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Party with the arts at UAB and dance to hard-driving world music by Brooklyn brass band Red Baraat, in a free concert presented by Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
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The O’Jays, Mutts Gone Nuts, and Buckets N Boards Comedy Percussion Show are the latest artists and acts announced by the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
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Four seating levels will be available for the 7 p.m. performance, which is set for the BJCC Concert Hall. Tickets range from $38-$78 and are on sale now.
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The famous drummer, singer, songwriter, author, humanitarian and icon Sheila E., whose No. 1 dance hits “The Glamorous Life” and “A Love Bizarre” still resonate, is a member of the Escovedo musical family.
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ArtPlay provides opportunities for students ages 6-18 to discover the artist within through musical theater and visual arts camps, all in an encouraging and welcoming environment.
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Are we already in the woods? This production of Sondheim’s beloved play looks at the dangers society has created with sets inspired by Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces.
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For “April is for the Arts,” the UAB College of Arts and Sciences highlights the extraordinary talent from across the college’s fine art academic units for a month of events.
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Winner of a Grammy Living Legend Award, Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts Award, Robinson is America’s “greatest living poet,” who has crafted decades of beloved chart-topping hits.
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With the ASO, Grammy Award winner White — formerly half of The Civil Wars — will reimagine the Southern rock, Americana and country hits that made him famous.
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Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” by Gramophone UK. She will perform works by Bach, Medtner, Schoenberg and Mozart.
Grammy Award-winner LaBelle is an R&B icon, named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Singers, with hits from “Lady Marmalade” to “New Attitude.”
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Wooten has been called the most influential bassist of the last two decades and one of the Top 10 Bassists of All Time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
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A 10-time Grammy nominee, Ndegeocello is a composer, a producer and a virtuoso on the electric bass guitar. She is a featured artist for the MUSE musicians conference.
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Audiences are in for an unconventional experience in this brisk 90-minute show, which uses citizenship and documentation to speak on identity, belonging and privilege and is shaped by the actors’ own heritage.
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Grammy Award winners Ranky Tanky, from South Carolina’s West African-rooted Gullah community, combine songs carried down through generations with their own original compositions.
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The MUSE Conference, created by jazz guitarist Eric Essix and UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center, features music industry professionals who will provide musicians with the tools to succeed.
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Acclaimed as a post-modern dramatic masterpiece, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play.
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Black History Month at UAB brings everyone together for explorations of history, language and Gullah culture, and see “Black Is Beautiful,” Will Downing with Maysa, and Ranky Tanky.
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UAB’s Alys Stephens Center has your Valentine’s Day plans covered with Will Downing’s Sophisticated Soul Explosion featuring special guests Maysa and poet Hank Stewart.
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In 2022, American pianist Clayton Stephenson became the first Black finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.