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 | SWING DANCE WORKSHOP... A "CRAM" COURSE IN SWING DANCE **Space is limited! Call (732) 224-8778 x106 to reserve your spot!**
Ages: Teen-Adult
Fee: $35 per person
Instructor: Paolo Lanna 
This is for Beginners who wish to start swingin’ on the social dance floor. The focus is Swing and the music to accompany us will be none other than Count Basie’s. This class starts with all the basics you need to know to get started; from lead and follow techniques to fancy turns and passes. Can also challenge those with some partner dance experience. Paolo Lanna – Paolo has been specializing in partner dances since 1995. He has toured with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as “Swing Dance America” and “Forever Swing” the Big Band Musical Revue that featured Michael Buble’. He has appeared on several Television/Film programs from CNBC’s Great Stuff to the David Letterman show demonstrating the Lindy Hop. He continues to hone his knowledge and skills of these classic American dances by teaching and performing internationally. Paolo is co-founder of events as the Summer Jamboree Dance Camp in Italy, Central Park Swings and Swing Remix.
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 | An Evening of Bluegrass with CHERRYHOLMES Presented by: Count Basie Theatre Tickets: $39.50, $29.50, $19.50
(DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE for groups of 12 or more. Click here to contact our group sales department to $AVE!)
Since
winning the 2005 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Entertainer of the
Year Award, the family band Cherryholmes has taken the music world by storm
with a unique mix of bluegrass, celtic, and jazz. Their self-titled debut
received a 2006 Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album. Their second
release, Black and White, was Grammy-nominated and went to No. 1 on the
Bluegrass Chart. Their latest, Don't Believe, earned another Best Bluegrass
Grammy nomination, and the track “Sumatra” crossed over to earn a Best Country
Instrumental Performance nomination! Featuring Jere (Pop) on doghouse bass and
witty emcee remarks; Sandy Lee (Mom) (mandolin, mandola, clawhammer banjo); Cia
Leigh (banjo, guitar); B.J. (fiddle, mandolin); Skip (guitar, mandolin); and
Molly Kate (fiddle); their family trademark is shared vocals around a single microphone,
with nostalgic arrangements, tight harmonies, and energetic choreography.
The
NJ-based Up & Runnin’, featuring Ron Hall (guitar, vocals), David Pinto
(mandolin, vocals), Paul Unkert (bass, vocals), and Andy Reisser (banjo,
vocals) opens the show.
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 | The Laurie Berkner Band Presented by: Metropolitan Talent Presents, LLC Tickets: $35, $25 [There is a limit of
8 tickets per customer.]
(Note: Infants & children under 12 months may receive a complimentary ticket by calling the Box Office at 732-842-9000) **SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE DATES**
Children's music superstars and Nick Jr. channel favorites Laurie Berkner, Susie Lampert (keyboards), Adam Bernstein (bass) and Bob Golden (drums/percussion) will perform a live "Birthday Party" concert on Saturday, March 13 at the Count Basie Theatre. The band will play old and new hits, including songs from 2008's critically acclaimed CD "Rocketship Run."
What do you bring to a Birthday Party Concert?
1. Wear your favorite party hat.
2. Picture of a birthday cake (go to our website to download the picture and color it in)
3. An animal for your head because animals have birthdays too!
The band will be teaming up with Kids Care Clubs for this show. The organization's "Parties with a Purpose" program promotes the giving of donations in lieu of gifts at birthday parties and other celebrations. If you would like to participate, please bring a new book to the lobby of the theatre on the day of the concert. Your donations will go to needy children in the New Jersey area. For more information on the organization, go to www.kidscare.org.
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| SWING DANCE WORKSHOP... A "CRAM" COURSE IN SWING DANCE **Space is limited! Call (732) 224-8778 x106 to reserve your spot!**
Ages: Teen-Adult
Fee: $35 per person
Instructor: Paolo Lanna
This is for Beginners who wish to start swingin’ on the social dance floor. The focus is Swing and the music to accompany us will be none other than Count Basie’s. This class starts with all the basics you need to know to get started; from lead and follow techniques to fancy turns and passes. Can also challenge those with some partner dance experience. Paolo Lanna – Paolo has been specializing in partner dances since 1995. He has toured with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as “Swing Dance America” and “Forever Swing” the Big Band Musical Revue that featured Michael Buble’. He has appeared on several Television/Film programs from CNBC’s Great Stuff to the David Letterman show demonstrating the Lindy Hop. He continues to hone his knowledge and skills of these classic American dances by teaching and performing internationally. Paolo is co-founder of events as the Summer Jamboree Dance Camp in Italy, Central Park Swings and Swing Remix.
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 | The Irish Rovers
Presented by: Count Basie Theatre |
 | Train Presented by: Concerts East, Inc.
Tickets:
VIP package includes ticket within the first 4 rows, meet and greet with the band, and autographed poster. Only 50 of these special VIP packages are available! Call the box office at (732) 842-9000 to order these VIP packages. Over the course of 15 years, Train has made its mark on music history with their Grammy-Award-winning song “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” and chart-topping singles “Meet Virginia” and “Calling All Angels.” Since forming in San Francisco in 1994, the multi-platinum selling band has traveled a long, successful and sometimes arduous journey. Following their 2006 release, For Me, It’s You, the band took a three-year hiatus, and in that time, Train has, for all intents and purposes, experienced an epiphany as a whole. Now, with their fifth album, Save Me San Francisco, Train has channeled their early days, revisiting the roots rock sound that has made the band such a tour de force – and, in turn, the band is united stronger than ever before.
Butch Walker and the Black Widows will be the opening act.
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 | "Mutiny on the Bounty" (FREE Film!) Tickets: FREE
(1935), Rated G - Film [35mm format]
Film has been a big part of the Count Basie Theatre's 84 year history. Share some great movie moments with this spring's American Express Film Series offering a film from each decade that the Theatre has been open. The series is presented by American Express to focus attention on the ongoing restoration of the Count Basie Theatre. Admission is free but you must have a ticket to enter. Please call our Box Office or order online.
Please note: The film list is subject to change. Watch our website for announcements.
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 | Playhouse Disney's "Choo-Choo Soul with Genevieve!" Presented by: Count Basie Theatre Tickets: $25, $19.50
(DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE for groups of 12 or more. Click here to contact our group sales department to $AVE!)
If you can imagine a world in which parents honestly enjoy the music that their children enjoy, you can imagine the world of Choo-Choo Soul. As seen on Playhouse Disney, Choo-Choo Soul features soulful and current renditions of the ABC's, 1-2-3's, and learning how to be polite. Developed by a video game designer and a video game music director, and set on an animated train, the diverse and incredibly hip duo of Genevieve Goings as the Train Conductor and Constantine "DC" Abramson her beatboxing, and breakdancing engineer teach children through music. Choo-Choo Soul with Genevieve! was honored with a 2007 Parents Choice Award.
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 | Facundo Cabral Presented by: Highness Entertainment
Tickets: $65, $55, $45, $35
After traveling through the world for more than fifty years, singer-songwriter, poet and Argentine philosopher, the World Ambassador for UNESCO takes refuge in his beloved Buenos Aires, where he is dedicated to paint in his studio and to write his life experiences. Inspiring and determinant, Facundo Cabral connects with his audience. He has created thousands of admirers throughout all Spanish speaking countries. The artistic work of Cabral, is highly recognized as unique cultural bequest and is representative of all a generations of poets and leaders and inspired their message of liberty and love to the humanity.
En español: Luego de recorrer el mundo por más de cincuenta años, el cantautor, poeta y filósofo argentino, Embajador Mundial de la UNESCO, se refugiará en su querida Buenos Aires, en donde se dedicará a pintar en su estudio y a escribir sus vivencias. Inusual, inspirador y determinante, será el encuentro de Facundo Cabral con su público, quienes son miles de admiradores procedentes de todos los países de habla hispana. La obra artística de Cabral, es altamente reconocida como legado cultural único y representativo de toda una generación de poetas y líderes que inspirados en su mensaje de libertad y amor a la humanidad destacan en los planos más importantes de la sociedad actual.
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 | RockIt! for Kids Winter Concert
Presented by: Count Basie Theatre
Tickets: $15
*NOTE: Please make note that professional photography and/or video equipment is not permitted inside the theatre for the Rockit for Kids concert. This policy will be strictly enforced. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in this matter.
The Rockit! for Kids Concert is the culminating event of a six-week program offered by the Count Basie Theatre Cool School Program and Rockit! for Kids, directed by Bruce Gallipani. The program's goal is to help young musicians learn and grow through music and performance, providing an instant opportunity to learn teamwork, cooperation and good rehearsal and performance technique by playing Rock & Roll with their peers. Admission to the program is by audition only. For audition informartion contact the Education Department at 732-224-8778 extension 106. |
 | Rock the Basie Presented by: Count Basie Theatre
Tickets: $18
 "Rock the Basie" is the culminating performance of Rock Band Camp, a 10-week course for adult musicians of all ages and skill levels in which musicians work in a Master Class setting with guitar player, record producer, writer and arranger Marc Muller, a Berklee College of Music graduate who has worked with Steve Forbert, Shania Twain, Elton John, Carly Simon, Donald Fagan, Dr. John, Blood Sweat and Tears, and the Spencer Davis Group, to name a few. After auditioning and being matched with other players to form a "band," each weekly 75-minute class is run like a professional tour rehearsal, focusing on arrangements, performance and stage presentation. This full-length concert is the program finale, featuring a wide variety of musical styles, including classic rock, blues, country and jazz.
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 | "The Red Shoes" (FREE Film!) Presented by: Count Basie Theatre Foundation; A New Addition to the 2010 American Express Film Series
Tickets: FREE
(1948), Rated G - Film [35mm format]
 The Red Shoes (1948) - Based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a pair of enchanted crimson ballet slippers. The Red Shoes follows the beautiful Victoria Page (Moira Shearer), a young socialite who loves ballet, the rising composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) whom she loves, and her dictatorial director, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook).
This film was restored last year to its technicolor glory by The Film Foundation and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Martin Scorsese, one of founders of the Film Foundation said: "Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger created a vision in The Red Shoes that has really never been matched." In Scorsese's opinion, this film is, "Truly the most beautiful technicolor film ever made."
This is the NJ premiere of this stunning remastered version of The Red Shoes; the world premiere took place at Cannes in May 2009.
Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in association with the BFI, The Film Foundation, ITV Studios, Global Entertainment Ltd., and Janus Films. Restoring funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Film Foundation, and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
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 | Experience Hendrix (feat. Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford & MANY more) Presented by: Count Basie Theatre
Tickets:
(DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE for groups of 12 or more. Click here to contact our group sales department to $AVE!)
A once-in-a-lifetime concert featuring a who's who of guitar players and vocalists playing the music written by and associated with Jimi Hendrix: Joe Satriani, Billy Cox and the Experience Hendrix Band, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ernie Isley (Isley Brothers), Chris Layton (Double Trouble), Brad Whitford (Aerosmith), Doyle Bramhall II, Living Colour, Hubert Sumlin and Sacred Steel featuring Robert Randolph. Various combinations of these artists will perform such signature Hendrix songs as “Purple Haze,” “Hey Joe,” “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” and more. It’s sure to be a very special evening for new and veteran Hendrix fans alike. Says Billy Cox, whose history with Jimi dates to their days in the Army together, “It’s a thrill for me to play Jimi’s music for audiences now as it was in the early 1960s. The Experience Hendrix tour shows you how timeless this music really is.”
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 | Jay Black
Presented by: AM Productions Jay Black joined Jay and the Americans in 1962 and the group scored a string of hits featuring his voice: "Only In America," "Come A Little Bit Closer," "Cara Mia," "This Magic Moment," "Walkin' In The Rain" and "Sunday and Me," the first hit written by Neil Diamond. In their heyday they made countless TV appearances on "Shindig", "Hullabaloo", Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, Red Skelton, and Sammy Davis, Jr., and opened for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. In spite of the British Invasion, Jay and his boys carried the American flag and charted 21 singles through the 1960's. An enduring concert attraction because, as Jay says, "I'm an entertainer who happens to sing," their 2001 performance of "Cara Mia" on the PBS-TV show "Rock, Rhythm and Doo Wop" generated a resurgence in popularity for the group. |
 | Monmouth Symphony Orchestra Presented by: Monmouth Symphony Orchestra
Tickets: $30 (Discounts tickets available for seniors or students at the box office w/ ID)
Pre-Concert Talk at 2:15 p.m. Featuring Nicholas Gatto, English Horn and Lucian Rinando, Conductor.
Program: Overture to Mignon (Thomas); Concertino for English Horn, Two Horns, and Strings in A-Flat Major, Op. 34 (Wolf-Ferrari); Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op.55 ("Eroica") (Beethoven). |
 | "Hellraiser" (FREE Film!) {includes pre-film talk with composer Christopher Young} Tickets: FREE
*This event includes a pre-film talk with composer Christopher Young*
(1987), Rated R - Film [DVD Format]
Film has been a big part of the Count Basie Theatre's 84 year history. Share some great movie moments with this spring's American Express Film Series offering a film from each decade that the Theatre has been open. The series is presented by American Express to focus attention on the ongoing restoration of the Count Basie Theatre. Admission is free but you must have a ticket to enter. Please call our Box Office or order online.
Please note: The film list is subject to change. Watch our website for announcements.
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 | The Moody Blues Presented by: AM Productions Tickets:
With a legacy that spans the late 60’s to the present, The Moody Blues, featuring Justin Hayward (vocals, guitars), John Lodge (bass, vocals) and Graeme Edge (drums) are one of the most enduring and beloved rock bands in history. Their 13 Top 40 Hits from 14 Top 40 Albums include “Go Now!,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “The Story In Your Eyes,” “Ride My See Saw,” “Legend of a Mind,” “Nights in White Satin,” “I’m Just A Singer in A Rock and Roll Band” "Question" and “The Voice.” All these songs are rock radio staples even today. They opened for The Beatles on their last UK tour, almost 20 years later were still current enough to win a Video of the Year Award for “Your Wildest Dreams,” and almost 30 years later won an IMAX Soundtrack Of The Year Award for the film Journey Into Amazing Caves.
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 | Cool School Winter Showcase Presented by: Count Basie Theatre
Tickets: $12 ($9 for seniors, Children 5 & under are free)
The Count's Cool School is the arts education program of the Count Basie Theatre, offering classes with seasoned professionals for aspiring actors, musicians and dancers of all ages. Winter,Spring, Summer and Fall terms are offered. The Cool School Showcase is the end-of-term performance on the theatre's stage, providing an important opportunity for students to perform before a live audience. |
 | An Evening with the KaBOOM! Fireworks Team Presented by: KaBOOM! Fireworks on the Navesink
Tickets: FREE to the public - No tickets required
Kaboom! Fireworks on the Navesink presents an evening with the award winning team that produces Red Bank’s annual July 3rd fireworks display. Join Pyrotechnic Team Leader August Santore, Jr. and Choreographer Christopher Santore for a video presentation, an audience Q&A, and a live demonstration of how the state of the art, computer fired and musically choreographed display that “wows” the Red Bank community each July 3rd is created. Admission is free. A family owned business since 1890, Garden State Fireworks and the Santore Brothers have lit up the sky from St. Petersburg, Russia for The Goodwill Games, to Washington, D.C. for the 4th of July, plus hundreds of other celebrations including Macy’s July 4th Celebration, the Statue of Liberty Bicentennial, and the XV Olympic Winter Games. They’ve claimed the World Champion and Grand World Champion awards at the International Festival of Fireworks in Monte Carlo; the Silver Jupiter award at the International Fireworks Festival in Montreal; and two First Place, two People's Choice and a Special Distinction Award at the International Fireworks Competition in San Sebastian, Spain.
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| SWING DANCE WORKSHOP... A "CRAM" COURSE IN SWING DANCE **Space is limited! Call (732) 224-8778 x106 to reserve your spot!**
Ages: Teen-Adult
Fee: $35 per person
Instructor: Paolo Lanna
This is for Beginners who wish to start swingin’ on the social dance floor. The focus is Swing and the music to accompany us will be none other than Count Basie’s. This class starts with all the basics you need to know to get started; from lead and follow techniques to fancy turns and passes. Can also challenge those with some partner dance experience. Paolo Lanna – Paolo has been specializing in partner dances since 1995. He has toured with Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as “Swing Dance America” and “Forever Swing” the Big Band Musical Revue that featured Michael Buble’. He has appeared on several Television/Film programs from CNBC’s Great Stuff to the David Letterman show demonstrating the Lindy Hop. He continues to hone his knowledge and skills of these classic American dances by teaching and performing internationally. Paolo is co-founder of events as the Summer Jamboree Dance Camp in Italy, Central Park Swings and Swing Remix.
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