Music: Jazz, Blues, World, and Popular
Jesse Cook 
Saturday, January 23 @ 8pm
Jesse embarks on a brand new tour in support of his latest studio album to be released in September 2009 as a follow-up to his chart-topping, Frontiers. Jesse returns to one of his favorite venues, the Duncan Theatre, with his band of top-rate musicians. Audiences fall quickly under the spell of Jesse's passionate guitar work, Moorish rhythms and smoldering on-stage charisma. This million selling, Juno Award-winning composer, arranger, & producer has spent a lifetime listening to and absorbing sounds from cultures as diverse as Spain, Africa, Cuba, Egypt, France and Brazil. Jesse's exotic "Rumba Flamenco" fuses with world music and percussion and the effect is an intoxicating and "gypsy-esque" blend of jazz and ethnic compositional styles.
Individual Tickets: All seats $27
Esperanza Spalding
Saturday, February 20 @ 8pm
 Blessed with uncanny instrumental chops, a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren, and a natural beauty that borders on the hypnotic, the 23-year-old prodigy-turned-pro might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music. Spalding has worked with the industry's top musicians, including pianist Michel Camilo, vibraphonist Dave Samuels, bassist Stanley Clarke, guitarist Pat Metheny, singer Patti Austin and saxophonists Donald Harrison and Joe Lovano.
"She is an irresistible performer," says The Seattle Times. "She sings and plays bass at the same time and does a sort of interpretive dance as she plays...Her analysis of what's going on in jazz today is perceptive." "Those following jazz ought to keep an ear on the bassist ESPERANZA SPALDING, who is going about things her own way... Essentially she's a singer, using both her instrument and her voice to similar ends. Her musicality is all integrated: The Esperanza Spalding experience is light, melodic, joyful, always sort of minimalist and airborne." - Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
Individual Tickets: All seats $27
Tom Wopat 
Saturday, February 27 @ 8pm
The dashing star of the TV hits "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Cybill" has conquered Broadway (Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago, A Catered Affair); the critics (2 Tony® Award nominations and a Drama Desk® Award) and now has won a new world of fans with his concerts and cabaret appearances. His newest show, "Love Swings," has drawn rave reviews like this one from The New York Times: "Wonderful...[from] crooning a flawless a cappella rendition of ‘Last Night When We Were Young' to honky-tonk country-blues....He shares with Sinatra an ability to live inside whatever he sings."
Individual Tickets: All seats $27
Spaghetti Western Orchestra
Saturday, April 10 @ 8pm
 The magnificent five are riding into town! Armed with over 100 instruments, these brilliant musicians perform music from the movies that made Clint Eastwood a star. The stunning Ennio Morricone soundtrack includes The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon a Time in The West. This ingenious gang of comic maestros underscore these classic compositions with hilarious sound effects... blowing on bottles, crushing cornflakes, ‘playing' coathangers, apples, squeaky toys, rubbergloves, bicycle pumps, nailclippers and many more - recreating every punch up, gunshot, and jangling spur that define the gun slinging west. Audiences across the world have stood and cheered this international sensation. Simply fantastic and a must-see show.
"Music that makes you want to ride off into the sunset" - Globe and Mail, Toronto
"That the musicians perform with the enormous gravity of a Mozart symphony only serves to make this extraordinary act all the funnier." -The Guardian, London
Individual Tickets: All seats $27
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