Jazz is Dead Reunion—A Jazz Exploration of the Grateful Dead
WHEN: THU, 8/20 at 7:30PM
WHERE: SOPAC, 1 SOPAC Way, behind the train station, South Orange
TICKETS: $40-$55
Jazz is Dead celebrates the 50th Anniversary of The Grateful Dead with their highly-anticipated exclusive tour beginning August 1, the late Jerry Garcia’s birthday, and running through Labor Day 2015. Jazz is Dead – A Jazz Exploration of the Grateful Dead embarks from the point of Garcia and company’s most complex and audacious material from many periods of their storied history. Each performance promises Deadheads musical staples as well as inspired improvisation crafted by a line-up of stellar players.
The Manhattans, featuring Gerald Alston
With Special Guests The Silver Stars, the Soul of New Jersey
WHEN: FRI, 9/11 at 8PM
TICKETS: $55-$85
Many will remember The Manhattans for their quintessential Grammy Award-winning hit of the 80s, “Shining Star,” which reached the Top Five on both the pop and R&B charts and went gold. Earlier hits include “Kiss and Say Goodbye,” “There’s No Me Without You,” “It Feels So Good to Be Loved So Bad,” not to mention their very first chart-topping single from 1965, “I Wanna Be Your Everything.”
Jerry Douglas Presents the Earls of Leicester
WHEN: SAT, 9/19 at 8PM
TICKETS: $30-$40
Led by thirteen-time Grammy Award-winner and three-time Country Music “Musician of the Year” Jerry Douglas, The Earls of Leicester is a tribute to the music of legendary bluegrass pioneers Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and their band, Foggy Mountain Boys.
An Evening With Colin Quinn
WHEN: SAT, 9/26 at 8PM
TICKETS: $30-$48
Colin Quinn returns to SOPAC on the heels of his new one man show “New York Story” directed by Jerry Seinfeld and a co-starring role in the forthcoming Amy Schumer film “Trainwreck.” Colin Quinn is currently the king of Twitter and will be back on the upcoming season of HBO’s “Girls.”
