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FREE Summer Concerts continue at The Avalon.
New Shows Just Announced.
Country, Pop, Bluegrass, Blues and Rock and Roll shows make their way to Easton!!
We hope to see you at The Theatre!!
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US Navy Band Cruisers
FREE Outdoor Concert
Saturday, July 29, 7pm
MARQUEE SPONSORS
RISE UP COFFEE, THE TIDEWATER INN, TALBOT ARTS, TOWN OF EASTON
PRESENTING SPONSOR
PRESTON AUTOMOTIVE GROUP
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The U.S. Navy Band Cruisers, the Navy’s premier popular music group, features eight of the Navy's most dynamic performers.
Formed in 1999, the group takes its name from the Navy's versatile, flexible, multi-missioned ship – the Cruiser – and the band lives up to its namesake with the capability of playing a variety of musical genres ranging from jazz standards, rhythm & blues, classic rock, adult contemporary and pop, as well as original material.
This elite group has engaged and excited audiences of all ages throughout the U.S. and abroad with world-class musicianship and high energy, fun-filled performances.
In addition to public concerts and educational outreach appearances, the Cruisers are in constant demand by the most senior government and military officials, including the president, secretary of the Navy and the chief of naval operations.
Their show-stopping appearances on Navy birthday concerts, holiday concerts, national tours and summer concert series performances are always a highlight.
All outdoor summer concerts, located on Harrison Street between Dover and Goldsborough Streets, begin at 7 p.m. They are free and open to the public. Bring some chairs and prepare to enjoy a pleasant evening of music and fun with your friends and family or call Hunters Tavern to make a dinner reservation on the patio: 410-822-4034. Children are welcome and dancing is encouraged.
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JUST ANNOUNCED
Miss Tess
August 3, 8 p.m.
Stoltz Listening Room
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“Miss Tess swings and swaggers, rooted in a retro groove that’s equal parts blues, mid-century rock & roll and Booker T-worthy R&B.” —Rolling Stone Country
A soulful Roots/Americana singer-songwriter Miss Tess draws musically from a wide range of influences—country, blues and old-school rock and roll—and sings with an “old-time warmth and 21st-century sass” (No Depression). Her voice has been described as “alternately seductive and sexy, and a pure joy to listen to” (Pop Matters).
Miss Tess has been performing for over a decade and has shared the stage with the likes of Lake Street Dive, NRBQ, and The Holmes Brothers and has been featured on XM/Sirius’s The Loft and Outlaw Country, NPR’s Folk Alley, Santa Cruz’s KPIG, and Boston’s WUMB.
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Victoria Victoria featuring Charlie Hunter
August 11, 8 p.m.
Stoltz Listening Room
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Compared to the likes of modern songwriting giants Maggie Rogers, Regina Spektor, and Carole King, Elliott leans into lusciously stacked harmonies and entrancing melodies.
Most recently, Elliott teamed up with guitarist/producer Charlie Hunter, and together they wrote and released their album, To the Wayside.
With a career spanning 16 years and almost 20 albums, Hunter consistently ups his game as an innovative writer and bandleader who has worked with the likes of Norah Jones , Mos Def, John Mayer, D’Angelo and countless others. Widely considered the authority on the seven and eight-string guitar, Hunter continues to stun audiences with his ability to simultaneously bust out tasty bass parts, melodic leads and swinging rhythms.
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Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones
August 17, 8 p.m.
Avalon Theatre
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Roots music legends and Americana icons Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have been friends for over 30 years, but it was not until 2017 that they realized they had never played music with each other before. So Grammy-winner Alvin and Grammy-nominee Gilmore decided to hit the highway to swap songs, tell stories, and share their life experiences.
Though Texas-born Gilmore was twice named “Country Artist of the Year” by Rolling Stone, and California native Alvin first came to fame in the hard-rocking rhythm and blues band The Blasters, they discovered that their musical roots in old blues and folk music are exactly the same.
In their spontaneous shows, audiences enjoyed classic original compositions from the two, and also songs from a wide spectrum of songwriters and styles – from Merle Haggard to Sam Cooke to the Young Bloods.
Now Dave and Jimmie have hit the road once again and are heading to the Avalon stage…this time with an acclaimed new single, “Borderland”, their musical roots in old blues and folk music, and lots of new stories to share.
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Shemekia Copeland
August 18, 8 p.m.
The Avalon Theatre
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“Shemekia Copeland has established herself as one of the leading blues artists of our time.”
NPR Music Award-winning blues, soul and Americana singer Shemekia Copeland is beloved worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her revelatory music, as well as for delivering each song she performs with unmatched passion.
Winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year
The Wall Street Journal calls “a consequential ride” of “bold and timely blues.”
NPR Music says Shemekia sings with “punchy defiance and potent conviction.”
The Houston Chronicle describes her songs as “resilient pleas for a kinder tomorrow.”
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JUST ANNOUNCED
The Women’s National Hockey League
August 19, 8:30 p.m.
Stoltz Listening Room
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The Women’s National Hockey League, a self-described “post-mom rock” Indie/Folk quartet from New York City, is getting a lot of well-deserved attention these days.
Not only did they open last year’s Movin’ On music festival at Penn State, they’ve released two EPs, “We’re Young, We’re Hot, We’re Best Friends” (2020) and last year’s “Fishbowl”.
Join Kristen Nodell (vocals, piano, guitar), Julie Larsen (bass), James Russin (guitar), and Liam Nee (drums) in the Stoltz and find out what all the buzz is about!
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Just Announced
The High & Wides with Mamma’s Marmalade
Friday, August 25, 8 p.m.
Avalon Theatre
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“Mamma’s Marmalade pays tribute to the Americana canon while pulling it right along into today at a joyous gallop… a supercharged combustion of string instruments, and indie rock friskiness. Influenced by 70’s folk-pop, bluegrass, and country, the band stirs up its own pot that hollers with Dolly Parton, Hot Rize, and The Incredible String Band.” - Glide Magazine
Honeyed harmonies buoy the classic high-lonesome croon of lead vocalist Lily Sexton, sailing above a whirling reel of steel string sonics and pop melody.
They’ve spent years honing improv skills, instrumental tone, harmony arranging, rhythm and energy to create a compelling live show.
The High & Wides (called “apostles of hillbilly boogie,” by The Washington Post) have a big, driving sound that re-imagines musical traditions for a new century.
With roots in urban Baltimore and the rural Delmarva peninsula, they draw on bluegrass backgrounds and weave in influences from new wave to old time to make music that defies boundaries while evoking the era when country, bluegrass, western swing and early rock’n’roll mingled freely.
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The Line Up for The Avalon Jazz Experience is announced and it cooks.
These 3 acts are in a word, "superb" in each of their own categories.
If you are in town over Labor Day Weekend, pick any one or all three of these shows to make a great Holiday Weekend These bands are fantastic.
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Just Announced
Sammy Miller and the Congregation: The Music of 1973
Friday, September 1, 8pm
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"Joyful jazz with lots of laughs and theatricality" - Los Angeles Times
“One of the best jazz acts I’ve seen in years” - Jazz Journal
"Sammy Miller is the perfect player- scholar" - Wall Street Journal
Sammy Miller and The Congregation are on a mission, crisscrossing the country like a vaudevillian revival show with evangelic fervor for music.
The New York City-based, familial collective, described as a mashup of the sensibilities of Ben Folds and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, invites the audience to go along for the ride with the lead melody being carried by vocalists half the time, and instruments the other half.
Since the band’s inception, the Congregation has played nonstop around the world. Select highlights include performances at Umbria Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz At Lincoln Center, The White House, The Kennedy Center, Prokofiev Concert Hall in Russia, and at the Newport Jazz Festival where the group received a standing ovation.
Enjoy the music of 1973 in this special Opening Night Show!
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Just Announced
Dominick Farinacci
Saturday, September 2, 8pm
Don't Miss Easton, Maryland fan favorite Dominick Farinacci's Saturday night show!!
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Recognized by the New York Times as “a trumpeter of abundant poise,” Dominick Farinacci has performed around the world, from Qatar to Japan to right here on the Eastern Shore.
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An Easton fan favorite, he’s excited to return to Easton to introduce several new artists to the Avalon community, including 24-year-old vocalist Ekep Nkwelle and Flamenco dancer Alice Blumenfeld.
Ekep is a recent graduate of The Julliard School and was recently featured at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium.
Alice is an incredibly gifted Flamenco dancer and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Joining them for this show are pianist Jonathan Thomas, who has been to Easton in recent years and is one of the great young pianists in his generation; bassist Yasushi Nakamura, one of the most in-demand bassists on the jazz scene, and most recently a member of the 2023 Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour; and drummer Jerome Jennings, who played for many years with saxophonist Sonny Rollings, pianist Hank Jones, and many legends of jazz music.
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Just Announced
Allan Harris: Kate’s Kitchen
September 3, 3pm
" Music critics have a hard time agreeing on the best word to describe jazz vocalist and guitarist Allan Harris – “smooth”, “versatile”, “dynamic”, “protean” are just a few samples – but they are in fervent agreement he is one of today’s most talented jazz performers. "
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What’s it like to listen to singer Allan Harris? He starts by making you feel like you’re at a party with everybody moving to the music. Next thing you know, you’re right in the middle of an intimate love scene. Then he takes you to church, which is both a different kind of a party and a Sunday kind of love. Mr. Harris is fundamentally a crooner, with a deep resplendent baritone – the kind that can soothe and excite at the same time.
Ever since he burst on the jazz scene in the latter part of the twentieth century, the Brooklyn-born, Harlem-based vocalist/ guitarist/bandleader/composer Allan Harris has reigned supreme as the most accomplished and exceptional singer of his generation.
Harris is a real storyteller through authentic interpretations of the American Songbook, classic and contemporary jazz, popular standards, blues and originals. Harris is aptly described by the Miami Herald as an artist blessed with “the warmth of Tony Bennett, the bite and rhythmic sense of Sinatra, and the elegance of Nat ‘King' Cole”.
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DON'T MISS THIS LABOR DAY LINE UP!!! | |
Avalon Theatre
40 E. Dover Street
Easton, Maryland 21601
410-822-0345
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