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Before we go any further, before we address anything, I’d like you to forget. Maybe forget what Gillian Welch shows you’ve seen, the floorboards all sparking from the weight of these two souls, Gill and Dave, and their four collective cowboy-booted soles; maybe forget when you first heard “Orphan Girl,” that song that seemed to exist outside of time and caused everyone who heard it to become the itinerant, the loner, the longing; maybe forget the years that have passed when last a new Gillian Welch record graced the hi-fi’s of the music-listening world – forget the pop stars risen and erased in those years, the administrations and regimes born and gone in those years – forget, indeed, that there are eight of them, eight years, since Soul Journey arrived into the world.

The Harrow & The Harvest, Gill and Dave’s new record, is both a product of and is unrelated to those years in-between. Best to forget that. What it is, indisputably, is the product of two people who have become so entwined in one another that the songs and the singing and the playing on this record seems to exude from a single voice. This is the sound of two people in a room, playing to one another, with one another. This is the sound of the room in which the two people are playing. This is the sound of two voices, locked in unison, locked in harmony. The sound of two people playing live, with no overdubs, and very few takes. Two people making music together as if they were one soul combined.

Don’t miss Gillian Welch performing the Grammy nominated album in its entirety.

Please visit the Blumenthal for more information.

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Four Seasons Party Cruise along with Midnite Production present our annual summer concert featuring the indomitable Beres ‘reggae’s best’ Hammond along with the undisputed ‘Queen of Soca’ Alison Hinds.

Beres has collaborated with the likes of Shaggy, Maxi Priest, Buju Banton and many more entertainers spitting out hits after hits with songs like Rockaway, What one dance can do, Full Attention and many more; however, Beres by himself is a powerhouse.

Soca’s pearl Allison Hinds with her rhythmic style and class along with her powerful vocals has given us songs ‘Roll It Gal’, ‘Born wit it’,’Faluma’ just to name a few.

We are musically blessed to witness this combination as greatness graces the stage on July 29th at the Knight Theater and promise that you will leave mesmerized by these entertainers.

For more information please visit www.beresnc.com or text BERESNC to 545454

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Heralded as one of our country’s foremost comics, Paula Poundstone’s quick-thinking, unscripted approach to comedy makes for a perfect fit as a regular panelist on NPR’s #1 show, the screwball weekly news quiz show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! where she holds the record for game losses. “The others cheat,” she says magnanimously, “you wouldn’t think NPR would put up with that.” Paula tours regularly, performing standup comedy across the country. Writes Nick Zaino with the Boston Globe: “You know she’s a great comic the way you know any fine performer when you see one – there’s a disarming ease in her craft, an immediate sense that she’s so quick on her feet you need never worry about the possibility of something going wrong.” Paula’s interchanges with the audience are never mean or done at a person’s expense. She even manages to handle politics without provoking the pall of disapproval received by less artful comics. “With the exception of that one time,” Paula claims. The talents of this brilliant humorist extend beyone standup comedy, but stop short of yodeling.

In 2016 Paula voiced the character “Forgetter Paula” in Disney/Pixar’s Academy Award winning animated feature film, INSIDE OUT. In June 2016, her first double-live CD, “North by Northwest: Paula Poundstone LIVE!” (HighBridge) debuted at #1 on both Amazon’s “Hot New Releases – NonFiction” and “Comedy CD” lists. The CD was recorded at performances at the Big Top Chautauqua in Bayfield, WI and the Aladdin Theatre in Portland, OR. Says Paula, “It’s a joyous romp through a field of cheeseheads and hipsters.”

Paula is also an author. Her second hardcover book (Algonquin Books), will debut on May 9, 2017. An avid reader, Paula is a staunch supporter of our nation’s libraries and in 2006 the American Library Association invited her to become the national spokesperson of United for Libraries, a post she holds to this day. United for Libraries is a grass roots support group with members across the country who raise much-needed funds for their local libraries. In July this year, Paula appeared on the hit television drama, Major Crimes. She has also done commentaries for CBS Sunday Morning. Paula has never been one to brag, “except,” she says, “when I’m alone,” but since this is her bio, and we are supposed to tell you something about her, over the years Paula has amassed a list of accolades and awards that stretch the length of a great big tall guy’s arm.

In 1992, she became the first woman to share the stage with the President and host the prestigious White House Correspondents Dinner, a role not until then offered to a woman in its seventy-two year history. Only four other women have followed in her pioneering footsteps. That same year, she rocked the comedy establishment when her HBO special, Cats, Cops, and Stuff won the Cable ACE Award for Best Standup Comedy Special – the first woman to ever receive that award. Her second special for HBO, Paula Poundstone Goes to Harvard was the first time the elite university allowed their name to be used in the title of a television show. Paula is included in Comedy Central’s list of 100 Great Stand-Ups of All Time – comments Paula: “Especially meaningful because lots of other Neanderthals were overlooked.” – and won an American Comedy Award for Best Female Standup Comic – Paula: “They ran out of people to give it to.” She has guested on all the late night talk shows, several television specials, and Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Still, Paula considers her greatest achievement being a Mom of 3 children. She lives in Santa Monica where she also has 2 dogs, 14 cats, and one ant left from her ant farm.

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After sold-out performances in New York, Chicago, and D.C., award-winning actor Max McLean brings to life one of the most engaging personalities of our age in C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert.

“Highly Entertaining” – Chicago Sun-Times

“Uncannily Spot-On Performance” – TheaterMania

“Hugely Moving!” – The Washington Post

“Intriguing!” – The New Yorker

Adapted exclusively from his own writings, The Most Reluctant Convert takes audiences on C.S. Lewis’ fascinating theatrical journey from atheism to Christianity. McLean inhabits Lewis from the death of his mother, his estranged relationship with his father and the experiences that led him from vigorous debunker to the most vibrant and influential Christian intellectual of the 20th Century.

Show run time: 80 minutes, no intermission. Performances will be followed by a brief post-show talkback with actor Max McLean.

Group tickets are available for groups of 10+.  Please call 1-888-294-1733 for more information.

JUN 13, 2017 · KNIGHT THEATER AT LEVINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

PRICES BEGIN AT $20.00  |  PERFORMANCE TIME 7:30 PM

PRESENTED BY: MAXXMUSIC, VISULITE THEATRE & BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS

MAY 2 – 7, 2017 · KNIGHT THEATER AT LEVINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

PRICES START AT $25

PRESENTED BY: BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS

JUNE 17, 2017 · KNIGHT THEATER AT LEVINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

TICKET PRICES $18 – $31    |    PERFORMANCE TIME 7:30 PM

PRESENTED BY: TOSCO MUSIC PARTIES, INC.

JUN 1 – 3, 2017 · KNIGHT THEATER AT LEVINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

TICKET PRICES: $25 – $85 · PERFORMANCE TIME: 7:30 pm

PRESENTED BY: CHARLOTTE BALLET

APR 27 – 29, 2017 · KNIGHT THEATER AT LEVINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS

TICKETS: $25 – $85

PRESENTED BY: CHARLOTTE BALLET