THE HILLS ARE ALIVE!
a one-time concert event featuring songs from
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
performed by the East Village Opera Company's"Core-tet"
and special guests
Monday December 21, 2009 / 8pm / doors 6pm
The Highline Ballroom / 431 West 16th Street / New York City
tickets $25 / $30 day of show
Tickets: 866-468-7619 / Highline Ballroom
in person at The Highline box office

To honor the 50th anniversary of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, its timeless and iconic songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein score will be given a genre-defying performance by opera revisionists the East Village Opera Core-tet at the Highline Ballroom on Monday December 21.

Using the"Core-tet" of the East Village Opera Company's tours and recent GRAMMY nominated Decca release"Olde School" along with special guest musicians and singers, the hits from this enduring Broadway (and Hollywood) evergreen - including"Do Re Mi,""My Favorite Things,""The Lonely Goatherd," and"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" - are lovingly reworked into a joyful mash-up. In this one-time concert event, fans will recognize the songs they love like they've never heard them before.

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE! is presented by arrangement with The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.

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Tomorrow EVOC will be performing at The Drake Hotel in Toronto! There are only a limited number of tickets and they are only available at the door so get there early. For more details and full tour information visit their tour page.

March 31
The Drake Hotel
1150 Queen St. West
Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1J3
(416) 531 - 5042
19+
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* EVOC Canadian Tour
* State Theatre at New Brunswick Special Offer
* Full Tour Details
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* EVOC Canadian Tour

East Village Opera Company embarks on a Canadian Tour this month!  For those Canadian fans unable to make it to one of the shows, you will be able to catch them on Canada AM Monday, March 23rd.  They are closing the show and should be on air at 8:50AM. So set your TIVOS!

EVOC will also be making an appearance on Breakfast Television.  More details and scheduled air time will be announced soon.

For those of you outside of Canada, you will be able to view these performances anywhere via the Canada AM or Breakfast Television websites.  The band will return to the US with a show at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ. See below for a special ticket offer for fans and full tour details.

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* State Theatre at New Brunswick Special Offer

The State Theatre has an exciting offer for EVOC fans who want to attend their performance April 3. They are offering fantastic seats for only $24.75 (that’s $99 4-packs or $49.50 2-packs).

To take advantage of this offer, sign in and enter promotion code 4Pack
Then, go to East Village Opera Company and click BUY REAL TIME TICKETS.

Buy Tickets Online or call 732-246-SHOW (7469).

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* Full Tour Dates

3/24 - Cranbrook, British Columbia Canada - Key City Theatre - For tickets call (250) 426-7006

3/25 - Calgary, Aberta, Canada - Jack Singer Concert Hall - For tickets click here

3/27- Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada - Esplanade Arts & Heritage Center - For tickets click here

3/28 - Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada - Festival Place - For tickets click here

3/29 - Prince Albert, Canada - E.A. Rawlinson Centre - For tickets click here

3/31- Toronto, Ontario, Canada - The Drake Hotel - Limited tickets on sale at the door

4/1- Markham, Ontario, Canada - Markham Theatre - For tickets click here

4/3 - New Brunswick, NJ, USA - State Theatre at New Brunswick - For tickets click here

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We have just confirmed a 20% discount for all EVOC fans.  To receive the discount, mention you heard about the show through EVOC's mailing list when charging by phone.  

 

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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION  Grammy Category 108


For those of you voting NARAS members wondering how to distribute your precious remaining votes, may we direct your attention down to the bottom of the categories list  waaaay down... keep going, a little further down, past the"Best Mime / Ventriliquist Collaboration"... past"Best Engineer's Madonna Anecdotes", a little further... Category 108 (out of 110)  BEST CLASSICAL CROSSOVER RECORD. There.

So... what IS this Classical Crossover category? That's an excellent question  one that no one has a definitive answer to, including (especially) the people that came up with the term. Skeptics and cynics might define it as a genre invented by labels attempting to reach a broader audience and record buying base for their classical artists (classical records account for, what? 3-4% of record sales). Slap a beat under a few well known orchestral or opera themes, hand pick some camera friendly youngsters, take them shopping to Club Monacco, and voila  the Twelve Tasmanian Tenors are born. (note to self  great idea for next project)

While this may be true in some cases (NOT, however, in this year's nominees, thankfully), Classical Crossover is MORE than that. Has anyone ever thought that perhaps ROCK musicians want to"cross over" to a SMALLER audience and record buying base? This is the case for EAST VILLAGE OPERA COMPANY. Tired of huge and dangerous youthful crowds at shows, sick of hearing their music played on the radio, frightened by the fiscal responsibilities that come with good incomes, and highly suspicious of the preferential treatment received at popular restaurants, the group boldly stepped out of the mainstream and into a marginal market with their Grammy nominated record"Olde School." It's a joyous mash-up of Opera and Rock, not unlike that beautiful"Getz/Gilberto" mash-up of Bossa Nova and Jazz, which I would also offer up as an example of the kind of crossover we can ALL believe in.

Are YOU ready for change we can ALL believe in for 2009? Red AND Blue, Old AND Young, Rock AND Opera? Then please take the time to VOTE this year.

Category 108  East Village Opera Company

Thank you. Please pass along this message of HOPE to other troubled NARAS voters.


EVOC

 

the video ONE MORE TIME!!! -

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2aAAEWB4Pmw