Our faculty, Dr. Xun Pan, Steinway artist, will perform chamber music with the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, to Millersville University and Lancaster community audiences.
Public ticket type includes adults, senior citizens, and visiting students. MU Students will receive up to one (1) free ticket with a valid MU ID at a box office location. Advanced ticket reservations are strongly encouraged. MU Student discount tickets are subject to availability at the door.
We The People First Fridays
Open Rehearsal for Tuba Christmas
Friday, December 2, 2022 | 6:30 P.M.
Steinman Hall/Atrium | Ware Center
FREE
Get a preview listen to the beloved Lancaster tradition of Tuba Christmas before all of the region’s big brass blowers head outdoors to Penn Square to joyously (and loudly) ring in the holiday season!
Breast-A-Ville “Pink Out” for Breast Cancer Awareness
Steinman Hall | Ware Center
Entertainment, raffle baskets, breast health information, and more. Musical guest Lavacave! Gypsybilly Cabaret stylings, with violinist Robin Chambers, and Nick DiSanto of one-man band fame, wailing and crooning their original fare.
Art: Jan Yatsko – 52 DIVAS
Regitz Gallery | Ware Center
Friday, October 7, 2022
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
On display October 3 through 28
ARTIST STATEMENT
The 52 self-portraits are a conversation and visual discovery of my own image, with myself, as an artist and with the viewer.
Since 2013, I have taught a workshop for women titled “Discover Your Inner Diva”. 2 years later, I decided to use the same exercises in the workshop for my own development. From January 2015 to March 2022, I painted 52 self-portraits of my life with its ups and downs, my dreams, my thoughts, and my visual interpretation of spiritual classes that I have taken as well as certain phrases from books. During this process, I realized that it has also been a visual interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”. The colors, symbols and images reflect my life in Costa Rica since 1999. It is a “visual journey” of my interior self as well as an artist over 7 years.
We The People First Fridays
Celebrating Latin Pride in National Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month
HiGH FRUCTOSE: an evening with PINK i
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/3070104
Friday, September 2, 2022 | 6:30 P.M.
Steinman Hall | Ware Center
FREE
PINK i is a Lancaster-based singer/songwriter. Their sound transcends labels, genders, and genres.
ART: Peace Kids to the Rescue
Friday, September 2, 2022
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
Lyet Lobby | Ware Center
On display Friday, September 2 through 9
Annual art show and silent auction launched in 2018, features with art created by children from 5 to 18 years old. All proceeds from the show benefit Church World Service and Lancaster County Homeless Coalition.
ART: Creating Community: A Reflection on Public Art Projects
Friday, September 2, 2022
Opening Reception | 6-8 P.M.
Regitz Gallery | Ware Center
On display September 2 through 23
Creating Community explores the process, artifacts, and activations behind community based public artworks, featuring a new mural co-created by youth from the PA Migrant Education Project summer program and Lancaster-based artist Salina Almanzar.
Local singer Amy Banks brings holiday cheer from across the decades with the thrilling Harrisburg Jazz Collective Big Band under the direction of Steve Rudolph. Holiday attire is encouraged for this festive concert celebration.
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A dynamic local group featuring a five-piece band and eight vocal artists, Jeannette and T.H.E.M. will walk through the evolution of Black music starting with African drumming and going through the decades and timelines of various genres leading up to present day music. Featuring songs by familiar artists including Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, Marvin Gaye, and more. Club 42 is an intimate, reserved table seating venue with a cash (only) bar. Doors open at 6:30 for the 7:30 P.M. show in the 3rd floor Atrium of the Ware Center.
T.H.E.M., which stands for “To Heal and Encourage Musically” is comprised of individual artists and musicians, including popular vocalist Jeannette Wehye, who was last at Club 42 with producer-singer Reji Woods (who will also appear in this show,) in his 2020 production of Portrait of a Lady: Diva Legacies. Featured performers in this show include the groups’ founder, hip-hop recording artist and producer DeJuan Rosado “Spoken Music”, RnB recording artist and songwriter Devonttae White (Zen City), Ian Sánchez Heresmae (Pink i), and additional artists Norman McMillan III, Damaria Quick, Jailah Wehye, Sir Dominique Jordan, Souul Truu and Cyria King.
The production is sponsored in part by Music For Everyone and Spice Kings Kitchen located across the street from the Ware Center at 47 N. Prince. Present your ticket from the show that day and receive a discount on food purchases.
Celebrate the life, music and career of acclaimed singer-songwriter Smokey Robinson and the Tony Award-winning actor who portrayed him in the Broadway hit Motown: The Musical. Charl Brown lights up the first act with Smokey’s biggest hits and in the second act takes us through his own Broadway history and hits with songs from Hair, Jersey Boys, Pippin, Sister Act, and more.
Running time: 90 minutes, 15 minute intermission.
Presented in partnership with Robert Bowman and Christine Kennedy.
Back by popular demand! This wildly popular show features top Irish music, song and dance in an engaging performance rich in humor and boundless energy, with special guest singer Caitríona Sherlock – the very best of new Irish female vocal talent.
Evocative photographic images provide a backdrop to some of the rich historical traditions of Ireland for this family-friendly performance. Lively instrumental tunes on fiddle, flute, uilleann pipes and harp, along with thrilling Irish old-style dancing from Samantha Harvey will give a memorable glimpse into the enchanting spirit of Christmas and a fun-filled start to the holiday season.
MU Students will receive up to one (1) free ticket with a valid MU ID at a box office location. Advanced ticket reservations are strongly encouraged. MU Student discount tickets are subject to availability at the door.
Songs We Love was first presented as the 2016 Season Opener at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. True to its mission “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy,” JALC made the program available to other cities, but in short outings. Now, as a result of JALC’s partnership with the international booking agency IMG Artists, Songs We Love will reach 47 cities across the country, from major markets including Los Angeles, CA, and Atlanta, GA, to smaller yet significant destinations such as Fish Creek, WI, and Orono, ME.
With this expanded 2023 touring initiative, Jazz at Lincoln Center provides a wide range of concert presenters an opportunity to offer excellent jazz programming while introducing to a broader audience the musicians who will reinterpret and reimagine the sound of jazz for years to come.
In Songs We Love, a superb ensemble of up-and-coming players, schooled and tested on the stages of Jazz at Lincoln Center and concert halls around the world, will revisit some of the great songs from the first decades of jazz. Under the musical direction of trumpeter Riley Mulherkar and featuring vocalists Vuyo Sotashe, Brianna Thomas, and Shenel Johns, the ensemble will bring to life songs and styles that define the sound of jazz singing from the 1920s to the early 1950s. It’s a journey of blues, swing, and surprise, from the sound of Ma Rainey and the extraordinary storytelling of Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald to the easy swing of Frank Sinatra and the dramatic flair of Judy Garland.
The repertoire includes gems such as the traditional blues “See See Rider,” first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey, and Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.’s ”God Bless the Child,” a classic ballad first recorded in 1941. The song was sparked by the line “God bless the child that’s got his own,” which Holiday’s mother used in an argument with her daughter. It was celebrated in 2001 as one of the Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. The program also includes jewels by masters of songcraft such as George Gershwin (“I Loves You Porgy”), Cole Porter (“So in Love”), and Harold Arlen (“Over the Rainbow,” sung by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz in 1939).
MU STUDENTS can receive up to one (1) free ticket with a valid MU ID. MU Discounts are NOT available online and must be made in-person or by calling any box office location. Advanced ticket reservations are strongly encouraged. MU Student discount tickets are subject to availability on the day of the event. Learn more: https://artsmu.com/free-tickets-transportation/
After a spectacular appearance at the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals AND the recent 2023 America’s Got Talent All-Stars, the “South American Sensation” MALEVO will wow our audience in Clair Hall at the Winter Center with its speciality, Malambo – a traditional Argentine folk dance of great virility and dexterity. But Malevo takes it beyond its limits with a modern, avant-garde, and transgressive approach, with live music and percussive dance, bringing to the contemporary stage an exhilarating and engaging show for all ages.
MU Students can receive up to one (1) free ticket with a valid MU ID. MU Discounts are NOT available online and must be made in-person or by calling any box office location. Advanced ticket reservations are strongly encouraged. MU Student discount tickets are subject to availability on the day of the event.