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Stephanie Nakasian & Hod O'Brien
All cabaret shows begin at 7:30 pm, Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are $15, with food (by reservation only)
Please call 434-361-1999 for reservations.
Stephanie Nakasian & Hod O'Brien
Elegant Greenwich Village jazz piano & vocals.
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Stephanie Nakasian, 'the perfect jazz singer' (Swing Journal), got her start with Jon Hendricks & Company, and has been compared to both Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan. She is known for her virtuosity ( "..broad range of material that showed her assurance on easygoing ballads, soft, Brazilian scat singing, and punchy pep songs." - John S. Wilson, The New York Times), but is especially recognized as a master of swing and scat.
Hod O'Brien was a part of the NYC bebop & swing scene in the 50s & 60s. As Nat Hentoff wrote in Modern Recording magazine, "...he was a vital part of the bop scene… but to most listeners, he's just a guy who makes you feel good on up tempo numbers and who can get inside your memories on ballads."
Together, Stephanie & Hod have toured all over the world, most recently Russia, Japan, Holland and the UK, winning awards, as well as appearing at major jazz festivals, and recording together for radio and on CD. They come to us fresh from a week of performing in California.
From Stephanie Nakasian's website:
"Vocal virtuosity...broad range of material that showed her assurance on easygoing ballads, soft, Brazilian scat singing, and punchy pep songs."
- John S. Wilson, The New York Times
"She has all the feel and charm of an early Ella Fitzgerald."
- Tempo, New Orleans, LA
"Swings and scats with authority"... "Evokes Ella and Sarah without sounding overly derivative"... "Sensuous"
Mike Joyce, The Washington Post
"...one of the important jazz singers in the world today."
New Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford Press)
From Hod O'Brien's website:
"A masterful bop-based improviser... his lines unfolding with an impressive blend of precision and propulsive swing."
- Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times
"The best bebop pianist this side of Barry Harris."
- Len Dobbin, The Montreal Mirror
"A most extraordinary distinguished musician... second generation of bebop pianomen... more elegant expression - his stroke is both stringent and sparkling... he creates intimacy"
- Boris Rabinowitsch, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Unsung hero of Jazz... master of classic bebop piano"
- Scott Yanow, L.A. Scene
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A benefit for Rural Nelson
THIS WEEKEND!
Doors open at 8 and admission is by donation.
DJs, mirror ball and cash bar.
8pm - 12am.
- 300 reads
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Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
February 7 - 17
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Tonight is the Free Preview: Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 174 reads
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Written By Robert Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
February 7 - 17
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 255 reads
- more info
February 7 - 17
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 154 reads
- more info
February 7 - 17
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 165 reads
- more info
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
February 7 - 17
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb. 6 at 7:30pm.
- 212 reads
- more info
Richard III
Onstage February 11 - 22
All tickets $10 for the following performances, to be held in the Hamner Theater:
Thursday, February 12 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 13 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 14 at 2:00pm
Thursday, February 19 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 20 at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 21 at 7:30pm
Special show - Saturday, February 14 at 6:30pm in the Great Hall
Tickets $75 for Nobles (includes Banquet, Lecture/Discussion & Preferred Seating)/ $5 for Show only
A Renaissance is coming to Nelson County theater with the first ever Nelson County Shakespeare Festival production of Shakespeare’s RICHARD III. Using Elizabethan rehearsal practices like memorizing all your lines by the first rehearsal, actor-manager (another Elizabethan practice), Mary Coy is organizing a production of RICHARD III that takes advantage of the theater energy generated by the Hamner Theater and her six years work as Shakespeare consultant at the Nelson Middle School.
“RICHARD III is about the lengths one man will go to obtain and maintain power,” says Coy, Richard manipulates his friends, the church, and the public to get what he wants. He will stop at nothing. It will be interesting to see how much the audience is repelled by or attracted to him.”
Besides years of experience acting and coaching Shakespeare, Coy has a Masters of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance from Mary Baldwin College and has worked as assistant director and stage manager at the Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton. Along with Nelson County Schools Gifted Coordinator Betty Tabony, Coy has written a manual, which guides teachers in using Shakespeare to fulfill SOL’s and has taught Shakespeare to hundreds of Nelson County sixth graders. She and Tabony recently co-authored a young people’s version of KING LEAR for Swan Books.
“Performing Shakespeare is a challenge and I want to embark on that challenge here in the county with the adults and kids I’ve worked with over the years, people who know how much I love to teach and perform, people who want to challenge themselves.” says Coy.
Performances will be held at the Hamner Theater from February 11-21. There will also be one special banquet/performance in the Rockfish Valley Community Center “Great Hall” on Saturday, February 14.
- 9 reads
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February 7 - 17
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 232 reads
- more info
February 7 - 17
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 133 reads
- more info
February 7 - 17
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 162 reads
- more info
February 7 - 17
You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 151 reads
- more info
Written By Robert S. Anderson
Directed by Peter Coy, Boomie Pedersen & Carol Pedersen
February 7 - 17
Featuring Michael Volpendesta, Mary Coy, Jacquie Harvey, Ryan Wender, Bill Williamson, Jim Johnston, Chris Courtenay and Linnea Saby.
A comic quartet charting the murky waters of relationships, growing up and growing old. Though written in the 1960's, this piece has surprising relevance and is pretty darn funny to boot - it was one of Broadway's most successful comedies!
Performances will be held at
7:30pm Thu. - Sat., Feb. 7 - 9
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 10
7:30pm Wed. - Sat., Feb. 13 - 16
2:00pm on Sun., Feb. 17
Champagne Reception follows Opening Night performance, Thursday February 7th.
All tickets $10. For reservations call 434 361 1999.
Free Preview, Wed, Feb 6 at 7:30pm.
- 193 reads
- more info
