The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

KY Center's Arts in Healing to co-host celebration of life fair for veterans and their families on Oct. 5

The Kentucky Center Arts in Healing Program, in partnership with the Veterans’ Voice of Kentuckiana Mental Health Consumer Council, will host the second annual Celebration of Life Fair at American Turners’ Park on Saturday, October 5th from 1-5 p.m. This event, held annually in honor of Suicide Prevention Month, is an opportunity for veterans and their families to spend a fun-filled day together in a safe, family-friendly atmosphere where they can meet and gather resources and information from VA staff and various community organizations. The Fair will feature more than 25 information tables, free pizza, soft drinks, a live band featuring veteran musicians, a DJ, face painting, a bouncy house, games, a masseuse, arts and crafts, and door prizes, among many other activities.

 

Video: Next Generation Academy for the Integration of the Arts and World Languages

In this photo, teachers paint a mural entitled "ARTe El lenguaje Universal" (Art the Universal language) at the Next Generation Academy in Danville.

In June, The Kentucky Center partnered with the Kentucky Department of Education to present a Next Generation Academy for the Integration of the Arts and World Languages.  61 teachers attended this professional development seminar, where they learned to paint murals, dance Argentinian folk dances, and sing Cajun music with instruction primarily in Spanish or French.  Integrating the arts and world languages provides a powerful learning approach to studying cultures from around the world.  The Academy took place at Danville High School and teachers from all over the state attended this five-day seminar.

Learn more about The Kentucky Center's Education programs.

In this video, teachers perform an Argentinian folk dance on the final day of the Academy.

 

Highlights from Kentucky Center Governor's School for the Arts Summer Program (includes flash mob video)

 

On July 13, The Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) completed their Summer 2013 session in style. As seen in the video above, the entire student body participated in a flashmob created by GSA Dance Alum, Josh Ford, of Louisville Dance Alliance.

Other highlights from the three-week residential program included performances by Kentucky Poet Laureate and former Executive Director of GSA, Frank X. Walker and The Affrilachian Poets; commedia artist and GSA Drama faculty member Stephanie Roberts and her one woman film noir masque performance; and the incomparable Ben Sollee.

Three performances were subsidized by The Kentucky Center Gheens Great Expectations Program: Moving Collective and The Brown Dance Project featuring Aqura Lacey (who gained early dance training with The Kentucky Center ArtsReach Program and has gone on to dance with Alvin Ailey II); The Caixa Trio out of Tennessee, a female percussion group who worked with instrumental music students; and Anthony Clark Evans, recent winner of the Metropolitan Opera Competition, now under contract at Chicago Lyric Opera.

Learn more about The Kentucky Center Governor's School for the Arts and how it supports development of young artists.

Songs from Supernatural Musical to Haunt Whitney Hall in October (on sale now)

Photo: The "Ghost Brothers" set during premiere at Alliance Theatre (Atlanta)

For Immediate Release:

Contact:           

Rob Thomas

(502) 562-0794

(502) 817-6757 (cell)

rthomas@kentuckycenter.org

 

WHAT:     "Ghost Brothers of Darkland County"

WHEN:     Friday, October 11, 8 p.m.

WHERE:  Whitney Hall

HOW:    Tickets start at $39.50, reserved seating, fees apply.  Kentucky Center Members, call the Member hotline at 502-562-0144. Standard tickets available online, by phone (502-584-7777, 800-775-7777), and in-person at The Kentucky Center box office and drive-thru. Please call (502) 562-0111 (V) for information about the range of accessibility options we offer to enhance your performance experience.

SPONSORS:     Presented by The Kentucky Center and AEG.

FACTS: 

“Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” is the long-awaited southern gothic, supernatural musical from legendary co-conspirators Stephen King, John Mellencamp and T Bone Burnett. The musical’s superb blues ‘n roots soundtrack, performed on the album by a stellar collection of guest artists, drives this haunting tale of fraternal love, lust, jealousy and revenge, a full 13 years in the making.

The show (with a touring cast) will be arriving in Louisville, in concert form, on October 11.  

The star-studded album features performances by Neko Case, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Rosanne Cash, Matthew McConaughey, Meg Ryan and Samantha Mathis, among others.  

NOTE: Soundtrack recording artists are not participating in the theatrical tour. 

 LINKS:

Learn more about “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County” here.

View photos from “Ghost Brothers” here.

Listen to songs from “Ghost Brothers” here.

Jam band GOV'T MULE coming to Brown Theatre in September. Tickets on sale 7.26.

The Kentucky Center & Nederlander Entertainment present

GOV'T MULE

with special guests The London Souls

Friday, September 27, 8 p.m.

Brown Theatre on Broadway

Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, July 26, at 10 a.m., at www.kentuckycenter.org, (502) 584-7777, and at The Kentucky Center box office and drive-thru. Standard tickets start at $25, reserved seating, fees apply.

Vocalist/guitarist Warren Haynes leads this Southern Rock jam band with an ever-expanding fan base - a staple at North American music festivals. SHOUT!, their first studio album in four years, is scheduled for release September 24.

KENTUCKY CENTER TO SERVE MORE THAN 6,000 ADDITIONAL YOUTH THROUGH GRANT AWARDS TOTALING $85,000

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts recently received four unique grants from both local and national organizations, totaling $85,000, to support such community arts programs as Arts in Healing, ArtsReach and Arts Access Education. These grants, which are expected to increase youth program participation by more than 6,000, were awarded to the Center by the WHAS Crusade for Children, Kosair Charities, Inc., The Humana Foundation and The Dizzy Feet Foundation.

“We are so thankful for the generosity of the WHAS Crusade for Children, Kosair Charities, The Humana Foundation and The Dizzy Feet Foundation,” says Kentucky Center President Stephen Klein. “Our mission is a holistic one aimed at bringing the arts to all corners of our city and state, and these grants will allow us to further the reach and impact of some of our most important programs.”

The grant from the WHAS Crusade for Children will support three separate programs aimed at providing arts opportunities to local youth. ArtsReach Far Reaching, which provides hands-on arts experiences with professional artists for marginalized youth living in residential treatment facilities and those with Down Syndrome and autism in Louisville, Mt. Sterling, and Frankfort, is one of them. An extension of the Kentucky Center’s ArtsReach program, ArtsReach Far Reaching has helped 850 youth from eight collaborating organizationsexperience the arts in interactive workshops conducted by local artists who have a passion for and expertise in working with at-risk youth. 

Additionally, the Crusade grant will support the Arts Access Education – “Artist in Residence” Program, which collaborates with the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville and the Churchill Park School in Louisville to provide arts opportunities to children with auditory, cognitive and behavior disabilities, as well as the Kentucky Center Arts in Healing (AIH) programs at The Children’s Peace Center at Our Lady of Peace Hospital and at the Home of the Innocents. At AIH, the grant will provide arts experiences to medically fragile children and those who have been abused, abandoned and neglected at the Home of the Innocents and youth at the Children’s Peace Center who have been diagnosed with depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional behavior, bipolar disorder, unresolved grief and trauma, and substance abuse, as well as other psychiatric, chemical dependency and dual diagnosis disorders.

Announcing new event! VINCE GILL tickets on sale to public July 26, 10 a.m.

The Kentucky Center presents

One Incredible Evening with VINCE GILL

with special guest Briana Tyson

Sunday, September 29, 7 p.m.

The Kentucky Center, Whitney Hall

Presented in celebration of The Kentucky Center's 30th Anniversary season and the groundbreaking Lonesome Pine Specials! 

BUY TICKETS starting 7.26, 10 a.m. Ticket prices start at $53, reserved seating, fees apply. Tickets available at www.kentuckycenter.org, (502) 584-7777, and in-person at The Kentucky Center box office and drive-thru.

A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a 20-year veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, Vince Gill's vocal performances are spellbinding, his songwriting emotionally powerful, and his guitar-playing world-class. With twenty Grammy Awards under his belt, Vince's most recent release is Bakersfield, a tribute to Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.

Announcing new event! Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn on sale to public 7.26

The Kentucky Center presents

An Evening with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn

Sunday, October 20, 7 p.m.

The Kentucky Center, Bomhard Theater

 Presented in celebration of The Kentucky Center's 30th Anniversary season and the groundbreaking Lonesome Pine Specials!  Share an intimate evening  of acoustic roots music with these two amazing musicians - who both play the banjo and are also husband and wife.

BUY TICKETS starting 7.26, 10 a.m. Ticket prices start at $35, reserved seating, fees apply. Tickets available at www.kentuckycenter.org, (502) 584-7777, and in-person at The Kentucky Center box office and drive-thru.

Béla Fleck has reinvented the image and the sound of the banjo through his remarkable performing and recording career, a journey that has taken him all over the musical map and involved a wide range of solo projects and collaborations. At home working with artists from Jazz, Classical, Bluegrass, and World Music, Béla has been nominated for 30 Grammy Awards, and won 15, in more different categories than any other artist.

Abigail Washburn is a singer/songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who creates original compositions inspired by American and Chinese folk music. Her most recent solo recording is City of Refuge (2011). She also performs as a member of bands Uncle Earl and The Sparrow Quartet.

THE DARK SIDE OF THE WALL (Pink Floyd tribute band) will rock Iroquois Amphitheatre September 14

For Immediate Release:

Contact:         Rob Thomas, (502) 562-0794, (502) 817-6757 (cell), rthomas@kentuckycenter.org

WHO:        The Dark Side of the Wall

WHEN:       Saturday, September 14, 8 p.m.

WHERE:     Iroquois Amphitheater

HOW:         Tickets start at $31. Tickets are available through www.iroquoisamphitheater.com, (877) 435-9849, and in-person at the Amphitheater Administrative office Monday - Friday (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)

SPONSORS:     Part of the Coors Light Iroquois Amphitheater Concert Series produced by Production Simple and The Kentucky Center.

FACTS:

Louisville's own The Dark Side of the Wall returns with an amazing concert experience celebrating one of the greatest albums of all time. 

Pink Floyd was a band of seemingly endless creativity.  Seamlessly merging psychedelic insanity with pop sensibility, Pink Floyd showed the world that modern rock music lyrics could be poetic and dangerous. 

The finest example of their creative vision is “Dark Side of the Moon.” Since its release in 1973, this seminal album continues to capture imagination, influence artists and hold a mythic status in music history. 

Pink Floyd’s legacy is honored and revisited Saturday, September 14^th as The Dark Side of the Wall celebrates the 40^th Anniversary of “Dark Side of the Moon” by recreating the tour that introduced the world to the quadraphonic-surround-sound concert experience.  The band will perform the album in its entirety as well as visit the catalog of 1970s-era Pink Floyd. 

Dark Side of the Wall video

Dark Side of the Wall on Facebook

Mary Chapin Carpenter + Shawn Colvin tickets on sale Friday, July 19

The Kentucky Center Presents

An Acoustic Evening with

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER & SHAWN COLVIN

Saturday, October 12, 8 p.m.

Brown Theatre on Broadway

For fans of: Rosanne Cash, Gillian Welch, Jackson Browne, Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson...

This event goes on sale to the public Friday, July 19, at 10 a.m., online, by phone (502.584.7777), and in-person at The Kentucky Center box office and drive-thru. Tickets start at $35, reserved seating, fees apply.

Part of the "new folk" movement that swept Pop and Country music in the late 80s, singer-songwriters Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin won Grammies with their intelligent, honest lyrics that reach back to the days of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. These longtime friends will share the stage as an intimate duo, performing hits from their vast catalogs as well as covering some of their favorite songs.

Check-out our line-up of upcoming Kentucky Center Presents performances here.