AZ Musicfest Winter Festival Runs Through Mar. 10

az_musicfest_banner_620

NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

ARIZONA MUSICFEST 26TH WINTER FESTIVAL

RUNS THROUGH MARCH 10

Grammy Winners Chris Botti, Manhattan Transfer and Patti Austin, Midori and Kennedy Center Honoree Mavis Staples Among Featured Artists

 

            SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Jan. 10, 2017):  The Arizona Musicfest Winter Festival’s 26th season includes 18 concerts featuring Grammy Award winners Chris Botti, Manhattan Transfer and Patti Austin and Kennedy Center Honoree Mavis Staples on a schedule showcasing classical, jazz, bluegrass, Broadway, pop, folk and rock-and-roll tribute-band concerts.

            Performances begin on Jan. 27 with Botti’s uniquely expressive sound and soaring musical imagination at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road.  Tickets are $34 to $82.

            The schedule through March 10 includes:

• Young Musicians Winter Concert, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. at Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix. Tickets: $20.

• Mirage: Visions of Fleetwood Mac, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $67.

• Nicole Pesce (Arizona Spotlight Artist), Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Fairway House at Grayhawk, 8620 E. Thompson Peak Parkway, Scottsdale. Tickets: $52.

• The Manhattan Transfer, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $34-$76.

Cantus, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Musical Instrument Museum.  Tickets: $49 and $59.

 • A Band Called Honalee: The ‘60s of Peter, Paul and Mary, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24-$67.

• Kruger Brothers bluegrass trio & Kontras Quartet classical string ensemble, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church. Tickets: $24-$67.

• A Broadway Romance, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $67.

• Bob Moody & Friends with Broadway’s Telly Leung, Feb. 16 at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. at Fairway House at Grayhawk.  Tickets: $59.

• Festival Orchestra Chamber Players: Bach, Mozart & Stravinsky, Feb. 19 at 3 p.m. at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church.  Tickets: $47 and $67.

• Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto and Saint Saens’ “Organ” Symphony, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church, 6300 E. Bell Road.  Tickets: $24-$76.

• Midori (Featured Artist) with The Festival Orchestra, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church.  Tickets: $45 to $100.

• Ella at 100 featuring Patti Austin with The Festival Orchestra, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $76.

• “Italian” Symphony & Opera: Pagliacci in Concert Featuring Stars of the Metropolitan Opera, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church.  Tickets: $24 to $76.

• We’ve Only Just Begun: The Carpenters Remembered, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $67.

• Mavis Staples (Musicfest Legend), March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $34 to $76.

• Decades of Divas: From Billie and Aretha to Celine and Barbra, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets $24 to $67.

For more information, visit www.azmusicfest.org or call (480) 840-0457.

-30-

Contacts:

• Allan Naplan, Executive and Producing Director, Arizona MusicFest, (480) 488-0806.

• Steve Carr, The Kur Carr Group, Inc., (602) 317-3040

 

About Arizona Musicfest: Founded in 1991, Arizona Musicfest, a non-profit arts organization based in North Scottsdale, produces an annual concert festival as well as important music education and youth performance opportunities for children throughout the Greater Phoenix area. With a commitment to presenting world-class artists in accessible and convenient locations, each season the Festival showcases the acclaimed Arizona Musicfest Festival Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Robert Moody featuring players from the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, the National Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, and other top US orchestras. The Festival Orchestra is in residency for one week during the annual Festival.

Arizona Musicfest’s extensive music education and youth performance programs touch approximately 6,000 children each year. Along with the organization’s many in-school programs presented free of charge to five local school districts, over the last three years, Arizona Musicfest has also provided over $30,000 in free instruments to area schools and has contributed over $50,000 in college scholarships to local Valley teens pursuing collegiate degrees in music performance.

Arizona Musicfest’s five Young Musician Competitions (piano, voice, solo instruments, chamber ensembles and composers) and the related Young Musician Performance Series annually attract some of the brightest young stars from throughout the Valley.  For more information, visit www.azmusicfest.org.

 

The Peak invites you to share your thoughts about this article by using the “Submit a Comment” box at the bottom of this page. Your email address will not be published. All comments are reviewed based on The Peak’s Comment Policy prior to publishing.

Author: Les Conklin

Les Conklin is a resident of north Scottsdale He founded Friends of the Scenic Drive, the Monte de Paz HOA and is the president of the Greater Pinnacle Peak Association. He was named to Scottsdale's History Maker Hall of Fame in 2014. Les is a past editor of A Peek at the Peak and the author of Images of America: Pinnacle Peak. He served on the Scottsdale's Pride Commission, McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, the boards of several local nonprofits and was a founding organizer of the city's Adopt-A-Road Program.. Les is a volunteer guide at the Musical Instrument Museum.

Share This Post On
468 ad

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.