CONCERTS
Over the Rainbow and Home Again: Jazz by Pianist Laszlo Gardony
Bass River Arts Campus
Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 03:00 PM Price: $25
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On his return to the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, renowned jazz pianist and composer Laszlo Gardony will perform fresh takes on beloved pieces from the American Songbook and music from around the world as well as engaging and entertaining original compositions and improvisations.
As a premiere performance for the opening of the “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” exhibition, Laszlo will include his arrangement of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and other pieces from the movie.
Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition, pianist/composer Laszlo Gardony has been noted for his “fluid pianism” by The New York Times, and two of his albums made DownBeat Magazine’s “Best of the Year” list. “A formidable improviser who lives in the moment” (JazzTimes), Laszlo has performed in 27 countries and released 14 albums on the Sunnyside, Antilles, and Avenue labels. He is a professor of piano at Berklee College of Music in Boston and on the Faculty at Harvard University’s “Jazz Combo Initiative” program. Laszlo is a voting member of the Recording Academy/GRAMMYs. Laszlo’s performances convey the joy of inspired creation, audience connection, and moving spontaneous improvisations. Gardony’s concerts are one-of-a-kind performances drawing from feeling, prodigious technique, and a playful curiosity that thrives on interpreting each unique moment. Gardony continues to divide his time between composing, recording, concerts, and teaching. He remains, above all, committed to living an inspired, truthful, and productive life in music.
Zoë Lewis- From Tea to Tequila!
Bass River Arts Campus
Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 07:30 PM Price: $25
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Songs and stories from across the pond and around the globe! Originally from a tiny village on the south coast of England, Zoë has made her home on Cape Cod. She’s traveled to over 70 countries, recorded 9 albums of original material and plays jazz, Latin and world beat grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons! “A cross between Ella Fitzgerald and Mary Poppins!”
Don’t miss this highly original act!
David Wax Museum-You Must Change Your Life
Bass River Arts Campus
Friday, August 9, 2024 at 07:30 PM – 09:30 PM Price: $30
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Enjoy songs from David Wax Museum’s album “You Must Change Your Life,” out May 5, 2023, on Nine Mile Records. “You Must Change Your Life” is an openhearted manifesto – a collection that embodies, then transcends bedrock elements of the band’s 15-year recording career. For Wax, music has guided every step he holds sacred; he’s followed its palpable power, abiding by its requisite unpredictability. After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard, he wandered off an academic path to southern Mexico, finding what he calls “a clear before/after moment in my life.” There, he studied folk music “at the feet of the masters” and internalized structures and rhythms that continue to drive the band today. He and wife, Suz Slezak, fell in love on their first national tour, setting in motion a future full of vivid waking dreams. Together (now with their two children in tow), they’ve logged 1,500 shows in every corner of the globe. Wax and Slezak have transmitted their kinetic energy in platforms including CBS This Morning: Saturday, Tiny Desk Concert, and NPR’s World Cafe. They have soundtracked love stories on and off screens, from the Netflix #1 show Firefly Lane to the wedding of US Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. Wax and Slezak permit listeners to answer the whispers around and within them. David Wax Museum blends traditional Mexican music’s ancient and ever-relevant rhythms with amber pop hues, their unabashed rock riffs emanating an air of AM radio circa 1975, all tethered together by seductive harmonies. It’s a seamless tapestry of boundless curiosity, an artful display of what Wax frames as “the lines blurring and dissolving between musical cultures and eras.” “You Must Change Your Life” is a celebration and an invocation, pure and infallible: It’s never too late. What are you waiting for? You must change your life.