Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra

A Very Merry Holiday Pops!

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Ring in the holiday season with the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra’s A Very Merry Holiday Pops! This community tradition features the choirs from Newark and Granville High Schools under the direction of Russell Nutt and Kristen Snyder. Bring your whole family to hear favorite holiday classics. Even Santa will be there to put you in the holiday spirit!

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Voctave “It Feels Like Christmas”

A cappella sensation Voctave's 11-member vocal ensemble brings incredible harmonies to some of the most beloved songs and have been inspiring their millions of social media fans since 2015. From holiday favorites to Disney showstoppers and beyond, It Feels Like Christmas is a seasonal treat for musical lovers of all ages.
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The Polar Express (2004 Film)

Sponsored by Hopewell Federal Credit Union

Tom Hanks plays the train conductor of a magical train heading for the North Pole, in addition to five other parts. Based on a storybook written by Chris Van Allsburg, the Christmas story tells of a boy who has reached an age when he begins to have doubts believing in Santa.
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Away in the Basement: Church Basement Ladies Christmas Tour

And out of the basement shall come a Church Basement program of good tidings, great humor and joy!. The ladies are serving it up again, This time around it’s an all-new holiday show. Troupe America, Inc., the Producer of the nationally acclaimed musical comedy Church Basement Ladies and Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping opens the holiday season with a new musical comedy Away in the Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas..
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Joshua Redman

“where are we” Tour

Joshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz artists to have emerged in the 1990’s. Born in Berkeley, California he is the son of legendary saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer Renee Shedroff. In 1991 Redman graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and had already been accepted by Yale Law School, but deferred entrance for what he believed was only going to be one year.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin

Two amazing artists and storytellers bring their amazing catalogue of songs together.
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Get The Led Out

From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. The Philadelphia-based group consists of six veteran musicians intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live, like you've never heard before. Utilizing the multi-instrumentalists at their disposal, GTLO re-create the songs in all their depth and glory with the studio overdubs that Zeppelin themselves never performed.
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Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra

Sound the Trumpet!

Soloist: Mark Grisez, trumpet

Sound the trumpet, Mark Grisez is in the house! This young, exciting virtuoso will give us all chills performing the great Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat. Also on the program is Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and the magnificent Beethoven Symphony No. 1.

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Shayna Steele

Stage Door Cabaret sponsored by Huntington Bank

Schooled in Jazz by her Godfather, self-taught and guided by her musician father and educated in Gospel by her choir director, the Grammy-nominated Michael McElroy, Shayna Steele dove headfirst into music in her teens, entering (and winning) several pageants and talent shows, including an appearance on Ed McMahon's Star Search at the tender age of 15 (she came in 2nd by a 1/2 star). "I never really felt 'grounded' until I moved to NYC”, she says. “It was then that I really opened up to different genres of music." Shayna began to develop her sound, blending new influences, from Ledisi to Rachelle Farrell, with her childhood icons Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan and the Temptations.
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Craig Cardiff

Stage Door Cabaret sponsored by Huntington Bank

Cardiff has found himself writing songs that offer pithy little bits of hope for people to hold onto. A prolific songwriter, Craig has released 21 albums and Eps independently and has found a global online audience that has streamed his songs more than 100 million times. With a voice described as “warm, scratched, sad and sleepy,” Cardiff sings songs that expose the human condition, putting a magnifying glass to our clumsier and less proud moments.
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Kansas

50th Anniversary Tour - Another Fork in the Road

With a legendary career spanning five decades, KANSAS has firmly established itself as one of America’s iconic classic rock bands. This "garage band" from Topeka released their debut album in 1974 after being discovered by Wally Gold, who worked for Don Kirshner, and have gone on to sell more than 30 million albums worldwide.
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Alex Cuba

Stage Door Cabaret sponsored by Huntington Bank

Cuba's musical evolution for years was all about searching for the simplicity and soul in Cuban music – taking apart the complex arrangements, mixing it with North American influences, adopting the melodic simplicity of pop music, looking to Cuban folk traditions for inspiration – he’s always exploring, always creating something fresh and new, and always, it seems, getting it just right.
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Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra

Women in Music

Soloist: Susan Powell, percussion

Discover newly found music by an American treasure, Florence B. Price. The music of this great American composer is beautiful, historic and inspiring, as you’ll hear with her Dances in the Canebreaks and Symphony No. 3. We’ll also feature NGSO percussionist, Susan Powell performing Jennifer Higdon’s amazing Percussion Concerto. Critics call this piece “A technical triumph” with the soloist dancing in and out of the orchestra playing multiple instruments. It will be a joy to see and to hear.”

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Taylor Ashton

Stage Door Cabaret sponsored by Huntington Bank

Born and raised in Canada, Ashton got his start fronting the beloved Vancouver five-piece Fish & Bird. After moving to NYC, he teamed up with Courtney Hartman for 2018’s Been On Your Side, which Rolling Stone proclaimed “packs a punch,” and two years later released his solo debut, The Romantic, earning widespread praise alongside dates with the likes of Sarah Jarosz, Madison Cunningham, The Wood Brothers, and more.
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