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  • Musta Got Lost? Musta Got Lost?

    Apr 24, 2008 9:00 AM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published April 24, 2008

    Angel might be the centerfold, but '30s-era jazz guitarist Charlie Christian would certainly be the cover image of any musical encyclopedia as envisioned by J. Geils.

    As titular head of the multi-platinum, Boston-based J. Geils Band, the guitarist Geils spent years playing the rock 'n' roll stage fueled by such hits as “Freeze Frame,” “Love Stinks,” “Give It To Me,” “(Ain't Nothin' But A) House Party” and, yes, the MTV-happy “Centerfold.” Full Story

  • Old Friends Old Friends

    Apr 24, 2008 9:00 AM - Kathleen Edgecomb, The Day Originally published April 24, 2008

    The City of New London and the U.S. Coast Guard are celebrating a 218-year-old relationship Saturday and Sunday with concerts, parades, boat tours and lunch with a cadet.

    At 10:30 a.m., Sat., cadets, other Coast Guard units and a variety of community-based organizations will parade down Bank Street to the Parade and then up State Street.

    At 2 p.m., the Coast Guard Band will perform a free concert at the Garde Arts Center. Full Story

  • Making Headlines with Magic of Show Biz Making Headlines with Magic of Show Biz

    Apr 18, 2008 9:00 AM - Kristina Dorsey, The Day - originally published April 18, 2008

    Some might call it magic. Others, a publicity stunt. Either way, it's 100 percent showbiz.

    There's nothing like a big ol' Event with a capital E to ramp up interest in an upcoming show, and even in absentia, magician Mike Super created a scene at high noon Thursday at the Garde Arts Center. A crane hoisted a newspaper vendor box 40 feet up onto the roof above the theatre marquee.

    Inside the box is Super's prediction of what the lead headline will be in The Day on May 10, when he is set to perform at the Garde. Full Story

  • Ready for the Big Time - Connecticut Lyric Opera Ready for the Big Time - Connecticut Lyric Opera

    Apr 14, 2008 10:31 AM - Kathleen Edgecomb, The Day Originally published April 14, 2008

    John Waller knew the Connecticut Lyric Opera — a grassroots company he created five years ago with three others with the goal of making opera more accessible — was on its way when the group opened an office in January in downtown New London.

    During Christmas break from his job at Ortronics in New London, where he is Web application developer, Waller helped repair drywall and paint.

    “It was a great moment when we moved the filing cabinet from my basement to the office,'' he says. Full Story

  • The Guard at the Garde The Guard at the Garde

    Apr 08, 2008 6:16 PM - NEW LONDON—As part of the festivities for “The U.S. Coast Guard and New London: Celebrating 218 Years Together,” the U.S. Coast Guard Band presents a free performance at the Garde Arts Center in downtown New London on Saturday, April 26 at 2 p.m. Full Story

  • Movin' Out is Moving to the Garde Movin' Out is Moving to the Garde

    Mar 26, 2008 10:36 AM - Sharma Howard, Norwich Bulletin Originally published March 26, 2008

    The psychological ravages of war furrowed into the American culture after the Vietnam War; grief, guilt, anger and rampant drug use all trailed the pert, post-war idealism of World War II.

    When one listens, that’s what rock legend Billy Joel reflected in his hit songs, which attracted Twyla Tharp, a choreographer known for fusing classical sensibility with other dance genres for layered, electrically charged movement. In 2002, she debuted a new type of musical to narrate Joel’s work. “Movin’ Out,” will come to the Garde Arts Center Saturday and Sunday. Full Story

  • Life should be more like Hairspray Life should be more like Hairspray

    Mar 13, 2008 10:42 AM - Marshall Williams, Westerly Sun Originally published March 13, 2008

    If life were everything it could be, it would be more like "Hairspray," said the critics when this cheerfully demented musical opened six years ago in New York and London. Based on the cheerfully demented film by the cheerfully demented John Waters, "Hairspray" finds moral strength among cross-dressing parents and image-conscious fat teenagers who somehow know how to do the right thing when hefty push comes to triple-step shove. Full Story

  • Artistic Justice Served Artistic Justice Served

    Jan 17, 2008 11:07 AM - Eric Danton, Hartford Courant Originally published January 17, 2008

    There's nothing allegorical about the title of Bettye LaVette's latest album, The Scene of the Crime.

    It's a cold case now, and some of the principles have since died, but she is certainly the victim of a musical felony committed some 35 years ago. Full Story

  • Evita Is Stunning as Garde's Latest Flame Evita Is Stunning as Garde's Latest Flame

    Jan 12, 2008 11:42 AM - Kristina Dorsey, The Day Originally published January 12, 2008

    It's amazing how fresh, three decades later, Evita can still feel. The Troika production that started a two-day stand Friday at the Garde Arts Center shined up and showed off the musical's considerable merits. The songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice still exhibit a complexity and emotionalism that critics often accuse Webber's creations of lacking. The staging was inventive, creatively conveying the story's epic sweep. Full Story

  • Evita Comes to the Garde Stage This Weekend

    Jan 10, 2008 2:41 PM - Tim Malcolm, Norwich Bulletin Originally published January 10, 2008

    The sweeping story of the rise of Eva Peron is coming to New London with the Garde Arts Center’s production of “Evita” Friday and Saturday.

    Peron became Argentina’s most celebrated heroine, a woman who rose quickly to prominence alongside husband, Argentinian President Juan Peron. Her story was immortalized in 1977, when Andrew Lloyd Weber, popularly known as the king of the musical, developed a concept album, then a musical, about her life. Full Story

  • gardearts.org Adds Online Giving to Patron Internet Options

    Dec 28, 2007 9:25 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 28, 2007
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    (New London, CT) The Garde Arts Center, Southeastern Connecticut’s non-profit regional performing arts center in downtown New London, is now offering an on-line giving program on its website www.gardearts.org. Full Story

  • Evita Ushers in 2008 at the Garde in Legendary Style

    Dec 13, 2007 4:15 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 12, 2007
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    (New London, CT) The Citizens Bank Broadway Series returns for 2008 with EVITA, the compelling story of Eva “Evita” Peron, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron, from composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice. A dynamic, larger-than-life persona, Evita captivated a nation by championing the working class. The epic story of her rise and fall will come to the Garde Arts Center on January 11 & 12, 2008, Friday at 8:00pm and Saturday at 3:00 and 8:00 pm. Full Story

  • Staples & LaVette in an Evening of Blues, Gospel, and R&B

    Dec 12, 2007 4:22 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 12, 2007
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    (New London, CT) Soul and gospel legend MAVIS STAPLES joins with blues diva BETTYE LaVETTE for an extraordinary evening with two of the most recognizable voices of this century on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 8:00 pm in an event co-presented with Kitchings Productions and sponsored by ShopRite of Norwich and New London. Full Story

  • Pizzarelli Makes the Classics Current

    Dec 08, 2007 4:13 PM - Chuck Obuchowski, Hartford Courant Originally published December 8, 2007

    John Pizzarelli delivered compelling renditions of nearly 20 standard pop songs at the Garde Arts Center in New London Thursday. The jazz scene is currently flooded with vocalists who draw upon the Great American songbook for inspiration, but Pizzarelli is one of very few who consistently communicate the magic of these pieces to 21st century audiences.

    As he demonstrated repeatedly at the Garde, Pizzarelli has mastered the art of inhabiting a song's lyrics. He made Nat "King" Cole's "I'm an Errand Boy for Rhythm" a robust personal proclamation. During "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," he portrayed an abandoned lover with equal conviction. Full Story

  • Dynamic Duo

    Dec 06, 2007 4:00 PM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published December 6, 2007

    Of late, the Garde Arts Center in New London has been running a sort of “two for one coupon,” if you will, for some pretty spectacular evenings of music.

    There was the astounding Sam Bush/Joe Bonamassa bill, the Ruthie Foster and Madeleine Peyroux show, and also the Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby tandem. And folks are already looking ahead to February for the stunning pairing of the subdudes and BeauSoleil.

    In the meantime, tonight, add to this impressive Gardean trend a show featuring jazzers Jane Monheit and John Pizzarelli. Full Story

  • Rise in Inflation

    Dec 06, 2007 3:48 PM - Kathleen Edgecomb, The Day Originally published December 6, 2007

    The Fred Garbo Inflatable Theater is just a lot of hot air. Well, helium actually.

    The show features larger-than-life blocks that bounce around and cylinders that slither across the stage. Humans appear from colorful changelings that gather throughout the theater.

    Fred Garbo and Daielma Santos bring their inflatable inventions of ripstop nylon and whimsical shapes to the Garde Arts Center Saturday. It's been described as “graceful ballet meets vaudevillian slapstick.”

    Members of the theater have been on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” appeared on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and have received audience adulation in Chile, Japan, Ireland and Brazil. Full Story

  • Pizzarelli and Monheit Perform in New London

    Dec 06, 2007 3:41 PM - Owen McNally, Hartford Courant Originally published December 6, 2007

    John Pizzarelli and Jane Monheit, two top contemporary interpreters of the Great American Songbook, are featured on a strong double-bill tonight at 8 at New London's Garde Arts Center.

    Pizzarelli, a triple-threat performer as vocalist, guitarist and amusing, between-songs raconteur, will dip into selections from his latest CD, Dear Mr. Sinatra (Telarc International).

    Monheit, a dazzling diva who's much at home with both jazz and cabaret material, will, more than likely, serve up samplers from her recent album, Surrender (Concord). Full Story

  • Rhapsody in Blue

    Nov 15, 2007 1:57 PM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published November 15, 2007

    The obvious question, when considering a bill that includes both mandolin bluegrass virtuoso Sam Bush and blues guitar wizard Joe Bonamassa, is: Please, God, will they jam together?

    This becomes even more tantalizing — yes, that's drool oozing out of the computer keyboard — when Bush and Bonamassa come to our part of the world. And, indeed, Bush and Bonamassa perform Sunday at the Garde Arts Center in New London. Full Story

  • Clowns and More Clowns

    Nov 05, 2007 11:34 AM - Kathleen Edgecomb, The Day Originally published October 25, 2007

    The Russian American Kids Circus will swing onto the Garde Arts Center stage on Saturday, performing acrobatics, synchronized unicycling, tightrope walking, juggling, aerial feats and balancing acts.

    Before they take to the stage, though, roving jugglers and clowns on unicycles will prime theatergoers with gravity-defying feats.

    Six clowns from ARTFARM, a non-profit, professional theater troupe based in Middletown that focuses its clowning on making the planet a better place, will mingle for an hour before the 4 p.m. show. Full Story

  • Make Merry

    Nov 01, 2007 11:31 AM - Kathleen Edgecomb, The Day Originally published November 1, 2007

    I've known a few widows in my lifetime, and nary a one was merry.

    But Paris in the early 20th century apparently was the place to be if your late husband left you a few million francs. There were parties and great ball gowns, and suitors vying for your attention. It was enough to make any widow merry.

    So it goes in Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow, which the Garde Arts Center is presenting at 8 p.m. Saturday. The opera, which features soloists from the Prague State Opera, will be performed by the Czech Opera Prague in German with English subtitles. Full Story

  • Dead On

    Oct 26, 2007 11:40 AM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published October 26, 2007

    It's not exactly how Ben Affleck and Matt Damon got started. Or, for that matter, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Instead, G. Randyl Johnson was selling mortgages. Gordon Videll, an attorney, attended the closings of some of those transactions as part of his job. They became friends who would occasionally meet for a beer at Hanafin's Public House — conveniently located downstairs from Videll's downtown New London office — to discuss all matter of odd topics.

    One day, Johnson, who lives in Groton, broached a subject he'd read about: diamonds being created as memorials from the carbon in the ashes of cremated loved ones. And he said to Videll, “You know what would make a great horror movie? What if the diamonds talked to you through the spirits of their dead people?”

    Videll, a New London resident, wasn't particularly interested in horror movies, but the core idea of the actual ashes-to-gems process intrigued him as the basis of a film plot. Full Story

  • Bruce and Ricky's Excellent Musical Adventure

    Oct 26, 2007 9:07 AM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published October 25, 2007

    It's been years since Bruce Hornsby hit with “The Way It Is” — anyone even remember that his band was called The Range? Since then, he's been the ultimate musical chameleon, trying different styles and genres and playing with all sorts of musicians. (And, yes,that includes stints with the Grateful Dead, who, now that I think about it, are even more chameleon-y.)

    What shines through all this is: A) Hornsby's virtuosity and B) his musical thirst for new adventure. Full Story

  • Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby Perform Together in New London

    Oct 25, 2007 11:23 AM - Eric Danton, Hartford Courant Originally published October 25, 2007

    With three concurrent musical projects and concert dates for each project scattered around the country, Ricky Skaggs might want to consult a logistician.

    There's his long-running bluegrass gig with Kentucky Thunder; a new gospel album, Salt of the Earth, which he recorded with the Whites; and his new collaboration with pianist Bruce Hornsby, with whom Skaggs performs tonight in New London. It's one of a slew of dates he has to keep straight.

    "It's one of those things: 'Who are we going out with this weekend, and what are we doing?'" Skaggs says with a laugh from home in Nashville. "But we're having a great time doing it; it keeps us fresh." Full Story

  • Beautiful Performance With Sox Updates Too

    Oct 22, 2007 8:59 AM - Brian Hallenbeck, The Day Originally published October 22, 2007

    Shawn Colvin couldn't have been more accommodating Saturday night during her 90-minute, 17-song set at the Garde Arts Center in New London.

    Need the Red Sox' score? No problem.

    Want to hear “Crazy,” her Gnarls Barkley cover available only on iTunes? She'll get to it. Promise.

    Crave some audience participation? OK, here's one you can all sing along to, chorus or verse. Full Story

  • Connecticut Circus Troupe Joins Garde for Young and Fun

    Oct 19, 2007 2:50 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 10, 2007
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    (New London, CT) The Day Young & Fun Series will open its 2007-08 season at the Garde Arts Center with the Russian American Kids Circus on Saturday, October 27 at 1:00 and 4:00 pm. Connecticut-based theatre troupe ARTFARM and its traveling circus show Circus for a Fragile Planet will join the Garde for a pre-show circus extravaganza on Saturday, October 27 at 3:00 pm. Full Story

  • A Long Way From Fair

    Oct 18, 2007 1:25 PM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published October 18, 2007

    The whole Lilith Fair phenomenon seems a criminally long time ago. Ingmar Bergman was in high school, right, when Sarah McLachlan conceptualized the all-woman music festival? And Yoko Ono was only a sophomore in college! ...Austin-based Shawn Colvin, who makes a return visit Saturday to New London's Garde Arts Center, is a proud alumnus of Lilith, and her immensely terrific “A Few Small Repairs” album hit the platinum highway around the time those tours were at maximum exposure. Full Story

  • Shawn Colvin Takes the Stage at the Garde

    Oct 18, 2007 12:53 PM - Alan Scully, Norwich Bulletin Originally published October 28, 2007

    Shawn Colvin often refers to her previous album, Whole New You, as her “pop” album. And pop, in this case, might as well be a four-letter word.

    That 2001 CD followed a commercial breakthrough for Colvin. Her 1999 album A Few Small Repairs gave Colvin her first pop radio hit with “Sunny Came Home,” and she won two Grammys — for Song and Record of the Year. Full Story

  • Gypsy On The Road

    Oct 11, 2007 10:06 AM - Christopher Arnott, New Haven Advocate Originally published October 11, 2007

    Gypsy would be as dead as the burlesque world it portrays if it weren’t really a show about family. The venerable “musical fable” about the mother of all backstage mothers (and her stripper daughter) was brought into being by the Ethel Merman—the blowzy, bellowing Broadway icon who created the role of Mama Rose. But it’s a testament to the show’s solid construction that the role has been successfully reinterpreted by such non-Mermanesque performers as Angela Lansbury, Betty Buckley, Patti LuPone and Bernadette Peters. Full Story

  • Virginia Cool Meets Kentucky Thunder in Garde Premiere

    Oct 10, 2007 12:26 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 10, 2007
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    (New London, CT) RICKY SKAGGS & BRUCE HORNSBY will appear at the Garde Arts Center on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 8:00 pm in an event sponsored by Smith Insurance and co-presented with Kitchings Productions. Full Story

  • Grammy-Winner Shawn Colvin Returns to the Garde

    Oct 01, 2007 12:00 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 1, 2007
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    (New London, CT) Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter SHAWN COLVIN returns to the Garde with her critically acclaimed release, These Four Walls, on Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. for an event co-presented with Kitchings Productions. Full Story

  • By George!

    Sep 28, 2007 11:29 AM - Kathleen Edgecomb The Day Originally published September 27, 2007

    “Say Goodnight, Gracie: The Life, Love and Laughter of George Burns and Gracie Allen'' is a one-man tribute to the man who once played God in the movies and the seemingly ditzy woman who stood by him.

    The show looks back on Burns' youth in the lower East Side of Manhattan, his career in vaudeville, and the day he met Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen. Unfortunately, star Don McArt recently broke his ankle during the national tour, and Joe Rooks, who was an understudy in 2002-2003 for the Broadway run, will portray Burns Friday when the show comes to the Garde. Full Story

  • In The Mood - Glenn Miller Orchestra at the Garde

    Sep 28, 2007 11:08 AM - Rick Koster, The Day Originally published September 27, 2007

    If you walk past the Garde Arts Center in New London Saturday night, and it appears to be shaking or undergoing some sort of seismic event, no worries. It's only the Glenn Miller Orchestra rockin' the joint with a set of broiling big-band swing. Full Story

  • Clarke Joins DiMeola and Ponty in New London

    Sep 28, 2007 10:55 AM - Owen McNally, Hartford Courant Originally published September 27, 2007

    An innovative music maven, Stanley Clarke has harvested an abundant crop of rewards - gold and platinum records, Grammys, Emmys and innumerable readers' and critics' polls - for his bold, diverse, constantly evolving roles as performer, composer, band leader and recording artist...

    One of the great ways to hear Clarke occurs whenever the maestro jams in live acoustic sessions with the super chamber trio, The Rite of Strings, collaborating with his fellow fusion pioneers, guitarist Al Di Meola and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Full Story

  • Sometimes Girls Just Want to Have Fun

    Sep 24, 2007 1:15 PM - Marshall Williams, Westerly Sun Originally published 9/20/07, The Guide

    This is a weekend for the girls. Women “of a certain age” can have a girls’ night out at the Bon Jovi tribute in Stonington (see page 6) or at the more official sounding “Girls Night: The Musical,” now playing at the Garde Arts Center in New London. Full Story

  • Al DiMeola featured in Soundwaves magazine

    Sep 14, 2007 4:50 PM - Rex Rutkoski, Soundwaves Magazine Originally published August 2007

    Having reached the half-century mark with two years to grow on, Al DiMeola is not trying to sound like the proverbial grumpy old man complaining about the music of “the younger generation.”

    For one, the pioneering jazz artist is not old for his early 50s. For another, his optimistic, energized art is far from sour-mood-inducing.

    It’s just that he has been asked to assess the quality of the music scene in general and he wants to respond from his own truth. “It’s ridiculously bad,” the New Jersey native replies candidly. “Yes, the kids need to find musicians with talent that have something to say, rather than what has become popular and is rather lame musically.”

    The artist doesn’t say, but many others would agree, the music of Al DiMeola would be an excellent starting place. Full Story

  • Television and radio legends' love story unfolds at Garde

    Sep 14, 2007 1:25 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 14, 2007
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    (New London) SAY GOODNIGHT, GRACIE: The Life, Love and Laughter of George Burns and Gracie Allen comes to the Garde Arts Center on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 8:00 pm to tell the tender and funny love story of America’s most famous radio couple. Full Story

  • Fiber at the Garde 07 Opens With Girls Night: The Musical

    Sep 13, 2007 1:08 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 13, 2007
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    (New London) The New England premiere of a touching and brilliantly funny ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ musical, GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL opens the Garde Arts Center’s 2007-08 season for six performances September 19-23, 2007. Also debuting with the new season, Fiber at the Garde '07, a gallery and exhibition of contemporary art quilts, will debut from September 19 through November 20, 2007 at the Garde Arts Center. Full Story

  • This One's For the Ladies

    Sep 13, 2007 10:15 AM - Kristina Dorsey, The Day Originally published 9/13/07

    The patented advice for writers is: write what you know. Louise Roche got even better advice: write what you'd like to see.

    She has done that ever since, and one of the results is the stage show “Girls Night: The Musical,” which opens the Garde Arts Center's season on Wednesday. Full Story

  • Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation at the Garde

    Sep 04, 2007 6:31 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 19, 2007
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    (New London) The New England premiere of a touching and brilliantly funny ‘tell-it-like-it-is’ musical, GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL opens the Garde Arts Center’s 2007-08 season for six performances September 19-23, 2007. Full Story

  • The Garde and MCT present Jack and the Beanstalk

    Jul 25, 2007 12:05 PM - The Garde and the Missoula Children's Theatre present Jack and the Beanstalk
    By SHARMA HOWARD, Norwich Bulletin

    Expect a gentle giant to inhabit the folksy world of Jack and the Beanstalk which comes to the Garde Arts Center Saturday.

    And no, he doesn't bellow, he actually sings. This production -- brought by the Missoula Children's Theatre -- is a musical that has been cast with local children. Full Story

  • Jean-Luc Ponty, Al DiMeola, and Stanley Clarke

    Jul 17, 2007 10:27 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 17, 2007
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    (New London) Three jazz pioneers – guitarist Al DiMeola, the father of electric jazz violin, Jean-Luc Ponty, and bass legend Stanley Clarke – join forces as THE RITE OF STRINGS in a unique evening of acoustic jazz, at the Garde Arts Center Sunday, September 30, 2007, at 7:00 pm. Full Story

  • Garde announces 2007 New London Film Festival

    Jul 17, 2007 10:11 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 17, 2007
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    (NEW LONDON, CT) Film Festival Passes are now on sale, for the Garde Arts Center’s seventh annual New London Film Festival, opening on Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at 7:30 pm, and running for eleven evenings through Sunday, August 12. Full Story

  • Garde Arts Center announces 07-08 THE DAY Young & Fun Series

    Jun 20, 2007 12:06 PM - Press Release Header: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 19, 2007
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    (NEW LONDON, CT) Eastern Connecticut’s premiere showplace for the performing arts, the Garde Arts Center, announced subscriptions are now on sale for the 2007/08 The Day Young & Fun series. Full Story

  • Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band at the Garde Arts Center

    Jun 01, 2007 3:38 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Mat 8, 2007
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    (New London, CT) The PONCHO SANCHEZ LATIN BAND, led by legendary conguero Poncho Sanchez, comes to the Garde Arts Center on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 9:00 pm. Tickets are $35 and $30 and are now on sale to the general public. Full Story

  • The Neville Brothers at the Garde Arts Center

    May 15, 2007 3:14 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2007
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    (New London, CT) Grammy Award winners THE NEVILLE BROTHERS will appear at the Garde Arts Center for one night only on Tuesday, July 31 at 8:00 pm, co-presented by Kitchings Productions. Tickets are currently on sale to Garde subscribers and benefactors only; public sale begins May 22, 2007. Tickets are available on the Garde website at www.gardearts.org and at the Garde Box Office at (860) 444-7373 ext 1. Full Story

  • Major Cruise Ship to Make Port-Call in New London, CT on Wed

    May 08, 2007 11:49 AM - (NEW LONDON, CT) Continuing the tradition of cruise ships calling at Connecticut’s Port of New London, the Connecticut Cruise Ship Task Force brings the first of three major cruise ships this year to the state on Wednesday. Full Story

  • Garde Arts Center announces 2007/08 Broadway Series

    May 02, 2007 10:35 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 1, 2007
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    (NEW LONDON, CT) Eastern Connecticut’s premiere showplace for the performing arts, the Garde Arts Center, announced subscriptions are now on sale for the 2007/08 Citizens Bank Broadway Series. The five-show series opens on October 17, 2007 with GYPSY, and includes EVITA, CHICAGO, HAIRSPRAY and MOVIN’ OUT. Full Story

  • Tito Puente, Jr. Orchestra at the Garde

    Apr 27, 2007 12:00 PM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 26, 2007
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    (New London) Salsa king TITO PUENTE, JR. AND HIS ORCHESTRA will headline the Garde Arts Center’s 10th Annual Premiere Concert and Dinner fundraiser on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 8 pm. Puente’s big band concert in the Garde Theater will provide a dance area for audience members. Full Story

  • Garde Arts Among Local Recipients of State Culture Awards

    Apr 22, 2007 1:21 AM - By AMY LAWSON
    Norwich Bulletin

    The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism announced Wednesday several Eastern Connecticut cultural organizations are among the recipients of the group's Arts Endowment Fund Awards. Full Story

  • Jazz Superstar Herbie Hancock at the Garde

    Apr 06, 2007 9:58 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 6, 2007
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    (New London, CT) Eight-time Grammy Award winner HERBIE HANCOCK joins the Garde Arts Center for its 80th Anniversary Season for one night only on Wednesday, May 30 at 8:00 pm, co-presented by the Garde with Kitchings Productions. Full Story

  • Shawn Colvin Returns to the Garde Arts Center

    Apr 05, 2007 1:42 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 5, 2007
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    (New London) Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter SHAWN COLVIN returns to the Garde with her critically acclaimed release, These Four Walls, on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., co-presented with Kitchings Productions. Full Story

  • Garde Arts Center Announces 2007/08 Opera Series

    Apr 03, 2007 1:35 AM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2007
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    (NEW LONDON, CT) Eastern Connecticut’s premiere showplace for the performing arts, the Garde Arts Center, proudly announces its 2007/08 Opera Subscription Series. Full Story

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