Followers of jazz might really feel the urge to stand up and dance subsequent week: Paul Cosentino’s Boilermaker Jazz Band will play Dixieland jazz within the Jan. 13 and 14 openers of the 2025 live performance season of the Florida Keys Live performance Affiliation.
Monday’s live performance can be held at Marathon Excessive College’s performing Arts Heart, whereas Tuesday’s efficiency shifts north to Coral Shores Excessive College.
Program director Norman Werbner mentioned that, whereas classical music mainstays equivalent to string quartets and piano virtuosos are once more on faucet for the FLKCA season, “I believed it might be particular to do one thing surprising, and blow the roof off the venue with the nationally well-known Boilermaker group for our opener. Their enthusiastic performances have audiences dancing within the aisles.”
The live shows will function a six-man lineup of clarinetist and saxophonist Paul Cosentino, who serves because the band chief, together with Clint Baker on trumpet, Jake Handelman on trombone, Antonio Croes on piano, Russ Wilson on drums and Greg Zabel on string bass.
The live performance packages will delve deeply into the good American songbook, and can embrace favorites for all ages.
“Beginning in New Orleans the place all of it started, you’ll hear the sounds of road parades and steamy honky-tonk blues,” the live performance web site states. “The band will then journey north up the Mississippi River to Chicago, as did so many jazz greats together with Louis Armstrong. We’ll carry you music from the dance halls and golf equipment from the Windy Metropolis of the Nineteen Twenties. Following the migration to Harlem, you’ll hear acquainted melodies from the Nineteen Thirties that includes music by Duke Ellington and stride piano grasp Fat Waller.”
“Tickets can be found on the door, and we might like to see some new faces,” mentioned Webner. “Give us a strive; I do know you should have a good time.”
Showtime is 7:30 on each nights. Tickets are $30 at floridakeysconcerts.com or on the door, with a $45 choice for most popular seating. Season tickets are additionally out there for the six-concert weekly collection, which concludes on the finish of February.