The Florida Theatre announces the latest additions to the 2011-2012 season. All four of these shows go on sale this Friday, September 9th at 10am.
Ledisi: The Pieces of Me Tour
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Event Time: 8 PM
Ticket Prices: $35, $25
Ledisi hails, originally, from New Orleans, but grew up mainly in Oakland. After self-releasing two albums, Ledisi signed a major record deal with Verve Forecast and released her third album Lost And Found in 2007. The record earned her two Grammy nominations, including one for Best New Artist. In 2009, Ledisi released her fourth album Turn Me Loose, which earned her a couple more Grammy nominations. Ledisi's fifth album, Pieces Of Me, was released on June 14, 2011 debuting at #8 on the Billboard 200, her first entry on the top 10 of the album chart.
The Ahn Trio
Friday, February 10, 2012
Event Time: 8 PM
Ticket Prices: $35, $25
Born in Seoul, Korea and educated at the Juilliard in New York City, the members of the Ahn Trio, (cellist Maria, pianist Lucia, and violinist Angella), are constantly redefining the art and architecture of chamber music. Breathing new life into the standard piano-trio literature with commissioned works from visionary composers such as Michael Nyman, Maurice Jarre, Pat Metheny, Paul Schoenfield, Mark O' Connor, Kenji Bunch, Nikolai Kapustin, and Paul Chihara, the Ahn Trio brings a new energy and excitement to the chamber music world.
Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Event Time: 8 PM
Ticket Prices: $50, $45
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world's first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Wynton has expanded the vocabulary for jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world's finest musicians and composers.
Anoushka Shankar "Traveler"
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Event Time: 8 PM
Ticket Prices: $40, $35
Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar has emerged as one of the leading figures in World Music today. She is deeply rooted in Indian classical music, having studied exclusively with her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, and is now one of the foremost performers in that tradition. In tandem with this, she has flourished as a performer and composer, exploring fertile ground in the crossover between Indian music and a variety of genres including electronica, jazz, flamenco and Western classical music.
For tickets, refunds or information please call the Florida Theatre Box Office at (904) 355-2787 or visit us at www.floridatheatre.com. The Florida Theatre is conveniently located at 128 East Forsyth Street in Downtown Jacksonville. Tickets are also available through TicketMaster.
