From Performing Arts Alliance of Rural Tennessee (PAART)
Saturday, April 16th, @ 7 p.m. – the Palace Theatre
The Dean Martinis
The January performance was snowed out, but that won’t stop the Dean Martinis from SWINGIN’ us into SPRING!
Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults. Reservations may be made by phone at the Cumberland County Playhouse by calling 931-484-5000 or online at www.ccplayhouse.com and include any ticketing service charges that may apply.
As always, tickets are available at the historic Palace Theatre, 72 S Main Street, Crossville, phone 931-484-6133.
Friday, May 6th: Jenna & Her Cool Friends
Jenna & Her Cool Friends present a musical history of the Blues. A journey that begins in 1920 and travels through the voices, guitars and harmonica’s of time.
Formed less than one year ago, this super group of Knoxville musicians have performed both individually and collectively for over 40 years.
Fronted by Knoxville Blues Singer, Jenna Jefferson,who also performs with her R&B band, The Accidentals. She has been heavily influenced by Blues women of the past, such as Big Mama Thornton, Sippie Wallace, Alberta Hunter, Ma Rainey, Etta James, Janis Joplin, Mahalia Jackson and Bonnie Raitt. Ms. Jefferson has opened for Taj Mahal, Delbert McClinton, Big Bill Morganfield and Leon Russell.
Jenna’s Cool Friends include “Detroit” Dave Meer, Michael “Crawdaddy” Crawley, Keith Ford, Glyn Loyd, and Larry Joe Dunsmore.
This band will entertain you, whether you are a Blues enthusiast or simply need to work out your Boogie shoes!
Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults. Reservations may be made by phone at the Cumberland County Playhouse by calling 931-484-5000 or online at www.ccplayhouse.com and include any ticketing service charges that may apply.
As always, tickets are available at the historic Palace Theatre, 72 S Main Street, Crossville, phone 931-484-6133.
News…news…news…
Four incredible groups have been confirmed for PAART’s upcoming “Summer of Blues” series.
• On May 6th, Jenna & Her Cool Friends will be kicking off the “Summer of Blues” with a steamin’ night of great blues. Vivacious vocalist and conga player Jenna Jefferson gathers Her Cool Friends for a musical excursion down the long memory lane of the Blues.
• On June 3rd, the Australian bluesman Geoff Achison returns to the Palace Theatre. Geoff Achison has a reputation as a formidable acoustic and electric guitarist, a capable vocalist and a composer of good, funky songs without the cliches. This promises to be an electrified evening of GREAT blues…ask anyone who was lucky enough to be in the audience last September when Geoff last graced the Palace stage. A guitar clinic with Geoff is being planned – so all of you guitarists out there stay tuned. This just in…Geoff just made the “100 Gifted Artists You Should Know List” put together by the editor of “Guitar Magazine”.
• On July 1st, Jace Everett will take the stage. Country blues, Rockabilly, Americana – Jace Everett’s music refuses to be categorized. His music evokes the complex, vividly emotional and often over-heated works of Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Jim Morrison and Marvin Gaye, among others, precisely because it so plainly springs from the same sources of inspiration, contradiction and risk.
Just “Google” Jace Everett’s name and you’ll find yourself knee-deep in the ooh’s and ahh’s of daily papers from Boston to Chicago and Seattle that can’t discuss the second season debut of HBO’s rocketing Golden Globe-honored drama TRUE BLOOD without mentioning the brilliant opening title montage, devised around the swampy rockabilly come-on of Everett’s “Bad Things.”
• And on Friday night, August 5th, international blues artist Earl Thomas will kick off Pikeville’s second annual “Earl Thomas Homecoming Bluesfest” with a performance on the stage of Crossville’s own beautiful Palace Theatre. He began his career in San Diego, made his European debut at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival, and is now a legend on the international Blues scene.
He is a four time San Diego Music Award winner and his irresistible mix of “Blues, Rock, Soul, Gospel, and Broadway” holds the top spot at blues festivals, concerts, theatres and nightclubs on two continents. Respected and admired by fans and peers alike, he is also an award-winning songwriter, scoring hits for Etta James, Solomon Burke, Janiva Magness, and most recently Sir Tom Jones.
