The 2008-2009 Season

Singer/songwriter Marc Cohn burst onto the music scene in 1991 with one of the most personal, resonant songs of the past 20 years. Inspired by a 70-year-old black pianist/singer named Murial Davis Wilkins in an Arkansas honky-tonk, Cohn wrote "Walking in Memphis," which earned him the Best New Artist Grammy Award. In 2005, Cohn’s songwriting perspective was altered dramatically when he was shot in the head during a random carjacking, then witnessed the horrific events of Hurricane Katrina. He recently released his first album in a decade, Join the Parade. Tickets $22
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With six gold and platinum albums and a Grammy nomination to his credit, Jim Brickman is one of today’s top New Age artists. Winner of the Dove Award, the Canadian Country Music Award and SESAC Songwriter of the Year Award, he is renowned for his rhapsodic melodies including chart-toppers "Valentine," "The Gift" and "Peace." He has collaborated with Martina McBride, Kenny Loggins, Carly Simon and Michael Bolton, performed for presidents and princes and sung with Kermit the Frog at Carnegie Hall. Tickets $22
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Discover the wonders of the impossible! Magicians Kevin and Cindy Spencer leave audiences spellbound as they combine drama, comedy and suspense with cutting-edge illusion, dazzling special effects and audience interaction. Cross over the threshold of disbelief and enter a place where artistry and theater converge, where intellect and amazement collide, and where impossibility and inspiration are inseparable. "You won’t believe your eyes!" Tickets $22
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Say Goodnight Gracie is the hit Broadway play that invites you to spend a hilarious, heart-warming evening in the uplifting company of the world’s favorite and funniest centenarian. George Burns, who spanned one hundred years of American entertainment history, is now miraculously alive and kicking in a stunning tour de force.  Say Goodnight Gracie was Broadway’s third longest running solo performance show and was nominated for a 2003 Tony Award for Best Play and won the 2003-2004 National Broadway Theatre Award for Best Play. Tickets $22

Bryan White burst onto the music scene with a string of six No. 1 singles which included "Someone Else¹s Star," "Love Is the Right Place" and "Rebecca Lynn." He has garnered the Country Music Association's Award for Most Promising Artist of the Year and the Academy of Country Music's Top New Male Vocalist award. His duet with Shania Twain, "From This Moment On," earned the pair a Grammy nomination. Brian was also named one of People magazine's "Most Beautiful People." Tickets $22
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Multitalented Kevin Spirtas starred on TV's Days of Our Lives, Jim Brickman's PBS Special Love Songs and Lullabies and on Broadway in A Chorus Line, Hairspray and The Boy from Oz. He returns to the stage in an unforgettable musical evening of song and dance celebrating his journey from Broadway to Hollywood. Kevin portrayed Dr. Craig Wesley on Days of Our Lives for seven years, a role he later reprised on Friends opposite Matt Leblanc. "Electrifying talent - Broadway's most exciting new leading man" Tickets $22

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Touted as a "new Bob Dylan," Loudon Wainwright began his career in the late 1960s. Known for his novelty hit "Dead Skunk," he played a recurring role on TV's M*A*S*H as Captain Spalding (the singing surgeon). Wainwright’s musical reputation, however, goes much deeper. He has recorded more than 20 albums on 11 different labels including his most recent, Recovery, and has appeared in the movies Big Fish, Elizabethtown and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Talent runs in the family - Wainwright’s children include singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright. Tickets $22
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A bittersweet and ferociously funny account of the McCourt brothers' life in Ireland and escape to America, complete with relatives, rogues, fools and petty tyrants (priestly and otherwise). Tales range from the priest who warned of sinners' eyeballs exploding in hell to the McCourt grandmother who spit on Frank's unruly Presbyterian hair to tame it. "The McCourts' deliciously dry humor and Irish songs, so tart or sweet, will win you over by the second measure." Tickets $22
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Called "the hottest new act in bluegrass," these two-time Grammy nominees for Bluegrass Album of the Year bring twin fiddles, Irish step dancing, classic country yodeling, old-time claw hammer banjo and dynamic bluegrass to the stage. The family’s hard-driving instrumental virtuosity and explosive vocal harmonies have made them regulars on the Grand Old Opry. As father Jere says, "Yes, we are the Cherryholmes family. No one is named Cherry, and no one is named Holmes. There's no hyphen, nothin'! Just Cherryholmes." And that is more than enough! Tickets $22
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This groundbreaking, category-shattering trio of classically trained musicians transcends traditional musical genres, incorporating elements of classical, country, gypsy and jazz. Zach De Pue, Nick Kendall and Ranaan Meyer's passion for improvisation, composing and arranging takes them from Brahms to the Beatles with equal aplomb. They have appeared with The Philadelphia Orchestra, as an opening act for k. d. lang and at Paul Newman's outreach concert with Whoopi Goldberg and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Tickets $22
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