[NEohioPAL] Talented Songwriters to Serenade LCCC's Stocker Arts Center

[Kimberly Carrasquillo]

Talented Songwriters to Serenade LCCC's Stocker Arts Center

>From jazz to country, hip-hop to R&B, Jonathan Kingham and Ryan Shea
Smith lead audiences on a ride through a variety of musical styles and
tastes, always drawing on the roots of their solid Seattle songwriting.

Kingham will perform with Shea Smith as his special guest at 7 p.m.,
Friday, March 18 at Lorain County Community College's Stocker Arts
Center. The performance will cap a week-long residency at LCCC by
Kingham and Shea Smith.

Tickets are $15 for adults; $10 for students with a valid ID; and $10
for children 12 and under. Tickets can be ordered online at
www.lorainccc.edu/stocker, or by calling the Stocker Arts Center box
office at (440) 366-4040 or (800) 995-5222 extension 4040 from 12-6
p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets are also available at the box
office, located in the lobby of the Stocker Arts Center. Take-a-Chance
tickets are available at the box office beginning at 5:30 p.m. the night
of the show as long as tickets remain. Take-a-Chance tickets are
half-off the top ticket price and are available until curtain time.

It was from a five-year stint in the Navy that Kingham drew the
inspiration for his first song, "A Place Called Home." He wrote the
heart-felt song in 1996 after being deployed during the first Gulf War. 

He's now been writing for more than 15 years and has amassed an
impressive collection of national and international awards. Kingham took
first place honors in the National Telluride Troubadour Songwriting
Contest, The Unisong International Song Contest, as well as placing two
years in a row in the top five of the John Lennon Song contest. He
brought home the first place award in the USA Songwriting Competition in
the Folk Category, as well as the Overall Grand Prize out of a worldwide
field of 33,000 entries. His singing has been featured in films, soap
operas and on the WB network's hit show "Felicity."

He has recorded five CDs, toured internationally with Julio Iglesias Jr.
and Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket, and shared the stage with
Michael McDonald, Shawn Colvin, Suzy Boguss, and others. His latest CD,
"Smooth Out the Lines," was released in June 2010. Kingham is also an
in-demand producer and studio musician. 

Also a Seattle native, Shea Smith is a veteran songwriter and recipient
of multiple songwriting awards. His musical skill set has been honed
through jazz studies at the University of Washington and a steady
touring schedule. He is known for his incomparable singing voice and has
an impressive command of the keyboard and guitar. Ryan has released two
albums, "Guilty and Blue" in 2006 and "Stay Awhile" in 2010. 

Kingham and Smith will also perform a Student Matinee concert entitled
"Songwriting Made Simple" at 10 a.m., Friday, March 18 at LCCC's Stocker
Arts Center. The program is recommended for students in fourth grade and
older and they will be performing some of the new songs they compose
with area students during their weeklong residency at Stocker Arts
Center. Many of the student songwriters will be performing with them for
both the matinee and evening concerts. Tickets for the Student Matinee
performance are $4 each and can be purchased at the box office or
ordered online. Jonathan Kingham and Ryan Shea Smith's residency week at
Stocker Arts Center is sponsored by the Beth K. Stocker Trust.

For more information on these and other upcoming events at Stocker Arts
Centers, visit www.lorainccc.edu/stocker.

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Kim Carrasquillo

Writer

Marketing and Outreach

Lorain County Community College

(440) 366-4822

kcarrasq at lorainccc.edu

 

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