RED BANK - Dennis McGinnis got ink in his blood from an early age.
“My dad worked several jobs to make ends meet back in the day and one of those jobs was running the printing press,” McGinnis said, recalling those days working out of the family garage. “I remember he would hand-feed business cards to my brother and I. We would stack them on a cookie sheet and we would use a saltshaker as a powder on top of them.
“From there, we would put them in the oven and count to 30, and then the heat from the oven would act as a form of thermography,” McGinnis said. “My brother and I were doing that since the second grade, so I have always had printing in my blood.”
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (May 12, 2021)
Posted May 12, 2021
Performing virtually during last year s Cape May Music Festival are, from left, Bay Symphony Orchestra conductor Jed Gaylin, flautist Susan Rotholz and New York Chamber Ensemble artistic director Eliot Ballen. This year s fest will start with a virtual concert but then move to live performances starting Memorial Day weekend.Photo courtesy of Cape May MAC
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♦ The 32nd annual Cape May Music Festival begins 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday, May 13, with a free virtual concert prerecorded and presented by Cape May MAC, the New York Chamber Ensemble and the Bay Atlantic Symphony. A live Q&A will follow the performance.
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After an extended set break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, live music is returning in a big way to stages across New Jersey this summer.
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that as rusty strings are being dusted off, the sound at the forefront of live music’s resurrection is that of the Grateful Dead.
“The people who come to see the Grateful Dead music, it’s beyond music, it’s community,” said Dana Carroll, bassist of the Dead tribute act Brown Eyed Women. “I think that is maybe some of the difference, why these bands are kind of critical to the return of live music.”
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (May 5, 2021)
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Several live, on-location musical events will feature women artists this Mother’s Day weekend:
♦ South Orange Performing Arts Center in South Orange is bringing its stage back to life on Friday, May 7, with a concert by singer-songwriter and New Jersey native Dana Fuchs. The show will be limited to 100 audience members in the theater, but also will be streamed live online.
♦ Broadway veteran Kelli Rabke will premiere her new cabaret show, “Tiny Giants Petite Powerhouses from Garland to Gaga,” at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown with performances 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 8. As indicated by its title, the show will pay tribute to “small-in-stature” women vocalists, including Edith Piaf, Bette Midler, Stevie Nicks, the singers whose names are incorporated in the show’s title, and others. (Rabke,
Coronavirus in N.J.: What’s reopened, what concerts, festivals and shows are rescheduled, canceled. (April 28, 2021)
Posted Apr 28, 2021
♦ The Summit-based New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble will mount its 52nd anniversary performance of “¡Ballie di Primavera! The Dances of Spring” online 7 p.m. Sunday, May 2.
The program will feature NJDTE pre-professional dancers ages 10-18 and include works by; Christopher Bloom of Ballet Hispánico, excerpts of “Don Quixote” and “Paquita” staged by the ensemble’s rehearsal director Alexandra Gonzalez, “Parallel” staged by artistic director Nancy Turano, and Paul Taylor’s “Cloven Kingdom”, staged by 20-year Paul Taylor veteran Michelle Fleet.
Tickets are $40 per viewing device. For information email info@njdte.org, phone 908-273-5500 or visit njdte.org.