY:Camille
DESCRIPTION:“In Camille, Cukor’s direction led Garbo deeper into the heart of the situations than ever before, and into the greatest triumph of her career.”\n―Sight & Sound\nLife in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier (Greta Garbo), the Camille of this sumptuous romance tale based on the enduring Alexandre Dumas story. Garbo’s aloof mystique and alabaster beauty illuminate this George Cukor-directed film featuring what many call her finest performance. Her Camille is a movie paragon of true love found (in suitor Armand Duval, memorably played by Robert Taylor), then sacrificed for a greater good. Garbo earned an Academy Award nomination and the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award for her memorable work.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/camille/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T183000
DURATION:PT3H30M
DTSTAMP:20260417T161022Z
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SUMMARY:Centre Dance 35th Annual Spring Recital
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Spring Recital featuring all of our dancers age 2-adult! Our travel team, AVID Dance Productions will perform their award winning dances in these shows.\nAbout Centre Dance\nCentre Dance is a diversified dance studio catering to each level, which are separated according to interest, age and commitment. Our studio was founded in 1991 by Nicole Swope.\nWe at Centre Dance believe in the recreational as well as the serious dancer. We focus on basic dance technique, with an emphasis on individual correction, the development of refined motor skills and performance qualities.\nWe are proud to offer a broad range of classes taught by a young and exciting faculty who is always learning the newest styles and techniques emerging in the dance world.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/centre-dance-35th-annual-spring-recital/
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CATEGORIES:Dance,Family Friendly,Local
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SUMMARY:El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
DESCRIPTION:On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.\nEnglish StreamText captioning is available for the Met’s transmission of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego here ( https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=MET_Opera_Live_in_HD ). A transcript of the transmission will also be available to view after the live performance.\nPre-Show Performance & Lecture\nPresented by Penn State Opera Theatre\nJoin us at 12:30pm for a pre-show performance and lecture by the Penn State Opera Theatre program.\nSpeaker: Abigail Conklin, M.A. Musicology candidate\nPianist: Bryan O’Lone\nPerformances: TBD\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/
CATEGORIES:Opera
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T143000
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SUMMARY:Castle In The Sky
DESCRIPTION:“Viewed from a purely narrative perspective, Castle in the Sky is a fun, engaging two hours. Miyazaki knows how to keep things moving without belaboring certain scenes. He doesn’t speak down to his audience and isn’t afraid to mix in exposition with action.”\n―ReelViews\nAn early and less often screened knockout from the fertile mind of Miyazaki, making his first film under the Studio Ghibli banner, this amazing, ornately animated adventure set in a fantastic version of the 19th century gets underway when an orphan girl, Sheeta, quite literally falls from the sky and into the arms of an unsuspecting boy named Pazu. Together, they set off to find Laputa, a fabled floating island that was once the home to an extinct civilization, and which hides a treasure of untold value—though they’ll first have to outwit sky pirates and army thugs in order to get there.\nThis screening will be a subtitled presentation.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/castle-in-the-sky/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260531T213000
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SUMMARY:Strangers on a Train
DESCRIPTION:“Strangers on a Train ranks at the top of Hitchcock’s most accomplished works, a masterpiece that is so carefully constructed and its characters so well developed that the viewer is quickly intimate and comfortable with the story…”\n														―TV Guide Magazine\nStrange thing about this trip. So much occurs in pairs. Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. How perfect for a playful proposal: I’ll kill yours, you kill mine. Now look at how Alfred Hitchcock reinforces the duality of human nature. The more you watch, the more you’ll see. “Isn’t it a fascinating design?” the Master of Suspense often asked.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/strangers-on-a-train/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T214500
DTSTAMP:20260417T152332Z
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SUMMARY:Texas Music Revolution
DESCRIPTION:“Country music is storytelling. You get a sense of where people are coming from and where their families have been; country music specifically is American storytelling.”\n														―Kiefer Sutherland\nTexas Music Revolution follows the journey of indie radio station KHYI-FM GM and music festival founder Joshua Jones as he produces the silver anniversary of this iconic event. As much a document of reintroducing live music in the wake of a pandemic, it is a celebration of Texas and its roots – where, at the crossroads of purist country and Americana, has evolved the iconic “red dirt” Waylon-and-Willie style considered one of three pillars of American country music. For more than a quarter of a century, KHYI-FM’s commitment to radio independence has given voice to this unique sector of the country western genre. TMR has subsequently emerged as an iconic live showcase and grown into one of the largest independent music festivals in the USA. In a volatile era where larger festivals have shuttered, Joshua and KHYI must double down to produce their grandest event yet.\nWINNER – BEST DIRECTOR – DOCUMENTARY\nIdyllwild International Festival of Cinema 2024\nWINNER – BEST LIVE EVENT DOCUMENTARY\nSound on Screen Music Film Festival 2024\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/texas-music-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260606T220000
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SUMMARY:Some Like It Hot
DESCRIPTION:“A large part of what makes Some Like It Hot a perennial favorite is that it has the go-for-broke commitment of an early Marx brothers farce, but it’s harnessed by a well-structured script that keeps building on itself. It’s no fluke that the capper is the most famous closing line in movie history.”\n―The A.V. Club\nAfter witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band’s sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/some-like-it-hot/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260607T205500
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SUMMARY:Ghost in the Shell
DESCRIPTION:“Technically, Ghost in the Shell is astonishing, not only for its smooth meld of cell animation and state-of-the-art computer animation, but also for its imaginative storytelling and mood-setting (thanks to an eerie, non-thumping score by Kenji Kawai).”\n														―Washington Post\nIn the year 2029, the world has become interconnected by a vast electronic network that permeates every aspect of life. That same network also becomes a battelfield for Tokyo’s Section Nine security force, which has been charged with apprehending the master hacker known only as the Puppet Master. Spearheading the investigation is Major Motoko Kusanagi, who – like many in her department – is a cyborg officer, far more powerful than her human appearance would suggest. And yet as the Puppet Master, who is even capable of hacking human minds, leaves a trail of victims robbed of their memories. Motoko begins to ponder the very nature of her existence: is she purely an artificial construct, or is there more? What, exactly, is the “ghost” – her essence – in her cybernetic “shell”?\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/ghost-in-the-shell/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T144855Z
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SUMMARY:What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
DESCRIPTION:“Some of the best movies are like this: They show everyday life, carefully observed, and as we grow to know the people in the film, maybe we find out something about ourselves. The fact that Hallstrom is able to combine these qualities with comedy, romance and even melodrama make the movie very rare.”\n―Chicago Sun-Times\nGilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother (Darlene Cates), who is so overweight that she can’t leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen), Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky (Juliette Lewis).\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/whats-eating-gilbert-grape/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T220000
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SUMMARY:Shannon McNally
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nGrammy nominee Shannon McNally’s live music career began on the jam band circuit of the 1990s with bands like Derek Trucks and Railroad Earth. Since then, her catalog has grown to span the whole of the Americana music spectrum, both writing original songs as well as interpreting the songs of others. She brings a soul-stirring musicality to her craft. Her honest and, at times, elegant voice immediately grabs one by the heartstrings. Not to mention as it turns out, she is also an exceptional electric guitar player.\nMcNally has fourteen albums to her name and a string of single self-releases on her personal label, Queen Maeve Records. Her latest album, “Live At Dee’s,” is a career retrospective song list captured over four nights in September of 2022 with a revolving band of Nashville musicians. Showcasing McNally’s wonderful storytelling and sense of wry humor, the 18-song disc captures her at her most relaxed in her natural habitat of neighborhood Honky Tonk.\nFor those who have followed McNally’s twenty-plus-year career, the thing that sticks with listeners the most about her is the timeless effortlessness she brings to all she does. With an impressive catalog and extensive list of collaborators with whom she has written, recorded, and toured; McNally continues to turn out great music across wide-flung ends of the spectrum, defying genre-fication. At home on any stage, from Lincoln Center to the juke joints of Mississippi—she always brings the house down.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/shannon-mcnally/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T213500
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SUMMARY:Smokey and the Bandit
DESCRIPTION:“Smokey and the Bandit is an unexpected good time, a playful, wisecracking and curiously revealing example of All-American escapist entertainment.”\n														―Washington Post\nGet ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet – delivering 400 cases of beer from Texarkana to Atlanta in just 28 hours. With Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) hot on his trail and eager to teach him some respect for the law, the Bandit joins forces with good ol’ boy, Cledus (Jerry Reed) and runaway bride Carrie (Sally Field). Gear up for huge laughs, pedal-to-the-metal action, and some of the wildest car crashes ever filmed!\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/smokey-and-the-bandit/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T211500
DTSTAMP:20260415T154510Z
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SUMMARY:Dial M For Murder
DESCRIPTION:“The depth of focus, framing of characters and objects and use of the claustrophobic sets add extra pleasure to what was already a thoroughly enjoyable “perfect crime” nail-biter.”\n―Daily Express\nWhen American writer Mark Halliday visits the very married Margot Wendice in London, he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder. After sensing Margot’s affections for Halliday, her husband, Tony Wendice, fears divorce and disinheritance, and plots her death. Knowing former school chum Captain Lesgate is involved in illegal activities, Tony blackmails him into conspiring to kill Margot. When she kills Lesgate in self-defense, Tony implicates her as being guilty of premeditated murder. Halliday must out-strategize Tony to save Margot’s life.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/dial-m-for-murder/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T220000
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SUMMARY:Alicia Blue
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nLink\n\nAlicia Blue’s path to music didn’t follow a straight line. Born along the San Bernardino line in California and raised between Southern California and South Texas, she grew up between cultures, rhythms, and stories—mariachi on her dad’s stereo, West Coast soul in her headphones, and notebooks full of poetry in her backpack. Music wasn’t the plan, but life had other ideas. A chance run-in with an aging soul singer changed everything—he saw something in her, and she leaned in. The poems turned into songs, and the guitar—barely more than a few chords at the time—became her tool for survival and connection.\nShe played her first open mic in 2016, armed with heart and raw talent. Just a few years later, “Magma,” one of her earliest songs, landed on Starbucks’ flagship Spotify playlist and played in stores around the world. Word started to spread: there was something different about this voice. Honest. Haunting. Unafraid.\nBy 2020, Alicia had carved out a name for herself in LA’s songwriter scene, blending Americana, folk, and alt-country with an emotional depth that felt both timeless and refreshingly current. A brief trip to Nashville in 2021 to write with some local legends turned into a full-blown relocation the following spring. It didn’t take long for her to find her people—and her place—in Music City.\nIn 2024, she released a run of powerful singles, including “Tennessee,” a soul-stirring duet with Lucinda Williams that garnered critical buzz and introduced Alicia to a whole new audience. By 2025, her sound had evolved again, digging deeper into the classic country she grew up on, colored by the mariachi melodies her Mexican father once played for her. Think Dolly meets Emmylou, with a little Waylon at the edges.\nNow, Alicia’s gearing up to record her debut country album with none other than Shooter Jennings, who’s called her “the voice of a generation” and “as rare as they come.” With new music on the horizon, label talks in motion, and a voice that feels both familiar and completely her own, Alicia Blue is poised for a breakout year—and she’s just getting started.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/alicia-blue/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T220000
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SUMMARY:The Wood Brothers
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nDubbed “masters of soulful folk” by Paste, The Wood Brothers formed after brothers Chris and Oliver Wood pursued separate musical careers for 15 years. Chris already had legions of devoted fans for his incomparable work as one-third of Medeski Martin & Wood, while Oliver’s band King Johnson built a loyal following in the South. With drummer Jano Rix added as a permanent third member, The Wood Brothers have evolved into one of roots music’s most revered acts, playing sold out shows across North America, garnering a Grammy Award nomination and releasing nine studio albums, including their forthcoming release, Puff of Smoke, out August 1.\nThe Wood Brothers have partnered with American Friends of Canadian Conservation so that $1 per ticket will support The Nature Trust of British Columbia (NTBC) in their efforts to conserve ecologically-rich wetlands and protect irreplaceable land from development. Every $1 donated will be matched by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with $2 so more endangered wetlands can be saved. If you’d like to learn more, please visit this link.\nPlease Note: There is a 6 ticket limit per customer. Ticket delivery and ticket transfer will be delayed until 30 days from show date.\nAll presales end at 10pm EST on Thursday, February 19th.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/the-wood-brothers/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T220000
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SUMMARY:Jim Lauderdale & The Game Changers
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nJim Lauderdale embodies the sound of American roots music for listeners around the world. A 2025 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Lauderdale will release his 38th and 39th albums in 2026: Country Super Hits Volume 2 and a bluegrass collection, The Birds Know. His major label debut, 1991’s Planet of Love, opened the door to international touring and established him as an A-list songwriter on Music Row. His songs have been recorded by George Strait, Patty Loveless, George Jones, the Chicks, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lucinda Williams, Charley Crockett, Dave Edmunds, Solomon Burke, and many others. Between 2004 and 2013, Lauderdale wrote and recorded six albums with Grateful Dead songwriter Robert Hunter. His many other collaborators include Buddy Miller, Elvis Costello, Donna the Buffalo, North Mississippi Allstars, Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, and Ralph Stanley. In 2016, Lauderdale received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association; he’s also won two Grammys in the Best Bluegrass Album category.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/jim-lauderdale-the-game-changers/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260626T200000
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SUMMARY:Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez Trio
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nAmazon\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nLink\n\nBanjo. Drums. Harp. Huh?\nTo be sure, the new all-star trio of Béla Fleck, harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez features instrumentation that might safely be called uncommon. Unless, of course, you’re already familiar with 19-time Grammy-winner Fleck — the genre-blurring virtuoso who has done more to expand the possibilities of the banjo than any other player in the instrument’s history. From his bluegrass beginnings through his otherworldly Flecktones, his duo with Chick Corea and his reimagining of Rhapsody in Blue, Fleck’s work never fails to surprise. What doesn’t surprise is the impeccable caliber of his collaborators — and this new trio includes two of the most gifted musicians of their generation. The harpist, Castañeda, hails from Bogotá, Colombia, and has led his own bands in addition to sharing projects with such masters as Hiromi, Paquito D’Rivera and Grégoire Maret. 5-time Grammy-winner Sánchez grew up in Mexico City and built a reputation as one of the great jazz drummers through his work with guitarist Pat Metheny. He’s also been a visionary bandleader, helming progressive groups like Bad Hombre, and collaborated with Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker and other giants. His Golden Globe-nominated drum-set score for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2014 film Birdman earned him renown far outside the jazz world.\nPlaying original repertoire, much of it collaboratively written, this trio embarks nightly on fearless explorations that audiences will find irresistible — rich with strong melodies, gorgeous harmony and grooves that twist and turn while feeling fantastic.\nArtist Bios\n\nBéla Fleck\nJust in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Fleck, you know that he just loves to play the banjo, and put it into unique settings.\nA nineteen-time Grammy Award-winner, Fleck has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. For over 30 years, he has led Béla Fleck and The Flecktones, the groundbreaking quartet inspired by jazz, funk, bluegrass and beyond. From writing three banjo concertos for full symphony orchestra to exploring the banjo’s African roots with the award-winning 2009 documentary Throw Down Your Heart, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. As Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times, “That’s a lot of territory for five strings.”\nCollaborators include Abigail Washburn, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, Chris Thile, The Blind Boys of Alabama, McCoy Tyner, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, and Rakesh Chaurasia (their latest album As We Speak won two Grammys in 2024). Fleck’s album Rhapsody in Blue was released February 12, 2024 on the centennial of the work’s premiere in New York City, and he debuted it at Carnegie Hall with orchestra in May. His Grammy-winning project My Bluegrass Heart, is named in honor of his friend, mentor and hero Chick Corea (My Spanish Heart). Béla and Chick toured for many years as a duo and released three acclaimed albums, including their latest and final duo project, Remembrance (2024), which won the 2025 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\n\n\nEdmar Castañeda\nUpon arriving in the United States in 1994, Colombian-born Edmar Castañeda made a name for himself as the preeminent jazz harp virtuoso. Castañeda brings forth a brilliance that beautifully merges the jazz tradition with a diverse set of styles and genres while bringing unbridled attention to a somewhat unfamiliar instrument: the harp. He was ushered into the jazz community by Paquito D’Rivera, who recognized Castañeda’s passion and took the young harpist under his wing. Castañeda has cemented the harp’s place in jazz with innovative technique and heartfelt creativity from a wealth of formidable collaborations with music titans such as Wynton Marsalis, Bela Fleck, John Scofield, Ricki Lee Jones, Hiromi, Pedrito Martinez, Marcus Miller, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ivan Lins, The Yellowjackets, and Paco De Lucia.\nIn the same breath as the Yo-Yo Ma’s of the world, Castañeda fearlessly stuns audiences, musicians, and critics alike with his incredible talents as a player and composer. NPR’s “Fresh Air” touts, “…his technique is the real astonishment. Castañeda juggles lead, rhythm and bass lines, using a variety of hard and soft string attacks to keep those voices distinct — all without giving up the groove…His amazing technique…raises the bar for every harpist.” The New York Times notes, “…Castañeda… engage[s] modern jazz in ways that honor…cultural origins, and [he has] the capacity to astonish by virtue of [his] fingerstyle technique.” Moses Sumney highlights his “5 Favorite NPR “Tiny Desk Concerts” and says, “My brain cracked open when I first saw this. Some classical instruments are so ingrained in our heads for sounding one way; Edmar restructures what we know of harp, defiantly expanding the bounds of the instrument.”\nCastañeda follows up seven acclaimed albums with his latest recording project, Viento Sur, with a nine-person ensemble of acclaimed global musicians from Switzerland, Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Chile, USA, Argentina, and Colombia. An array of compositions on Viento Sur are commissioned by American Chamber Music from the “New Jazz Works Grant.”\nCastañeda’s renowned albums as a bandleader are interchanged with awe-inspiring symphonic and big-band works with Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Clássica de Espinho and the São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra, as well as chamber pieces for the Israel Camerata Jerusalem and the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia.\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\n\nAntonio Sánchez\nBorn in Mexico City, 4-time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sánchez began playing the drums at age five and performed professionally in his early teens in Mexico’s rock, jazz and latin scenes.\nHe pursued a degree in classical piano at the National Conservatory in Mexico and in 1993 enrolled in Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Jazz Studies.\nSince moving to New York City in 1999, Sánchez has become one of the most sought-after drummers on the international jazz scene. Following 18 years and 9 albums as one of the most revered collaborators with guitarist/composer Pat Metheny, he also has recorded and performed with many other most prominent artists like Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Michael Brecker, Charlie Haden and Toots Thielmans.\nIn 2014 Sánchez’s popularity soared when he scored Alejandro Gonzá lez Iñáritu’s Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) which ended up fetching 4 Academy awards (including best picture) and for which Sánchez won a Grammy award. Additional film/tv projects include EPIX network’s Get Shorty and Hippopotamus among others.\nWith more than a dozen recordings as a leader or co-leader, Sánchez’s recent projects include the acclaimed epic The Meridian Suite and the star studded Three Times Three. He turned his upset over social injustice into a tribute to every immigrant’s journey in his epic musical statement Lines in the Sand.\nSánchez is the recipient of five Grammys, three Echo Awards, Golden Globe & BAFTA nominations and has been thrice named Modern Drummer’s “Jazz Drummer of the Year”. He has been featured on the covers of DownBeat, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, Modern Drummer, Drum! and Musico Pro — among others.\nSánchez’s new album SHIFT (Bad Hombre Vol. II) on Warner Music features Sánchez playing virtually every instrument on the album — in addition to being its producer. SHIFT features Trent Reznor, Dave Mathews, Kimbra, Ana Tijoux, Meshell Ndegeocello and more.\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\n\nJust in case you aren’t familiar with Béla Fleck, there are many who say he’s the premiere banjo player in the world. Others claim that Fleck has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through a remarkable performing and recording career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a range of solo projects and collaborations. If you are familiar with Fleck, you know that he just loves to play the banjo, and put it into unique settings.\nA nineteen-time Grammy Award-winner, Fleck has the virtuosic, jazz-to-classical ingenuity of an iconic instrumentalist and composer with bluegrass roots. For over 30 years, he has led Béla Fleck and The Flecktones, the groundbreaking quartet inspired by jazz, funk, bluegrass and beyond. From writing three banjo concertos for full symphony orchestra to exploring the banjo’s African roots with the award-winning 2009 documentary Throw Down Your Heart, many tout that Béla Fleck is the world’s premier banjo player. As Jon Pareles wrote for The New York Times, “That’s a lot of territory for five strings.”\nCollaborators include Abigail Washburn, the Brooklyn Rider String Quartet, Chris Thile, The Blind Boys of Alabama, McCoy Tyner, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, and Rakesh Chaurasia (their latest album As We Speak won two Grammys in 2024). Fleck’s album Rhapsody in Blue was released February 12, 2024 on the centennial of the work’s premiere in New York City, and he debuted it at Carnegie Hall with orchestra in May. His Grammy-winning project My Bluegrass Heart, is named in honor of his friend, mentor and hero Chick Corea (My Spanish Heart). Béla and Chick toured for many years as a duo and released three acclaimed albums, including their latest and final duo project, Remembrance (2024), which won the 2025 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nUpon arriving in the United States in 1994, Colombian-born Edmar Castañeda made a name for himself as the preeminent jazz harp virtuoso. Castañeda brings forth a brilliance that beautifully merges the jazz tradition with a diverse set of styles and genres while bringing unbridled attention to a somewhat unfamiliar instrument: the harp. He was ushered into the jazz community by Paquito D’Rivera, who recognized Castañeda’s passion and took the young harpist under his wing. Castañeda has cemented the harp’s place in jazz with innovative technique and heartfelt creativity from a wealth of formidable collaborations with music titans such as Wynton Marsalis, Bela Fleck, John Scofield, Ricki Lee Jones, Hiromi, Pedrito Martinez, Marcus Miller, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ivan Lins, The Yellowjackets, and Paco De Lucia.\nIn the same breath as the Yo-Yo Ma’s of the world, Castañeda fearlessly stuns audiences, musicians, and critics alike with his incredible talents as a player and composer. NPR’s “Fresh Air” touts, “…his technique is the real astonishment. Castañeda juggles lead, rhythm and bass lines, using a variety of hard and soft string attacks to keep those voices distinct — all without giving up the groove…His amazing technique…raises the bar for every harpist.” The New York Times notes, “…Castañeda… engage[s] modern jazz in ways that honor…cultural origins, and [he has] the capacity to astonish by virtue of [his] fingerstyle technique.” Moses Sumney highlights his “5 Favorite NPR “Tiny Desk Concerts” and says, “My brain cracked open when I first saw this. Some classical instruments are so ingrained in our heads for sounding one way; Edmar restructures what we know of harp, defiantly expanding the bounds of the instrument.”\nCastañeda follows up seven acclaimed albums with his latest recording project, Viento Sur, with a nine-person ensemble of acclaimed global musicians from Switzerland, Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Chile, USA, Argentina, and Colombia. An array of compositions on Viento Sur are commissioned by American Chamber Music from the “New Jazz Works Grant.”\nCastañeda’s renowned albums as a bandleader are interchanged with awe-inspiring symphonic and big-band works with Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Clássica de Espinho and the São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra, as well as chamber pieces for the Israel Camerata Jerusalem and the Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia.\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\nBorn in Mexico City, 4-time Grammy Award winner Antonio Sánchez began playing the drums at age five and performed professionally in his early teens in Mexico’s rock, jazz and latin scenes.\nHe pursued a degree in classical piano at the National Conservatory in Mexico and in 1993 enrolled in Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Jazz Studies.\nSince moving to New York City in 1999, Sánchez has become one of the most sought-after drummers on the international jazz scene. Following 18 years and 9 albums as one of the most revered collaborators with guitarist/composer Pat Metheny, he also has recorded and performed with many other most prominent artists like Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Michael Brecker, Charlie Haden and Toots Thielmans.\nIn 2014 Sánchez’s popularity soared when he scored Alejandro Gonzá lez Iñáritu’s Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) which ended up fetching 4 Academy awards (including best picture) and for which Sánchez won a Grammy award. Additional film/tv projects include EPIX network’s Get Shorty and Hippopotamus among others.\nWith more than a dozen recordings as a leader or co-leader, Sánchez’s recent projects include the acclaimed epic The Meridian Suite and the star studded Three Times Three. He turned his upset over social injustice into a tribute to every immigrant’s journey in his epic musical statement Lines in the Sand.\nSánchez is the recipient of five Grammys, three Echo Awards, Golden Globe & BAFTA nominations and has been thrice named Modern Drummer’s “Jazz Drummer of the Year”. He has been featured on the covers of DownBeat, JazzTimes, JAZZIZ, Modern Drummer, Drum! and Musico Pro — among others.\nSánchez’s new album SHIFT (Bad Hombre Vol. II) on Warner Music features Sánchez playing virtually every instrument on the album — in addition to being its producer. SHIFT features Trent Reznor, Dave Mathews, Kimbra, Ana Tijoux, Meshell Ndegeocello and more.\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/beatrio/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Shadow of a Doubt
DESCRIPTION:“Hitchcock’s discovery of darkness within the heart of small-town America remains one of his most harrowing films, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals loneliness, despair, and death.”\n―Chicago Reader\nJoseph Cotton star as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives’ small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie (Teresa Wright). But she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/shadow-of-a-doubt/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Unforgiven
DESCRIPTION:This unflinching drama definitively strips the West of its idealized romanticism and presents it as a savage hellhole in which there are no clear-cut heroes or villains, only morally ambiguous survivalists.\n―Film Frenzy\nClint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired, down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper, a colorful killer-for-hire called English Bob, and Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/unforgiven/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Jaws
DESCRIPTION:“It was the complete nightmare that invented the “summer blockbuster”, launched the genius on a global scale and delivered an astonishingly effective thriller built on a very primal level: fear.”\n														―Empire\nDirected by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your seat suspense, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever changing the way audiences experience movies. When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/jaws/
CATEGORIES:Movies
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T200000
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SUMMARY:The Travelin’ McCourys
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nTiktok\n\n\nLink\n\nFrom a source deep, abundant, and pure the river flows. It’s there on the map, marking place and time. Yet, the river changes as it remains a constant, carving away at the edges, making new pathways, gaining strength as it progresses forward. The Travelin’ McCourys are that river.\nThe McCoury brothers—Ronnie (mandolin) and Rob (banjo)—were born into the bluegrass tradition. Talk about a source abundant and pure: their father, Del, is among the most influential and successful musicians in the history of the genre. Years on the road with Dad in the Del McCoury Band honed their knife-edge chops and encouraged the duo to imagine how traditional bluegrass could cut innovative pathways into 21st century music.\n“If you put your mind, your skills, and your ability to it, I think you can make just about anything work on bluegrass instruments,” says Ronnie. “That’s a really fun part of this—figuring the new stuff out and surprising the audience.”\nThe newest member of the band, fiddler Christian Ward, joined after Jason Carter moved on to pursue a solo career. Bassist Alan Bartram, and Cody Kilby on guitar, they assembled a group that could take what they had in their DNA, the traditions they learned and heard, and push the music forward. In fact, the band became the only group to have each of its members recognized with an International Bluegrass Music Association Award for their instrument at least once. There were peers, too, that could see bluegrass as both historic and progressive. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Allman Brothers Band, improv-rock kings Phish, and jamband contemporary Keller Williams were just a few that formed a mutual admiration society with the ensemble.\nThe band played the Allman’s Wanee Festival and guitarist Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam—an annual holiday homecoming of Southern music. An early-years jam with the Lee Boys was hailed by many as the highlight of the evening, and with the video catching fire online, earned a legion of new, young fans of their supercharged combination of sacred steel, R&B, and bluegrass. There were unforgettable collaborations with country smash Dierks Bentley, onstage magic jamming with titans String Cheese Incident and Phish, cutting an album with Keller (Pick), and creating the Grateful Ball—a tribute concert-turned-tour bridging bluegrass with the iconic music of the Grateful Dead.\n“That’s something that’s part of us being who we are,” says Ronnie. “It comes, too, with us plugging in. It gets louder, for sure. We can’t be another version of our dad’s band. It wouldn’t make any sense for us to do that.”\nTheir concerts became can’t-miss events, whether headlining historic venues or as festival favorites, drawing the love and respect of a growing fanbase craving their eclectic repertoire. At the 2016 edition of DelFest, an annual gathering of the genre’s best aptly named for the McCoury patriarch, the band delivered the take-away highlight. Rolling Stone called it “a sublime combination of rock and bluegrass, contemporary and classic, old and young. The best set of the festival…” The river was going new places, getting stronger. It was time to re-draw the map.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/the-travelin-mccourys/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T200000
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SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Craig Finn & Patterson Hood
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nCraig Finn is a Minnesota-bred singer/songwriter based in New York City, best known as the singer of The Hold Steady. Finn spent the ’90’s leading Minneapolis indie band Lifter Puller, which released 3 albums and an EP. After relocating to New York, he joined with Lifter Puller member Tad Kubler to form The Hold Steady in 2003. The Hold Steady quickly achieved critical acclaim and a worldwide fanbase with their unique pairing of dense lyrical narratives with big rock guitars. The Hold Steady’s ninth album, The Price Of Progress, was released in March 2023, commemorating the band’s 20th Anniversary.\nCraig Finn released his 6th solo album Always Been on April 4. Produced by Adam Granduciel (The War On Drugs), the album features musical performances by Granduciel and members of The War on Drugs, Kathleen Edwards, Sam Fender, and more.\nAlways Been tells the story of a man who becomes a clergyman despite a lack of faith. The songs detail his rise, fall, and eventual redemption, while also shining a light to sharply reveal the other characters that populate the world he moves through. A limited edition, 92-page companion book Lousy With Ghosts accompanies the album and features 11 works of fiction by Craig Finn. These stories take place in the same universe as the record, giving deeper looks at the characters within.\nFinn released his first solo album in 2012 with three additional solo LPs put forth from 2015 – 2019: Faith in the Future, We All Want The Same Things, and 2019’s I Need a New War – which coalesced into a sign-of-the-times musical trilogy. Finn’s fifth album, A Legacy of Rentals was released in 2022 and received universal critical acclaim.\nThat’s How I Remember It is Craig Finn’s podcast series, launched in 2022. Co-produced and distributed by Talkhouse, the podcast series examines the connection between memory and creativity. Each episode features a discussion between Finn and one creator – including musicians, authors, filmmakers, and more – about the role memory plays in their art. These exclusive conversations reveal the different ways each creator synthesizes their remembered life experience to tell stories about themselves and the world we live in. Podcast guests have included George Saunders, Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Marr, Jason Isbell, Duff McKagan, Adam Duritz, Ben Gibbard, and many more.\n\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nPatterson Hood is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers. Born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Hood grew up immersed in the region’s rich musical heritage, with his father, David Hood, being a renowned session bassist for the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Drawing inspiration from storytelling traditions and a passion for rock, country, and soul, Hood’s music often explores themes of Southern identity, social justice, and personal introspection. While best known as frontman, singer, songwriter, and guitar player for Drive-By Truckers, he is also a writer of essays, columns, and short stories as well as a solo performer and producer.\nSince forming Drive-By Truckers in 1996 with Mike Cooley, Hood has been a driving force behind the band’s narrative-driven sound, blending gritty, guitar-heavy arrangements with evocative lyrics. Albums like Southern Rock Opera (2001) and The Dirty South (2004) have solidified their reputation as one of the most influential Southern rock bands of their generation.\nBeyond his work with the Truckers, Hood has released solo albums such as Killers and Stars (2004) and Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (2012), showcasing his versatility as a songwriter. His newest solo album, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams, produced by Chris Funk (The Decemberists) was released via ATO Records in February 2025. Whether fronting the Truckers or performing solo, Patterson Hood remains a vital force in modern music, celebrated for his ability to turn life’s raw realities into compelling, soul-stirring art, and continues to be a powerful voice in contemporary Americana and Southern rock.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/craig-finn-patterson-hood/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:EagleMania – The World’s Greatest Eagles Tribute Band
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nEagleMania has been dazzling audiences for over a decade by spectacularly reproducing the music of The Eagles. EagleMania thrills internationally sold-out audiences with their stunning five part harmony, virtuoso guitar work and uncanny ability to emulate the distinct sound of The Eagles. The EagleMania show consists of the Eagles’ greatest hits, as well as select Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Joe Walsh solo efforts.\nIf you like The Eagles you simply must experience the world’s greatest Eagles Tribute, EagleMania!\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/eaglemania-the-worlds-greatest-eagles-tribute-band/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260806T200000
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SEQUENCE:3
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SUMMARY:MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nTiktok\n\n\nLink\n\nRemember Jones to present 20-Piece Band Revival of Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen\nRecreating the 1970 concert experience including full choir, horn section, and band members from national touring acts\nCelebrate Joe Cocker’s groundbreaking live album and tour, MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN! Serving as a dedication to Joe Cocker and Leon Russell, the show will be recreated with a 20-piece band in similar style of the original tour including, for your delight, Cosmic Kiddies, English Roadies, Children with the Answers, Cooking Italians, Presidents of Recording Companies, Acrobatics and Displays, The Odd Sane Dog, The Space Choir, Assorted Sound Freaks, and All Elements of the Truth.\nThis event will feature guests and full choir, including all songs from the entire tour beyond those on the original album release, with large interpretations of songs by rock and soul greats including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Leonard Cohen, Traffic, Leon Russell, and more. Songs from the original tour include: “With a Little Help from My Friends,” “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” “Let It Be,” “Feelin’ Alright,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Cry Me a River,” “Darling Be Home Soon,” “Delta Lady”, “The Letter”, and many other favorites.\nTaking on lead vocals is national song-stylist and showman Remember Jones, called “high-energy… Broadway-ready…” by ROLLING STONE Magazine, who is on the rise while sharing stages with notable acts such as Bruce Springsteen, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes, Dionne Warwick, Darlene Love, Buster Poindexter, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Low Cut Connie, and more. He has been a member of the acclaimed Everyone Orchestra alongside Robert Randolph, Steve Kimock and members of Ween, moe., The Roots, The Revivalists, and more. He has been mentioned in Rolling Stone, Variety, Paste, Relix, and more with his original music, high energy, show-band staging, and creative, theatrical events playing to packed and sold-out clubs and theaters throughout the United States.\nThe band, horn section, PLUS 10-person choir will comprise touring artists crossing many genres including international rock acts, soul tours, Broadway, and more.\nFor more information, visit rememberjones.com, @RememberJones on Instagram, or each of the venue’s websites!\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/mad-dogs-englishmen/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:Chris Canterbury
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nLink\n\n“When I sat down to write this project, I tried to present each topic as a straight-forward Saturday morning kitchen conversation. That’s how I approach songwriting and it’s worked for me for a long time” says Chris Canterbury, a Louisiana native singer-songwriter, now based in Nashville.\nThe project Canterbury is talking about is Quaalude Lullabies, a nine track collection of mostly sad songs that offers on-the-nose lyrical phrasing, subtlety loose production, and an honest insight into razor-edge topics like addiction, depression, and loneliness.\nIn what started as a thought experiment, Quaalude Lullabies was self-produced by Canterbury, his first opportunity to be on both sides of the control room window. “I wanted to woodshop a record together that felt like Nebraska,” says Canterbury. “I wanted it to be loose like a box of bedroom demo tapes, but cohesive enough to stand on its own. I feel like we ended up with a solid album.”\nOn the album opener “The Devil, The Dealer, & Me”, he lyrically paints a self-portrait of despair and its brutal anticipation thereof. Lines like “The truth doesn’t care if you choose it, a heart only breaks when you use it,” and “Cold as a shoulder, dry as a bone, a memory is worthless if you make it alone,” haunt their way through the waltzing arraignment. Its threadbare production, consisting only of an upright bass, Wurlitzer organ, and a buttery telecaster, sets the sonic signature of the project.\n“Fall Apart” continues the eloquent brokenness in Canterbury’s autobiographical musings. Here he highlights the veracity of being a solo working musician, juxtaposing the lonely lyrics with a somewhat playful melody from an acoustic guitar.\nThe only cover on the album, written by Will Kimbrough, “Yellow Mama” tells the tale of the singer’s last moments before succumbing to the courtesies of the Alabama electric chair. The traditional-sounding song was tracked live in a single take, subtly building anxiety as the singer reaches his demise.\nClosing out the A-side of the album, “Felt The Same” stays in that minimalistic production lane with only a B3 organ and a Tele played through a Leslie. Lyrically, Canterbury intertwines concrete imagery of self-described illegitimacy with metaphorical insight.\nAs we come to the first song tracked with the full band, “Kitchen Table Poet” showcases the central tenet of Quaalude’s ethos, which is there’s no limit on how far to lyrically describe a setting, while maintaining a casual conversation with the listener. “I met a man in Waverly, Alabama once that said he’d never left the county. He also said he made the best apple brandy in the state. I remember everything about that day”, says Canterbury, “His Winston Lights, the grit under his nails, and his bottomless bag of on-liners – but I can’t remember his name. That’s where this song was born.”\nKeeping with the band trend, “Heartache For Hire” blends the genre-standard idea of heartbreak with a swampy pedal steel and organ-forward groove. “Sweet Maria”, the only love song on the album, places the listener in the back seat of the singer’s car as he and his “sweet Maria” take the long way home. The juxtaposition of these two tracks side-by-side on the album demonstrate the wide-open range of the project, without sounding misplaced at all.\n“Over The Line” layers the finality of reality over a driving country groove, perfectly possibly, since the song describes the final long haul of the aging protagonist, a career over-the-road truck driver. It’s a solemn topic presented, once again, in conversational prose that feels neither sullen, nor predictable.\nAlbum closer, “Back On The Pills”, as the title suggests, is subdued only in production, with a lonely acoustic guitar and the haunting of a gentle B3 organ tucked in the mix. Lyrical offerings such as, “I found Jesus in the nightstand, the sunrise on the wall, I’d like to call an old friend if I still had a friend to call”, and “Father forgive me, I know I’ve sinned, but I’m well aware of the shape that I’m in” paint a portrait of desperation and addiction (and acceptance of the aforementioned) that’s far more complicated than the track seems at first.\nGetting out of the way of the story and letting it speak for itself has been a guiding force for Canterbury for almost his entire songwriting career, and it’s evident in Quaalude Lullabies that he’s perfected that area of his craft. Instead of waxing poetic over hackneyed issues and tropes, Canterbury eloquently illustrates the complexities of life with a millworker’s vernacular and a hefty southern drawl.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/chris-canterbury/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Attic
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SUMMARY:Tim Easton
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nLink\n\nConsummate troubadour and songwriter Tim Easton wrote much of his new album beneath a painting of a red horse. The artwork—created by his sister, visual artist Susan Easton Burns—was executed in an abstract-realist style using gardening tools instead of paintbrushes, forming a vivid image out of fragmented strokes. It now serves as the cover art for fIREHORSE, Easton’s 14th commercially released record. Made with zero artificial intelligence, the album also arrives just as the Chinese calendar enters the Year of the (Fire) Horse—an apt coincidence given that Easton himself, born in 1966, is a Fire Horse.\n“Whether the painting influenced the songs or the album was shaped to fit the painting makes no difference anymore,” Easton says. “The theme was decided on, and actions were taken to finish the project. If anything, I’m influenced more by my sister’s commitment to art than anything else.\nThe result is a personal collection of songs rooted in travel, love, accidents, perseverance, and the ongoing survival of a working songwriter. “One thing for sure is that this was conceived as an album,” he adds. “I like a collection with a theme, and if push comes to shove, the theme here is perseverance.”\nRecorded primarily in two Nashville studios, the ten original songs feature production from multi-instrumentalist and arranger Kevin Nolan, plus the rhythm section from country superstar Lainey Wilson—a band of hard-working Nashville musicians Nolan is also a member of. Sonically, the record stretches the boundaries of Americana, a genre Easton helped shape in the late ’90s with his 1997 solo debut Special 20.\n“In my mind, the Beatles, the Stones, The Band, and the Dead are the greatest Americana bands,” Easton says. “They showed America how expansive and fun our music could be.” His own education came from studying their influences and eventually supporting legends like Willie Nelson and Townes Van Zandt during their Ohio stops. Before that, Easton spent seven years busking across Europe—hitchhiking, learning, and living the true vagabond life. Those experiences echo throughout fIREHORSE, an album that moves freely between country-blues, folk, pop, and classic rock while maintaining the sharp songwriting voice of a storyteller more than two decades into his craft.\nThe opening track, “River,” arose from a near-fatal rafting incident in Alaska—a place Easton has returned to since releasing 2001’s The Truth About Us (New West Records), which featured three members of Wilco as his backing band. Inspired by a line from a book of riddles he read with his daughter, Easton expanded the idea into three verses written in an interrogative style meant to mimic swift, churning water. The recording features a single Travis-picked chord on a 1960s Kay acoustic guitar, run through a vintage Fender tube amp “set on swamp.” Harmonic lift comes from drummer Kevin Nolan and the soul-soaked background vocals of Rosa Pullman, with swirling Hammond B3 and electric guitar hooks courtesy of producer Nolan.\n“Lucinda Williams has always been a major influence on my writing,” Easton adds. “Watching her play a one-chord blues she learned from the masters showed me that I needed to write simpler songs—ones you could play around a campfire with whoever’s there.”\nThe album quickly pivots with “Heaven & Hell,” an agnostic prayer and one of the poppiest songs in Easton’s catalog. Its emotional spark came from a phrase his daughter said as a toddler—“You hold me, and I’ll hold you”—which Easton wrote down and returned to years later, during a divorce. Other lyrics arrived after hearing one friend lament their lack of success and another struggle through a painful breakup. “Some songs drop out of the sky immediately,” Easton says, “and others take 15 years.”\nBacking vocals from Jeremy Lister (currently touring with Post Malone) also appear on the following track, “Cottonfields,” written on Easton’s drive home from the 30A Songwriters Festival.\nA skipping Hank Williams record and backwards piano introduce “615 Heartbreaker,” written after Easton saw a photographer at a show with those words tattooed inside an outline of Tennessee. Nikki Barber adds backing vocals, while the groove rides the vintage chug of a Maestro Rhythm King drum machine.\n“Son of a Tyrant” features the album’s standout electric guitar solo, enhanced through a rotating Leslie speaker. Its lyrics draw from personal history, existential turbulence, and the chaos of life on the road.\nSide Two opens with “Don’t Let Your Mind Grow Dark,” written and taught to the band on the spot during recording. Anchored by open-E Travis picking, it provides the album’s most free-spirited moment. “I wanted something uplifting for anybody feeling out of sorts,” Easton says. “This is what arrived on the last day of sessions at Club Roar.”\nThe mood shifts again with “Another Good Man Down,” a slide-guitar-driven track—possibly the world’s only cocaine-themed song that openly indicts the cartel rather than glorifying the outlaw. Influenced in part by Mexican narcocorridos, Easton steers the narrative toward the devastation the drug causes on both sides of the border.\n“Hallelujah,” built on just two chords and an open-G rubber-bridge guitar, includes more harmonies from Jeremy Lister. Easton notes the fascination of being unable to copyright a title—especially when his song and Leonard Cohen’s explore similarly spiritual terrain. The verses open with the Romanian people’s 1989 overthrow and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, a historical moment Easton recalls witnessing from afar while roaming Europe as a street musician.\nThe album closes with two narrative-driven highlights:\n“Never Punch the Clock Again,” a Little Feat–inspired tale of a drifting rounder whose life mirrors Easton’s own existence on the fringes of the music business; and “HWY 62 Love Song,” written for his former home in the High Mojave desert of Joshua Tree, where he lived for seven years. “I return there often to get that wide-open feeling,” he says. “It’s a great place to turn inward and write.”\nfIREHORSE stands as another sturdy entry in the lifelong catalog of a songwriter committed to carving his own path—independent, driven, and devoted to craft, much like the Fire Horse itself.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/tim-easton/
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SUMMARY:Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nLink\n\nKieran Kane’s seminal work in The O’Kanes and Kane Welch Kaplin, as well as co-founding the independent label Dead Reckoning Records, laid the foundation for the contemporary world of Americana music. A successful solo artist, collaborator, and songwriter (with songs recorded by Alan Jackson, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, and many more), Kieran is a musician’s musician: his playing is always understated, always groove-oriented, and always serving the song.\nIf Rayna Gellert seems a preternaturally gifted songwriter, it’s because she’s seen farther into the old songs than most. Growing up in a musical family, she turned to Appalachian old-time music at a young age, becoming a prodigious fiddler and leading a new revival of American stringband music through her work with the acclaimed roots band Uncle Earl. An in-demand collaborator, she has toured and recorded with artists such as Scott Miller, Abigail Washburn, Joachim Cooder, and Robyn Hitchcock.\nKieran and Rayna first met, fittingly, at San Francisco’s celebrated Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, which led to their cowriting songs for Kieran’s solo album Unguarded Moments. They joined forces again for Rayna’s 2017 release, Workin’s Too Hard (StorySound Records), which they also co-produced. Their first duo album, The Ledges, was released in February of 2018 on Dead Reckoning Records, followed up quickly by 2019’s When the Sun Goes Down.\nIn 2022, this “unlikely musical couple” released The Flowers That Bloom in Spring, which found the duo digging deeper into their exploration of minimalist writing and production. Their fourth album—simply titled Volume 4—arrived in the spring of 2025.\nFans of either artist will recognize the musical kindred-spiritedness in their restrained and roots-oriented approach to both songs and arrangements.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/kieran-kane-rayna-gellert-2026/
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SUMMARY:St. Paul & The Broken Bones
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nLink\n\nSt. Paul & The Broken Bones are a powerhouse soul ensemble from Alabama known for their electrifying live shows and impassioned vocals. Formed in Birmingham in 2011, the band features Paul Janeway (vocals), Jesse Phillips (bass), Browan Lollar (guitar), Kevin Leon (drums), Al Gamble (keyboards), Allen Branstetter (trumpet), Chad Fisher (trombone), and Amari Ansari (saxophone).\nTheir new self-titled sixth album marks a creative renewal—melding the band’s adventurous spirit with a return to soulful, song-focused roots. Recorded at the legendary FAME Studios and produced by Eg White (Adele, Celine Dion), the record blends psych-funk grooves, gospel-tinged ballads, and cinematic rock flourishes. Tracks like “Sushi and Coca-Cola” and “Going Back” reflect both personal introspection and the band’s deepened identity after a decade of evolution.\nSt. Paul & The Broken Bones have shared stages with The Rolling Stones, Lizzo, and Black Pumas, and performed at major festivals like Coachella, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo. Even Sir Elton John took notice, inviting them to perform at his Oscar party. Blending rock & roll, soul, R&B, and more, the band continues to captivate audiences around the world.\n\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nTiktok\n\n\nLink\n\nOnce every millennia, the forces of nature and the stars above, align to give the human race a gift from the Gods. For this chapter in our existence, that gift is The Psycodelics.\nThe group embodies and glorifies Black American Music. Elements from Funk, Blues, Gospel and R&B leave the audience in awe with sounds that hit you like a freight train. Audience members and fans have compared the band to the likes of Parliament Funkadelic, Prince and Morris Day & The Time. Their debut album “Please Keep Off The Grass” has already garnered Grammy Recording Academy attention and is set to release Easter Sunday, April 20th.\nThe band has already established a buzz amongst the festival scene by capturing audiences at Peach Fest, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Jam Cruise and many more. The Psycodelics have traveled the country supporting Neal Francis, Fearless Flyers and Durand Jones and the Indications. .\nThe Psycodelics are Cameron Wescott (bass, vox), Sean Bing (drum, vox), Noah Jones (keys), Whitt Burn (guitar) and Chris Barnwell (percussion).\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/st-paul-the-broken-bones/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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SUMMARY:TUSK The Classic Fleetwood Mac Tribute
DESCRIPTION:\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nX-twitter\n\n\nLink\n\nNo fancy tricks, no gimmicks, just five musicians recreating the music of Fleetwood Mac to perfection with note for note renditions that no other Fleetwood Mac tribute on the touring scene today can come close to duplicating. Authentic-sounding and always respectful, TUSK leaves no stone unturned in replicating the sounds of one of the world’s best loved, top-selling bands.\nPlaying hits and deep cuts spanning the careers of Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees Fleetwood Mac, TUSK has been crisscrossing the country since 2008 as The Classic Fleetwood Mac Tribute. Five pro musicians turned into masters of their trade through decades of individual music study, live performance, creative risk, and devotion to the art. TUSK features note-perfect renditions of both the solo and full band songs, with each member specializing in one of the core lineups of Fleetwood Mac (Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood). They possess an electric stage presence that can only come from well over a decade of touring together. Truly the best at what they do, TUSK is unmatched in their tribute to one of the greatest bands of all time.\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/tusk-the-classic-fleetwood-mac-tribute/
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Splintered Sunlight
DESCRIPTION:\n\nSpotify\n\n\nMusic\n\n\nYoutube\n\n\nFacebook\n\n\nInstagram\n\n\nTiktok\n\n\nLink\n\nFormed in 1992, Splintered Sunlight has been captivating audiences with their authentic tribute to The Grateful Dead for decades. The band’s faithful following reflects their deep understanding of the improvisational traditions of The Grateful Dead. From its authentic double-drum kit lineup, to Butchy Sochorow’s soaring lead guitar and naturally dead-on Jerry-like voice, Splintered can do it all in a big way. If you have never heard them, get ready! They’re musically superb, imaginative, and always changing set lists, like the Dead. Experience them for yourself, c’mon out & dance!\n
URL:https://thestatetheatre.org/events/splintered-sunlight/
CATEGORIES:Music
LOCATION:The Friedman Auditorium
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