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A Roarin 20s New Years Eve at the New Smyrna Beach Yacht Club
Classic New Year’s Eve: Ring in the New Year with all your favourite songs from the last century! Dance through the decades to music from the 1920s to popular tunes of today, then toast to your loved ones while we ring in the new year with Auld Lang Syne. Make it a New Year’s Eve to remember with Vivacity Music!
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Celebrate the Roarin’ 20s with Vivacity!
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A Holly Jolly Christmas featuring Vivacity with Xylophonist Heather Thorn & special guest Australian/NYC based saxophonist Adrian Cunningham. Vivacity brings you the ultimate holiday spirit event with music that warms the heart and fills the room with Christmas joy! Sing along to beloved holiday classics for all ages! Featuring a 9-piece band performing your favorite holiday classics, including the Andrews Sisters! Enjoy the sounds of the TPS percussion ensemble and strings!
Adrian Cunningham is an award winning multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and world traveller. Originally from Sydney Australia and now based in New York, he is proving to be one of his country’s top exports. With fluent command of the saxophones, clarinet, and flute, he is one of the finest multi-instrumentalists in Jazz. Proof of this is in the company he keeps, having recently recorded with Jazz luminaries Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, and Ted Rosenthal with his latest recording Jazz Speak (Arbors), which broke the top 20 in the US national Jazzweek charts. Adrian performs with Wycliffe Gordon and his International All Stars, and from 2014-2017 he led the saxophone section with the Grammy-award winning Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, a 1920s-swing orchestra in New York City. Cunningham has been called “indispensable” to New York jazz.
Heather Thorn is a world-renowned xylophonist who has performed at well-respected jazz venues including the New Orleans Jazz Museum and as the headline act for Festival I Love Jazz in 2019 and 2022 in Brazil. In 2021 she was featured with her band Vivacity as soloists with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra for their Holiday Pops concert. Locally, she performs at the Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, Timucua, the Sea World Christmas Celebration, Suncoast Jazz Festival, New Smyrna Beach Jazz Festival, and with the Walt Disney Orchestra.
Come see Heather Thorn performing at the Suncoast Jazz Festival as a guest artist with Dave Bennett and Adrian Cunningham.
This program begins with a salute to all our patriotic heroes and the freedom they have protected for us. Featuring music to honour those who have served America and a salute to this wonderful country! Nostalgia Radio Hour is a family- friendly musical show featuring an original script with classic tunes from the 1920’s1950’s, and characters inspired from the Golden Age of Radio. Includes personalized audience interaction, customizable themes/script, sound effect stories, authentic old-time radio commercials and so much more!
Featuring: Heather Thorn- xylophone, Amy Parnell- Radio Announcer and vocals , Krissy Vavrek- feature vocals, Eddie Metz Jr.- drums, Ben Vasko- Tuba, Bob Thornton-piano, Dave Mackenzie- reeds, John Depaola- trumpet, Harold Johnson- trombone
Heather Thorn and Vivacity with special guests Gordon Stout, Gary Kvistad, Jeff Moore, Lauren Vogel Weiss and Will Rapp
Presenting 20th Century Xylophone and the Great American Songbook. Featuring the music of Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, George Hamilton Green and more!
This concert is presented by the Center for Mallet Percussion Research and Kutztown University. Heather Thorn endorses the Malletech Bob Becker 4.0 Xylophone
Also with:
Dave Mackenzie- Reeds and Piano
Greg Zabel- Upright Bass