All ages show. Doors open 8pm.
CURRENT PROGRAM AIRING:
Radio Afrika with David S.
Radio Afrika with David S.
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All ages show. Doors open 4:45. Tickets $13 day of show.
Featuring an array of Lawrence and Kansas City musicians. All ages show. Doors open 7pm.
According to The New York Times, the Asphalt Orchestra is “part parade spectacle, part halftime show and part cutting-edge contemporary music concert.” This 12-member, New York City-based, guerrilla-music force is known to unleash innovative music from concert halls, rock clubs and jazz basements to the streets and beyond. The expertly-trained members of Asphalt Orchestra combine Western classical, rock, pop music and jazz, and have a repertoire that ranges from music by pop wizard Bjork and jazz legend Charles Mingus to rock progressive Frank Zappa and Swedish metal band Meshuggah. In addition, they perform new music written for the band by David Byrne and Annie Clark, Yoko Ono, Tatsuya Yoshida, Goran Bregovic, Tyondai Braxton and Stew and Heidi Rodewald.
The Gold Magnolias are a Southern Soul group out of Brooklyn, NY. There sound is a mix of The Alabama Shakes, The Shouting Matches and Fats Domino. From varies parts of the south the Gold Mag’s will be stopping off in Kansas City as part of there “South Meets West” tour on November 8th, 2013. Two respected KC bands will be on the bill to help make the Czar bar the place to dance your arse off that night. Project H, local KC favorite play a healthy mix of Hip Hop beats and Jazz fusion grooves while The New Riddim is straight up Reggae, KC style.
Don’t miss the Gold Medal Winner of the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, performing on stage at the Lied Center! The winner, who promises to be one of the world’s most outstanding concert pianists, will be announced on June 9 at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. This quadrennial competition, organized to commemorate Van Cliburn’s sensational victory at the first Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1958, is recognized as one of the most prestigious competitions in the world. This year’s Gold Medal Winner will join the roster of internationally-recognized Van Cliburn winners who have performed at the Lied Center, including Olga Kern, Alexander Kobrin and Haochen Zhang.
Serkan Çağri is one of the most popular and highly-regarded clarinetists in Turkey today. He is joined by a seven-member band, and together, they create upbeat folk music that explores the rhythm of the Balkans and the pulse of the Mediterranean.
Çağri began playing the clarinet at the age of seven. After winning special recognition in a prestigious national clarinet competition in his early teens, he honed his craft in Turkey’s finest music conservatories. Since that time, Çağri has played solo, with bands and ensembles and with some of the world’s finest musicians. In addition, the world’s leading clarinet manufacturers commissioned him to redesign the pitch of the instrument, resulting in a new clarinet titled the “Serkan Çağri” model.
Today he is a popular composer and musical director for film and television. He also hosts his own music series on Turkish national television and is featured in the May 2013 episode of the PBS series Music Voyager.