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WHEN: Thursday,
February 8, 2024 @ 7:30 p.m. WHERE: New
Jersey Performing Arts Center (1 Center Street), Newark, New
Jersey. TICKETS: $49-$99.
To purchase, contact NJPAC at 1.888.GO.NJPAC /
1.888.466.5722 or visit NJPAC.org/dance.
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NJPAC celebrates the close friendship of
legendary singer and songwriter Miss Peggy Lee and the
greatest vocal star of all, Frank Sinatra. This
one-night-only event features Christian McBride as
Musical Director, with a lineup of all-star vocalists
including Aloe
Blacc, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Paula Cole, Bettye LaVette, Rachael
Price (Lake Street Dive) and Brian Stokes
Mitchell — and the Christian McBride Big
Band and Strings.
You’ll hear all your favorite Peggy Lee songs (“Fever,” “Is
That All There Is,” “It’s a Good Day,” “Let’s Love”), along
with Sinatra’s classic tunes (“Luck Be a Lady,” “I’ve Got You
Under My Skin,” “One For My Baby,” “Nice Work If You Can Get
It”) … plus many more. Learn the story behind these two
musical icons who were best friends and creative colleagues
for over 50 years.
Why
Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra?
"As for history, and as a means to explain why the
pairing of tributes makes perfect thematic sense,
Sinatra and Lee – both of whom started out as big band
singers - played their first concerts at the Hollywood
Bowl almost exactly ten years apart, him in August 1943, her
in September 1953. Their close friendship began when
they both played the Paramount Theatre in New York in 1941,
and their respective meteoric careers came together
in 1957, when Lee resigned with Capitol Records (after
five years on Decca) and the two collaborated on The Man I
Love, with her singing, him conducting and Nelson Riddle
doing the arrangements."- Music Connection
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This performance is part of The
American Song series at NJPAC, which is presented, in part,
through the generous support of the Blanche and Irving Laurie
Foundation, the David S. Steiner and Sylvia Steiner
Charitable Trust, the Joan and Allen Bildner Family Fund, and
the Smart Family Foundation/David S. Stone, Esq., Stone &
Magnanini
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