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Straight No Chaser Coming to DeVos Performance Hall
5 weeks ago It may not be until November, but if the buzz is anything to follow, then I'd be ready to buy tickets when they go on sale April 30th.
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Grand Rapids Symphony Teaming With Cirque for Spectacular April Concert
March 25, 2013 Acrobatics, machines, circus and the Grand Rapids Symphony combine to present an inventive new cirque show, “Cirque Mechanics.”
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Broadway Grand Rapids Announces it’s New Season
March 19, 2013 It's NOT too good to be true! It IS true! The Grand Rapids premiere of "Jersey Boys" will open the Fifth Third Bank Broadway Grand Rapids 2013-14 season.
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Gordon Lightfoot at DeVos Performance Hall in May
March 5, 2013 It's been 50 active years of hit song making and international album sales for singer-songwriter and musician Gordon Lightfoot
Wait! Did I say 50 YEARS? I sure did. Where did all the time go?
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Grand Rapids Symphony Presents “The Matrix” Live
March 4, 2013 The Grand Rapids Symphony has done it so successfully in the past, that they're going to do it again.....accompany a blockbuster movie by playing the full score while we watch the movie.
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Grand Rapids Cultural Marketing Group Receives National Award
December 18, 2012 Congratulations to another Grand Rapids Award winner. The Grand Rapids Cultural Marketing Group (CMG), consisting of members from area arts and cultural organizations, has received the Arts Destination Marketing Award 2012 from the Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI) and Americans for the Arts for its role in the Culture Pass GR program. The award was presented to 2012 CMG board president Kerri VanderHoff at the annual National Arts Marketing Project Conference (NAMPC) in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 10, 2012. As a collaborative effort of more than 20 area arts and cultural institutions, the multi-faceted pass was launched by the Culture Marketing Group to innovatively promote awareness, membership, and tourism opportunities.
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“Flashdance The Musical” Comming to Grand Rapids Before Broadway
November 13, 2012 Remember the 1983 iconic movie, Flashdance? Of course you do, and the hit songs that came from the movie, Flashdance, Oh What a Feeling, and so many more. It was the movie that made Jennifer Beals a star.
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Opera Grand Rapids Opens Season with “Samson and Delilah”
October 26, 2012 The 45th season for Opera Grand Rapids opens November 2nd and 3rd with Samson and Delilah. This will be the first time the famous opera by Camille Saint-Saens will have been produced here in Grand Rapids, and it promises to be exciting.
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A Concert in the Studio on The River (video)
October 4, 2012 As I mentioned in a blog on Tuesday, the Grand Rapids Symphony kicks off their Fox Pops Concert Series this weekend with the music of Vegas, the Rat Pack, and more.
Matt Catingub, who will conduct the symphony for the concert, is a composer, arranger, singer, plays the piano, sax.....there is probably nothing he doesn't do in the world of music.
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Blue Man Group Hits Grand Rapids for a Week Beginning September 25th
September 23, 2012 Quite please, no one speak. Shhhh!
The Blue Man Group opens Tuesday evening at DeVos Performance Hall for a weeks run as the season kick-off for Broadway Grand Rapids. And, as you know, they never speak. Why? They don't have to.
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Grand Rapids Symphony Presents Season Finale Concert
May 14, 2012 The Grand Rapids Symphony closes it 82nd Season with a collaborative collage concert.
This weekend, at 8 pm, Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19, David Lockington will lead two performances of "Heavens Above, Earth Below," along with combining dances of the Grand Rapids Ballet Company, two world premieres - one a tribute to former First Lady Betty Ford - and the epic "Alpine Symphony."
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“La Boheme” May 4 and 5 at DeVos Performance Hall
April 27, 2012 One of the worlds most beloved Opera's will be May 4th and 5th in DeVos Performance Hall.
Opera Grand Rapids presents Puccini's "La Boheme." It's an opera starring the original bohemians; the poet, the painter, the musician and the philosopher. La Boheme is a love story with the expected tragic ending. In it love blossoms on Christmas Eve when sweet Mimi’s candle goes out as she meets Rodolfo.