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| | July 27, 2024 at 7:30pm
Recently inducted into the San Diego Music Hall Of Fame, Lisa Sanders is a multi-award-winning songwriter, who has toured and recorded for over 30 years with her partner, Karen Hayes, a soulful, beautifully harmonizing, expressive singer, better known as Brown Sugar.
These talented artists are sure to touch your heart and soul with their music, warm infectious humor, and gift for the songwriting and the performing craft. Catch them while you can! | Buy Tickets |
| | About Seffarine:
“Seffarine's music can melt the coldest hearts”
-Chicago Reader
At a momentous first meeting at a coffee shop in Fez, Moroccan vocalist Lamiae Naki and multi-instrumentalist Nat Hulskamp composed their first song and decided to get married. Brought together by their deep knowledge of the music of both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar — Spanish flamenco and Moroccan Arabic music — they created Seffarine.
Seffarine takes its name from the ancient metalworking square in Fez, which is famous for the complex rhythms that ring out from the blacksmiths' hammers, and where Lamiae's family is well known as masters of the tradition. Seffarine's music embraces and extends Morocco's musical collision between Arabic, Iberian and West African cultures, forging vibrant original music deeply rooted in their backgrounds in flamenco guitar, oud and Arab Andalusian music. Nat and Lamiae built an international quintet bringing in all star musicians from Iran, the US and Spain, who infuse the sound with textured instrumentation and inspired improvisation. Sweeping kamancheh (Persian spike-fiddle) ornamentation plays off gritty bass grooves and explosive flamenco footwork, with Lamiae's fluidly riveting voice at the center, sending up sheets of cascading Andalusi melodies punctuated by the catchy hooks of North African Chaabi, sung in her native Moroccan Arabic. Their sound has taken them around the world, from touring Indonesia and Europe to receiving grants to study Ottoman singing in Turkey, to recording with top flamenco musicians in Spain such as Diego del Morao and Latin Grammy Award winner Antonio Rey. | Buy Tickets |
| | September 6-September 29
By Caridad Svich, Directed by Beatrice Casagran
Shakespeare’s Ophelia rises up out of the water dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy, and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
“A whimsical riff on Hamlet which imagines an afterlife for Elsinore’s unluckiest lass. A twisted take on the tragedy.” Charles Isherwood in The New York Times; & multimedia (audio/visual) feature archived in the NYTimes
"12 Ophelias at heart is all about power: “You fit into other people’s needs, you get left out, you see?” The script is provocative and often extremely gratifying (what’s more fun than seeing a play we know inside and out turned on its head?)."–Monica Westin, New City Stage (Chicago) (2009) | Buy Tickets |
| | Vancurt is a husband and wife musical duo who have performed and toured with some of the industry’s finest musicians ranging from gospel artists Israel Houghton and Bebe Winans to secular artists Michael Jackson and Ray Charles to name just a few. They have also performed on various television shows including the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Arsenio Hall show. | Buy Tickets |
| | Espiritu Flamenco 2024. October 5 at 6pm
Garner House, Claremont.
OJP's annual celebration of Spanish music, dance, and food. OJP Artistic Director cooks up a feast including her family's paella recipe, tapas, and dessert. Accompanied by a stellar tablao of Flamenco Artists.
Tapas-- Spanish Tortilla with Salsa de Aji, Pincho de Champignon, Pan con tomate, Tartaleta de alcachofa & jamon serrano,
Paella (chicken, shrimp, spanish chorizo, mussels cook in the "really big pan" with bomba rice, saffron, and lots of other good things) or Vegetarian pasta a la Brava,
Spanish Olive Oil Citrus Cake with Seville Orange Liqueur
Starring:
Andres Vadin-- Guitara,
Diego Alvarez, Percusion/Cajon,
Pepela Mendes, Canto,
Lakshmi Basile "La Chimi", Bailaora
Briseyda Zarate, Bailaora
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| | October 18-November 10
By Kelly Mcburnette-Andronicos, Directed by Beatrice Casagran
Whatever happened to Jack the Ripper’s wife? Bunny Maybrick began life in an opulent Alabama mansion and is ending it in a squalid shack full of cats in rural Connecticut. She’s already given away most of her meager belongings, but the heavy contents of her soul are harder to leave behind. That is, until a local prep school boy, Theo Voss, becomes an accomplice in Bunny’s meandering, mad, death-bed confession – one that includes adultery, arsenic addiction, and murder.
“ Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos has written a wonderfully creepy and surreal 'Northeastern Southern Gothic Noir,' her wildly theatrical sense of the absurd firing on all cylinders here." Doug DeVita
"The script showcases McBurnette-Andronicos' exceptional skills at world building through her research into historic personalities and events; establishing a claustrophobic, uneasy atmosphere; and creating a character-driven mystery that doesn't offer pat answers. I look forward to attending a full production of this play -- it offers a complicated and satisfying night of theatre." Steven G. Martin | Buy Tickets |
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