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Weis Center announces upcoming season

The 30th Anniversary season at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University features 33 events from across the United States and around the globe and includes Americana/roots, bluegrass, zydeco, classical, jazz, blues, world music, dance, and Family Discovery performances. Ten performances are free. Performances begin in late August and continue through April 2018.

The season will kick-off on 6 p.m. Aug. 25 with a free outdoor concert on the Weis Center Plaza by Grammy-nominated Zydeco innovator Corey Ledet and His Zydeco Band.

A second free outdoor concert will be offered 6 p.m. Sept. 7 on the Weis Center Plaza by Ranky Tanky, a South Carolina-based quintet that performs Sea Island Gullah music.

The rain location for both Plaza performances is the Weis Center Atrium Lobby.

Season highlights include:

• Americana music from Anna and Elizabeth with Bucknell Camerata, blues music from Rory Block, and bluegrass music from Tim O’Brien Band and Del McCoury.

• Classical performances by A Far Cry Orchestra performing a new piece commissioned from five female composers, Shanghai Quartet featuring Qing Jiang on piano, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, Lorelei Ensemble, and up-and-coming bassist Xavier Foley who will perform, among other works, a world premiere and Weis Center-commissioned piece by composer Daniel Temkin.

• Eight Family Discovery performances including: Mermaid Theatre’s Guess How Much I Love You, Lightwire Theatre: A Very Electric Christmas, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Children’s piano music by Qing Jiang, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, contemporary circus/acrobatics by Gandini Juggling, Circa and Air Play.

• World music by all-female Mariachi Flor de Toloache, globalFEST on the Road: The New Golden Age of Latin Music featuring Las Cafeteras and Orkestra Mendoza, Joan Soriano from the Dominican Republic, Che Malambo from Argentina, Halau Hula Ka No’eau from Hawaii, and Silk Road Ensemble.

• Jazz by vocalists Somi and Alicia Olatuja, as well as Melissa Aldana (saxophone), and Suite for Abu Sadiya (jazz/world music).

• Modern dance from Alonzo King LINES Ballet

• Two holiday performances: Sweet Honey in the Rock: Celebrating the Holydays, which will include sign language interpretation and Lightwire Theatre: A Very Electric Christmas (mentioned previously)

Beginning 10 a.m. Aug. 18, non-subscribers may order single tickets for any Weis Center season performance online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice or by calling 570-577-1000. Tickets also will be available in-person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center.

For more information about the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, visit Bucknell.edu/WeisCenter or search for the Weis Center on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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