Sarah Vowell

Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 730pm at Lebanon Opera House

Tommy Emmanuel, CGP

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

The exuberance that Grammy-nominated guitarist Tommy Emmanuel brings to every note of every song he plays is palpable. His worldwide fan base is captivated by his virtuosic ability to play three parts at once, with pure heart and real soul.

Influenced by the Merle Travis/Chet Atkins fingerstyle of guitar picking, Emmanuel has developed a style of solo playing that encompasses the range of a whole band – covering drums, bass, rhythm and lead guitar, and a vocal melody simultaneously. No loop pedals. No overdubs. Just one guitar and ten fingers.

In 2018, Emmanuel released Accomplice One, an album full of duets with excellent musicians who reflect his expansive love of all kinds of music, and the tour behind that project included a stop at LOH.

Now comes the sequel album – Accomplice Two – and Emmanuel’s long-awaited return to our stage. Accomplice Two shares the same joy-filled sense of adventure as the first album, with a great range of artists including Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, The Del McCoury Band, Sierra Hull, David Grisman, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Raul Malo.

Tom Papa

Friday, April 5, 2024 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

With more than 20 years as a stand-up, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country. In addition to his mastery of the stage, he’s found success in a variety of creative pursuits including as an actor and host in film and television, contributing writer for The New Yorker, author of three books, and popular podcast and radio host. He’s also a sought-after panelist (and occasional guest host) for NPR’s comedy news quiz, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.

Papa has five highly rated stand-up specials to his credit including his most recent Netflix special, What A Day! which was filmed at the iconic Wilbur Theatre in Boston.

This past June, Papa released his anticipated third book, We’re All In This Together…So Make Some Room. The book compiles comedic essays that aim to unite us through our stupidity.

His highly-rated podcast, Breaking Bread with Tom Papa, features Papa and his guest eating, drinking, and engaging in revealing and funny conversations.

When he’s not on the road, Papa lives in Los Angeles with his family where he spends most of his time writing and baking bread.

Pat Metheny

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

“Pat Metheny is truly one of the most adventurous and creative talents in music…in any genre he chooses.” – Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

Winner of an astonishing 20 Grammy awards, guitarist Pat Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974. Over the course of a three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, Metheny honed his unique style — a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues. Over the years, the endlessly creative musician has performed with artists as diverse as David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, and Steve Reich.

This season, the NEA Jazz Master returns to the LOH stage with the latest iteration of his Side-Eye band: pianist/organist/keyboardist Chris Fishman and exciting young New Orleans drummer Joe Dyson. Together, they’ll play intricate new music alongside a few unexpected re-workings of Metheny’s classics.

David Sedaris

Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

“Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle

The best-selling author (Happy-Go-Lucky, When You Are Engulfed in Flames) returns to LOH for an evening featuring all-new stories, an audience Q&A, and a book signing.

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Mr. Sedaris has become one of America’s foremost humor writers. He is the master of satire and a keen observer of the human condition.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

“If you can figure out how to pack more entertainment into two hours…using nothing more high-tech than the power of the human voice and some microphones, well, I’m all ears.” – Pittsburgh Tribune

For 60 years, South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo has warmed the hearts of audiences worldwide with uplifting vocal harmonies, signature dance moves, and charming onstage banter.

It was the ensemble’s work with Paul Simon on his 1987 Graceland album that introduced LBM’s sound to the world.

The late former South African President Nelson Mandela designated the five-time Grammy winners as “South Africa’s cultural ambassadors to the world,” a title the members carry with them with the highest honor.

LBM continues to sing messages of peace, love, and harmony with audiences around the world.

Darlene Love

Friday, February 10, 2023 at 8pm at Landmark on Main St.

Through the years, Darlene Love continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her warm, gracious stage presence and superb performances. Her film “Twenty Feet From Stardom” was not only Through the years, Darlene Love continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her warm, gracious stage presence and superb performances. Her film “Twenty Feet From Stardom” was not only hits include: He’s A Rebel, The Boy I’m Gonna Marry, Wait ‘Ti/ My Bobby Gets Home, He’s Sure the Boy I Love and the legendary #1 holiday classic Christmas Baby Please Come Home. Darlene Love received her industry’s highest award when Bette Midler, a great fan of her work, inducted her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During the celebration, the two ladies enjoyed performing “He’s A Rebel” together. As part of the festivities, Darlene also sang “He’s A Fine, Fine Boy” backed by another distin­guished fan, Bruce Springsteen. Rolling Stone Magazine has proclaimed Darlene Love to be “one of the greatest singers of all time” and that certainly rings true, but perhaps Paul Shaffer says it even more concisely: “Darlene Love is Rock N’ Roll!”

The Wood Brothers

Friday, October 7, 2022 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

The Wood Brothers—bassist/vocalist Chris Wood, guitarist/vocalist Oliver Wood, and drummer/keyboardist Jano Rix—recently released Kingdom In My Mind, their seventh studio release and most spontaneous (and experimental) collection yet.

“My brother came to this band from the blues and gospel world, and my history was all over the map with jazz and R&B,” says Chris Wood, who first rose to fame with the pioneering trio Medeski Martin & Wood. “The idea for this group has always been to marry our backgrounds, to imagine what might happen if Robert Johnson and Charles Mingus had started a band.”

Kingdom is a worthy successor to 2018’s One Drop Of Truth, which hit #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and garnered the band their first Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album.

An Evening with Cowboy Junkies

Tuesday, September 20, 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

Sometimes revolutions begin quietly.

In 1988, Cowboy Junkies proved that there was an audience waiting for something quiet, beautiful, and reflective. The Trinity Session was like a whisper that cut through the noise – and it was compelling. The now-classic recording combined folk, blues, country, and rock in a way that had never been heard before.

Formed in Toronto in 1985, with siblings Michael Timmins on guitar, Margo Timmins on vocals, Peter Timmins on drums, and Michael’s lifelong friend Alan Anton on bass, the band was an odd fit for the era. In the days of hair metal and rock bombast, the Junkies’ music seemed to spread like a whispered secret. Those who heard it, never forgot it.

Since the release of that acclaimed album, which includes a moody cover of the Velvet Underground’s Sweet Jane, the band has successfully employed their “love what you’re doing and do it your own way” approach on more than 25 records. Unlike many bands, the original line-up has never suffered a break-up or taken an ego-driven hiatus. In fact, the Junkies continue to amass a devoted fan base built on the strength of their finely-crafted, mesmerizing live performances.

Béla Fleck and The Flecktones

Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 7:00 PM at Lebanon Opera House

They’re back! Following a sold-out show in 2016, groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck and the original Flecktones— bassist Victor Wooten, percussionist/drumitarist Roy “Futureman” Wooten, and pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy—return to LOH.

Far from being a wistful trip back in time, this tour finds the Grammy-winning quartet creating some of the most forward thinking music of their long, storied career. While all manners of genres come into play—from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances—the result is utterly indescribable. Simply put, it’s Flecktones music.

St. Paul & The Brocken Bones

Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 7:30pm at Lebanon Opera House

With special guests Thee Sacred Souls.

A fever dream in sonic form, St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ new album The Alien Coast represents the most adventurous and original output yet from an ever-evolving musical powerhouse. Says Garden & Gun: “Think Al Green paired with Pink Floyd and Outkast.”

In a profound shift for the Alabama-bred eight-piece—Paul Janeway (vocals), Jesse Phillips (bass), Browan Lollar (guitar), Kevin Leon (drums), Al Gamble (keyboards), Allen Branstetter (trumpet), Chad Fisher (trombone), and Amari Ansari (saxophone)—the band’s fourth full-length and first for ATO Records strays far from the time-bending soul of past work like their 2014 debut, arriving at a convergence of rock & roll, R&B, psychedelia, and funk.

At turns explosive, elegant, and unhinged, that sound makes for a majestic backdrop to St. Paul & The Broken Bones’ visceral exploration of the strangest dimensions of the human psyche.

Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon

Monday, December 13, 2021 at 7:00pm at Lebanon Opera House

Acoustic guitar pioneer Leo Kottke and Phish bassist Mike Gordon tour in support of their new release Noon, their album in 15 years. Couching late-night melancholy in a summer lilt, Noon features 11 tracks of warmly askew folk-pop, intricate playing, and the intimate third voice created by Kottke and Gordon, two of the most accomplished and idiosyncratic instrumentalists in American music. As creative as it is dextrous, under other circumstances, Noon might be hailed as a breakthrough third album from a young band. 

The return of an American guitar legend, Noon marks Leo Kottke’s first studio record since his last collaboration with Gordon, 2005’s 66 Steps, though he’s continued to tour constantly. Beginning his career on John Fahey’s Takoma label in 1969, Kottke virtually invented his own school of playing with his distinct, propulsive flatpicking. As a co-founder of Phish in 1983, launching a solo career in the early ‘00s, Gordon’s own big-eared musical vocabulary has created both a boundary-pushing discography of studio and live releases, and helped shape a generation (or two) of improvisers. The pairing of Kottke with Gordon began some two decades ago, when Gordon -- a longtime fan -- audaciously overdubbed a bass part over Kottke’s 1969 solo track “The Driving of the Year Nail” and hand-delivered it to the veteran Minnesota guitarist. The result was 2002’s acclaimed Clone.

Rosanne Cash

Friday, November 12, 2021 at 8:00 PM at Lebanon Opera House

One of the country’s pre-eminent singer/songwriters, Rosanne Cash has released 15 albums of extraordinary songs that have earned four GRAMMY Awards and nominations for 11 more. She is also an author whose four books include the best-selling memoir Composed, which the Chicago Tribune called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read.” Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Oxford-American, the Nation, and many more publications. In addition to continual worldwide touring, Cash has partnered in programming or served as artist-in-residence at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, San Francisco Jazz, the Minnesota Orchestra, and The Library of Congress.

She was awarded the SAG/AFTRA Lifetime Achievement award for Sound Recordings in 2012 and received the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in the Performing Arts. She was chosen as a Perspective Series artist at Carnegie Hall and hosted four concerts during their 2015/16 season, and she continues her association as Creative Partner through the 2017/18 season.

In 2015, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame.

On “The River and the Thread,” a collaboration with husband/co-writer/producer and arranger John Leventhal, Cash evokes a kaleidoscopic examination of the geographic, emotional, musical, and historic landscape of the American South. The album garnered impressive worldwide acclaim and she received 3 Grammy Awards for it in 2015.

Her most recent album is She Remembers Everything (Nov. 2018), hailed by Rolling Stone as a “master class in channeling life into song.” It received a 2020 Grammy nomination for the song CROSSING TO JERUSALEM. Rosanne has just released 2 new songs recorded during the pandemic and inspired by these tumultuous times, Crawl Into the Promised Land and The Killing Fields. A limited-edition 7″ vinyl “45” is available with all proceeds going to The Arkansas Peace and Justice Memorial Movement.

Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955, in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer and songwriter. She is the oldest daughter of Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto, born shortly before the release of her father’s first single. She is also the stepdaughter of June Carter Cash and the stepsister of country singer Carlene Carter.

Cash released her first single in 1979, a duet with Bobby Bare called “We Don’t Need No Memories Hangin’ ‘Round”. Two years later, she had her first country No. 1 (and the biggest commercial hit of her career), “Seven Year Ache”. Although Cash was a prominent country star throughout the ’80s, alongside fellow decade-defining artists Emmylou Harris, Juice Newton, and Dolly Parton, her music was anything but traditional: She topped the charts with songs written not only by herself, but by her father (“Tennessee Flat Top Box”), John Hiatt (“The Way We Make a Broken Heart”), Tom Petty (“Never Be You”) and The Beatles (“I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party”), “I Don’t Know Why You Don’t Want Me”, which won her a Grammy in 1985, and “It’s Such A Small World”, a 1987 duet with Rodney Crowell on his album Diamonds & Dirt, provided further hits. A sampling of these songs and more are included on the compilation Hits 1979-1989. In 1979, she married Rodney Crowell, who was to produce most of her hit records. Their stormy marriage lasted until 1992; its break-up is chronicled in Cash’s Interiors and in Crowell’s album Life Is Messy. Cash later married John Leventhal, who produced her albums The Wheel, 10 Song Demo, Rules of Travel, and Black Cadillac.

To date, Cash has had more than twenty top 40 country singles, including eleven chart-toppers, but none since 1990, and she has left Nashville in both spirit and body to pursue her artistic vision. Although she had recorded all of her hits for Columbia Records’ Nashville division, she released 10 Song Demo for the pop division of Capitol. Cash resurfaced in 2003 with Rules of Travel. The album features guest appearances by Sheryl Crow and Steve Earle, as well as a tune penned by Joe Henry and The Wallflowers’ Jakob Dylan. Cash’s latest album, entitled Black Cadillac, was released by Capitol Records in January 2006 to critical acclaim. Many of the songs were written by Cash and address the losses (within a 24-month span) of her step-mother, her father, her step-sister (Rosey Nix Adams), and then finally her mother on Cash’s fiftieth birthday.

Chris Thile

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 8:00 PM at Lebanon Opera House

MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter Chris Thile, who the Guardian calls "that rare being: an all-round musician who can settle into any style, from bluegrass to classical,” and NPR calls a "genre-defying musical genius," is a founding member of the critically acclaimed bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek. For four years, Thile hosted public radio favorite Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion). With his broad outlook, Thile creates a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic for performers and audiences alike, giving the listener “one joyous arc, with the linear melody and vertical harmony blurring into a single web of gossamer beauty” (New York Times). Most recently, Chris recorded Laysongs, out June 4, 2021 on Nonesuch. The album is his first truly solo album: just Thile, his voice, and his mandolin, on new recordings of six original songs and three covers, all of which contextualize and banter with his ideas about spirituality. Recorded in a converted upstate New York church during the pandemic, Laysongs’ centerpiece is the three-part “Salt (in the Wounds) of the Earth,” which was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. The album also features a song Thile wrote about Dionysus; a performance of the fourth movement of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin; “God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot” based on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s adaptation of a Leonard Cohen poem; a cover of bluegrass legend Hazel Dickens’ “Won’t You Come and Sing for Me,” and “Ecclesiastes 2:24," original instrumental loosely modeled after the Prelude from J.S. Bach’s Partita for Solo Violin in E Major.

A Bowie Celebration

Bowie Alumni Play Diamond Dogs & Ziggy Stardust 

TBA at 7:30 PM at Lebanon Opera House

Join key alumni musicians of David Bowie’s bands and world class vocalists from across the decades, for an unforgettable and critically acclaimed evening of Bowie songs featuring in their entirety the albums Diamond Dogs and Ziggy Stardust.  For those who never saw Bowie live, this is the closest you are going to get to hear the original music the way it was intended to be played.

Anchored by Mike Garson along with a revolving selection of additional amazing Bowie band alumni including Gerry Leonard, Carmine Rojas, Kevin Armstrong and Alan Childs, 2020’s A BOWIE CELEBRATION: The David Bowie Alumni Tour will focus on David Bowie’s fifth album Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and Bowie’s eighth studio album Diamond Dogs – both ranked amongst the greatest albums of all time.

Keyboardist and band leader Mike Garson is the longest-standing member of any of Bowie’s bands, having performed with David at over 1,000 concerts and brings with him Gerry Leonard who was a Bowie music director and guitar player tour. Joining them are Let’s Dance/Serious Moonlight/Glass Spider bassist Carmine Rojas and Alan Childs who was Bowie’s drummer on his 1987 Glass Spider world tour.  Kevin Armstrong also joins the David Bowie alumni tour having recorded and played with Bowie including his famous Live Aid performance and Bowie’s first Tin Machine album and tour amongst other Bowie projects.  Between them, the alumni band have over 40 years experience of recording, writing and playing live with Bowie.  Joining the band are guest vocalists Corey Glover, founding member of Living Colour, Joe Sumner, and Sass Jordan.

The Bowie Celebration Band

Mike Garson, who performed on numerous Bowie albums, including his much talked about masterly solo on the Aladdin Sane track, was Bowie’s longest and most frequent band member. They performed together for both David’s first and last concerts in the United States as well as 1,000 concerts around the globe in between. On Garson, Bowie said “It is pointless to talk about his ability as a pianist. He is exceptional. However, there are very, very few musicians, let alone pianists, who naturally understand the movement and free thinking necessary to hurl themselves into experimental or traditional areas of music, sometimes, ironically, at the same time. Mike does this with such enthusiasm that it makes my heart glad just to be in the same room with him.”

Gerry Leonard was music director and guitar player for David Bowie on his “Reality” world tour and DVD along with Bowie’s previous two records, “Heathen” and “Reality”,  and their subsequent tours along with his “The Next Day” album. Further credits include recording and touring as guitar player and music director for artists such as Suzanne Vegas, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson, Duncan Sheik and Roger Waters.

Carmine Rojas toured the world with David Bowie, playing bass on several multi-platinum hits such as “Let’s Dance”, “China Girl”, “Modern Love” and “Blue Jean” on the Serious Moonlight and Glass Spider tours. He’s also recorded and toured with Julian Lennon and Rod Stewart as musical director and bassist.  In addition, Carmine has recorded and toured with the likes of Tina Turner, Keith Richards, Stevie Wonder, BB King, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and many more.

Kevin Armstrong first met Bowie in 1985 on sessions for Absolute Beginners after which he helped David put the band together and play for his Live Aid performance followed by recording the Bowie / Jagger song “Dancing in the Street” together. Kevin played on the Bowie’s first Tin Machine album and tour and wrote and played on the Outside album with Bowie who introduced him to Iggy Pop and was featured on their Blah Blah Blah album. Kevin continues to play with Iggy Pop today.

Alan Childs was Bowie’s drummer on his 1987 Glass Spider world tour and is featured on the tour album and DVD. Alan has also played with the likes of Julian Lennon, Rod Stewart, John Waite and many others.

GUEST VOCALISTS

Corey Glover is a founding member of Living Colour that earned numerous industry awards including back-to-back Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performance and has emerged as one of the most influential rock acts of all time: regularly selling out arenas and selling millions of albums.

Joe Sumner is a singer-songwriter and bassist for the rock band Fiction Plane. Sumner, a native of England, learned to play guitar and drums when he was a teenager, and was inspired to write songs when he heard Nirvana’s album Nevermind. An accomplished musician and singer, in 2017, Sumner toured with Sting on the massively successful 57th and 9th world tour.

Sass Jordan has received a Canadian Juno Award, Billboard’s Best Female Rock Vocalist award and was a judge on the hit Canadian Idol television program. Sass starred in the Off-Broadway production of “Love, Janis” and has worked with Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Steve Miller Band, Van Halen, The Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, Santana, Joe Cocker, Styx, Rodger Hodgson, April Wine, Jeff Healy, and countless others. Her powerful voice has been compared to a cross between Janis Joplin and Melissa Etheridge.

Kurt Vile w/Cate Le Bon

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 7:30 PM at Lebanon Opera House

“There are few people who can spin a tale like Kurt, and it shows on this new record. It’s as if he dreamed up these lyrics on the spot. He’s indie’s great freestyle master.” (World Cafe)

Influenced by artists such as Pavement, Neil Young, and Tom Petty, Kurt Vile began his musical career creating lo-fi home recordings with former War on Drugs bandmate Adam Granduciel before embarking on acclaimed tours with his backing band, The Violators.

Now, “indie-rock’s preeminent guitar mystic” (Rolling Stone) teams up with Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon for his first solo tour in 10 years. At LOH, Kurt and Cate perform together (and solo) along with percussionist Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) and Stephen Black on bass/sax.

KURT VILE

Travel can inspire in surprising ways: Kurt Vile discovered as much making his first record in three years, the eclectic and electrifying Bottle It In, which he recorded at various studios around the country. Every song, whether it’s a concise and catchy pop composition or a sprawling guitar epic, becomes a journey unto itself, taking unexpected detours, circuitous melodic avenues, or open-highway solos.

These songs show an artist who is still evolving and growing: a songwriter who, like his hero John Prine, can make you laugh and break your heart, often in the same line, as well as a vocalist who essentially rewrites those songs whenever he sings them in his wise, laconic jive-talkin’ drawl.

These journeys took Vile more than two years to navigate, during which time he toured behind his breakout 2015 album b’lieve I’m goin’ down, recorded a duets album with Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist Courtney Barnett, opened for Neil Young in front of 90,000 people in Quebec, famously became a clue on Jeopardy, hung out with friends, and took vacations with his wife and daughters.

CATE LE BON

While writing the songs that would become her fifth album, Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon spent a year studying furniture-building at an English architecture school, living alone in a cabin in England’s rural Lake District. On Reward, Le Bon proves herself to be a canny architect of another kind: one gifted at making dense sonic arrangements feel somehow weightless. These songs are intimate and personal, with Le Bon carefully leveraging a broader, deeper palette of instrumentation than on past work. Her layers of guitars, synths, saxes, and more make Reward feel lavish but never overstuffed. –Allison Hussey, Pitchfork

Kurt Vile has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket goes to support HeadCount working to promote civic engagement, and inform and register young voters. www.headcount.org

Melvin Seals & JGB

Friday, October 18, 2019 at 7:30 PM at Lebanon Opera House

Melvin Seals has been a powerful presence in the music industry for over 30 years, most notably as the high-spirited, Hammond B-3 organist/keyboard player in the Jerry Garcia Band.

Seals spun his B-3 magic with JGB for 18 years and in doing so helped pioneer what has now become “jam band music.” From blues and funk to rock and jazz, he serves up a tasty mix with a little R&B and gospel thrown in to spice things up.

At LOH, John Kadlecik (Furthur, Dark Star Orchestra, Phil Lesh & Friends) will be featured on lead guitar and vocals alongside John-Paul McLean’s savory bass, Pete Lavezzoli’s hearty drums and, of course, a heapin’ helpin’ of the wizard’s keyboard magic. The band will be joined by Sunshine Becker and Lady Chi on backup vocals.

Together, they offer a joyful, often psychedelic musical journey that changes nightly and keeps the audience swaying—and smiling—for hours.

David Sedaris

Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 7:30 PM at Lebanon Opera House

Best-selling author returns to LOH for an evening featuring all-new stories, an audience Q&A, and a book signing.

With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, Mr. Sedaris has become one of America’s preeminent humorists. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition

Oh Solo Wainwright: An Evening with Rufus

Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 7:30 PM at Landmark on Main Street

Oh Solo Wainwright: An Evening with Rufus

Rufus Wainwright, one of the premier male vocalists, composers, and songwriters of his generation, has released eight studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Robbie Williams, Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach. His album Rufus Does Judy recorded at Carnegie Hall in 2006 was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Wainwright has received Juno Awards for Best Alternative Album in 1999 and 2002 for Rufus Wainwrightand Poses, respectively, and nominations for his albums Want Two (2005) and Release the Stars (2008). He was nominated for Songwriter of the Year in 2008 for his Release the Stars album. He also composed the original music for choreographer Stephen Petronio’s work BLOOM which has toured across the country.

His acclaimed first opera, Prima Donna, premiered at the Manchester International Festival in July 2009 and has since been presented in London, Toronto and BAM in New York.  In 2017 it was performed at the Armel Opera Festival in Hungary and Augsburg Theatre in Germany.  In 2015, Deutsche Grammaphon released a studio recording of the opera recorded with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Rufus celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with the release of his latest album Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets on Deutsche Grammophon worldwide in Spring 2016.

The Canadian Opera Company commissioned Hadrian, Wainwright’s second opera that chronicled the life and loves of Roman Emperor Hadrian. It premiered in Toronto in the fall of 2018.

David Crosby & Friends

Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Lebanon Opera House

David Crosby—two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of the Byrds, and Crosby, Stills & Nash—is hitting the road with five musical friends, collectively and affectionately known as the Sky Trails Band.

James Raymond on keyboards, Mai Leisz on bass, Steve DiStanislao on drums, Jeff Pevar on guitar, and Michelle Willis on keyboards/vocals.

Crosby is in the midst of an incredibly creative period, showcasing his skills as a brilliant songwriter. On this tour, he will be performing some of his greatest hits alongside material from his recent Sky Trails album, plus a few surprises.

The Mavericks

Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 7:30 PM at the Lebanon Opera House

The Grammy-winning Mavericks are back on the road in celebration of their 30th anniversary. Dance the night away to O What a Thrill, There Goes My Heart, All Night Long, I Should Have Been True, and more!

Experience the band’s joyous blend of Tex-Mex, Cuban bolero, R&B, blues, and rock—all propelled by Latin-Country’s greatest voice, Raul Malo.

Sara Evans

Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 7:30PM at the Lebanon Opera House in Lebanon, NH

For her LOH debut, country music superstar Sara Evans presents her biggest hits (including A Little Bit Stronger, Suds in the Bucket and Slow Me Down) in an intimate acoustic trio setting.

She’s had five Number One singles, sold millions of records, won the Academy of Country Music’s Top Female Vocalist Award and claimed a Country Music Association trophy for her signature song, Born to Fly. “I feel so blessed,” Evans says. “At the same time, there’s blood, sweat and tears in every single thing that I’ve gotten in this life.”

Sara Evans is doing it her way. As a mom, record company entrepreneur, author, lifestyle blogger and Red Cross ambassador.

Opening act: Logan Brill

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In her 25 year career, Kathleen Madigan has released four CDs and two hour long DVDs. She’s had countless appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and every other late night show that has come and gone. She’s had her own specials on HBO and Comedy Central. In addition to stand-up appearances, Madigan has been a correspondent for “The Dr. Phil Show,” ESPN 2 and done commentary on VH1, CNN, E! , CMT and TV Guide’s Emmy Red Carpet.

Madigan has won the American Comedy Award for “Best Female Comedian” and the Phyllis Diller Award for “Best Female Comedian.” She also remains the only comedian in the history of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” to go unchallenged by any other comedian–meaning no other comedian would say they were funnier than her.