[NEohioPAL] Greg Brown this Saturday, Brent Webb - The Mentalist on Thursday

[The Kent Stage]

The Kent Stage welcomes

  GREG BROWN
Saturday, February 16 -- 8:00 PM
     
  Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are a way of life. Brown's first professional singing job came at age 18 in New York City, running hootenannies (folksinger get-togethers) at the legendary Gerdes Folk City. After a year, Brown moved west to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck Ram, founder of the Platters. Tired of the fast-paced life, Brown traveled with a band for a few years, and even quit playing for a while before he moved back to Iowa and began writing songs and playing in mid-western clubs and coffeehouses.
  Brown's songwriting has been lauded by many, and his songs have been performed by Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Michael Johnson, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. He has also recorded more than a dozen albums, including his 1986 release, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, when he put aside his own songwriting to set poems of William Blake to music. One Big Town, recorded in 1989, earned Brown three and a half stars in Rolling Stone, chart-topping status in AAA and The Gavin Report's Americana rankings and Brown's first Indie Award from NAIRD (National Association of Independent Record Distributors). The Poet Game, his 1994 CD, received another Indie award from NAIRD. His critically acclaimed 1996 release, Further In, was a finalist for the same award. Rolling Stone's four-star review of Further In called Brown "a wickedly sharp observer of the human condition." 1997's Slant 6 Mind (Red House Records) earned Brown his second Grammy nomination. His latest CD, One
 Night (Red House), is a re-release of a 1983 live performance originally on Minneapolis' Coffeehouse Extemporé Records. 
  Official Greg Brown Website
  Advance discount tickets: $20.00
Day of Show: $25.00
   
    BRENT WEBB
  THE MENTALIST 
  Thursday, February 21 -- 7:00 PM
  World touring entertainer Brent Webb is returning to the area for a special ONE NIGHT ONLY performance to benefit Main Street-Kent.
  Webb performs as a "Mentalist," or as a "magician of the mind," and has spent the last 14 years on the road, from Las Vegas to Brazil. He's performed with Dionne Warwick, Don Rickles, Chaka Kahn, Rick Springfield, and more.  Brent Webb will astound you! It's just that simple. He will amaze you and make you laugh. Using what he calls 'heightened sensory perception', he will know what's on your mind before you do. He will predict with uncanny accuracy your actions before you make them. He sees with your eyes.... He hears with your ears..... He thinks with YOUR mind! Brent has performed his fast paced show around the globe, from Miami to Brazil and The Bahamas to Las Vegas, and one thing is certain, his show is one you will remember forever!  
  Tickets: $10.00
Students: $5.00

   
    OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS @ The Kent Stage
  Ekoostik Hookah: Feb 22
  Papadosio: Feb 23
  The Avett Brothers: Mar 1
  The Boys Of The Lough: Mar 6
  David Cousins of The Strawbs: Mar. 15
  Bil Benden & Ross Duncliffe: Mar 22
  Rob McNurlin: Mar. 29
  Richie Havens: Mar. 30
  The Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile of Nickel Creek: Apr 2
  Spencer Davis Group w/t Joey Molland of Badfinger: Apr 12
  Batdorf & Rodney: Apr. 18
  Asleep At The Wheel PLUS Commander Cody: Apr 25
  Chad & Jeremy: Apr. 27
  Carl Gardner’s Coasters, The Reflections & The Chiffon's: May 10
   
  The Kent Stage is located at 175 East Main Street in downtown Kent, Ohio.  There is FREE parking behind the theater and on all city streets.  Advance tickets are available at Woodsy's Music and Spin-More Records in Kent, on-line at  www.kentstage.org or charge-by-phone @ 800-959-4849.   Tickets will also be available at the door.  Doors open one hour before concert.  If you have any questions please email us at information at kentstage.org or call 330-677-5005.



       
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