A love letter to the quiet magic of Karen and Richard Carpenter from the creative team behind "The Simon & Garfunkel Story." Featuring a full band paired with heartfelt storytelling
Insun Park & Generals blend Korean traditional music with contemporary pop forms. And Park adds elements of Gangnyeong Talchum (mask dance) to create an engrossing stage show.
A performance by the Craig Taborn Trio is an evening-length conversation between musicians at the top of their art form. The only thing an audience member can predict is that you’ll be swept away.
Eleven-time Grammy winner Christian McBride and a band of rising star musicians play a style of jazz seasoned with elements of R&B, soul, funk, and disco.
Extraordinary Filipino American rapper Ruby Ibarra hits UMass with a band that includes pioneering guitarist (and western Massachusetts resident) June Millington!
Family matinee! Sugar Skull! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure! is a bilingual/bicultural musical for young audiences and families featuring traditional music and dance from Mexico.
Singer-songwriter Maryna Krut pairs her ethereal voice with virtuoso command of the sixty-five-string bandura, the national instrument of her native Ukraine.
Philadelphia’s premier contemporary ballet company BalletX unites artistic innovation with technical excellence to forge new works of athleticism, emotion, and grace.
Best known as a member of the acclaimed Brasil Guitar Duo, João Luiz Rezende Lopes is a two-time Latin Grammy-nominated guitarist, educator, and composer.
Maria Mazzotta builds on a foundation of traditional music of her native Apulia, adding influences from southern Europe and north Africa and layering on fuzzy post-rock experimentation.
Yamato has been a leading force in Japanese taiko drumming for more than three decades. The troupe's performances combine masterful musicianship, athleticism, and visual spectacle.
Mary Prescott is a Thai American interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist. She will develop a new work during residency with the UMass Fine Arts Center, and will premiere the piece at this event.
Featuring a new work by hip-hop and street dance legend Rennie Harris!
Michael Mayo, a lifelong student of music who was gifted with a crystalline voice, plies a style of jazz that draws influence from soul, R&B, and gospel.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo represents the pinnacle of South African a cappella music. The group has performed for millions of people around the world and has won five Grammy Awards.
Recognized as one of the world’s most exciting young classical guitarists, France's Virgile Barthe is acclaimed for the refinement of his musical interpretation and the breadth of his repertoire.
Internationally renowned as a leading light of bharatanatyam, Mythili Prakash is celebrated for her innovative choreography and her powerful conviction as a dancer.
Guitarist/multi-instrumentalist and composer Yasmin Williams's music turns on deft fingerpicking and cuts across the breadth of American folk forms.
Special Sunday family matinee performance! The Peking Acrobats push the limits of human ability and defy gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility, and control.
Two of jazz’s greatest living performers lead a tribute to their late, longtime friend and collaborator Chick Corea — with help from the innovative, genre-blending string ensemble PUBLIQuartet.
Celebrated cellist Seth Parker Woods embraces the spirit of the UMass Department of Music and Dance’s Bach Festival and Symposium in a Bach-centered solo recital.
Broadway’s all-time most decorated performer, Audra McDonald, whom Time magazine called “the greatest living stage actor,” performs a selection of songs from the silver screen.