Spring Performing Arts Events
RALPH STANLEY & THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS
Saturday, January 24, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$22/$18/$5
Co-presented by
Kirkland Art Center
For more than half a century,
bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph
Stanley has been performing
with the Clinch Mountain
Boys. Known in the world of
bluegrass music for his unique
style of banjo playing, Stanley
was inducted into the Interna-
tional Bluegrass Music Hall
of Honor in 1992, and in 2000
he was inducted into the Grand
Ole Opry. Stanley is a 1984
NEA National Heritage awardee,
2002 Grammy Award winner
and a 2006 recipient of the
National Medal of Arts.
Partially funded with the Mid
Atlantic Arts Foundation's
American Masterpieces program.
SYRACUSE SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Sunday, February 15, 3 pm
Wellin Hall
$18/$12/$5
The Syracuse Symphony
Orchestra returns to Wellin
Hall with conductor Daniel
Hege and Kirill Gerstein,
piano, as the featured soloist.
The SSO will perform Diamond's
Music for Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet, Ravel's
Piano Concerto in G Major,
and Mendelssohn's Symphony
No.4 "Italian."
Please join us for a pre-concert
talk in Café Opus at 2 pm
with Daniel Hege and Kirill
Gerstein.
FLAMENCO VIVO
CARLOTA SANTANA
Fiesta Flamenca
Friday, February 27, 7:30 pm
(NOTE TIME)
Wellin Hall
$18/$12/$5
Presented by the
Mohawk Valley
Dance Partnership
Elegant and athletic dancers
accompanied live on stage by
six highly skilled musicians,
Fiesta Flamenca celebrates the
fiery passion of Spain's time-
honored traditional dance.
Flamenco strikes primal chords
in the emotions of audiences
of all ages and cultures.
Traditional flamenco perfor-
mances include light and joyful
alegrias, passionate tangos,
and romantically tragic soleres.
Company founder Carlota
Santana has been designated
"The Keeper of Flamenco"
by Dance Magazine.
REBEL BAROQUE
ENSEMBLE
Irregular Pearls
Saturday, April 4, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$15/$10/$5
Hailed by The New York Times
as "sophisticated and beguil-
ing" and praised by the Los
Angeles Times for their "aston-
ishingly vital music-making,"
the New York-based baroque
ensemble REBEL (pronounced
Re-BEL) offers Irregular
Pearls, an eclectic mix of
chamber music from 17th- and
18th-Century Italy, Germany,
and France with works by
Purcell, Handel, and Telemann,
among others.
SHAFAATULLAH KHAN
Friday, April 10, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$15/$10/$5
This exciting, multicultural
two-part program will feature
Shafaatullah Khan performing
classical Indian music on
tablaand sitar and a "Tribute
to Rumi" where Khan will be
joined by Roger Mgrdichian
on the oud (a Middle Eastern
instrument resembling the
lute) for a fusion of Indian
and Middle
Eastern music
inspired by the
spiritual poet
Jalaaluddin
Rumi.
Funded by a grant from the
Pennsylvania Performing Arts
on Tour, a program developed
and funded by the Heinz Endow-
ments; the William Penn Founda-
tion; the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, a state agency; and
the Pew Charitable Trusts; and
administered by the Mid Atlantic
Arts Foundation.
