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| | The Queen's Cartoonists "Holiday Hurrah Yule Love It!"
Thursday, December 14
7:30 p.m.
Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $30 general, $28 senior, $20 youth
Sponsored by Curran Law Firm
The Queen’s Cartoonists perform music from cartoons! Pulling from over 100 years of animation, TQC’s performances are perfectly synchronized to the films projected on stage. The band matches the energy of the cartoons, leading the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem, and comedy.
Projections of animated films dazzle the audience, while the band re-creates original soundtracks note-for-note, or writes their own fresh compositions to modern pieces, all the while breathing new life into two uniquely American forms of art: jazz and animation. Tying everything together is the TQC brand of comedy - anecdotes about the cartoons and their composers, stream-of-consciousness humor, and elements of a musical circus. | Buy Tickets |
| | Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles
Friday, January 26
7:30 p.m.
Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $32 general, $30 senior, $20 youth
Sponsored by Pete and Pat Curran through the Kent Community Foundation
This amazing band, anchored by brothers Billy, Matthew, and Ryan McGuigan perform as themselves and leave the song choices completely in the hands of the audience. Audience members fill out request cards prior to the show, offering only three pieces of information: Their name, their favorite Beatles song, and the reason why they chose that song.
The cards are collected and minutes before the show beings, a set list is created based upon the songs chosen by that particular audience. As an added treat, the audience members’ reasons for choosing the songs make up the narrative of the evening.
Every show is different, every show is interactive, and every show proves that The Beatles’ music truly is the soundtrack to our lives. | Buy Tickets |
| | International Guitar Night
Friday, February 2
7:30 p.m.
Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $30 general, $28 senior, $20 youth
Sponsored by Judy Woods, co-sponsored by the Haffner Family
International Guitar Night is North America’s premier traveling guitar festival, bringing together the world’s foremost acoustic guitarists to perform their latest original compositions and exchange musical ideas in a public concert setting. Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore assembles a new cast of guitar luminaries come together for a special evening of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. For International Guitar Night's 24th year, featured guitarists include three IGN favorites and an exciting newcomer.
Luca Stricagnoli (Italy), the amazing acoustic rock interpreter, will be returning for the 4th time. Thu Le (Vietnam), whose nylon string artistry stretches from classical to contemporary, was on the IGN 2022 tour. Marco Pereira (Brazil), the master composer and performer, first toured with IGN in its early days and returns for his final go-round in 2024. Minnie Marks (Australia), the irrepressible blues slide guitarist and singer, not only is new to IGN but will be making her North American debut. | Buy Tickets |
| | Live from Laurel Canyon presents "James & Joni: Their Stories, Their Songs"
Friday, February 23
7:30 p.m.
Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $30 general, $28 senior, $20 youth
Sponsored by Pete and Pat Curran through the Kent Community Foundation
Live From Laurel Canyon presented their hit show “Songs and Stories of American Folk Rock” during the 2021-2022 Spotlight Series season. Now they are back with “James & Joni: Their Stories, Their Songs.” The show chronicles the careers of two songwriting icons: James Taylor and Joni Mitchell presented in the style of Live from Laurel Canyon with narrated stories about their lives and the songs you know and love. The evening features a selection of songs from their vast careers; from the early days to later hits. | Buy Tickets |
| | Trailblazing Women of Country: From Patsy to Loretta to Dolly
Friday, March 1
7:30 p.m.
Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $35 general, $32 senior, $20 youth
Sponsored by the Pete and Pat Curran Family
Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton revolutionized country music and blazed a trail for future generations of female artists. With their chart-topping hits and record-breaking sales, they wove threads of contemporary womanhood throughout the tapestry of country music, resulting in unprecedented commercial success and earning each a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Trailblazing Women of Country will entertain and inspire, featuring soloists Miko Marks, CMT’s 2022 “Next Woman of Country,” and Nashville-based singer Kristina Train, supported by a 5-member, all-female band.
Through their singular voices and artistry, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton defied restrictive gender norms, proving that women can be at once beautiful and strong, vulnerable, and powerful. | Buy Tickets |
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